Forcing functions that dump people into well defined funnels can have such a high net positive effect it more than makes up for theoretical losses.

It's like narrow, hard road bike tires losing performance because of deflection from rough road surfaces and how long it took designers to factor that in to real bikes.

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2. I eat unwashed basil leaves and other greens growing outside, I eat them by first putting them under my tongue, my seasonal allergies (I am allergic to everything but mold) have plummeted over the last 3 years of this. The folk remedy of farmers market honey did nothing for me.

I did sublingual drops a decade ago and there was moderate improvement but for medical reasons I can't get a prick test again and I haven't been able to find a provider that will just make drops for me based off my original prick test.

It's impossible to find what plants capture the most environmental allergens on leaves or in edible flowers so I just have a collection, I figured that made more sense than licking a swamp cooler.

Anyway, I've gone from taking Allegra most days to only 2 months out of the year.

In 2001 I had a guy at Oracle tell me it was a suckers game to write open source code.

I've had M$ heads tell me ruby was a joke that would never amount to much because you couldn't use it in a "real business".

I've had bad phil bros tell me in 2004 that open source was "anti american communism bullshit".

It's ok to be a humanist and not a corporatist.

It's ok to show generosity.

It's ok to reject the crab bucket framing.

Some of us are mature enough to be ok living in a better world even if still imperfect.

There is a reason "You cannot account for taste." is a phrase.

Parks and Recreation 5.97 million 4.60 million

Twin Peaks 18.2 million 10.2 million

Arrested Development 6.2 million 5.7 million

Friday Night Lights 6.1 million 5.5 million

Seinfeld 15.6 million 12.5 million (so low it was put on hiatus mid season, these are bad numbers for the time period)

Even shows like Scrubs were considered a failure because even though their 2nd season numbers went up, it was only because they were put on after friends, their 3rd season saw a massive drop even though they stayed in the "after friends" timeslot. Their 3rd season is effectively their second season from an exposure/retention standpoint.

They measured the wrong thing because it was easier for them.

Some of the most important things can't be measured.

The future can't actually be pre-computed, the forecast isn't the terrain, it isn't even the map.

Netflix has internally treated their employees like machines for a long time and they treat their "content" the same way.

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On anything structured that doesn't require re-flow this approach makes some sense.

Lists, Grids, etc, there are pro/cons but it makes sense.

In this case you ARE causing reflow, so content and format change at the same time.

With normal cut and paste the reflow happens at the point of attention, and the final state paste keeps your eye right at the point of action.

This jumping around stuff means you are doubley losing tracking if you paste below the cut point. This is effectively an out of bound focus shift. This has higher cognitive penalty because layout is no longer occurring in serial but in parallel in multiple places.

idempotence, types, rejection of global state, all of these "engineering" rules go out the window when you enter the realm of mereological nihilism that is text editing.

The best you can do it think of things as causal chains like some CRDTs do.

Every time the chain of evil is allowed to persist it corrupts a widening tranche of people and the inertia for compromise just increases until sudden system collapse.

It's just normal error propagation in the network. Only taking ethics and morality seriously at the grass roots level can stop this, but people have gone absolutely wacky for ingroup and apocalyptic thinking and the lie "everyones doing this" has been really pushed hard as a thought stopper.

This has an element of stochastic improvement so it's hard to predict but the chance of the U.S. "winning" this "race" is pretty bleak.

You see this all the time in communities that have internalized hierarchy as a "good", little kings of shit mountain vying for less and less at a higher and higher cost.

I think people (many/most) don't want slaves.

Our imaginations just outstrip our abilities and we desire them to match.

They are amazing, high heat small dose, I'll just crunch one or two in the morning, the only downside is my spice tolerance is now accidently extremely high.

People don't actually get where the deep value lies, the event income or social credibility for those involved in putting it on just helps ensure there is enough fuel for the fire of the real community.

Blaming the people trained by the smartest people on earth (with population level ad sales and a/b testing) to reject friction until they start to feel it as a poison isn't their fault.

We built a low friction co-working space that was mostly a social club after work hours, and by reducing that friction even the most intense introverts ended up integrated.

It's not difficult it's just hard.

The whole thing was crazy. I mean actually insane. I look at my productivity from the time period and it blows me away.

Really enjoyed it. Being the one guy who was damned adamant I wouldn't manage anyone kept me out of the political fray as well. I drank and I knew things. I probably had more freedom and access than anyone ever has had at a company that size, I mean they literally ended up paying for me to have some degree of DHS clearance to operate unrestricted in passport zones, it was wild.

Is it good for a company to have those roles or not? I don't know, after starting several companies and also working in corporate, that was the most fun I think I've had. Moving the needle, unfucking things, reducing complexity.

Providing accountability where there was none before.

I left because they wanted to me to move. I was flown out every Monday and flew back every Friday but I didn't want to move cities and I had a startup I wanted to launch. I took 3 months traveling and then 2 months writing code for my 4th startup.

There are _almost_ no universal rules, my work saved them an insane amount of money and generated even more, but the methods only made sense to dig them out of the completely unaccountable traffic jam they had built for themselves.

If you ever read the James Bond books as a kid, there is inner monologue explaining why he is so overt, his whole modus operandi is to be conspicuous and to shake things loose in opaque situations. When your works starts holding peoples feet to the fire you have to come extremely correct and it paints a target on your back until you have sufficient track record. It helped me learn a lot about myself and ultimately taking the time to inhabit the role fully and lose myself in it helped me understand what I really value.

A causal wristwatch that purely lets me label my self relative increments. I'd allow cesium oscillations on my person as well I guess.

We can all then crdt ourselves together for group interactions or I can just live on my own branch.