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Rory Stewart gives A fantastic TED talk on unconditional cash transfers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt0HOe7gf7I How we can use our money to end extreme poverty in our lifetime. I love how Rory provides evidence for his claims, and four reasons that explain why cash works so well. I highly recommend the talk!

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Watching all the o1 videos from OpenAI: https://openai.com/o1/ Wondering how the world will look in ~~10 years~~ ~~5 years~~ ~~1 year~~ 2 months Phew, this is really shortening my AGI timelines, even though it's "just" a system that smartly and repeatedly invokes an LLM...

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## Taking stock of one month of using Farcaster 1/2 - I've almost stopped journaling 😟 because I opened the Warpcast app instead of my journaling app before going to bed. - I'm overall spending more time on social media. There are some signs of unhealthy behavior, such as checking notifications for the dopamine. - I got a few good recommendations and tips, eg for Obsidian, Cursor, SrcBook, Zed. I feel pretty up-to-date on software development tools in particular. - I wrote four articles thanks to /firstdraft. These aren't exceptional, but I value them because they clarified my own thinking. It's unlikely that I would have taken so much time for them, without the FirstDraft writing club.

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Part #4 concludes the series. It explains how to get your shiny new passwords: https://blog.purpureus.net/posts/personal-key-rotation-4-shiny-new-passwords/ This is truly a /firstdraft that I hope to improve as I get smarter. Feedback is welcome!

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@kepano @daojoan.eth What do you like most about Obsidian? I feel I only use 5% of the features, what should I try next? The ones I know and use: - daily notes (with some custom keyboard shortcuts to go to prev/next day) - search (e.g., search for "[ ]" to find todos) ... that's basically it 🤔

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A perennial favorite: https://grugbrain.dev/ Always remember: complexity very, very bad.

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The fastest keyboard ever, because it combines voice and typing. The keyboard has a speech recognition component that transcribes what I say. *Simultaneously*, I type parts of the text. Probably just the first letter of each word, and the punctuation. Thanks to the extra information via typing, speech recognition gets almost 100% accuracy. It gets word breaks, punctuation, capitalization etc. correct. If there are mistakes, I simply use the backspace key, like I am used to. The extra information also means that we can use a comparatively cheap speech-to-text component, fast enough to run locally on the phone in real time. I see potential here because this could reach high speeds, without special hardware, and without the need to learn new skills / exotic keyboard layouts. If you're interested, go ahead! I'd love to see a prototype, and would be willing to contribute a little bit of funding. Get in touch :)

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For the third week of /firstdraft, things finally get practical. I present my favorite tools for managing passwords and secret keys. Have a great read, and send me your feedback! https://blog.purpureus.net/posts/personal-key-rotation-3-tools-for-key-management/

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If I create an NFT that people can mint: - Is this a sale? Or a service? - Do I have to register a business? - What do I need to know about the people who mint? - Do I charge VAT? - More generally, how do taxes work in this case? I'm thankful for answers or links to a good guide 🙏🏼

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I estimate that there are about 20000 active, human Farcaster users: - After two weeks of active use, OpenRank assigns a global rank of about 10000 to @sjlver. - I guess I'm a median user. => ergo there are about 20000 users. What do you think? Does that match your experience?

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I've been asking why people mint. I still don't have a good answer, but: people do mint and it works well for some creators :) 🎉

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What is the point of minting someone's work? (honest question) Minting seems to be a mix of bookmarking, sending money, and publicly liking something. Yet it's a strange bundle that does a mediocre job at each of these 🤔 Please help me make sense of web3 🙏🏼

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In this second week of /firstdraft, I continue my series on managing one's online security: https://blog.purpureus.net/posts/personal-key-rotation-2-security-and-availability/ Part 2 illustrates the trade-off between security and availability, with many concrete examples.

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This repo contains code for an autonomous AI agent that writes novel scientific papers. The authors have split the workflow into a dozen steps, automated and orchestrated each of them. The example papers blew me away 🤯 https://github.com/SakanaAI/AI-Scientist

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It's been quiet here since the Sunday deadline :) Are you all working on the next piece already? May you keep the motivation up 🙏🏼

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In my first post of the August /firstdraft challenge, I give tips for gaining an overview of your online accounts: https://blog.purpureus.net/posts/personal-key-rotation-1-visualize-your-assets/ If you are like me, you have dozens of online accounts. Fortunately, visualizing them can be quite fun 😊

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Are there Netrunner players here on Farcaster? I'm so happy, because my new cards have arrived today 🤗 Now I have the System Gateway set and the Liberation Cycle. Looking forward to the first game...

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😊: I've written the outline for Sunday's post 😯: It's just over 800 words 😰 Firstdraft club might work a little too well 😜

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Hi everyone! Since joining /firstdraft , I've been thinking a lot about my next writing project. My anticipation for the Sunday deadline shows that the FirstDraft concept is working well, as intended ;-)

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Hyperion, by Dan Simmons https://frame.weponder.io/api/polls/6161

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