527 entries from "Germany"

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[Search engine for independent creators that detects ads and page size.]

The Cost of Cash...lessness

At one point they’re a consumer in the goods market, the next an employee in the job market, and the next an investor in the financial market. In each of these spaces they’re but one tiny node, and rather than recognizing the interlocking nature of the markets they pass through, they experience themselves like a blindfolded person moving around an elephant, imagining each part they touch to be a unique object.

They’re trying to imply that the €10 billion is like a gas lost to space, but those monetary costs will appear on a bunch of income statements somewhere else as income earned from providing a service, and will turn up in GDP figures.

Of course there's a real resource cost to producing jeans, and to maintaining the cash system, but there's also a real resource cost to maintaining an army, a logistics system, or stairs in a skyscraper.

An overflowing of difference

Conviviality is an overflowing of difference in the environment. There is so much difference being communicated that the only device possible to transmit it is the world itself. The map expands to the size of the territory. When in the presence of so much information, we feel it is incommunicable. I can’t explain it… I don’t even know where to begin.

On Storytelling

[Find shared language by replacing 'true statements' with words that convey the emotional experience around your solution.]

[Finding ways to solve multiple issues simultaneously helps tell a stronger story than a list of bug fixes or closed issues: try to holistically answer 'what actually happened?']

What is Success?

[Community is about helping each other, rather than having similar interests or agreements or approaches.]

Social media keeps the locus of attention on small formats, which makes it easy to weaponize for misinformation.

"don't want to do tech but doing it anyway"

Don't Fuck It Up!

[Randomize your MAC address often.]

[Tor is for anonymity, not encryption: you need to configure it to avoid sending unencrypted data.]

[Most people buy transactionally to make money or get laid, and non-transactionally to support things they like. Framing yourself as a utility lands you in the first category. People want a parasocial relationship with creators, and will pay to feel excused from not trying the creative path themselves. Doing and publishing isn't enough to land you in the second category: documenting and explaining in an artful way can become as important as what you're making. Maintaining a community implies being more active on social media.]

[Try camming.]

How can you read when you're still a beginner?

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Earning $300 a day for 60 days in the year is $18K.