Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
andrewmccluskey.com
TalkTastic – Just Say It.
help.talktastic.com
This feels really good - interface is super clean and the Ai rewrite feels pretty decent - if not always necessary - have been waiting for a solid voice tool and this feels good
Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril by Thomas Homer-Dixon
app.thestorygraph.com
The Beasts Who Fought For Fairyland Until the Very End--And Further Still
Catherynne M. Valentecatvalente.substack.com
This has been on my reading list for a couple of weeks now - so glad I saved it to read :-)
Sharing tastes forges social bonds between people (i.e. bridges), while discrepancies in taste create barriers between people (i.e. fences).
Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
literally what we are doing in collaborative playlists
Tierra Caliente
tierracalientetacosandbeer.com
A beautiful quote from John O’Donahue, on friendship and conversations:
... See moreWhen was the last time you had a great conversation? A conversation that wasn’t just two intersecting monologues, but when you overheard yourself saying things you never knew you knew, that you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that found places within you that you
Experience with Ben on Spirit II
The Wundt curve shows that overly simple and predictable stimuli provide only neutral hedonic value. Positive hedonic value requires stimuli that are somewhat novel/complex/ambiguous. Too much novelty or complexity, however, leads to negative hedonic value. There is, then, a “sweet spot” for the right amount of stimulus novelty/complexity: slightly... See more
Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
the holy grail for recommendation systems
the idea of empathy itself only dates to the late eighteenth century. The notion was invented by psycho-physiologist Wilhelm Wundt to describe our ability to experience another’s experience, and different, Wundt thought, from sympathy and compassion. Empathy is about the transmission of information; sympathy and compassion are reactions to that
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