171 entries under "thought"

[Skip the self-signup and require participation when releasing a new product. Feedback cycles are more important that ‘how many free users left today?’. Building automation is hard anyway and steals resources from what people actually want.]

The mind separates, the body integrates.

Imprisoned in every UI is a concatenative REPL operating on a stack. Buttons do “type function + Enter,” GUI renders return stack.

Are there examples of the opposite of this where “imprisoned in every command-line program is a GUI that lets you discover its features” or “type command with arguments becomes a button”?

When capitalism responds, it acknowledges how large a demographic is.

Basic building layers: data, identity, aggregation, search.

Instead of unsustainable ‘sprints’, take each day as an opportunity to integrate your values holistically.

It’s useful to journal or take notes even if they aren’t synthesized, just as it is to take photos even if they aren’t synthesized.

Other people could be more inclined to get involved when it’s aligned with their current goals, when it feels like riding the same bus together.

I wish for you everything you wish for those people over there.

Instead of ‘proving someone wrong’, why not help improve their capacities?

Anti-JavaScript could be called “antija”.

Purism kills pluralism.

It’s easier to trick people when they’re socially isolated, especially from one another.

Studying history is important if for no other reason that it makes it harder for people to lie to you. Most of the lies people tell are not new, and the propaganda of earlier times is always easier to see through than modern propaganda which we are always immersed in.

Showing your digital notes graph suffers from the same ‘infinitely expanding list’ problem of most ware: better to break things up around human fuzzy memory limits (maybe 5–12 things).

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Link in bio 💋

How many HTTP requests does it take to read a blog post versus a thread? What does it mean when it matters? What does it mean when it doesn’t?

Thinking about GitHub while trying to sleep is kind of like being on GitHub while trying to sleep.

Seek wisdom, humanity, relational existence, cooperation over competition, and you won’t find much in startups and business.

Sleep is a process. Sleep is a practice.