[Peer maker group.]
[Introduce yourself, what are you working on, what programming language.]
[What did you learn, add this week? challenges?]
[Anyone do marketing?]
[Users talk with makers.]
[Most people don't try stuff? Encourage serendipity.]
[Build measure learn.]
[Integrating this into your practice.]
[Digital garden + zero data implies a dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs.]
[Getting more people involved can be a path to mentoring others.]
[What's the purpose of everything? in the code… in the app…]
Open-source doesn't mean build it only in the ways defined by software tools like GitHub: we can meet up, talk about it, help each other, organize together in our own ways.
[Ideals are negotiated.]
[I don't seek change.]
"no money = no value" is reductive
[Being on an exponential curve is weird because when you look back, it's flat, and when you look forward, it's vertical.]
[Measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.]
[In/out is a spectrum, not a binary. Based on your root, you can be closer or farther away in terms of belonging in the tonality.]
[Amatonormativity favours relating as couples or family units over anything else, including relating to the land.]
[Don't mistake silence for approval. Not everyone can afford to tell Pharoah that building pyramids is a bad idea.]
[Diffuse hostile customer support requests by starting every email with 'Hey!' and hostile approaches with 'Sorry about the hassle.' as a way to diffuse.]
Fools don't trust mirrors.
Try to stay grounded in your intentions.
Don't preach to a choir, don't argue with a choir.
What matters to other people is what they think comes naturally to you without thinking.
A year from now we will be laughing.
[The purpose determines the course. If we are clear about 'why', then the how is more evident and we can define success.]
Indian music, sangeet, was originally conceived as an offering. Tagore said that creativity comes from a recognition of the excess that life has given to us: we offer what is bit ours.
More than people knowing who you are, give them chances to see you in action.
If it's essentially harmful can it be justified as 'temporary'?
[Contemporary utopia is resistance against entities claiming that history is over, that we should accept things as we are, that there are no alternatives.]
Nature is prolific.
