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Jonathan Owens

@intjonathan

Life is short, and we have but little time to gladden the hearts of those who travel with us. So be quick to love and make haste to be kind. @[email protected]

Portland, OR Katılım Ağustos 2009
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Michael Nielsen
Michael Nielsen@michael_nielsen·
This should be read by anyone serious about learning and technology. I've read it three times, so far, and know it will bear much more re-reading before I fully understand it
Andy Matuschak@andy_matuschak

New essay: "Exorcising myself of the Primer" The Diamond Age's "Primer" has long been edtech's most canonical shared vision. I feel the field is haunted by it. It's wrong in many important ways—but we haven't articulated a better one, so we cling to it. I want to transcend it.

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Natasha@devnatash·
After spending the last ~5 years learning about & working in data science, I have come to this realization: Data doesn’t reach people. It doesn’t make them change. To affect people, at scale, you have to tell them stories.
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Chloe Bellerby
Chloe Bellerby@ChloeBellerbyMH·
One of the most powerful things I was ever told was to “be where your feet are”. We spend so much time worrying about the future and the list of things we have to do instead of being present and enjoying where we are right now. So this is me telling you to be where your feet are
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Jonathan Owens@intjonathan·
@zachklein Definitely the Columbia Gorge Model Railroad Club (cgmrc.com). Between them and the ORHC (orhf.org) I bet all this stuff would find a joyful home.
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Zach Klein
Zach Klein@zachklein·
You guys. My wife's uncle is a major model train buff. He built a 2000sqft train layout over decades and now he wants to retire from the hobby and just give the whole thing away for FREE. He asked me if I knew anyone...I want to help!
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Jonathan Owens@intjonathan·
@rands Reminds me of the Haidt analogy of the elephant and the rider. Rational rider thinks they're directing the feeling elephant, but the elephant is ultimately in charge.
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Doc Norton
Doc Norton@DocOnDev·
Change agency is a temp job. Often, those who start a change are rejected by the organization, but their ideas endure.
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Michael Nielsen
Michael Nielsen@michael_nielsen·
Paraphrasing Feynman: "for a successful technology, reality must take precedence over 'winning' short-term-arguments, for Nature cannot be fooled". Neither power, nor self-righteousness, nor power-to-build, are a substitute for understanding. Yet they can all give that illusion
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Kpaxs
Kpaxs@Kpaxs·
A gem form the LessWrong community: 'Humans are not automatically strategic.' "A large majority of otherwise smart people spend time doing semi-productive things, when there are massively productive opportunities untapped."
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Jarrett Walker
Jarrett Walker@humantransit·
Science fiction is shaping the tech industry, but it matters which science fiction. I grew up reading Heinlein and Asimov but my values changed when I discovered Ursula K. Le Guin. @parismarx captures why. time.com/6203815/elon-m… @ursulaleguin
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Patrick Collison
Patrick Collison@patrickc·
I wish digital maps had a setting to increase label density by a factor of 10+, for a perspective like the road atlases of yore. We manufacture these amazing high-resolution displays but then render maps in crayon.
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Jonathan Owens@intjonathan·
@humantransit I gotta say, MN really showed us up here. Those 2008 OR finalists are mediocre at best.
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Patrick McKenzie
Patrick McKenzie@patio11·
You do not have to be as interesting as Game of Thrones! You have to be as good at storytelling as the guy geeking out about grease traps. You can *copy those story beats.*
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Patrick McKenzie
Patrick McKenzie@patio11·
I’m not endorsing TikTok I’m just saying that it makes me crazy that a well-heeled industry filled with intelligent people can’t bring the production capabilities of a bored middle school student to bear on a problem that they know costs them money.
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Jonathan Owens@intjonathan·
@mchowla @patio11 Sort of. Maybe there's no consumer price decrease, but it shifts the revenue from Visa/MC to the merchants, thus distributing the money more widely.
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Patrick McKenzie
Patrick McKenzie@patio11·
If you had told me in 2004 that by 2023 not only would credit card affiliates be plastered on the side of airplanes but they would be spending money doing political advocacy to protect interchange revenue, I would have been staggered:
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