Andrew Conner

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I want to let you in on a little secret: one of the best ways to improve your life is to try a bunch of things that probably won't work. The Placebo Adventurer's Guide: https://andrewconner.com/placebo/

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Thread of books I've read and brief thoughts (See the long list here: https://andrewconner.com/media-diet/)

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What's the best (quality) consumer-friendly text to speech product for reading long documents? Ideally with mp3 out, so I can put on my phone. My favorite voice is Wondercraft, but their product is geared towards podcast authors (so, expensive + poor workflow). But, great quality: https://overcast.fm/+BCcr-d1f3s

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The solution to information overload: separate curation from consumption. Here's my strategy for consuming more of what I actually want to, and avoid falling down algorithmic feed holes. https://andrewconner.com/information-overload/

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Resonating with this. Scars are necessary, also, but do index highly on the past. https://i.imgur.com/rkaTHad.png

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It's a bit of a meme that corporations inefficiently (and un-optimistically) focus on short term profits over long term profits. And it sort of feels right, but... is it even true? There's a lot of counter examples, where big companies make long term investments at the cost of the "now" (Google, Amazon, Meta, etc).

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re: common digital infrastructure, w.r.t broadcast apps, Farcaster/Mastodon/Bluesky. It seems that it's an "arm the rebels" moment, where the 'good thing' won't happen by default because network effects are strong. Are these protocols thinking about interop? Mastodon seems the easiest to shim (just HTTP endpoints).

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Writing a piece against intellectual property ownership (or, significantly reduced ownership compared to today). Need to do a better job understanding and steelmanning pro-IP side. Any good books/resources? Beyond just the argument for "IP ownership to the extent that it encourages innovation".

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Realizing one thing that's nice about Farcaster/etc — no deboosting link posts. Twitter does this aggressively, I suppose to keep people on the site, but I *want* to find things people I like are linking to. You all link great things! So, for Twitter, I use bookmarked searches. For example,

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Context about prior thread: I'm building a politics where the explicit goal of regulatory bodies is to maximize diffuse value capture. (or, "non-central value capture"). ie: maximize the amount of value that is created that a central group/person *doesn't* directly capture. The goods that make everyone else better.

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Alright, maybe this is the point of Farcaster/etc, but I've been thinking about public infrastructure lately — w.r.t. tech, how lucky we were to have the web (HTTP), email, SSL certs, etc. Lucky, because we got far enough where no one can own it, and everyone diffusely gets to benefit. So, what did we miss? Identity

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