Essays
- surprise! i dont like being victimized by property crimes and being crashed into by people's cars, and every time its happened has made me feel weird. recently my prius got totaled and my moped got stolen and im feeling a sense of cosmic injustice, like the thieves are doing actual spiritual damage to me by messing with my stuff. pathetic, right?
Vim and Vigor
you should learn vim.Tremble Before the Mighty S-Curve
all exponential curves are actually s-curves. this has... troubling implications (if we are actually currently near the top of the s-curve)A Glossary of Accidental Social Defections
dont be overconfident dont make isolated demands for rigor dont tease dont psychoanalyze take responsibility for understanding people before you respond to them dont say obviously true crowd pleasing statements dressed up as claims dont nitpick dont stick uncharitable context to statements and likewise dont demand that nobody shall stick the "wrong" context to your statements.Why Do Online Zoomers Enjoy Discussing Aesthetics?
zoomers who spend a lot of time online like talking about aesthetics and categorizing imagery/art/software as belonging to a certain aesthetic. why? probably because those same zoomers have been party to the extremely aesthetically disorienting development of meme culture, which has piqued their interest and sharpened their instincts for how to transformatively participate in a memetic (aka aesthetic) moment.Survivorship By Us
all information that ever reaches you is subject to some level of survivorship bias because information undergoes a darwinian selection process to get to your eyeballs. this means your world model is quite inaccurate, and reading more information won't really make it more accurate unless you are strategic about how acquire this information to purposefully defang the selection pressures. also your own personal experience can give you insights that are useful to your own life and nobody else.Defeeding the Web
the core profit model of every free app is selling your attention to advertisers. this has the unfortunate side effect of optimizing to waste massive amounts of your time and make you feel awful but unable to quit. on top of that its increasingly hard to quit the apps simply because they have so successfully become vital knowledge platforms. but there is a way with a little web magic to block all the attention-sucking parts while keeping the knowledge-sharing parts. youre just gonna have to read part 3 to figure out what that means im sorry dude.
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