Heywiseman
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“During the dry years, the people forgot about the rich years, and when the wet years returned, they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.”
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Understanding feels clean and safe. Action is messy, social, risky.
That’s why we stay stuck in “theory mode.”
New video: how to break the understanding loop →
youtu.be/fNXTOAN6rR0
That’s why we stay stuck in “theory mode.”
New video: how to break the understanding loop →
youtu.be/fNXTOAN6rR0
The Map is Not The Territory (Stop Planning // Just Do Things)
Your brain gives you the same little dopamine hits for understanding something as it does for doing something. Maybe even bigger hits, honestly. Understandin...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Understanding feels clean and safe. Action is messy, social, risky.
That’s why we stay stuck in “theory mode.”
New video: how to break the understanding loop →
youtu.be/fNXTOAN6rR0
That’s why we stay stuck in “theory mode.”
New video: how to break the understanding loop →
youtu.be/fNXTOAN6rR0
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thinking about a decentralised, scoped appview architecture
single users and community hosts could run smaller, scoped appviews that only collect records of the instance members and their social graph, all sharing a common lexicon
activitypub running costs with ATproto data sovereignty!
single users and community hosts could run smaller, scoped appviews that only collect records of the instance members and their social graph, all sharing a common lexicon
activitypub running costs with ATproto data sovereignty!
October 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
thinking about a decentralised, scoped appview architecture
single users and community hosts could run smaller, scoped appviews that only collect records of the instance members and their social graph, all sharing a common lexicon
activitypub running costs with ATproto data sovereignty!
single users and community hosts could run smaller, scoped appviews that only collect records of the instance members and their social graph, all sharing a common lexicon
activitypub running costs with ATproto data sovereignty!
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A little proof of concept I've been working on, it's a version of Bluesky that you can run locally, even on your laptop, that pulls just the data you care about from the firehose, indexes it, and provides you an interface to view and interact with posts.
GitHub - whyrusleeping/konbini
Contribute to whyrusleeping/konbini development by creating an account on GitHub.
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October 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
A little proof of concept I've been working on, it's a version of Bluesky that you can run locally, even on your laptop, that pulls just the data you care about from the firehose, indexes it, and provides you an interface to view and interact with posts.
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"Your system is correctly configured for playing WAV files."
A welcome speech sample for Sierra Online game fans of the early-mid 90s, hoping their sound card was a-okay with their latest release.
A welcome speech sample for Sierra Online game fans of the early-mid 90s, hoping their sound card was a-okay with their latest release.
September 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"Your system is correctly configured for playing WAV files."
A welcome speech sample for Sierra Online game fans of the early-mid 90s, hoping their sound card was a-okay with their latest release.
A welcome speech sample for Sierra Online game fans of the early-mid 90s, hoping their sound card was a-okay with their latest release.
Within a week I’ve seen Josh Brolin try and save his fictional son in Weapons and James Brolin trying to save his fictional daughter in Night of The Juggler.
That family Does. Not. Quit
That family Does. Not. Quit
September 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Within a week I’ve seen Josh Brolin try and save his fictional son in Weapons and James Brolin trying to save his fictional daughter in Night of The Juggler.
That family Does. Not. Quit
That family Does. Not. Quit
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History is a large language model: the outputs look novel, but they're just recombinations of Rome, Athens, and Babylon with new tokens.
September 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
History is a large language model: the outputs look novel, but they're just recombinations of Rome, Athens, and Babylon with new tokens.
Of all the officially unreleased Boards of Canada tracks, this ranks as #1 for me.
Here’s to hoping it makes an appearance on whatever mystery compilation they might have in the works 🤞
Here’s to hoping it makes an appearance on whatever mystery compilation they might have in the works 🤞
posting a Boards of Canada track every day until they release a new record (except when I forget).
Whitewater (from BOC Maxima)
youtu.be/_u6R8qNfQV4
Whitewater (from BOC Maxima)
youtu.be/_u6R8qNfQV4
Boards of Canada - Whitewater
YouTube video by elrubioVS
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September 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Of all the officially unreleased Boards of Canada tracks, this ranks as #1 for me.
Here’s to hoping it makes an appearance on whatever mystery compilation they might have in the works 🤞
Here’s to hoping it makes an appearance on whatever mystery compilation they might have in the works 🤞
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You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’
You don’t ‘run the gambit.’
gamut = entire range or series
gauntlet = severe trial
Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy
You don’t ‘run the gambit.’
gamut = entire range or series
gauntlet = severe trial
Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy
August 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’
You don’t ‘run the gambit.’
gamut = entire range or series
gauntlet = severe trial
Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy
You don’t ‘run the gambit.’
gamut = entire range or series
gauntlet = severe trial
Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy
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"They yell at me to be dignified. But what are the dignified people like? The people who are held up as examples of me? They are snobs. Frightful snobs I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!
-Clara Bow #BOTD
Bow & Alice Adair in The Wild Party (1929) Dorothy Arzner
-Clara Bow #BOTD
Bow & Alice Adair in The Wild Party (1929) Dorothy Arzner
July 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"They yell at me to be dignified. But what are the dignified people like? The people who are held up as examples of me? They are snobs. Frightful snobs I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!
-Clara Bow #BOTD
Bow & Alice Adair in The Wild Party (1929) Dorothy Arzner
-Clara Bow #BOTD
Bow & Alice Adair in The Wild Party (1929) Dorothy Arzner
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Some ideas go viral. Most don’t.
Not because of quality.
Because of graph position, trust, and incentives.
AKA.
Everything is a distribution problem.
www.joanwestenberg.com/p/everything...
Not because of quality.
Because of graph position, trust, and incentives.
AKA.
Everything is a distribution problem.
www.joanwestenberg.com/p/everything...
July 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Some ideas go viral. Most don’t.
Not because of quality.
Because of graph position, trust, and incentives.
AKA.
Everything is a distribution problem.
www.joanwestenberg.com/p/everything...
Not because of quality.
Because of graph position, trust, and incentives.
AKA.
Everything is a distribution problem.
www.joanwestenberg.com/p/everything...
You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature?
July 21, 2025 at 3:25 AM
You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature?
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Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return
July 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return
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Sony spent 20 Years building the perfect disaster.
The Full Story🔗👇
The Full Story🔗👇
July 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Sony spent 20 Years building the perfect disaster.
The Full Story🔗👇
The Full Story🔗👇
Put your crime goggles on. It's go time 🦇
July 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Put your crime goggles on. It's go time 🦇
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A major sign off the fall off of Design at Apple is that it took user complaints for them to realize that Liquid Glass made the UI unreadable.
iOS 26 beta 3 dials back Liquid Glass | TechCrunch
The early version in the first developer beta of iOS 26 and the accompanying updates for Apple's other devices still left room for improvement in terms of usability, accessibility, and legibility.
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July 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
A major sign off the fall off of Design at Apple is that it took user complaints for them to realize that Liquid Glass made the UI unreadable.
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What even *is* a Good Day?
You don’t need a breakthrough.
You need 24 hours where you’re not at war with yourself.
You eat, move, speak honestly, maybe laugh once or twice.
That’s a good day.
That’s rare.
You don’t need a breakthrough.
You need 24 hours where you’re not at war with yourself.
You eat, move, speak honestly, maybe laugh once or twice.
That’s a good day.
That’s rare.
What Does a "Good Day" Even Mean?
What Really Makes a Good Day? | Philosophy, Psychology & the Quiet Art of Living Most people don’t know a good day until it’s over. No disasters, no dread, just a faint sense of ease that only shows up in hindsight. But when we ask what makes a day good, we’re really asking something deeper: How do we measure our time? And what do we think life is for? In this video, we explore ancient philosophy, modern psychology, and everyday experience to unpack what a “good day” actually means. Not in terms of productivity or pleasure—but in terms of alignment, presence, and meaning. From Aristotle’s eudaimonia to Epicurus’ quiet pleasures… From Stoic resilience to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s flow… From Viktor Frankl’s search for meaning to Montaigne’s bowel movements and essays… Not a self-help checklist. A slow meditation on what it means to live well, even briefly.
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July 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
What even *is* a Good Day?
You don’t need a breakthrough.
You need 24 hours where you’re not at war with yourself.
You eat, move, speak honestly, maybe laugh once or twice.
That’s a good day.
That’s rare.
You don’t need a breakthrough.
You need 24 hours where you’re not at war with yourself.
You eat, move, speak honestly, maybe laugh once or twice.
That’s a good day.
That’s rare.
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Opening day of John Carpenter’s THE THING, 6/25/82
June 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Opening day of John Carpenter’s THE THING, 6/25/82
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You don’t need an app.
You don’t need a system.
You need to be a gentle magpie.
Pick up what sparkles.
Tuck it into your nest.
Revisit it now and then.
That’s it.
6/15
You don’t need a system.
You need to be a gentle magpie.
Pick up what sparkles.
Tuck it into your nest.
Revisit it now and then.
That’s it.
6/15
June 24, 2025 at 10:41 AM
You don’t need an app.
You don’t need a system.
You need to be a gentle magpie.
Pick up what sparkles.
Tuck it into your nest.
Revisit it now and then.
That’s it.
6/15
You don’t need a system.
You need to be a gentle magpie.
Pick up what sparkles.
Tuck it into your nest.
Revisit it now and then.
That’s it.
6/15
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The metaverse happened 15 years ago. 🔗👇
June 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The metaverse happened 15 years ago. 🔗👇