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“*We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. All you have is what you are, and what you give.*“ ~ Ursula LeGuin
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eternal struggle to remember all we have is now
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Gollum seems like a small token of symbolic recognition to the importance of both light and dark
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So here's the Marginal Revolution bounce:
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You've heard about agile software development, right? The web 2.0 manifesto usurped the upper echelons of high technology and overthrew the waterfall crowned kings of the 1990's internet. I'd like to share an example of what we can call agile infrastructure development. Here I don't mean servers or data warehouses or any backend bits or bytes. I mean moving actual atoms. Specifically essential infrastructure and more specifically a stormwater recharge facility in my hometown, a humble ditch with native plants with the fancy technical name of a bioswale. https://pioneeringspirit.xyz/agile-physical-infrastructure-development
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Moose_Party
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"Your ideal avatar would blend the wisdom and moral core of Birdperson with the strategic vision and disruption of Evil Morty. Someone who sees the cracks in the system but still believes in making things better—even when it’s frustrating as hell. 🦅 BirdMorty? The rebel reformer who plays the long game but still holds onto a moral compass." Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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importance of managing one's energy
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oof "All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible,"
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"Where is the California alternative to DOGE?" - Bill Maher in conversation with Ezra Klein and Andrew Sullivan. Ezra has an absolutely devestating line about how the worst thing about high speed rail isn't that it's not built, it's that there's never been any major course correction. What WCers are working on this stuff? In terms of on the ground action there's the office of digital innovation and other ancilliary stuff at the state level, lots of local innovation offices and lots of amazing stuff happening in CA's creative ferment from startups to clever civic on the ground changes etc etc. But here's the former CA state chief data officer saying that the model for the last decade hasn't worked and the gov tech movement needs to step its game up. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joybonaguro_govtech-reckoning-a-framework-for-government-activity-7308518544734920705-EcEx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAGitEEB2KnyGZUsAblSo-pwZsfpRgkb1ys
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Dems ~ party of bureaucracy Reps ~ party of monarchy Ezra on Bill Maher last night
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Where is bull moose ism when you need it
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The first paragraph of The Insiders, published in 1960
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'We live in an apocalyptic age, but we are not the first to do so. Apocalyptic periods before us have produced great works of the spirit—works which signaled an emergence from the darkness. Other times of crisis yielded supinely and left the record of their despair in the labyrinthine decoration or tinkling symbol.'
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I had fun tonight explore a conjecture that I've had that men are actually more emotional than women but our current cultural codes don't provide the skills to manage and effectively channel emotional energy. I think that people often mislabel emotions as irrationality or other stuff like that through really they seem pretty clearly to me to be an evolutionary adaptive tool that's a foundational part of human intelligence -- much more so that say the brain actually. (The endocrine system is closer to firmware in an OS analogy.) Emotions are something like a predictive states machine to quickly shift the internal computational environment. Closing out one software program and opening another for example. Consider something like shame. That's a tool for navigating a percieved future risk of group ostracizement, a powerful threat to a human's survival in most of our evolutionary existence. Anywho here's the takeaway from gpt https://chatgpt.com/share/67dbab48-af10-8013-9ea2-0a14a0a1e4b3
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Cyberpaleo lifestyles More remote work could mimic certain aspects of hunter gather bands—fluid, adaptable, and less hierarchical. I wonder: What aspects of that paleo lifestyle could be intentionally designed into modern organizations ranging from the family to the firm?
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Is farcaster that tricky beyond the different sign on I guess there's frames I might just be a perma n00b Curious what figuring out farcaster looks like though
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Wow that is beautifully said and well articulates what I love about LA. Still I hate traffic and logistically it'll be tough to get to the West side
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Nice
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