• What’s one [[feeling]] you can [[own]] and consistently deliver?
• [[Search and Seizure]].
• Short [[videos]]: collapsed:: true
  • [[Contrast]]/paradox I want do X but Y is in the way
  • How am I going to do X?
  • Simple, universal to [[audience]], ideas
  • First word has to be a [[hook]] "Free" is good, "this" is bad
  • Hook has to be clear about what the conflict is and what is at the end
  • First frame has to be like title or thumbnail, high saturation and high contrast
  • [[Foreshadowing]] tells the user what gift they will get at the end
  • Rewatchable: Lists Easter eggs "Twists"?
  • Add conflict as the video goes on
  • [[But]],so But, [[therefore]]
    • South Park
  • Include a [[Why]]
  • Keep ending short but with a payoff
• Incident management game collapsed:: true
  • Rescue -> recovery, budget drops drastically
• A pilot is constantly seeking [[balance]]. collapsed:: true
  • "Redefine the fight"
  • Aviate navigate communicate
• [[Links]] should be [[titles]] worth clicking on.
• Let yourself be possessed by the web that has the [[problem]].
• [[Constraints]] [[shape]] multiple [[parts]] into one.
• "ecology is the science of understanding consequences"
• [[Plants]] for BSk shortgrass prairie. collapsed:: true
  • Pediomelum esculentum id:: 66a01c43-fa3a-4c3a-8ddf-21bf715090c5 Blue grama Crested wheat Western wheatgrass
  • Textile Onion
  • Winterfat
  • Chokecherry
  • Fringed sagewort Arrowleaf balsamroot Hawksbeard Sticky purple geranium Scarlet globemallow Sulfur-flower buckwheat Tumblemustard Western wallflower Western yarrow Rosa woodsii
  • Antelope bitterbrush Gardner saltbush Greasewood (livestock need high calcium grasses to counter) Green rabbitbrush Mountain mahogany Shadscale saltbush Shrubby cinquefoil (good for goats, bad for cattle) Silver sagebrush Wax Currant
  • Mountain snowberry Serviceberry
• “An earthquake achieves what the [[law]] promises but does not in practice maintain,” one of the survivors wrote. “The [[equality]] of all men.”
• Anytime there’s a [[block]], move back and restart the [[attack]] from a stronger [[base]].
• Getting past the [[elbow]], [[handfighting]] [[unarmed]] collapsed:: true
  • If their arms are down, [[attack]] the head. If they’re on the [[inside]], go around the [[outside]]. If their arms are up, go under for the body. If they’re narrow, go for the outsides. If they’re wide, go for the insides.
  • If they’re inside legs, they can attack legs but not so much upper body. If they’re outside, they can attack upper body but not so much legs.
• "[[time]] given away…is time you don’t [[own]]"
• Show them [[chaos]], and present an alternative of [[order]].
• [[Dormancy]] lets [[seeds]] disperse through [[time]].
• [[Distance]] gives you [[time]], Angles give you a way [[out]] or to [[flank]].
• "never sit against a [[swarm]] [keep [[moving]]]"
• John Allen Paulos on complex systems: "[[Uncertainty]] is the only certainty there is. And knowing how to live with insecurity is the only [[security]]."
• Improve [[entertainment]] first before [[ask]].
• [[Copywriting swipefile]]
• A sensory 3d map of the [[odor]].
• "it must hold the country by the [[sword]] or in [[fear]] of it"
  • "For if the vanquished has lately felt the sword, the victor may for a time carry an empty scabbard with impunity. But in the end, to rely on the scabbard alone brings more bloodshed than to have the sword always ready within."

2024-06-15

• The [[social model of disability]] is very interesting.

2024-06-07

• [[Human physiology]]

  • Cardiovascular system
    • Pumping blood, supplying nutrients and removing waste.
  • Respiratory system
    • Breathing. Gas exchange.
  • The human body is amazing. All of these intricate interconnected systems working away all of the time.

• Listened: [[Jeremy Corbyn & Mhairi Black: Left Culled, Centre Cracked and Right Reformed?]]

• Listened: [[The ‘blue wall’ road trip: Tories jumping ship?]]

  • Exploring whether previous Tory strongholds will be turning Liberal Democrat or other in the upcoming election.
  • I like these John Harris roadtrip interview style episodes where he goes and chats to real people around the country.

• Listened: [[New Frank Hester allegations]]

  • New allegations that the main Tory donor is a bit of a shit (misogynistic, racist). Shocker.

2024-06-06

• [[Digitisation]] vs [[digitalisation]]
  • Digitisation is basically turning the act of encoding analogue into digital.
  • Digitalisation is the wider process of more and more of processes of society being digitised and filtered through digital processes.

2024-06-05

• Listened: [[Politics Weekly Westminster: The first TV debate]]
  • [[Keir Starmer]] and [[Rishi Sunak]] both being uninspiring from the sounds of it.
  • No clear winner. Unlikely to change opinion polls much.

2024-06-04

• Why the fuck is [[The Guardian]] advertising some private healthcare subscription to me on their podcasts.

• [[Commonism]].

  • Discussed in Agora Discuss.

• Listened: [[Election Extra: Nigel Farage is back]]

  • [[Nigel Farage]], opportunist extraordinare, now leader of [[Reform UK]] party.
  • Bad for the Tories, which is usually good, but generally just bad for everyone all round. Especially if he gets elected to Clacton.

2024-06-03

• Listened: [[Trump is guilty on all counts. So what happens next?]]

  • Teflon Trump. He’ll still run. And this will make no difference to people who already like [[Donald Trump]].
  • Best hope is that maybe it will affect some swing voters.

• Listened: [[Has there been a purge of the leftwing of the Labour party?]]

  • Shitty treatment of [[Diane Abbott]] and [[Faiza Shaheen]].
  • Attempts to stop them running as Labour candidate.
  • General bad treatment of candidates from the left of the party.