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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Easy, as others have mentioned: support embeds when you're ready, don't worry about it until then. Video is such an expensive long tail. Let someone else handle the infra, moderation, etc. You don't have a compelling edge as to why Farcaster Video would be better.

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The fundamental problem with bookmark services is the market is small, so it's hard to have an outlier outcome. So many startups have died. Pinboard checked a lot of boxes, but is ~basically abandoned. Raindrop has more features at the cost of complexity, and seems not reliant on venture growth (10 years and counting)

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I've used Raindrop for several years (and Pinboard before that, and led engineering for a large social bookmarking competitor before that). Raindrop is fantastic. Right abstractions (notes, tags, collections, shared collections, cached copies), full text search, fast bookmarking. I will pay for it forever.

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Ergodicity. A simple idea that applies to all forms of risk taking and surviving (in finance, relationships, etc). Solid, quick read. https://andrewconner.com/media-diet/ergodicity/

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The Four Agreements. One of those books with a great idea, but the writing and presentation is mostly a miss. There's a really important core idea inside, so I do recommend it. https://andrewconner.com/media-diet/the-four-agreements/

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https://warpcast.com/acon/0xeddf8634

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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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Just finished "Shop Class as Soulcraft", a book I accidentally discovered and absolutely loved. https://andrewconner.com/media-diet/shop-class-as-soulcraft/

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Everyone should catalogue their favorite things, and share lists. Good curation beats algo recommendations nearly every time, and there's some great stuff out there. Here's my list, with links to several other people's lists as well at the bottom. https://andrewconner.com/things/

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I think it's 90% of the way there, but has enough issues to be distracting. I'm hopeful the tech will improve over the next year. For example, pronounced Gödel very wrong, and cliché as "clish". Gets stuck on punctuation causing unnatural pauses. Wrong intonation for context when ! or ? is used.

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Oh interesting. I had looked at them previously, but found their voices lacking ("John" is... eh). Looked through the voices and think I could listen to "Cliff Weitzman". Will give this a go.

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Interesting. I use iPhone, and would prefer a portable media format, but will try this (have a spare Pixel).

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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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Everyone should catalogue their favorite things, and share lists. Good curation beats algo recommendations nearly every time, and there's some great stuff out there. Here's my list, with links to several other people's lists as well at the bottom. https://andrewconner.com/things/

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Skimming my overall recommendations list, cheaper items: Squatty Potty, hydrocolloid bandages, Biore UV sunscreen, Philips One by Sonicare toothbrush (for traveling), WAOAW Sleep Mask, large kitchen tweezers

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I was raised evangelical christian, which tightly coupled with several beliefs—both spiritually and politically—that I don't carry anymore. Kind of made me gracious to people being overall decent but with bad worldviews, and changing.

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Tana Capture has been fine for me, plus the web app. The web app is neither fast nor elegant, but is _possible_ to use. My typical workflow is use Capture to get ideas in, and then triage later on my laptop.

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· Outlive by Peter Attia · The Creative Act by Rick Rubin · Wild Problems by Russ Roberts · Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse More here, most have audiobooks (because I consumed most by audiobook): https://andrewconner.com/media-diet/

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Tana has continued to impress me. It's similar to Roam, but adds useful features + better base abstractions.

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