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Discourse

Why I Chose Discourse Over Discord

When I first started thinking about building a community around my writing, I did what any reasonable person would do: I looked at what everyone el...

"user engagement" and "addiction" are the same thing measured from different perspectives

The amount of effort required to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than producing it, which is why we're all drowning. This is called the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle and it explains the entire internet

"Just following orders" stopped being an excuse in 1945 but it's good to know "just following the incentive structure" is going strong

this entire week has been one single PSA: "the cloud" just means "someone else's computer" and that "someone else" is one of three companies and they don't give a s**t about you

The sun will swallow the Earth. The galaxies will fade. Protons will decay. Your LinkedIn bio will not survive this process. This is a Good Thing™️

Westenberg.

You Are Insignificant. That's a Good Thing.

A Short Guide to Being Infinitesimally Small

'Why don't people just [simple solution]' is always asked by someone who doesn't understand the problem, doesn't understand humans, or doesn't understand both. AKA, Hacker News.

'Be authentic' and 'curate your personal brand' are contradictory instructions we've somehow convinced an entire generation to follow simultaneously

'Follow your passion' is advice from people whose passions happened to be monetizable. Nobody tells the guy whose passion is Pokemon card collecting to quit his job, but that's statistically most passions

That wasn't REAL communism' and 'that wasn't REAL capitalism' are the same argument from different teams, and both are correct in the most useless way possible