is best when you leave most things unsaid β as much as you can β but
produce a product that communicates your words regardless. The informed
reader should be able to pick up all of the nuance and reference within
the work, but it should be perfectly comprehensible and enjoyable
without.
13:29 living and writing
"I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to
understand them perfectly." - Douglas Hofstadter
https://blog.beeminder.com/ β give beeminderr your credit card, and
they’ll charge it every time you fail to meet your goal. in defining a
quantifiable metric for beeminder to track, you define a metric that you
yourself can monitor and keep track of. It’s a brilliant way to turn
your intrinsic motivation extrinsic β and serious.
the founder of sia’s an interesting guy - maybe more daily journaling
would be valuable. i’d be able to keep a lot more in mind. or am i
already remembering the most important things? i have to continue to
remember that ideas - and understanding - are in and of themselves
incredibly cheap. it’s having the determination and consistency to
execute day after day that makes for valuable work. reading godel,
escher, bach might be valuable. execute on more ideas β you won’t be
able to iterate on them if you do not work with others! hofstadler might
be worth readingβ¦
rust seems like the key to accessing a lot of the innovation i’m
interested in, up and down the stack. haskell and ml are still
incredibly intriguing, but their communities feel masturbatory by
comparison first, improve your c skills. its been the root of the
programming language world for 30 years or more.
lua game development through pico8 seems fun
20:00 it’s a community garden, not a blog
walled gardens - with closed information and writing that are not
accessible - are probably bad; they’re used to obscure individual or
corporate notes. the ‘blog’ sucks information into a particular format
and places harsh limitations on the organization of content. don’t do
that! viewing writing as a content marketing strategy or a way to
develop a personal brand is valid, but in the end it deters from writing
articles we want to write or posting things we want to post to fit a
particular image β this inhibits personal expression and keeps you from
recording ideas β just build a second brain
commoditizing removes the creator from the equation; things become
dispersonal. i didn’t at all connect with food until i was making it,
and making it completely. it is often better to do things yourself, or
to use those of friends β commiditizing the wrong things will lead to
the detachment from our belongings that is so toxic about the standard
‘capitalist’ way of living, dispensible and commoditized items that
carry no emotional weight.
revisit and explore the linked parts of this article: Alexander’s
timeless way of building, and alienation, marvelous pursuits and the new
nomadic sciences.
the marvelous pursuit is born of the desire to create playful complexity
where these is simplistic convenience; it can’t be commodified and is a
rejection of such commodities because it cannot be purchased.
marvelous pursuits are attempts to make the environment one’s own by
ascribing values to the space. the marvelous pursuer is not an engineer,
because the marvels are not in and of themsevles providing value; they
are creative tokens that we cannot necessarily commodify
