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Yes! I recommend this for proofreading all the time. https://t.co/vW1z5xNv46— Sid Orlando (@ohreallysid) November 14, 2018
November
“The days throw up a closed sign around four.”
“Calmness in Activity”
Yotto 'Hyperfall'
“THIS RECORD IS GENERALLY INSPIRED BY THE FEELING OF HAVING LOST AND FOUND YOUR CAR KEYS AT THE SAME TIME. THERE'S DRAMA, DISTRESS AND DEEP, PROFOUND CONTEMPLATION MIRRORED WITH RELIEF AND RELENTLESS JOY.”
Satisfaction and progress in open-ended work
“For more open-ended problems, much of the challenge lies in figuring out what to do next. These rich questions offer deep satisfaction on longer time scales, but without a clear sense of progress, each day ends ambiguously. Was today good? Will these tinkerings add up to anything? In what timeframe? Who knows. Ultimately: what structures around progress, self-correction, and operations can help us in open-ended mode? These questions are intensely personal, but I hope that notes from my journey here may help your own.”
Bloom Filters and Swift 4.2
Materials
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about materials. Obviously, a painter’s material is paint, a sculptor’s material is bronze or clay. But what of the other, more abstract arts? For example, a stand-up comedian will refer to her material. What, exactly, is that material? Jokes? Stories? What is a writer’s material? Here’s Annie Dillard: A well-known
I Love My Commute
“I love my commute! It means I have someplace to be, that I’m part of something. I love looking at people on the train, watching the way they talk to and hold their children, their boyfriends, their moms. Eavesdropping on the questions they ask one another, the way they laugh. Their tattoos, their nails, the things they’re reading on their phones.”
On Linked Lists in the Standard Library
“@jckarter @dimsumthinking And then you have to ask what kind of linked list? Singly-linked persistent, doubly-linked mutable? The educational argument is strong, but I suspect the most educational part of a linked list is writing your own.”
On Closeting and Basementing
“been thinking about this and I feel like "closeted" isn't quite the right word for a certain category of nonbinary experiences. I'm starting to prefer "basemented", as in "there's a gender-neutral restroom in the basement" https://t.co/r7tAvpDenz”
Kunal, Ryan, Red, and Daniel Go Canvassing
Growth of Subreddits
As of September 2018, there were 892 million comments for the year so far, spread out over 355,939 subreddits. Here’s how it got to this point, and “what the internet has been talking a…
Brian’s Take on Management
Good questions! Let me organize my thoughts on these in a lil thread https://t.co/qGp0zVaOZn— Brian Michel (@brianmichel) November 3, 2018
Remembering XOXO 2018
How Manhattan Became a Rich Ghost Town
“Their dark windows serve as daytime mirrors for rich pedestrians”
Network Closure
“@mhdempsey In general the two forms I am most interested in are 1) coalescing of people from randomly talking --> implicit --> explicit groups 2) reverse engineering physical events by seeing ripples they cause in network closure”
The high-return activity of raising others' aspirations - Marginal REVOLUTION
“At critical moments in time, you can raise the aspirations of other people significantly, especially when they are relatively young, simply by suggesting they do something better or more ambitious than what they might have in mind. It costs you relatively little to do this, but the benefit to them, and to the broader world, may be enormous”
People Bottlenecks
Songs to Survive the Summer
What We Lose
Who Sends the First Text?
Your Real Biological Clock Is You’re Going to Die
Something New from XOXO
Six years ago, we launched XOXO with a singular mission: to bring together and celebrate artists and creators of all kinds using the…
“no one ever helps me in this damn house…“
no one ever helps me in this damn house pic.twitter.com/gvwjTpVO3s— MOVED TO @SEUPO (@seupodead) October 24, 2018
Carving Marble
Nicolet Schenck's Illustration Portfolio
Nicolet Schenck is a designer and illustrator currently creating digital products with Nike.
Group Trust Dynamics
I think that we underestimate the power law of throughput by how close you are to someone. And given non-linear decay of pairwise trust as you add people to group, and group trust being the GCD of pairwise trust. So much left unsaid in the public commons of the internet— Kevin Kwok (@kevinakwok) October 22, 2018
Memes as Emoji
“⠀⠀🤔 🤯 🧠 😮 ✨🧠✨ 😵”
Values Length and Interpretation
Single words for values are seductive because they have deep meanings. But, because they have deep meanings, you’ve little assurance that everyone has the same definition. (“What is love?”)— Sean Rose (@seanrose) October 22, 2018