Sjlver

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Very cool! Sounds like "Atomic Habits"... I'm happy to know that this has been written some 50 years earlier.

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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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I agree this could be worth doing. What's the setting that you've used? Do you have a key combination to enable autocomplete when you want it?

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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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This is wonderful! May you go on using your power well.

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Oh... @afrochicks (with an s) -- it's very motivating to see your successes, workouts... most of all your positivity and determination.

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One month of Farcaster 2/2 - My wish for Farcaster: clients that put more emphasis on combatting spam. And more thoughtful incentives, instead of unhelpful hacks like Moxie/Farther/Degen/Wild. - I'm thankful for good conversations with @markfishman, the beautiful writing of @dish, the knowledge of @kaitoren.eth and @mishaderidder.eth, the insight of @christin, the never-give-up spirit of @afrochick, and many more. After one month, I see benefits, but the negative effects and the loss of focus outweigh them. I'll go on hiatus and get more real life ;-) So long, o moku e kasi pona!

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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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That's helpful!

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@kepano @joanwestenberg.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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You could read Alan Turing's original 1936 paper. It's surprisingly accessible: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_New_Kind_of_Science is quite fun. The graphics are stellar. The content is a little sensationalized; read it with a bit of skepticism. Overall good book to get an intuition about computational theory. Freely available online.

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The good news is that UK dads have really caught up 📈

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Thanks! I hope I didn't come across as frustrated :) There are positive parts too, fortunately. For example, WhatsApp's documentation is *super clear* and *always up to date* 🙃

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Yeah, Twilio helps a bit, and works if you stick to the most basic features. It's still far from seamless though. For example, for most WhatsApp uses you have to get a a WhatsApp business account, define templates for all your message types, get them approved... Then there are incoming messages, delivery status changes, images, reactions, etc... of course all this is near impossible to test locally, so you just put lots of logging on your production webhooks and hope for the best. Now imagine adding something quite different, like Email or login with Farcaster. Then all your hopes of a unified API go pouff 💥

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The project that I work on allows people to sign up using WhatsApp or SMS. Is that what you mean? For our target audience, WhatsApp is the most commonly available channel. For the project, it provides a bit of protection against bot accounts. That said, it's a bit expensive (each OTP code costs a few cents to send). Each supported channel requires separate code and yet another third party dependency... I can understand why apps offer few options.

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Hmm... how about users just set up email filters? That gives control to the users, and lets them have a centralized configuration, rather than preferences that are scattered over all the apps, and have a different format everywhere. For Gmail, filters can also mark messages as important, so users get a notification.

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Maybe it helps to think of this as an "explore/exploit trade-off" (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration-exploitation_dilemma) Consider someone who recently moved to a new city. It makes sense to explore, to try new restaurants frequently -- a curator behavior. VS for someone who knows the town well, it is better to use one's experience, to visit the favorite restaurants most often -- a consumer behavior. It's the same person, but they are at a different stage in life, where the optimal amount of "surprise" is different.

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This got me thinking. Thanks a lot! I like the classification into consumers, creators, and curators. Even if I don't think that surprise maximization is the right analogy for curators... they organize and systematize. This helps them and their peers make sense of the world (ie, minimize their surprise). WDYT?

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