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I like the idea but wish the feature set weren’t an uncritical clone of X. Longer casts are good but at 10k, you’re encouraging cannibalization of more thoughtfully composed longform. Just add a newsletter feature with a full editor and archival pub support if you want to go there. They can still be casts, but elevate it. Promote thoughtful writing not Bill Ackman type rants. If you must copy, copy substack, not X. I’d also recommend looking for at least 20% differentiated media experience that’s not related to the wallet. Probably something with AI. But again don’t copy grok style integration. It’s terrible. Maybe more like cursor etc? A “stream IDE”? Solve threading with AI? I mean, break some interesting new ground.
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Is there a way to download consolidated transactions from the warpcast wallet as a csv or something? I am anticipating some penny ante annoyance next year at tax time.
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Came up with a fortune cookie. Marketing is the art of using dead things to draw attention to live things, and killing some things to do so if necessary.
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Marketing sometimes feels like it's about deciding what to kill and taxidermy in order to make other things more alive
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This looks like a pile of chewed gum
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This is not good
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Winner of our Terminological Twists protocol fiction contest. Noise Ordinance by Spencer Nitkey. What I liked about this is how it inverted my default sympathies. I really hate noisy neighbors and have even complained and in one case moved out of an apartment due to one. More generally I really dislike disturbances of the peace, like noisy festivals and partying. This is a dystopia defined by people like me having too much power. https://open.substack.com/pub/protocolized/p/noise-ordinance
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Are there any prequels of books or movies/shiws that decisively altered your response to the original? Andor is the first time I’ve experienced this.
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If you have inventor conceits nothing can give you a deep inferiority complex like browsing Lego videos, especially of very spartan technic mechanism builds. The big builds just look like a lot of patient work, but random little assembly snippets show how seriously creative a lot of people are. The design language is way more expressive than you might think, and it takes only a few parts to get very clever results. In other fields imagination and creativity are not always this starkly obvious and you can delude yourself you’re more talented than you think. Not in Lego. Most people will just create dull and uninspired sculptures and mechanisms. The official builds are usually not very inventive compared to amateur ones, since they have the luxury of designing new parts if needed, and are usually going for visual appeal over inventive construction.
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Watched Rogue One. Lands very differently now. That’s what a prequel should do, change how you view the thing it’s a prequel to. The movie is a little cartoonish compared the the show but you can overlook that. It’s interesting to watch it is with a sense of Andor as the protagonist rather than Jyn Erso, who now seems a little 2-dimensional. All the main movies now seem cartoonish in light of the tv shows. The tv shows feel real in inverse proportion to the presence of main characters in them,making Obi-Wan the weakest of the lot.
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Ok, now I’m actually done. Strong finish, right on the threshold of Rogue One. Pity there’s not enough narrative room for a season 3.
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Our ecosystem may have a fundamental nihilism problem
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How does uptime performance behave as a function of censirship/capture force levels? 🤔 Does CR translate to more robust uptime guarantees too?
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The #2 prize-winner in our Terminological Twists protocol science fiction contest, 40-hour work week, by Étienne Fortier-Dubois has an old-school kind of poignancy/irony. Reminds me of Saki a bit https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/the-40-hour-work-week
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This talk is great! Already in my top 3 intro talks from SoP. I’ll be sending it to people to orient them.
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Starting now:@timber doing a talk on Intro to Protocol Studies: Argument Engineering for Dummies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcICTT2GJY0
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Not broken :) They seem to have strengthened the design now too
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Start with a list of possible lists of course
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Upgraded to the new whoop 5 More because my whoop 4 buckle was loose and I was planning to extend another year anyway Mostly no new features I care about except supposedly 14 day battery life It’s kinda premium mediocre but I’m low-grade addicted to useless fitness and sleep feedback to let me know I’m unfit and sleep poorly. It’s quantitative self-flagellation.
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Don’t look a grift horse in the mouth
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