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Review: There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/05/02/there-is-no-antimemetics-division-by-qntm/
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This is fascinating ht @akkartik https://medium.com/@anastasia.bizyayeva/every-map-of-china-is-wrong-bc2bce145db2
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AP gets you mastodon/fediverse Second biggest after twitter
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Anyone who claims to want to serve humanity seems to hate at least 50% of it Me, I only hate like 5% of it and have no interest in serving any of it
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Shit. I’m already at age where some of my more driven college classmates are getting “distinguished alumnus” awards on LinkedIn This is an extra downcycling stage for some people who don’t decline as fast. Definitely not one I’ll be getting.
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Since I effectively help hand out EF money as SoP grants I’m at investor stage of downcycling Unless I do something to reverse the decline next two stages are are retirement and death
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Individual contributor —> manager —> networker —> investor is the most successful downcycling process ever invented. We even manage to convince younglings it’s an upcycling process to higher-status roles when it’s actually managed cognitive decline. If we could do this to plastics we’d have utopia
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Yep there are a handful left I think
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Inspection questions may not always get answered immediately or at all (33% now, 33% later 33% becomes moot) but reveal managerial capabilities and competence to managees 100% of the time.
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Inspection as a manager mainly consists of asking other people questions. For better or worse any question instantly reveals everything other people need to know about you as a manager: 1. Are you paying attention to the right things? 2. At the right level of detail? 3. And know what you’re talking about?
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When I last did managerial work as an employee in 2011, I had complex process notions. Now my philosophy is that management is 70% inspection, 20% resisting the urge to do something, 10% resisting the urge to do nothing. Inspection is the most load-bearing activity in management and can’t be faked.
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Unexpectedly over the last few years my consulting has gotten entirely “managerial,” working with entire orgs and getting involved in ops, rather than just advising individual execs. One effect is that I’m in “manager time” headspace more and getting into “maker time” headspace is harder🤔😵‍💫
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SoP 2024 PIG 🐷, (new!) POG 🧭 and PILL 💊 grant announcements are out! Here's the frame-ified paragraph-formatted threaderapp-unrolled version of the tweetstorm, which hopefully will read nicer here 😄 https://paragraph.xyz/@tim/sop-pig-%F0%9F%90%B7,-pog-%F0%9F%A7%AD-and-pill-%F0%9F%92%8A-announcement
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Did you request a protocol kit? I haven’t been keeping track
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More PILL fodder
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Rules for SoP24 PILL grantees to think about if you’re doing token-aware or token-forward projects
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Not directly but check out saffron huang essay on time protocols https://summerofprotocols.com/research/control-and-consciousness-of-time
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Are there other metafiction projects like scp-wiki? This almost feels like the only project worth emulating if you want to scale fiction but don’t have Hollywood EU level energy/funding. https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com
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I think educators and parents should be in an ongoing dialogue and actually govern education as they see fit and hash it out in PTA meetings etc. Memes like this are just political signaling with no relation to actual education practices. I’d be surprised if these memesters were deeply involved in actual education
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And so it begins… Summer of Protocols 2024 cohort has been assembled. And @cdixon.eth will be on for a Q&A Town Hall tomorrow. https://paragraph.xyz/@protocolized/sop-2024-cohort%2C-chris-dixon-town-hall
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