Bushra Farooqui

@startuployalist

product manager || reading Stephenson’s “The Diamond Age” in Borges’ library

San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2014

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    Imagining a world where everyone has their own moai, a small group of lifelong friends --

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    I think really good fiction has the power to remake reality

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    Jan 21

    “...a felt sense, something large and definitely felt, but that you are not able to verbalize.”

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    “And henceforth it will see all events and persons in relation to that girl, using her as a datum from which to chart a psychological terrain, as it were. Maintenance of that terrain is one of the book’s primary processes.”

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    Jan 28

    woke: expected behavior bespoke: emergent behavior

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    Jan 29

    The call for a new kind of interaction pattern. The old interaction pattern generates the very problem it’s trying to solve:

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    "...a vision...consists of a set of assumptions about the basic 'things' or structures that must be included in a theory, what properties of those structures are important to take into account, and a set of statements about how these properties are related to one another."

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    Jan 23

    “‘All I ever did was sweep. Now, what was the point of that?’”

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    Jan 28

    I’ve found that the right book evokes this:

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    “So she put a little gush of enthusiasm into her voice at the beginning of each line as if she were delighted that the question had been asked.”

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    Jan 22

    “Find an Anomaly, Ask a Question, Get a Story”

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    >An autopoietic system wants to maintain itself for different inputs, but it might still generate different outputs. It is also important to differentiate between output as waste and output that has evolved to change the environment as wanted, that functions in a cybernetic loop.

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    Jan 22

    woke: the two cultures and the scientific revolution bespoke: any sufficiently advanced literature is indistinguishable from STEM

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    Jan 2

    woke spaced-repetition: extending human cognition via external storage and across time bespoke spaced-repetition: an autopoietic system where information time travels between your future and past self in a meaningful cybernetic loop

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    Jan 30

    woke: the idea maze bespoke: conway's game of life

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    If one is getting older and not getting surprised by life/info, one is regressing into a bias for comfort. --From Paul G's essay:

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    Jan 28

    “... if they had a great idea and they got it wrong the first time, the idea was still good. ...they kept hammering at it, changing its shape, until it was right.”

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    Jan 30

    Conformity or rebellion:

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