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Rahul Shankar

@rahshank

Dinner 🍱 popups with Ghosts of Bombay and Detroit dinner club. Thinking about gathering, scenes, spaces (IRL and URL), creative output, and a life well lived.

Detroit, MI Katılım Haziran 2009
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Rahul Shankar
Rahul Shankar@rahshank·
Starting a photo thread of stuff in Detroit. This one was on Saturday in Indian Village. K and I were on a walk in our neighborhood when we saw a bunch of chickens and a duck in a frontyard. The owner invited us back to get a closer look while her granddaughter fed the birds
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Rahul Shankar@rahshank·
@visakanv keeping on trucking with dinner popups. trying to play ⚽️, trying to decide what seemingly productive things are actually distractions
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@eshear i don’t do this much these days but estate sales were an interesting source of odd books. lot more work than used book stores though
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Emmett Shear
Emmett Shear@eshear·
For those of us who purchase books speculatively to build your library, rather than because we intend to read them immediately: where do you browse for inspiration? Used book stores used to be such good sources of curation, but they’re more and more rare now.
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@wfenza @Aella_Girl yeah this has been what I’ve learned going from a decade in a “supposed to be hard and take work” relationship to a “wow i can’t believe it can be this awesome” relationship
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Wes, the Dadliest Catch@wfenza·
@Aella_Girl I would tell them that "commitment is supposed to be hard and take work" is a lie from people who want to justify shitty relationships. Relationships are *supposed* to be joyful and awesome. Sometimes they take work, but that's a bug, not a feature
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Aella@Aella_Girl·
People who left a srs relationship and are so so thankful they did: if someone else were considering a breakup but also thinks "isn't commitment supposed to be hard and take work?", what advice would you give them to be able to know when they should jump ship vs stay?
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Rahul Shankar
Rahul Shankar@rahshank·
@BellaRudd1 @visakanv +1 to this question. i’ve been observing a couple examples locally in detroit but the time frame hasn’t been long enough to make serious observations. also thinking about the same in relation to reviving culturally significant venues
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Bella Rudd@BellaRudd1·
@visakanv do you by chance have any musings on how to operationalize aid to nascent culturally significant venues? like, from the top of this thread, if i'm an arts-funding bureaucrat, how do i ensure the monies go to the right places rather than eg prodigious grant-writers?
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Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!)
Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!)@visakanv·
What are the emotional equivalents to “smart”, “sharp”, “clever”, “intelligent” etc? What adjectives would you use to describe someone who is emotionally savvy?
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Michael Nielsen
Michael Nielsen@michael_nielsen·
Something I didn't anticipate about my list of meaningful places (I'd like to go, and have been) is how enjoyable it would be to share with friends, and to talk over, and how often I would do it: michaelnotebook.com/ongoing/places…
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Rahul Shankar
Rahul Shankar@rahshank·
@__drewface i agree with everything most of what you’re saying except the use of the word hacker. there’s a ‘joke about the outcomes you want’ element in play with the word hacker that eventually plays out once you communicate what “accepted” norms are
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Andrew Rose@__drewface·
startup founders: I am begging you to stop advertising roles as "6 days per week" my students ship 5 PRs per day and literally work 6days/wk, but they are so turned off by these job listings. good hackers wants HIGH OUTPUT, not HIGH HOURS. Just write out performance minimums.
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Rahul Shankar
Rahul Shankar@rahshank·
i like the detail in the image (priya’s message). makes the endeavor a lot less brittle. if you don’t do this you risk making it a pseudo franchise model with need for a lot more centralized and decentralized governance.. would take time and energy away from the core intent which i think (simplified) is thriving communities, families, and projects incubated by these communities vs managing some kind of fractal franchise
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Andrew Rose
Andrew Rose@__drewface·
@DefenderOfBasic also, here's the text of the announcement to the class, in case anyone is curious again, the decision isn't being made lightly, we're clearly open source lovers. My entire bootcamp curriculum is literally an open source repo. Happy to chat privately about the factors involved :)
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Defender@DefenderOfBasic·
I think this is more important than I realized this morning. I think it makes more sense to just call things by the best name. Imagine if wikipedia had a trademark on "wiki" or GitHub had a trademark on "git"
Dan Allison@danallison

@10myrs @TetraSeattle Ah! Took me a minute 😄. To clarify for anyone who doesn’t get the joke, @fractal_nyc politely requested that we not use the name Fractal for our group, which is what prompted our name change. Tetra, by contrast, is explicitly intended to be a non-proprietary name anyone can use.

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Rahul Shankar@rahshank·
@eshear very cool. i’ll be curious to see if there’s a broader ecological revival impact too. eDNA studies earlier this year seem to have found rare and near-extinct mussel species returning to the Seine
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Rahul Shankar@rahshank·
@eshear hmmm possibly - the marvelous clouds, zen mind beginners mind, the art of doing science and engineering, sum-forty tales from the afterlives
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Emmett Shear
Emmett Shear@eshear·
Been building my Softmax library. The shelf is starting to feel good. Open to suggestions for what I’m missing.
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Rahul Shankar
Rahul Shankar@rahshank·
hmmm I’ve found some mid to higher end wine merchants have this skill. i have a couple particular places (a retailer and a wine bar) in mind where the selling is largely a conversation about something they clearly love and respect and want you to enjoy as much as them. as opposed to them needing you to spend money on something
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nibras ꩜@heynibras·
i'm looking for examples of people who sell/market in a skilful way: natural, effective & feels good when you encounter it most of the selling i see on the internet feels graspy, somewhat repulsive, extractive and uncaring of how it affects the person on the receiving end
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Rahul Shankar@rahshank·
one way i’ve seen this play out is when people are trying to figure out if their therapists/coaches are worth it. the good ones seem to push you towards testing your introspection against external reality + you can usually see subtle or direct signs that they live a balanced, introspective, joyous life themselves and are pushing you in that direction
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Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!)
Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!)@visakanv·
this is true if the introspection isnt in a feedback loop with material/external reality. (many such cases!!) the real measure of getting better at introspection is that your life flourishes more than it did before you do it
Amanda Askell@AmandaAskell

I have a pet theory that when people introspect about themselves, their brain sometimes just scrambles to generate relevant content. So they feel like they're gaining insight into deeper parts of themselves when they're actually just inventing it on the fly.

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𝖒𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖊𝖑𝖈𝖚𝖗𝖟𝖎
𝖒𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖊𝖑𝖈𝖚𝖗𝖟𝖎@michaelcurzi·
Is there a single best book about the history of India? (For comparison if I were to pick this for the UK I'd pick Churchill's multivolume History of the English Speaking Peoples, i.e. a narrative of key moments & figures, core ideas and the unified whole. Introductory but good)
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Rahul Shankar@rahshank·
might have teared up a little when i witnessed this today
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@MasterTimBlais also something about partners who learn to cook for themselves out of love and then as an extension for you?
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Rahul Shankar
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@visakanv are you ~ saying journey/POV are current genres that have emerged?
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Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!)
Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!)@visakanv·
my sense is: like "POV", phrases like "journey" and "storytime" have become narrative guidelines. it's a shortcut that allows creators and audiences to skip the troublesome tedium of having to think. even thoughtful, literate creators succumb to it because it's engagement-maxxing
Melissa Chen@MsMelChen

“My aging journey” Why can’t you just say aging? Like aging is already a process that implies going from time point A to B. It is totally redundant and dumb to call it a journey. Why is everything a journey nowadays! Here’s a useful tip: are you on a long trip? No? Ok, you’re not on a journey. Your aging isn’t a long arduous trek into Mordor with your homies to return some cursed jewelry FFS

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Rahul Shankar
Rahul Shankar@rahshank·
@br___ian check out vgr’s substack and the protocolized s stack that he’s involved with as well. some experiments in LLM aided fiction writing. sci-fi on the protocolized one
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bri@br___ian·
does anyone have prompts they use experimenting with LLMs writing fiction or narrative y stuff?
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sedate snail
sedate snail@sedatesnail·
how have we gone so wrong
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