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There are no malls
No arcades
No community centers
It's hot af outside
You police the parks
Defunded libraries
YMCA too expensive
The fuck they supposed to do?
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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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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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Imagine if the safety of the public, not speed, determined the way we built our roadways.
The FAA ✈️@FAANews
The safety of the flying public, not speed, will determine the timeline for returning the Boeing 737-9 Max to service.
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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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@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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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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I tried this in my early career. Compromising on them unconsciously was shockingly easy. It's ok to break these rules, but make sure it's worth it. Breaking them with no upside is easy to talk yourself into; one only loses doing so.
Brian Ji@brianjji
Charlie Munger’s 3 rules for life.
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@AidanReed45 The real head-scratcher is how to make people appreciate all the things that *aren't* happening to them, that they *don't* have to deal with, because of the background functioning of the bureaucratic state.
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@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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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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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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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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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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Bucket list item complete:
✅ Get published in a Stewart Brand book
Stewart Brand@stewartbrand
I've posted a refreshed version of the "YouTube Rules" section of my MAINTENANCE book, enriched with two of the many comments. From @matisse_enzer and @intjonathan--excerpted below.books.worksinprogress.co/book/maintenan…
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@humantransit I gotta say, MN really showed us up here. Those 2008 OR finalists are mediocre at best.
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Minnesota has a new flag. Oregon had this debate in 2008 and Wikipedia has all the finalists. I would just lose the shield and keep the beaver. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_O…
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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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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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If you don’t build homes, you’re never going to be happy about who ends up owning homes.
Build homes.
The New York Times@nytimes
Democrats in Congress have introduced a bill in both houses of Congress to ban hedge funds from buying and owning single-family homes in the U.S. If signed into law, it could potentially increase the supply of homes available for individual buyers. nyti.ms/3R9Ejgz
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We do not rise to the level of our goals. We fall to the levels of our systems. - @JamesClear #AtomicHabits
#leadership
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