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Howard Aiken—the inventor of the earliest general purpose computer—was never worried about people stealing his ideas. “If your ideas are any good” he’s quoted as saying, “you'll have to ram them down people's throats.” And yet, we think that the moment that we hit the dance floor, all eyes will be on us. The moment we hit publish, the world will... See more
Zac Solomon • Freedom in Obscurity
The “scrub” believes that by learning to play the game the proper way, they will come out on top in the long run—that exploiting cheapness is shortsighted and doesn’t build skill.
Scrubs play for an imaginary version of “mastery”, while top players Play to Win.
There are a bunch of really basic and easy ways to improve your social media experience that I see smart people not doing.
1. Turn off auto-playing wherever possible
2. When you see something that you would prefer not to have seen, consider why it's on your feed, and use the tools to remove it. You can unfollow people,... See more
Rob Milesx.comMost people understand that a forest "doesn't exist" in the sense that humans made up that word (the trees exist in a concrete way that the "forest" does not. Same with a "lake" vs water etc)
It just occurred to me that "a person" is more like a forest than a tree
Defendertwitter.comCosmic Harmony and Agency
Meta on self and agency
What Alan Kay has been emphasizing, and which is now at the heart of Bret Victor’s design philosophy, is that the computer is a “dynamic medium.” The essence of a computer is not the keyboard, the mouse, and the screen. It’s computational and responsive capabilities that don’t exist in a static medium like paper. We should use this dynamic medium... See more
Alan Chan • My Vision: A Forgotten History
Your goal is NOT to prove you're smart. It's to make problems go away. https://t.co/3HwRLyqCyO
Coordinating parts of society that are prone to disagreement creates room for variance elsewhere