apparently, the “thumbs up” react is out of vogue these days. now it’s the “heart react” that is the substitute.
apparently, this is the “millenial” way. as a “xennial”, i find the act cringe and the implications hilarious. naturally, i will play along.
internally, i have noted that heart symbolisms are now at the “thumbs up” tier of importance. that has connotations that i am very curious to see the outcomes of.
used to be google was THE search engine. better results, no marketing, thousands of results and zero fluff. just the results.
it was so good, it got to the point that “google it” became the shortcut to “look it up online and make sure to find quality information”.
now, damn, “google it” turned out to be a trap.
Homeostasis: biological process by which an organism continuously regulates its internal environment to maintain stability, allowing it to survive despite changing external conditions
Infer: presence of an internal environment to regulate and guard against external conditions; requires continuous internal regulation to maintain stability; external conditions imposes change;
Sister’s getting married today. It’s going to be a day of fun, awkward and family.
Note to self: add this to calendar - along with all the other stuff you’ve forgotten to add. So start remembering!
a new dev machine is awesome!
well, it is but it isn’t. it is because it’s new, updated, faster, fresher. but you are still doing work on that laptop. it’s not a “fun” thing. it’s a “work” thing.
at the end of the day, that shiny new thing is a tool for “work”.
now gaming laptops on the other hand… hoo boy, someday!
ai intentions are your intentions, you hope.
it’s motivations? that’s always beyond you unless you’re the rare user who built your own.
use ai as a tool but know that the tool isn’t static.
i don’t swim very well but i like swimming. living in an island in the middle of an archipelago gives you no excuse for that.
also, i definitely can tell: you float better in the sea than in the pool. having a bit of extra blubber helps.
insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.
it’s a good general rule so long as you keep in mind that your ability to catch the results is limited to what you are currently observing in the process you are iterating over.
in understanding a thing, it is very likely you will iterate again and again. in other words, a little bit of insanity may be in order if you seek to understand.
it is deeply interesting to me that a whole industry, culture, revolution sprang up around telling a machine how to switch little tiny bits of electronics on and off.
two states. on and off. one, zero.
i programmed that logic in the 8088 and the old PIC16f84. a fun, frustrating and deeply satisfying experience. the elegance of such simple logic spawning complex behavior which, when you are the one that wrote that behavior, seems so transcendentally mundane and so satisfying to witness.
now i watch my kids discover the same in minecraft, a simulation world simulating the fundamental logic that it is built on.
a simulation simulating a simulation.
it’s time to start.
make the decision. start. don’t worry about failure. you will fail. you. will. fail. failure is not a barrier. it is a prerequisite. it is where you grow from. learn from it. build upon its fertile ground.
success is a momentary state. failure is inevitable. growth is constant.
do it.
let me know if you need me.
first post on new stream. let’s see how this goes.
the best tools get out of the way. you stop thinking about the tool and start thinking about the work.
that’s the goal here too.
been thinking a lot about how we read things on the internet. everything is optimised for engagement — infinite scroll, algorithmic feeds, dopamine loops. you never really arrive anywhere. you just keep consuming.
i want the opposite of that. something that has edges. a week is a week. you can see it. you can read it. then it’s done and a new one starts.
there’s something about constraint that creates meaning. a polaroid is more interesting than a camera roll of a thousand near-identical shots. a mix tape meant something because it was finite and curated and someone made choices.
this site is an experiment in that direction. posts grouped by week, scrollable horizontally, finite. you can see where one week ends and the next begins. that feels right.
also: i want to be able to post whatever — a thought, a track, a photo, a video — without it feeling like it needs to fit a format. twitter trained us to make everything a take. instagram trained us to make everything beautiful. i just want a place to put things.
reading: a pattern language. still one of the best books ever written about how spaces make people feel.