newsletters are to Netflix series what blogs are to syndicated TV

group chats are to social media what hallway conversations are to professional conferences

unprompted fanaticism and evangelism is a mental virus

Bit of a headscratcher that magazines are both super ad-supported AND readers pay through the nose to read them. Really rare to see both those business models at once

Another possession for the collection

hosting a capture-the-flag game at a great big park for your birthday and inviting everyone you know. Could be the move.

all earnest poasters are the same
all shit poasters are unique

- Ghost of Leo Tolstoy

Have always wondered why people buy magazines and think I figured it out.

Magazines are picture books for grown ups

Last time I read a book w/ immediate intent to use it was @lethain.com's An Elegant Puzzle.

but even then, it was bc i wanted to talk to eng leaders about hiring + managing people, and I knew that this is the sorta book that companies give to their tech team leaders

thought of two different types of people who read non-fiction.

the first group claim that reading books is useless unless you apply learnings to something

the second group actively build a library of books that they never intend to read, let alone use

hospitals are bigger on the inside than they look on the outside, but hotels look bigger on the outside than they are the inside

This machine preserves memories

is there such a thing as a collectathon game, but for grown ups?

all of the collectathon games that come to mind - Spongebob Squarepants BFBB, Crash Bandicoot, Psychonauts - strike me as kid-friendly games.

Yes, grown ups play them too, but I'm specifically thinking of grown-up-only collectathons.

it's only hoarding only if your possessions lose meaning?

Not a New Year's reso per se, but I've been doing too much sitting-down desk work and not enough standing-up desk work

i've decided on a new year's resolution. it's to get more possessions.

I did not realize just how many xmas movies there were until going back home for the holidays and watching TV with family

The intent in question: exploring customizable feeds, per @vgr.bsky.social 's Magic, Mundanity and Deep Protocolization

contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/magic-mund...

Even after working on product onboarding for a tech product, I hadn't appreciated how hard it is to be a new user until I tried finding 10 accts to follow here on bsky