If there are no gender differences, please explain packing for vacation

The Peter Thiel - Rogan episode was very good, I recommend it

Meditation is just as useless as going to the gym in a good way. You go to the gym, lift heavy objects and eventually put them back down. But that prepares you for when you are OUT of the gym. Meditating is just training to keep thoughts away. You fail, they keep coming back (“put the heavy objects back down”) but you learn an important skill: keep bad thoughts away, they are not you.

Unpopular opinion: we need algos in Nostr asap. Algos signal a poster “this is interesting, do more of this, please”, it helps the audience to filter out noise, Without them, there is little reason to react to a note (you are not reinforcing the feed choices), and posters feel no one is listening. The bad rep of algos is how much of a black box they are in traditional platforms. So the question is: why aren’t there more open source algo options?

IMO, Nostr solves the creators problem first: own your audience, monetise, and a secured order effect is better content. Oddly the zaps ux part is getting *worse* I say let’s solve this first.

Nostr is “struggling” because it doesn’t have a CEO basically, and it’s kind of directionless. Catering to an audience is the “right” step in marketing but not for a global audience. We should competently solve some problem first. IMO, Nostr solves the creators problem first: own your audience, monetise, and a secured order effect is better content. View quoted note →

Everyone tells you to leave Twitter but nobody tells you HOW. I’m leaving Twitter and Instagram, but this isn’t mentally easy, social media is a perfectly dialled drug. I left FB a couple of years ago cold turkey and it wasn’t easy. So HOW am I leaving Twitter? 1. I deleted the app. This makes it inconvenient to access the platform without the stress of deleting the account. This *should* be enough but eventually you are going to reinstall it. 2. I have a “good motive”. I left FB after getting in a lot of useless arguments regarding the pandemic. It felt draining, and it’s how Twitter feels now. 3. I’m a father now, and I “need to be the change I want to see in the world”. Social media corporations literally want to rot your brain. Even if you are a perfect content creator, you are just bringing potential victims to the platform. You work for the man, for no pay. And nobody is “just lurking”. Opt out, I know I am. 4. I’m going through all my bookmarks. It surprises me how “useless” they are. Yes, they look like “signal” but why and I saving them? To own somebody else? Am I building a case against the world? Grow up Carlos. 5. I *want* to share stuff I’ve learned as a human. But a big platform with bad incentives is worse than a small platform with good incentives by orders of magnitude. (Do I even need to figure this out? I already have people I love I can share those experiences with.) 6. If you are an aldult my age, “signal” shouldn’t really be found every x number of tweets. You should have a good mental model by now, a good set of heuristics and values, which should guide you in the right direction, whatever new data comes along. What you think is signal is just confirmation bias most of the time. 7. You can’t change anyone on social media, we can barely teach our kids. Your intentions don’t matter, your words don’t matter, only your actions. Kids teach you that. Wish me luck.

Both “the markets” and “the state” want the same thing: To intermediate all human interactions, either for profit or power. The “markets” proclaim to be voluntary while the state proclaims to be democratic.

I’m feeling this more and more. View quoted note →

Learning to disregard intentions and see incentives is a superpower. But why do we value intentions so much? I think it’s because we are so hardwired for injustice sensitivity.

So Twitter is suggesting me more and more “local” tweets, and my feed is getting worse and worse. It’s like my countrymen never used social media before, it’s basically insults all they down. Remember me again why am I on Twitter?