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Watch ski-mountaineering this year. It combines head to head uphill skiing, the drama of F1 pit stops (they have to transition from having skins that help them stick on snow to downhill mode), and skiercross. It's such a good addition.

I feel like this fact, plus the way my brain responds to opportunities to create spreadsheets for adding and tracking ideas has doomed me. Just waiting until finances line up.

Nice. This highlights something else I think kind of falls away as we smooth everything out: the crunchy stuff encourages expertise and community. Formats and constraints shape creative outputs, build common practices, and end up defining genres, and that's actually cool and desirable.

To be fair the point is to do stuff outside of the computer (which is the point the critics are making), but I want to engage with the complexity. And I think this is something generative AI/agentic approaches get wrong, it really smooths over the crunchy bits.

I want computers full of things like Obsidian, Hugo, Ableton, OBS, or Photoshop. I want apps that encourage expertise and empower us to do things.

I think Guards! Guards!, Mort and Equal Rites/Wyrd Sisters are all a bit easier and more human, depending on what you like (detectives, city, and politics; cosmic outsider viewing humanity; and folktales, literature, and psychology).

I feel like Colour of Magic is actually kind of a hard point of entry. He's still finding the humanistic voice, and it's mostly tropes. There's definitely rough patches throughout the entire series. But I get it not connecting, because it certainly doesn't feel restrained or subtle.

They rather famously blew their animation budget in the first part of the season, but it was incredible. I haven't watched the rework, but supposedly they cleaned it up for the blueray release, though the lack of budget still shaped the way they sequenced things.

One thing I like about the AGO is their annual pass at $40, which actually strikes me as a pretty good deal for locals.

I'm curious what works for folks? It's kind of interesting thinking about how people access and get information, and I think that local organizers and meetups should really try to break away from platforms if possible.

There's still network effects that make people go to Instagram for discovery, so I think that's inevitable that I'll have to create an account, but coupling a website first approach with some kind of form solution for signups Luma.com seems like a good way to get the initial communication going.

Then I was thinking about how flooded my calendar gets (due to some community events calendars). So if each event gets a blogpost, there's at least an initial way to post the event so that people might be more likely to read that.

The key thought is that for upcoming events, it really helps if there's a calendar feed. You can subscribe and see events in your local calendar app. I started looking around the #hugo community, and people have built out ways of doing that:

www.jvt.me/posts/2019/0...

Also, one of my favorite blog posts for building a better mental representation of the human and computer aspects of what's going on in AI interactions: colin-fraser.net/posts/2023-02

Thank you to: @colin-fraser.net

Code contributions are relatively high stakes though, and as appetite for risk increases, orgs will relax the need for governance. There's a market for people who can reduce risk. Maybe some managers articulate this strategy, but there's just a lot of "get on this hype train" in my experience.

In the coding case (esp. for projects with open contributions), the bottleneck was never the ability to write code, but review. So, they're basically struggling with the assessment problem by trying to frame governance policies/contribution guidelines around it: discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-llvm-a...