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Interacting with any interface at this point feels like a suitcase without wheels. Why drag around overlapping windows to click through a folder structure? Why guess which website menu holds what you desire? There is a way 10x better. The GUI is approaching extinction.
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What if "ADHD" is mostly normal difficulty to hold attention in an environment that is poorly-optimized to present the relevant information for the context? Natural-language prompt-based interfaces (LLMs) would be the cure.
It's wild that I can make a video about Zettelkasten while wearing a Zettelkasten t-shirt, and still have people in the comments explaining to me what a Zettelkasten is.
The filter-bubble effect is crazy. I do not consider myself a bro nor do I talk about bro stuff, but the demographic breakdown of my reels always looks about like this.
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After many false starts and delays, my book The Independent Scholar has now been typeset and is being emailed to all who preordered.
Just about everyone today assumes that to produce a lasting body of work, one must pass through a "credible" institution and secure a certain kind of job, patron, publisher, or grant.
But the historical record shows otherwise.
Twas much harder than I anticipated, and I'm all too aware of its remaining imperfections, but overall I'm pleased with the result.
Meta's ad strategy is to introduce enough confusion that you aren't sure where your money is going, while at the same time making you feel like the amount of money they've extracted from you isn't quite enough to merit untangling what happened to try to get it back.
Reel translations on Instagram are wild.
I upload, go to bed, and wake up speaking perfect Japanese.
The more data-space pulls our heads out of meat-space, the more subtext that is never explored in our interactions.
The more cringe. Also the more blind rage and misunderstandings.
Watched a lot of Nathan Fielder interviews in past week and this bit is a great insight into the mindset behind his shows:
“When I hear the word ‘Oh, it’s cringey’ and someone is like ‘I can’t handle it’…I wonder how that person can go through life at all.
Because every interaction is horrendous. Almost all in some way.
Like, nothing ends with a cut when you’re in real life. Sometimes there’s nothing else to say, and everyone has subtext of things they’re not saying to each other, and that feels like normal.
It’s interesting that people have a hard time with it.”
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From this talk: youtu.be/_O1-CyzrcYY?si=Btu3…
I've seen enough. YOLO'ing KDP translations for every one of my books in every available language (that is, having Claude approve them).
If you prefer to read in Spanish, German, French, Italian, or Portuguese, keep your eyes peeled.
During the age of the telegraph, privacy was a big concern, because something like half a dozen people would see your message during transmission and receipt.
So people used codes. See, for example, all you could say sending just the word, "antislavery."
The telegram had THREE errors, but this one letter cost Franklin J. Primrose $20k (equivalent to $750k today).
He sued Western Union for damages – it went all the way to the Supreme Court.
Where they decided he was entitled to a refund for the cost of the message: $1.15
