Damn this is really coming together now
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No psychedelics required either, no painful ayahuasca exorcism or bromystical striving
No need to turn on or tune in. Skip straight to drop out.
Suck it Timothy Leary.
Still live player > dead player tho
Sometimes trying too hard is acting dead
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Shitstorming an alt meaning-making system not twitter like ip man punches
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Anybody can just rant against hustleporn. It takes a decade of practice to actually embody an alternative.
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Slow is smooth, smooth is easy
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This thread is sort of the end of a line of thought for me that started with the paradox that the tech backlash is as driven by the same desperate striving for perfection and excellence as the thing it was reacting to. It’s the same damn drive turned inwards.
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Gonna have to refactor classic Confucian wuwei a bit though, since it’s really deleuzean striated-action trad posture. Aka, going with conventional flow as effortless inexertion. Doesn’t work if convention itself is a ratchet of frantic arms racing.
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Sounds like you're dangerously close to reinventing Slack. (The Church of the Subgenius concept, not the premium mediocre IRC client.)
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I’m too lazy to look up precedents, reinvention is usually the laziest option
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In this case, almost certainly. SubGenius is an impenetrable morass on purpose. I'm just glad you're on the track.
(Spot on about the lazy reinvention. I've seen enterprise software folks write years of code, to avoid whole days of learning someone else's.)
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Open source. Nobody but a DB company should be writing DB code. Same goes for security, deployment, etc. Open source just reduces the friction of adoption of other people's code there.
And yeah: good problem decomposition, and comfort with diving into novel languages, both help.

