Matthew Sparks
@sparksm
BS Behavioral Neuroscience: addiction and addiction treatment armchair-expert with a past toxic relationship with opioids. Aspiring terminal degree holder. Lifelong musician, metalhead, tech nerd and PC gamer, and open-mic night standup comic. Accidentally blew up on YouTube for screaming in my car.
The design on the tins of these weed gummies is just fantastic. Whoever’s on their design team needs a raise.
Motivation and Humor
1000 IQ crippling self-doubt ENGAGED.
Music and
New Fleshgod, baby!
While going through the showcase of pages made using Svelte/Sveltekit, this one that tells stories through data, presented in beautiful, single-page scrolling fashion, was especially memorable. Enough to warrant it being added here.
I think productivity is really a race to the bottom um it's I think that the that a lot has been said about how humans uh or machines are trying to be more human but I think less has been said about how humans have for decades uh been trained to be machines
and we have a lot of unlearning to do because if we focus on efficiency and optimization and
... See moreAnother important point about not just our cultural obsession with these vague notions of achieving great productivity and efficiency: these sorts of things move us further from our unique human nature and closer towards that of sorting machines.
This applies to PKMS design as well: If you are spending more time doing the robot part of the work instead of learning or applying, the application is not helping you. IT’S DISTRACTING YOU.
A new approach for evaluating the behavioral effects of antipsychotic drugs (Heyman, Beer) 1987
Apparently mixed All Hope Is Gone.
Note to self for maintaining direction and a chronology
