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Some thoughts here...
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- Nico on the move
- "new major release"
- Nev big girl bed
- Difficulty of finding decent mix of price + quality
- Hasura
- Vegas
- Goal/habit setting
- Music
- Tascam Model 12
- Conductive Labs MRCC
- So many cables
- Piano → Reface CP → mixer → speakers
- New book edition
- Copenhagen
This Month
- Adventure: Lake, kayak
- Project:
- Skill:
Reading & Listening
- Fiction: Sunbringer, Hannah Kaner
- Non-fiction: Co-Intelligence, Ethan Mollick (recommended here)
- Music: Saudade, Thievery Corporation
Links
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Posting – The API client that lives in your terminal
The API client that lives in your terminal. Posting is a beautiful open-source terminal app for developing and testing APIs.
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Our interfaces have lost their senses
We've been successfully removing all friction from our apps — think about how effortless it is to scroll through a social feed. But is that what we want? Compare the feeling of doomscrolling to kneading dough, playing an instrument, sketching... these take effort, but they're also deeply satisfying. When you strip away too much friction, meaning and satisfaction go with it.
I found this delightful; Robin Sloan wasn't as impressed.
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If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown
The most durable solution would be carving things in stone - it would last for millennia. But that's hardly practical, and it wouldn't make things easily searchable or shareable. The second best option is plaintext files with UTF-8 encoding and Markdown formatting3. As long as computers exist, we'll be able to read plaintext files with ease.
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The Imperfectionist: Reality is right here
But there’s one piece of advice I’m confident applies to basically everyone: as far as you can manage it, you should make sure your psychological centre of gravity is in your real and immediate world – the world of your family and friends and neighborhood, your work and your creative projects, as opposed to the world of presidencies and governments, social forces and global emergencies.
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The Outsider Option: Why I Sold Half my Company to Tiny
I very intentionally capitalized and bootstrapped Norbauer & Co. in such a way as to never need outside investors, and at no point (now or in the past) have we ever been in want of cash. Indeed, I have spent my entire entrepreneurial life resisting investor-oriented management. So, as I now find myself more tranquil and satisfied than I have ever been in all my working life, I’m reluctant to admit what made it all possible. I sold nearly half of my company to a publicly-traded investment fund run by a Canadian billionaire.
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The average college student today
All this might sound like an angry rant. I’m not sure. I’m not angry, though, not at all. I’m just sad. One thing all faculty have to learn is that the students are not us. We can’t expect them all to burn with the sacred fire we have for our disciplines, to see philosophy, psychology, math, physics, sociology or economics as the divine light of reason in a world of shadow. Our job is to kindle that flame, and we’re trying to get that spark to catch, but it is getting harder and harder and we don’t know what to do.