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25 principles often given up by content creators in order to pursue an audienece.

You won't believe number 7!

I disagree. I find it humorous and endering.

Meatspace, to me, is a term that encapsulates the authenticity of being a blood and bone human being and all of the foibles that come with it. Cyberspace, at least so far as social media is concerned, is a perpetual performance where what matters is how strangers feel about you and how they feel about you is often indepedant of what you actually do in meatspace.

To me cyberspace shines with a much stronger contempt for humanity than meatspace. Meatspace simply demands you be the lump of meat that you are while cyberspace demands that you please a judgemental and often quarrelsome mob.

"Business" or "money sink"?

Everything about this "boom" from 2012 on was, from a market perspective, about as artificial as you could get. At least the events leading up to the .COM and '08 crash there weren't central banks openly putting their thumbs on the scales by being an active market paticipant buying debt securities, the quality of that debt be damned, and making price discovery next to impossible.

The lesson investors took from '08 and certainly from 2020 was that the powers that be will gladly use moral hazard to protect asset prices. Profits are privatized and losses are socialized.

When dealing with particularly toxic people I find the exponential backoff to be an excellent strategy.

In my case, I hate cutting people off because I know people can change. What I do to manage relationships is run a forgiving version of exponential backoff. Start off friendly and forgiving. If someone becomes transgressive, increase the latency between interactions. If the transgressions continue, double the latency. If bad interactions persist, the time latency can go on to months or even years which means you'll probably never interact with that person again. Conversely, if an interaction goes well, reduce the delay for when you're willing to meet again. E.g. say an irritating individual causes the latency to go to once a month. If you have an interaction that goes well then the latency drops to 2 weeks. If interactions continue to go well they drop further to say no latency, i.e. you're willing to meet this person whenever. Obviously it's not perfect but it suites my needs quite well.

I also found his chapter on "overfitting" excellent. I like to think of it as "smart person disease." Big idea is that having more data can actually hamper decision making instead of enhance it because you winde up solving the wrong problem.

Yep.

Delegation is part of the job but you don't get to delegate consequential executive decisicions to something as capricious as an internet poll...

No.

Wonderful!

I've worked in the mental health field for years and when it comes to treating diseases like schiziphreina the go to model has been to give drugs to manage symptoms. There were a bunch of models for what _could_ be happening but there was no solid etiology for what is actually happening.

Gut inflamation along with a bunch of correlations with infections and autoimmune issues have been noted for years. Yet, there hasn't been a foundation setup to truly answer what _IS_ schizophrenia etiologically speaking.

Schiziphrenia is a heart-wrenching disease both for the people suffering from it and for their loved ones. Seeing papers like this give me tremendous hope.

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I wonder what Jack Dorsey has to say about all of this.

"Get off my porch, whippersnappers, etc etc."

I'm only in my early 30's and share this sentiment already.

Tech sure moves fast...

For me, a lot of the value add comes from being able to open up files from a terminal, almost instantly, and make changes way quicker than I would through an IDE. It's also much faster when doing trivial and repetitive changes.

If you're interested you can look up how macros work in Vim. You can automate entire sequences of key strokes which goes beyond 'find and replace'. It's awkward at first but after you master it it becomes second nature and feels like you're working at the speed of thought.

When I have to use an IDE I usually try and install a Vim plugin.

If you have an Android device I'd recommend trying an app called "Vim Master".

It's a very simple app and something you can play with during a break but if you can master the 'advanced' sections you will become proficient.

Keep at it! Vim's made me way more productive and saved me countless hours over the years.

Turns out that strategy doesn't work so well when it's from a celebrity's account.

And a swastika could just be something posted by some ignorant man with a mental illness and no interest in advicating for violence yet it gets censored anyway.

I don't have a problem with Twitter banning hate symbols but I have a massive problem with the intellectual bankruptcy over this "free speech absolutism" horse shit.