Spreadsheets are like functions with built-in visualization of meaningful inputs and outputs.
Spreadsheets are like functions with built-in visualization of meaningful inputs and outputs.
What incentivizes a business to treat existing customers better than new ones?
Profound difference in approach between recreating something familiar and the curiosity of relating to where you currently are.
Who does it serve when an economy costs you more and more over time?
Money is not timeless.
A great way to solve problems to not have them.
The more we need to represent our own interests (because ‘representatives’ won’t), the more power decentralizes.
Language compresses thoughts into a lossy format, like blurry images.
It’s okay to want what you want, even if you don’t know why.
I’d rather be uncorrupted ’like a child’ than detached from my essence ’like an adult'.
Protocols will not make data fluid and interoperable without people talking to each other and making it happen.
Typing in 2FA codes is a mistake regardless of how elegantly designed the form is.
Follow what feels fun instead of clever ideas.
Avoid social structures that use a calculator.
There are no leftist startups.
If schemas are like language then they’re also better negotiated through common usage.
Indigenous people don’t destroy land. People who love land don’t destroy it.
Chronically making excuses is a missed opportunity to develop resilience through adapting to diverse circumstances.
Is it just my ignorance or is most ‘representative democracy’ actually not so?
One of the coolest things I’ve been told about jazz is that the better you are as a player, the better experts sound. I’ve been called a talented musician but I am absolutely, unabashedly ecstatic to hear music that I can barely understand what’s happening. The piano and that sax solo mostly sound like random chaos and it excites me to know there’s structure and intent and beauty in there, waiting to be understood by the skill I have yet to achieve.