Don't End The Week With Nothing
[If you are not allowed side projects or to make your work open source, ask for more money.]
[Bitcoin is an investment bubble built around the narrative of people's rage at economic inequality and a broken economy.]
Don't End The Week With Nothing
[If you are not allowed side projects or to make your work open source, ask for more money.]
[Bitcoin is an investment bubble built around the narrative of people's rage at economic inequality and a broken economy.]
[Cache and cash sound similar because our concept of storing value comes from nature, squirrels keeping a stock of acorns in such a way to avoid it being eaten by someone else.]
[People die because we give numbers in machines more resources, attention, and care than living beings.]
[The Kwakiutl call their money objects 'bad things', like dead bodies or intestines, and in potlatch money-destruction ceremonies they 'wipe the shame off their body'.]
[A groove is a cell that repeats. A song is a collection of cells that are organized linearly to have a beginning, middle, and end.]
[Making a groove longer is trivial, a song not so.]
[Songs lend themselves to be covered and arranged. Grooves lend themselves to be remixed and sampled.]
Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Getting Your First Consulting Client
[When starting out: instead of doing free work, offer a limited free or discounted sample and propose that if the results are excellent that we discuss paying the full rate.]
[Public/private distinctions are a natural fit for offering things for free.]
[Understand the words that people use to describe their problems, then repeat their words back to them.]
[If you can empathize with the client, you will be more likely to be chosen than someone who has more technical skill.]
[If his life's work is men's clothes, you can bet he likes to talk about men's clothes.]
[If your first question is how much does it cost…]
A System for Interleaving Discussion and Summarization in Online Collaboration
[Give everyone the tools to summarize, without needing to rely on a single person to 'take notes']
[Contract threads into summaries.]
[Summaries can include other summaries and can have their own threads.]
[Discussion grows with comments and shrink with summaries.]
[TV shows with subtitles and comic books use multiple channels which can maximize comprehension whereas 'pure' forms like radio, text, talk shows demand more comprehension to start.]
[Shows that are understandable on mute have a strong visual context.]
[Comic books have visual cues that support the text.]
[Some stories have narratives that use predictable tropes, which are easier to grasp than improvised situations.]
[Certain shows are focused on a single domain whereas news can move freely between multiple.]
[Political dramas or technical lectures requires specific domain knowledge.]
[Overdubbed content can be simplified because things don't always translate.]
[Listening to a news broadcast has some shared language with conversation, but they require different skills and different vocabularies. Better to narrowly focus on one and move on after you master it.]
[There is a disputed theory that mistakes in geometric repetitions were intentionally made to show humility and how only God can produce perfection.]
[The binary form of AABB provides enough variation to allow a dance to be extended indefinitely.]
The Dangers of Intellectualized Emotions
[Avoid using umbrella terms (like upset, overwhelmed, stressed, weird, okay) or metaphors (like soread too thin) and try to use plain language (sad, angry, frustrated, confused, scared, disappointed) to communicate emotions directly.]
[To eat healthy, it isn't enough to avoid unhealthy food, it is necessary to keep your home stocked with healthy alternatives. Make the right thing easy.]
Message from Beloved Osho on his Birthday
[Whatever exists is full of God. The green of the trees, the bark of a dog, a child laughing.]
[Asking 'where is God' is the wrong question because they cannot be indicated anywhere. Ask 'where God is not']
[God is reflected through you. If you are filled with love, then God is everywhere.]
Five Things To Read Today About Female Sexuality
[The popular understanding of rape is a stranger in a dark alleyway, but in reality 90% of victims know their rapists.]
[Self-partnering is learning to trust yourself and your body to guide you. Questioning our ability to make the right choices leaves the door open for others to disorient you (intentionally or not).]
Love and Meditation, Yoga and Tantra
[Loneliness is a feeling of incompleteness, aloneness is the feeling that you are enough.]
[When lonely people meet, the misery is multiplied.]
[Real love is to help the other to be alone, to not need you.]
[Don't expect love, give it, without waiting for something in return.]
[Love the other not as a person but as a god, then instead of ordinary lust love becomes worship.]
[Loneliness is boredom with yourself, aloneness is bliss.]
[With the right approach, love makes you meditative and meditation makes you loving.]
[Finding meditation through love is Tantra. Finding love through meditation is Yoga.]
WebMD, And The Tragedy Of Legible Expertise
[All drugs have infinite possible side effects.]
[Warning people too little might cause death and lawsuits. Warning people too much might cause avoidance that leads to death and lawsuits.]
[When institutional pressures force people to optimize for things that compromise the primary research, those with more resources might be worse at the job than those with less.]
There are no First World countries
[Trying to create something new makes it hard to predict what the 'goals' are in advance, they must be dynamic and respond to the environment.]
[Focus on the tradeoffs you are willing to make as opposed to concrete goals.]
[Autonomy is not about doing whatever you want: it's about being able to act in the moment using a deep understanding of current resources and constraints.]
Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System
[A system with an unchecked positive loop will destroy itself.]
[The United States goverment's Toxic Release Inventory from 1986 required factories to report hazardous air emission publicly each year, which reduced emissions by forty percent over a few decades with no fines or determinations of 'safe' levels: information itself is valuable when it puts bad actors on a list they don't want to be on.]
[Trolling is about the reaction and not the content.]