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No I do not want to immediately pay for this newsletter I just discovered. No I do not want to subscribe to all these other newsletters they recommend. No I do not want to share the fact that I subscribed on facebook. Just let me read the damn letter for a bit.
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The amount of upsell tries for once I click a subscribe button really disinclines me to subscribe to new substacks.
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when Clawing Back to Zero becomes the source of all virtue
inthewilderless.substack.com/p/not-just-cla
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I'll take it I guess.
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Please feel free to reply with better links (either to my own stuff or other peoples') to any questions anyone asks.
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I don't have a good answer to this but it rhymes with some of the discussions of buttons in
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Is there a word for the human desire to do something, anything, just for the pleasure of exercising agency over the world ?
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Hmm it's very rough but this might be the best I can do. notebook.drmaciver.com/posts/2018-09-
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How to decide between building from a situation you're in, vs. abandoning it and finding some better starting point (be it in personal relationships or jobs/projects)
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Or to answer the more general question:
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drmaciver.substack.com/p/starting-fro (about how you can't really do that but instead start from where you are and elaborate) and drmaciver.substack.com/p/why-do-you-d (about focusing on things that are specifically you) are probably the most recent things I've written about this.
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Discoverability experiment: Ask me a question and I'll (if possible) reply with a link to something I've written relevant to it.
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If we're allowed to count films, I think I'm doing OK.
If it has to be a TV show... god, what was the last TV show I watched? I genuinely don't remember the last time I watched a TV show.
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"You've been kidnapped! Your rescuers are the characters from the last TV show you watched. Who's coming?" twitter.com/phreekedelic/s…
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(I'd use "I was watching it with a child" as my excuse for why I rewatched it now, but I've absolutely rewatched it without a child as an excuse so this doesn't really hold up)
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Just rewatched Disney's Aladdin and reminded of how much I had to fix to make it reasonable.
(Includes: Sensible wishing rules, people who are good at using wishes, Jasmine as the protagonist)
archiveofourown.org/works/4637439/
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Look I don't know what you think is going to happen when you reply to a tweet expressing frustration about the lack of nuance in takes around remote working with a completely unnuanced take, but what actually happens is that I press the block button.
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maybe we should ask why we're expected to smile in photos nowadays
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I wish people discussing remote work vs in person work were more able to say "tradeoffs exist"
I'm basically on team "in person work is, all else being equal, clearly better than remote" and also you'll probably never catch me taking a full time in person role again.
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Community rule of thumb: If dishwashers aren't on topic, you've not created a community you've created an interest group.
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Okay we're cancelling AI fuck you guys
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I wonder how far AI is off from having a "This person's voice is really annoying, can you change it for me?" button on youtube.
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I sortof think that every time you feel like apologising you should silently count to ten and then decide whether what you really want to say is "oh fuck off"
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tfw people start liking your old tweets and you feel called out by your past self.
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Fortunately there's nothing to look at in the fact that I've personally chosen a practice that focuses on thinking real hard and rationally and methodically approaching all of my problems. That's just a good idea, and definitely doesn't reveal anything I'm afraid of.
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Do you have a podcast?
Would you like me to be on it?
I would like to be on more podcasts.
I've been on several before, but not in a while. I think I'm a pretty good podcast guest, although definitely more on the "let's have an interesting conversation" end of things.
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I don’t think of my birthdays as occasions for celebration per se (mine’s in a couple of days), I think of it as “a day where the magic is stronger”. And so I like to spend my birthdays sometimes doing hard and difficult or painful things emotionally. It’s my Birth Day
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And if you've got something else you'd like to talk to me about too, I'm probably up for it. Feel free to pitch it even if it's not obviously one of the above.
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I'm also up for talking about my more technical work if you want. I don't have any great recent examples of me doing that on a podcast, but any excuse to nerd out about property-based testing, test-case reduction, etc. sounds good to me.
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e.g. here are some podcast episodes I've done previously
commoncog.com/david-maciver-
eyalshay.podbean.com/e/getting-bett
greaterthancode.com/emotions-achie
These are all pretty central examples of what I like to talk about - emotions, life skills, etc. for a technical audience.
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