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Kristen Pavle@kpaxle.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Most founders are building their most important work alone. Heads down. Cranking. Coming up for air only when they need feedback. Focus isn't a problem. Isolation is.

Anthropic's "skills" paradigm resonates a lot with Christopher Alexander's theory of Pattern Language.

"I would prefer not to" ~ Herman Melville

In our culture, convenience and frictionlessness are seen as virtues, but I think inconvenience and friction are much more virtuous and generative.

"We speak often about ideas as brainchildren. What we do not realize is that brainchildren, like all babies, should not be dragged from the creative womb prematurely. We must learn to wait for an idea to hatch." — Julia Cameron

Threads is effectively shelving their fediverse integration, after it saw marginally little use Zuck has played the game well, harming both open protocol movements while growing his platform, getting good PR and distracting regulators connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

Venture Commons would be nice. But the whole "venture" thing predicates risk for a potential asymmetric fortune. But investing in a commons predicates risk for symmetric collective flourishing. The 'risk' is still there, but the 'fortune' needs to shift from 'cashing out' to 'living in/with'.

Ronen Tamari@ronentk.me · 8mo ago

when will "Venture Post Capital" be a thing

What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.

🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/gabriel-export.bsky.social Making Sense of Open-Source: Ideals, Reality, and What's on the Horizon

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Making Sense of Open-Source: Ideals, Reality, and What's on the Horizon

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There is an ongoing war for the soul of "Open-Source". We lost the battle, but we don't have to lose the war. On Dec 3rd, @kpaxle.bsky.social and I are co-hosting a discussion with members of @scenius.bsky.social: @ranganaut.bsky.social, @erlend.sh, and Regis Chapman. RSVP here! luma.com/z9ivf64k

Tired of corporations abusing your brain, extracting your money, data, time, ownership, and privacy, and enforcing hidden agendas through censorship? Make your pfp a Clippy to recall a bygone era of software that was genuine, helpful, and not evil. #ClippyClipsBack

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mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last yr.

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The fact that we all unknowingly became a distributed LLM model trainer due to being required to fill out captchas in order to do anything online. 🫥👌 #digitallabortheory

Once again: WAR SHOULD NOT BE TREATED AS A SPORT IN WHICH WE WAVE OUR FLAGS AND ROOT FOR OUR TEAM. THE ONLY WINNER IS PEACE. Everyone and everything else loses. Is loss. Is lost.

Stumbled upon this foundational academic work about AI written in 1994 at a used book store. That underline...how far we've come. Imaginations are now reality. #GPT #AI #linguistics #LLMs

Why does every Oregon gas station have the shittiest UX? It's unreal how bad it is.

Collateral knowledge

Laundromats are so underrated; they're one of the living pulses of a community. Talk with the locals, check out the community boards, take life slow for a few minutes.

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." - Yogi Berra

"Things are in the saddle And ride mankind." - Emerson

Super excited to attend DWebCamp2023 this year! If you're interested in / want to discuss the idea of community-driven collaborative design, I'll be facilitating a book discussion of "The Timeless Way of Building" by Christopher Alexander on Thursday the 22nd!

Sometimes ADHD is the best thing ever and basically a superpower. Lately, it's been more like my kryptonite. Coaching, meds, and coping strategies and I still can't get shit done. 😮‍💨 ADHD hacks anyone?

Living in an RV can be lonely. I think it's largely due to the community design of Campgrounds and RV Parks. They would make a great substrate for community and mutual aid.

Finally meeting new people while on the road. 🍀🌄

Apple just announced "Mac Web Apps" which is their own version of PWAs for any website. The web is the greatest app platform.