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Everest’s Next Game
Everest’s Next Game
“my next game project--- the ground itself -- is this one session table-top storytelling game for 2-6 players, about specific places over highly variable time periods. it uses accessible materials (deck of cards, coin, 6 sided die, paper) and takes a few hours to play”
·mobile.twitter.com·
Everest’s Next Game
Jonny’s Thread on His Avatar
Jonny’s Thread on His Avatar
“trying out a new avatar for a bit. i've been thinking a lot about what it means that i don't feel comfortable with my own face and why i generally feel more comfortable writing through a pseudonymous identity, and how that often feels more real and genuine than my own face.”
·mobile.twitter.com·
Jonny’s Thread on His Avatar
Cleaning House
Cleaning House
“I let my work seep into every hour that I had previously kept sacred as mine. When I walked home from the office, or did chores around my apartment, I listened to the political news that I had missed while working. When I slept, I was visited by my projects and colleagues in my sleep. When I ran in the park in the morning, instead of seeing the trees, I envisioned tasks I planned to complete later in the day.” “This house has weathered the upbringing of two children and one divorce.” “Eleni and I are still close friends, but we no longer do each others hair.”
·medium.com·
Cleaning House
Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition
Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition
Brian Donohue [https://twitter.com/bthdonohue] is President of Instapaper [https://www.instapaper.com/] and a Product Engineering Manager at Pinterest [https://www.pinterest.com/]. You can find him on Twitter @bthdonohue [https://twitter.com/bthdonohue]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics 00:00 [https://youtu.be/u3Gu0EX98Cg?t=0s] – The history of Instapaper 8:00 [https://youtu.be/u3Gu0EX98Cg?t=8m] – Free competitors enter the market 10:0
·blog.ycombinator.com·
Operating Instapaper Through an Acquisition
Understanding Potential
Understanding Potential
There's also a useful version of such critical remarks which can be made. One wants two things: (a) remarks which help people understand their own potential better; and (b) remarks which help people better understand what's involved in working in a particular field.— Michael Nielsen (@michael_nielsen) November 24, 2018
·twitter.com·
Understanding Potential
Thread of Shortcuts
Thread of Shortcuts
If you’re looking for some ways to use the Shortcuts app, here’s a thread of examples:— Matthew Cassinelli (@mattcassinelli) November 8, 2018
·twitter.com·
Thread of Shortcuts
Asking for and Accepting Help
Asking for and Accepting Help
i can't stress enough how much it's helped/healed me to be in a relationship where my partner asks for and accepts help from me. it's cool to be properly self-sufficient, of course, but it can also be really damaging to not ask for help or accept the occasional favor— bb ghost (@emilywithcurls) November 22, 2018
·twitter.com·
Asking for and Accepting Help
Font Changes for Copy Editing
Font Changes for Copy Editing
Yes! I recommend this for proofreading all the time. https://t.co/vW1z5xNv46— Sid Orlando (@ohreallysid) November 14, 2018
·twitter.com·
Font Changes for Copy Editing
Yotto 'Hyperfall'
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.”
·yottomusic.com·
Yotto 'Hyperfall'
Satisfaction and progress in open-ended work
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.”
·blog.andymatuschak.org·
Satisfaction and progress in open-ended work
Materials
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
·austinkleon.com·
Materials
I Love My Commute
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.”
·thecut.com·
I Love My Commute
On Linked Lists in the Standard Library
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.”
·mobile.twitter.com·
On Linked Lists in the Standard Library
On Closeting and Basementing
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”
·mobile.twitter.com·
On Closeting and Basementing
Growth of Subreddits
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…
·flowingdata.com·
Growth of Subreddits