Category: Links of Interest
Maybe the Friction of Mastodon is a good thing
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Matt has a good point. As I’ve thought about before, I’m learning that I’m personally more excited about ActivityPub than I am about Mastodon specifically. I’m excited about the idea of being able to use Ivory to log into my Mastodon account and talk to people using Micro.blog, Tumblr, or Threads (one day). RSS currently…
The Dilemma of Content Creators
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From Sebastien Dubois: The one part I’m disappointed about is the MRR of this newsletter. As I write edition after edition, week after week, I notice how little progress I manage to make. You are now 800+ subscribers, and I’ve only managed to convince 6 of you (❤️) that my work is worth supporting (i.e.,…
People Really Don’t Want to Work in the Office
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So it turns out that people like flexible work and don’t want return-to-office policies mandated. I’m baffled that companies were caught off guard by high attrition rates when they mandated return-to-office policies. Employees got a taste of what autonomy is like and realized that sitting in the office every day all day was a bad…
Hrm – can you even trust books?
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So Dan Ariely seems to have fudged data that went into his books? Between this and If Books Could Kill I really wonder if I can trust any of the books that I read. At the very least I am far more skeptical of any claims made in books, but unfortunately I’m not always equipped…
The long note task system avoids “due bombs”
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Two interviewees described this approach as “like paper, but with links.” Many note-centric people I talked to appreciate that notes avoid the ceremony of GTD-style task-tracking tools, and the overwhelm that can come from “due bombs” and other anti-patterns in systems like this. Allen Pike Prompted by my earlier link to Greg and his Field…
One book per month – Field Notes Bullet Journal
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Love this short report on how Greg is using his Bullet Journal via Field Notes books. I do have TickTick as my regular task manager…in theory. In reality, I write down what I need to do in a notebook at my desk and then do it. The only hard part is tracking links to things…
The Dictators Dilemma andMath Can’t Be Racist
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I enjoyed this post at Pluralistic. Specifically showing how putting bad data into AI yields bad results, which then slurps up the results and puts out more bad data.
My Top Tool for Making Note Connections
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My vault has just over 4k notes in it, and there is no way I can know what each note is. In fact, I’ve likely forgotten most of the notes in my vault, which is fine because they’re remembered in my vault for me. But this does bring up a problem, how do I go…
Foxconn industry investment was a can
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Unsurprisingly, subsidies given to Foxconn were a terrible deal for citizens. The jobs never materialized in real ways. Governments spent millions preparing power and roads for a building that never showed up. People’s houses were stolen to get the land that Foxconn wanted. We should loudly oppose our cities courting big companies with subsidies.
Cool robot build with personality
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