Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
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Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut by William Rodney Allen, Kurt Vonnegut
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True wealth is production, not paper
Noah Smith • There's not that much wealth in the world
The reason the death of Google Reader matters, here, is that it marks a pivotal moment in the deliberate and engineered shrinking of the internet. When Google Reader died, article discovery shifted. People were no longer reading RSS feeds, finding new sites, following them, and being updated when those sites posted. Instead, they were scrolling on
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Enjoyment matters.
It is often the difference between me doing something and me not doing something. This is the reason I frequently re-arrange rooms. When the energy is wrong is works as a deterrent. I know that sounds woo-woo, and maybe it is, but it is also true. I know the vibe is off in a room when either I find myself not going into it often,
... See moreI’d easily pay $9.99 a month for an army of robots to binge-read my entire library at 3,000x speed so they can map my curiosities and
recommend excerpts to me as I craft sentences in real-time
.
Turns out, this kind of exists already, through an app called
re:collect
(you should request access). I played around with it in 2022
,
and it gave me a... See more
recommend excerpts to me as I craft sentences in real-time
.
Turns out, this kind of exists already, through an app called
re:collect
(you should request access). I played around with it in 2022
,
and it gave me a... See more
Michael Dean • Margin Matchmaker
I like the term “rescuing homes.” It’s an acknowledgment of what is already there instead of demolishing and replacing. The character of streets and towns is important to me. (Which is exactly what the neighbor says later in the episode, people tear down a house, stock two new houses there, and you lose character.)
re: "In with the Old" In the Heart
... See moreAnarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God by Greg Graffin, Steve Olson
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LLMs understand you when you use your own words and you don’t need special phrases or commands. (Programs required exactitude.)
You can ramble. You can correct yourself.
What would this look like if it was more fun?
My Play roles are:
The Collector
The Creator
The Explorer
Don’t quite remember where I ran across this, might have stolen it from Ali Abdaal.