Sep 09, 2024 from Meadow Judging is a trap I was going through my Obsidian notes and noticed that there are a couple of almost-finished posts that are actually quite good—more than a couple, in fact. My intuition tells me it’s both good and...
Sep 06, 2024 from Meadow Emojis are cool I use a lot of emojis when I write (especially chat), and it has always struck me as interesting that most people around me don’t. “Don’t they want to convey how they feel about this?” I ask myself...
Sep 06, 2024 from Meadow Emojis are cool I use a lot of emojis when I write (especially chat), and it has always struck me as interesting that most people around me don’t. “Don’t they want to convey how they feel about this?” I ask myself...
Aug 30, 2024 from Meadow RE: Write like you talk Earlier today I was reading some new posts by Visa. There’s not much to say about that, except that he uses pretty normal words and writes very well. This might seem like an odd comment, but it ste...
Aug 30, 2024 from Meadow RE: Write like you talk Earlier today I was reading some new posts by Visa. There’s not much to say about that, except that he uses pretty normal words and writes very well. This might seem like an odd comment, but it ste...
Jul 08, 2024 from nutcroft An ontology of political decisions Not all political decisions are the same. Some are easier to make but potentially less effective while others harder to make and effective yet potentially dangerous. It’s important that we understa...
Jul 01, 2024 from nutcroft Introducing Shoshin College Have you ever thought that universities are boring and we might be able to make one that's not? Well, my friends and I went ahead and started one. We call it Shoshin College and it’s here, in Londo...
Jun 28, 2024 from Joybuke Sarkic Tropes: the Horror of Flesh The phrase “Sarkic” is a Greek word, meaning flesh. It’s a phrase used by the Gnostics to refer to carnal urges: those urges that are instinctual, animalistic, and fleshy. The term now, from my kno...
Apr 17, 2024 from nutcroft On conversations of debate and exploration Dear friend, I appreciate your so-called engineering mindset. It's great to aim to approach things rationally, to understand things from the ground up, to do analysis of how systems work and how ea...
Mar 30, 2024 from nutcroft For the joy of making it I. In the bottom section of Y Combinator's website we read: Make something people want. Make. Something. People. Want. Make. It's about making. Creating. Crafting. This is about art. Not fine art, ...
Feb 12, 2024 from Let’s get Person-al 🗨️ plagiarism is the currency of the internet I call it “plagiarism is the currency of the internet”:
Feb 05, 2024 from Let’s get Person-al 🗨️ A Predictable Ui Is A Good One Until Generative Ai We judge an interface as “good” if the user knows what to expect, and is never faced with results or feedback that seem out of the blue or confusing to them. I still think this is true, but maybe w...
Jan 16, 2024 from nutcroft When hope and gloom unite This is the Matrix and I am Neo. Not because I am the One — I'm not. The reason I am Neo is because I really can fly, I really can stop bullets, I really can download knowledge to my brain. The rea...
Jan 06, 2024 from nutcroft Manifesting democracy We cannot presuppose a democratic society before its existence. We can only identify a democratic system in a society after such society has existed for a nontrivial amount of time; insofar as demo...
Jan 01, 2024 from nutcroft On the essence of decisions and hope What is a decision and why does it matter? I. One could claim that decisions do not matter insofar they are not actions. Decisions are not facts. They are just something someone said and maybe some...
Dec 11, 2023 from nutcroft Applied anthropology On my way to an anthropology lecture today, I learned much more about humans than I could expect of the lecture. To clarify: the content of the lecture was great yet, with respect to understanding ...
Nov 22, 2023 from Silence Calling Compulsions Like the desire to drink liquor Or the irresistible pleasure of sex
Oct 09, 2023 from Joybuke Stuckism: What Conservative Action Really Is Often, I write my work with a presumption in mind: Progress is bad. This view is based in various points of view, some on the question of Industrialism, others on the corrosion inherit to progress-...
