Digital consumers are so used to rich experiences that simulating an app or platform via a glorified Google form isn’t going to provide anything remotely close to the insights that it would have a few years ago. This is because while problems may be somewhat unidimensional, even simple solutions are always multidimensional, and concept validation MVPs fail to capture said dimensions.
Money is nothing more than neutral proof that you’re adding value to people’s lives. Making sure you’re making money is just a way of making sure you’re doing something of value to others. Remember that this usually comes from doing the things that most people don’t do.
Just connected the dots about reclaiming. Those are widely known ways of reclaiming your rights a territory or an object (or your being an origin of an object): a farmer marking his cattle with a logo-shpaed burn mark, a company putting its logo on its products etc. But there is a whole set of other actions I have never seen as having the same function.
Is one of the drivers of civilization
Advice, and ideas in general, are easy to consume, and difficult to summon when you need them. Somewhat similar to one-way functions in cryptography: easy to hash, difficult to restore.
Surprisingly, we don’t see it in practice at all
People are not speaking to each other, they are speaking at each other, to their audiences
So choosing to lie is signaling to that small group of cheaters that you plan to side with them and betray the long term societal progress. Telling an obvious lie under pressure is a signal of obedience. That’s why all “humiliation rituals” when a scientist has to publicly cry apologising because his tropical shirt offended someone.
Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping, mand damaging to the fabric of society as a whole
Reinventing the wheel is essential to achieving mastery
An employee working on a set of tasks throughout the day behaves similar and faces the same problems as OS working concurrently on a set of threads. I feel that many techniques that are used to support concurency in computers are completely overlooked in usual working practices but would be very beneficial.
Цели пост-модерна — «подсечь» волну собеседника
What’s the difference between fact and fiction? Fiction has to make sense. The truth doesn’t. People call truth “conspiracy theory” because it makes no sense untill you see all the facts come together.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time
Integral framework does not produce anything because it’s a map, and maps do not produce anything
Моя любимая деятельность — структуровать имеющийся хаос. Это значительно упрощает те действия, которые уже происходят в системе.
Being powerful is like being a lady: if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
Low status people would love a social credit score because obedience is one of the few metrics they can compete on
A real weakness of Classical Liberals, is that they betray their own system by being too ready to investigate and argue the contents of bad-faith and subversive material as though it’s good-faith argument.
When you argue the details or the point or whether or not the guy has it wrong, you’re feeding his operation, not stopping it. You stop it by pointing out that what’s occurring is a manipulation. The game has to be to expose the bad faith behind bad-faith actors every time.
Anime soundtracks have always been cool (“Fly me to the moon”), but the recent wave of anime music really raises the bar. In this clip a solfeggio guy decomposes the fresh “Idol” by YOASOBI.
When I don’t hate a project, I sometimes feel an urge to come and implement a couple of things. It resembles the impulse to fix or improve something in your home. I even don’t mind doing it for free, it just feels good.
But there’s a problem: discussing those changes with managers somehow kills my soul. The joy vanishes, and something cold and unalive creeps in. I guess that’s because the project manager steals your ownership of that feature, steals your autonomy.
A counter-measuere deployed by who? Those who have power to tune the overall uncertainty up or down + those who systematically have something big to hide.
(a field note while watching to Eric Weinstein’s interview by Chris Williamson
Tree-like structures are everywhere. Both in living nature: trees, broccoli, vessels within a leaf, nerves nervous systems, bronchi, blood system, slime mold, And in physical processes: the pattern of electricity travelling through matter (lightning, wood, flesh), river systems.
Why? It seems because of 2 “foces”: fading (of force, speed, signal) with distance, and diffusion or something like that driving the branches to spread sideways.
An eye-opening (for me) interview with Josh Slocum about psychopathy, wokeness and capturing organizations
There is a clever way of making the others render control over to you: constantly complain. People long for positive feedback on what they do, so your being constantly dissatisfied by their work easily gets them annoyed and slightly offended, and they are eager to let yourself do it instead.
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Любопытное понятие из проектирования, между “coupling” и “cohesion”
When was the last time someone was rewarded in your organization for raising difficult questions about the company’s current policies rather than solving urgent problems?) Even if we feel uncertain or ignorant, we learn to protect ourselves from the pain of appearing uncertain or ignorant. That very process blocks out any new understandings which might threaten us. The consequence is what Argyris calls “skilled incompetence” — teams full of people who are incredibly proficient at keeping themselves from learning.
It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance
