@brianchau57 I did apply, but I noticed that the tell us about yourself field doesn’t allow for vertical scrolling, which makes editing impossible once text is out of view.
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Alan Seideman
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Brian Chau@brianchau57
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@brianchau57 @naval What’s the best setup for a family wanting to come spend time there ?
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He buys a house with a little bit of land and a peaceful creek running through it. One afternoon he’s walking the property line, taking it all in, when he stumbles across a picnic setup — grills, tables, even a little cleared area that looks like it’s been loved for years.
Before he can even admire it, the neighbor from up the hill storms down and demands, “What are you doing?”
He replies calmly, “Just walking my property.”
The neighbor snaps back, “That’s my property. I’ve been mowing it for 23 years.”
Twenty-three years of mowing… but not owning.
So now the question isn’t about grass or picnic tables. It’s about boundaries, paperwork, and a whole lot of emotion tied to a piece of land both men feel connected to.
What would you do in this situation? Whose Property is it?
This may or may not represent true events; it may or may not be AI
TheRealCherokeeOwl 🦉@CherokeeOwl
First day of summer. A 14-year-old just wants to fish. His line snags on a fence the neighbor stretched straight across the river, so he hops in a little boat to free it. Before he can untangle anything, the neighbor storms out yelling, “Don’t touch my fence!” Now it’s not about fishing. It’s about who thinks they own the water. Rivers usually aren’t private the way backyards are. And putting a barrier across one can be more than rude — it can be unsafe and, in many places, not allowed at all. The smartest move here isn’t arguing from a boat. It’s stepping back onto shore, getting an adult involved, and handling it calmly: a conversation first, and if that goes nowhere, a call to the local authorities or wildlife department to find out whether that fence even belongs there. Sometimes the best way to untangle a line… is to untangle the situation on land. What would you do? This is presented as a story; it may or may not be true; it may or may not be AI
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What a hero
Andrew Otazo@AndrewOtazo
It's been a grueling year, but I finally finished removing 11,375 pounds of trash from Virginia Key's North Point Park! 42,215 pounds removed in total over eight years. If you'd like to support my work, please consider donating to my Patreon patreon.com/user?u=24962511
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@AndyAyrey @grok how would your response to this question differ from Claude’s ?
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Thanks David. Really insightful. Love how you pulled in Jung and those 4 archetypes. Love that the vision is reclaiming and integrating those 4 in the new paradigm. Feels hopeful. One nuance I think about a lot that I’d love your thoughts on too: the masculine & feminine. Not men and women. What I mean is that there’s this other thing going on I see where the masculine energy is very much alive but the symbols we use to embody the masculine energy are all mixed up. Women in super hero roles, fighting, protecting, solo, embodying the patriarch. Where’s the feminine energy gone? Where’s the nurturing, the unconditional love, the one making the nest the place worth dying for to protect? If we’re talking gender roles then we need to also see that the masculine and feminine energies are very much there - it’s that we’ve mixed up the symbols - not the fundamental energies that are timeless and a part of nature.
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Dilbert captured the inhumanity of the fabricated office culture in a way that let us all laugh at it. And by laughing at it we could expose it. We could expose it, expose ourselves and our own collective bullshit. And by exposing it we could be free of it. Dilbert gave us freedom and humanity is better for it.
You’ve pushed for freedom over and over through the tough convos you shared, by talking about Covid, by sharing the systems of life you see everywhere.
You’ve freed millions and I hope that whatever comes next for you feels like freedom in the most beautiful, wonderful, love filled way that could be.
Thank you for everything
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It gives me great joy to learn about any contribution I made.
I tried to be useful.
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Science just did the unthinkable:
Researchers genetically modified the world's deadliest virus to trace how psilocybin physically repairs the brain...
𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗱.
We've finally figured out why one trip can change your entire life 🧵
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The goal with any great product should be simplicity
Naval@naval
Good Products are Opinionated. “Every great founder I’ve seen up close, or even from afar, is highly opinionated and they’re almost dictatorial in how they run things. Also, early-stage teams are opinionated. And the products they build are opinionated. Opinionated means they have a strong vision for what it should and should not do. If you don’t have a strong vision of what it should and should not do, then you end up with a giant mess of competing features. @Jack Dorsey has a great phrase: “Limit the number of details and make every detail perfect.” And that’s especially important in consumer products. You have to be extremely opinionated. All the best products in consumer-land get there through simplicity. You could argue the recent success of ChatGPT and similar AI chatbots is because they’re even simpler than Google. Google looked like the simplest product you could possibly build. It was just a box. But even that box had limitations in what you could do. You were trained not to talk to it conversationally. You would enter keywords and you had to be careful with those keywords. You couldn’t just ask a question outright and get a sensible answer. It wouldn’t do proper synonym matching, and then it would spit you back a whole bunch of results. That was complicated. You’d have to sift through and figure out which ones were ads, which ones were real, were they sorted correctly, and then you’d have to click through and read it. ChatGPT and the chatbot simplified that even further. You just talk to it like a human—use your voice or you type and it gives you back a straight answer. It might not always be right, but it’s good enough, and it gives you back a straight answer in text or voice or images or whatever you prefer. So it simplifies what we looked at as the simplest product on the Internet, which was formerly Google, and makes it even simpler. And you just cannot make a product that’s simple enough. To be simple, you have to be extremely opinionated. You have to remove everything that doesn’t match your opinion of what the product should be doing. You have to meticulously remove every single click, every single extra button, every single setting. In fact, things in the settings menu are an indication that you’ve abdicated your responsibility to the user. Choices for the user are an abdication of your responsibility. Maybe for legal or important reasons, you can have a few of these, but you should struggle and resist against every single choice the user has to make. In the age of TikTok and ChatGPT, that’s more obvious than ever. People don’t want to make choices. They don’t want the cognitive load. They want you to figure out what the right defaults are and what they should be doing and looking at, and they want you to present it to them.”
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Later, an agreement was made but not honored:
The Treaty of Point Elliott, signed on January 22, 1855, by Washington Territory Governor Isaac Stevens and representatives of 22 Puget Sound tribes—including the Duwamish, Suquamish, and Snoqualmie—formalized the cession of approximately 5 million acres of ancestral lands encompassing much of present-day western Washington, including the future sites of Seattle and surrounding areas, in exchange for $150,000 paid in annuities over 20 years, plus reserved lands, fishing rights, education, and healthcare provisions; the treaty was ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1859. However, dissatisfaction with the terms sparked immediate fallout, including the Puget Sound War of 1855-1856, where tribal leaders like Chief Leschi resisted amid broken promises on payments and reservation sizes, leading to violent clashes and the forced displacement of indigenous populations—estimated at around 8,000 to 10,000 people across the signatory tribes at the time—to smaller reservations totaling about 100,000 acres. Settlers, numbering roughly 4,000 non-natives in the territory by 1855 and growing rapidly to over 11,000 by 1860, inhabited the ceded lands through U.S. military enforcement, establishing forts and communities that accelerated European-American expansion while leaving many tribes without full compensation or recognition for generations.
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Joseph Campbell believed that the myth of the future would be one that connects us to the planet as a whole. He told a story about Chief Seattle:
Chief Seattle was one of the last spokesmen of the Paleolithic moral order. In about 1852, the United States government inquired about buying the tribal lands for the arriving people of the United States, and Chief Seattle wrote a marvelous letter in reply.
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Paleolithic moral order:
Based on the cooperative needs of small, nomadic hunter-gatherer bands for survival, emphasizing social cohesion, conflict resolution, and resource sharing. Evidence suggests this order was supported by early religious and spiritual beliefs, such as animism, ancestor worship, and ritualistic behaviors like burial practices, which helped create social bonds and provide a framework for making sense of the world
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Alan Seideman retweetledi
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Every man's life changes the moment he realizes this... ‼️‼️
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