2020-03-28§

Alain Badiou on the pandemic and change :read:§

Alain Badiou saying that despite the current necessary state interventions, the pandemic will not by itself change anything politically. But he doesn’t really say what actually is required to do so, other than the left needing to work on ‘new figures of politics’. Not much to go on.

[[Notes: On the epidemic situation]].

True grit§

Mentioned on Tom Critchlow’s website tour was Venkatesh Rao’s ‘[[calculus of grit]]‘. (Gotta say, finding some of these terms for basically ‘doing stuff on your website’ a teensy bit overwrought… but fair play, naming concepts does give you something to refer to and discuss).

I’ve not read the full article yet, but sounds like it’s a way of [[tending to the garden of your wiki]].

It boils down to:

• release work often
• reference your own thinking
• rework the same ideas again and again

I’m trying this out at the moment - putting thoughts in the [[stream]], linking them back to ideas in the wiki, and updating those wiki pages as I go along. Going alright so far.

Roaming renaissance :read:§

Reading Venkatesh Rao‘s article "A Text Renaissance", and part of it is some interesting thoughts on [[Roam]] ("a note-taking tool for networked thought"). I stumbled across [[org-roam]] (emulating Roam in Emacs) recently, while looking for a way of improving my flow of working on my wiki, and am loving it so far.

Venkatesh says:

Roam attempts to implement a near-full conception of [[hypertext]] as originally conceived by visionaries like [[Vannevar Bush]] and [[Ted Nelson]].

– A Text Renaissance

Returning to these ideas is exciting.

The text renaissance is an actual renaissance. It’s a story of history-inspired renewal in a very fundamental way: exciting recent developments are due in part to a new generation of young product visionaries circling back to the early history of digital text, rediscovering old, abandoned ideas, and reimagining the bleeding edge in terms of the unexplored adjacent possible of the 80s and 90s.

– A Text Renaissance

Roam is built on Clojure (a modern [[Lisp]]), so props there too. I’m unlikely to use it myself, as it’s a silo, but looking forward to working in this style.

Connecting the dots :read:§

Knowledge is not an accumulation of facts, nor is it even a set of facts and their relations. Facts are only rendered meaningful within narratives, and the single-page document is a format very conducive to narrative structure.

– Open Transclude

While it’s useful to break down ideas into fine-grained units, [[collecting the dots]], you have to [[connect]] them back together again to make sense of them. A collection of dots isn’t much use (although just navigating around them can be fun).

People often get carried away when they discover the original vision of hypertext, which involves a network of documents, portions of which are “transcluded” (included via hypertext) into one another. The implication is that readers could follow any reference and see the source material—and granted, this would be transformative. However, there’s a limit to the effectiveness of the knowledge network as a reading experience. “Hypertext books,” online books which are made up of an abundance of interlinked HTML pages, are mostly unpopular.

– Open Transclude

A community of gardens :read:§

Reading CJ Eller’s quick thought on a [[community of gardens]]. The idea is that to a small degree we might be responsible for the upkeep of others’ sites, such that our [[digital gardens]] are not quite so fenced off from each other. It sounds like something more than simply commenting on others’ posts. It’s a nice phrase, kind of a form of [[networked learning]].

The garden metaphor is a compelling vision for what a blog can be. It implies that our thoughts can grow over time with the right kind of nurturing care.

[…] But sometimes it feels as though these gardens are enclosed. Sure, a blog might allow comments, but this feels as though we are operating on a layer above the soil. Are others planting anything new, tending to the weeds in our garden, or are they talking to us from the fence that separates our garden from them?

– Community of Gardens — CJ Eller

June 28th, 2020§

• Found [[Promnesia]] in HN.
• Also found [[Lemmy]] in HN.

2020-06-28§

Read: [[Shackles of Digital Freedom]]§

Really good review of [[Goodbye iSlave.]] [[iSlavery]] is Jack Qiu’s framing of the manufacture and demand for modern devices as akin to a modern international slave trade. With exploitation in the material manufacture of these devices, as well as exploitation in the deliberate addiction of people to these devices to drive their sales. With parallels between the pushing of sugar and other commodities to drive their production, all done through the exploitation in the slave trade.

That parallel linkage of these two parts of the system is really interesting to me, interested as I am in both the [[right to repair]] and the [[IndieWeb]]. In right to repair we try to counter the rampant consumption of devices, and in the IndieWeb we try to counter the pushers of these technologies.

The review highly rates the book for giving an unflinching look at the exploitation rife in the manufacture of modern devices. Not without caveats though - particular the problems of framing these modern practices as slavery in comparison to historic slavery. And also some of the modes of resistance suggested to iSlavery falling under the brackets of simply ethical consumerism, and also perhaps an uncritical assumption that all technology can be liberatory if harnessed right.

• http://www.boundary2.org/2018/03/zachary-loeb-shackles-of-digital-freedom-review-of-qiu-goodbye-islave/

Note-naming§

I’m trying out some of the evergreen notes ideas after looking at Maggie Appleton’s lovely illustrations of them. Well in particular the naming style one, of being declarative and imperative with your note titles. It feels a bit harder, but I can see how it could push me more in the direction of generating new ideas of my own, less just collecting the ideas of others.

2020-07-28§

August 28th, 2020§

• Had several good interactions with [[in the wilderless]]
• "Ran into" [[meaningness]] again.
• [[TODO]]

2020-08-28§

Haza Autonomy?§

Couple of IndieWeb links - a nice article by [[Ana]] on the [[IndieWeb]] as a space for online [[autonomy]]. Autonomy Online: A Case For The IndieWeb

It is on Smashing Magazine, so aimed at web developers. For hosted IndieWeb services, I noticed that [[Malcolm]] has added a way to use Haza.Website without needing to register a domain straight away - https://no.haza.website/.

The Social Dilemma§

A trailer for the upcoming documentary ‘[[The Social Dilemma]]‘ from the [[Center for Humane Technology]]: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=uaaC57tcci0

I don’t know much about CHT. I listened to a few episodes from Your Undivided Attention a while back and they were very interesting, though I have a vague memory of thinking they seemed to skirt around to avoid the C word (capitalism).

Read: Incremental progress§

Diversity is absolutely a problem in tech, but IndieWeb folks are, from my experience, absolutely doing what they can to rectify that; bringing in people from all sorts of backgrounds, trying to boost the minority voices, and being supportive of everyone who is trying to make the world, or at least the Internet, a better place.

This is a really good article by Fluffy on the state of the [[IndieWeb]] and making it more accessible for wider adoption. Just because we’re not there yet, doesn’t mean that we’re not trying.

https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/3876-Incremental-progress

Listened: Microcast #081 - Anarchy, Federation, and the IndieWeb§

Related: this is a really fun listen from Doug Belshaw. He discusses [[IndieWeb]] and the issues he sees with it.

Doug has a preference for the [[Fediverse]] as an approach to an open web, and says the political philosophy of the IndieWeb is a type of right-libertarianism, because it lacks social equality, and without that it is just a focus on individual freedom.

My gut response is that I disagree of course. But it’s a great jumping off point for some thought and reflection…

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2020/01/01/microcast-81/

2020 09 28§

• Nice, daily notes plugin was easy to set up.
• Tweeted about my experience for [[Roam]] -> [[Obsidian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1310487321767219200 pull
• I wonder if I’ll miss Roam. Perhaps the always-on browser nature of it? Unsure.
• I can’t believe [[Mastodon]] doesn’t have [[quote retweets]]: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/14597, https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1310521211768786945 pull
• Another [[A pattern language]] reader: [[ablueaeshna]].
• Figure out how to attach images and other Media in [[Obsidian]]
• Do Obsidian -> git -> flancia.org go links. [[Weekend]].
• Buy [[A pattern language]]
• [[tacitronium]] told me about [[Gossip Networks]]: https://twitter.com/tacitronium/status/1310605483833733121 pull

13:51 css

css is super important! use firefox devtools extensively when working withe platform grid for elements that require two-dimensional or static layouts, flexbox for elements that only require one dimension or are designed to 'flex' with the second dimension

2020-10-28§

• Checked [[daily]].
  • Also discussed it with [[1c3k1n9]].
• Somehow managed to get a meetings free afternoon at work! Will try to make it count.
• Yesterday moved my chromoting sessions to VNC.
  • Pro: faster, better quality (colors in particular), lighter memory wise on my laptop.
  • Con: clipboard sharing doesn’t work although it seems like it should. Using TigerVNC both on server and client sides. Need to dig into this. [[todo]]

21:46 life of designers

daily routines with designers article i love love love the flow and the op-1 animations!

becki kozel

brooklyn! founded small, independent company. amassed a large library to look up in and research for creative inspiration multitasking, wearing a lot of hats very quickly, is so big and can drive you!

i love the rush right before the building learn to sketch by hand! incorporate hand-sewn elements and documentation focus: good music, get into groove, removce all distractions take a break once an hour to take time out in the apartment

pavel

fight the blank page!

• start addign something - anything

• read the materials again and again to continue to clarify adn constrain your product

• work in darkness!

• designing icons and screenshots is incredibly difficult

travel periodically and systematically for creativity

miha motra

always read up on related things, make a brief, etc finish little bits of work gradually rather than the whole thing at once draw by hand, finalize the colors

anton repponen

estonia architecture -> design discuss with the customer for a long long time then begin the research process no burnouts! you can't burn out when you have more experienced and have faced the difficult problems before. keep hacking at it no eyar of a natural cycle

anna something

morning routines! find options that will boost your day sports? workouts? don't do things that consume a lot of your willpower so early. digital or analog?

free write! this helps you begin to understand and reason with yourself, writing about your experiences and recording them will help you understand yourself — storytelling and psychoanalysis. what is SWAT? five whys? story of endles problems or an amazing journey

health goth health goth health goth https://healthgoth.popkern.co/

developing an eye is so important admire work and determine a systematic vacuum do not fall victim to thinking the world shares the same cultural values you do

ideas

• do not consume new content except wehn planned

• set a time interval for research — only this much time to accomplish or finish somethign

• need some way to collect all references in one place and search through them

23:36 intake too much

it's time to cut things off and work internally.

time to work hard

2020-10-28§

org-mode to micropub§

I tracked down the org-html-convert-region-html method in the org source. Thusly, I am going to try posting HTML formatted notes from Emacs to my site via my micropub elisp thingy, and have them also syndicate to Mastodon via Bridgy.

2020-11-28§

• Picture of the day: a nice looking [[flan]], courtesy of [[james baker]].
• Met with [[armengolaltayo]].
• Met with [[olofl]].
• Received first PR to [[agora server]] ever! By [[arghzero]]: https://github.com/flancian/agora-server/pull/1/files
• [[twitter]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1332719030600429571 pull
• add ideas/contacts/threads to node with [[james baker]].
• read about [[game b]]
• Pursue [[agora plan]].
• Pursue [[roam2agora]] for [[athens research]].
  • Spoke to [[jeff tang]] about it.
• Thought about [[Getting Things Done]].
• Met [[boris mann]] on [[mastodon]].
• [[neil]] introduced me to [[bill seitz]].
• Updated: [[flancian]], [[flancians]], [[contract]].
• [[revolution]].
• Learnt the term [[front matter]] from [[armengolaltayo]].
• [[G. I.]] -> [[G.]]
• [[threadapalooza]] on [[2020-12-15]]: https://twitter.com/AGWilsonn/status/1332753604575457282 pull
• [[next action]] fix [[kgbicheno]]‘s garden

2020-11-28§

• Habiendo terminado finalmente con psicoanálisis y feminismo leeré los textos de [[Jean-François Lyotard]].
• Justamente, ayer vimos una clase de [[Ricardo Piglia]] sobre [[Jorge Luis Borges]] en la que se quejaba muy ácidamente del posmodernismo y el fin de las narrativas. Me gusta su veta quejosa.
• En las clases sobre la novela argentina (más precisamente las dedicadas a [[Macedonio Fernández]]) estaba mi amiga del CBC Virginia Juárez.

2020-11-28§

• Reframing tech. [[Principles for ethical technology]].

  

  ⥅ [[reframing-tech.png]]

• I like the idea of [[Inter-brain zettelkasten]].

  • [[Threaded Twitter]] is the common example.
  • But obviously, I prefer the [[IndieWeb]].

• All of a sudden, executing PlantUML source blocks is broken. Sigh. [[Fixing PlantUML in org-babel]].

• Revisting [[Problem with org-roam’s file-level graphing]] again from yesterday. Figured out a total hack for resolving it for now.

• Watching a bit of [[EmacsConf 2020]], starting with [[Leo Vivier]] discuss moving from being a user to a maintainer. A literature major who started with Emacs for taking notes.

  • Also Bala Ramadurai talking about [[Emacs for writing]]. He mentioned that he used the [[Snowflake method]].

• Thoroughly enjoying The Central Memory by The Organizing Committee - quite a work of art. AI-assisted ‘Cyborg Pop’ with references to [[Allende]], [[Project Cybersyn]], [[Stafford Beer]], [[Deleuze and Guattari]], [[Situationism]], and it all sounds a bit like a Stereolab album. (Found via [[Kicks Condor]])

• [[Made myself a logo with PlantUML]]

2020-11-28§

I spoke to [[flancian]].

2020-12-28§

• [[imagesnippets]]
• go link the last yoga session we did.
  • [[yoga-15]]
  • [[yoga-17]]
• fix node not found template, node header should come before error message.
• [[piero-della-francesca]]
• [[houshuang]]
• [[solid]]
• [[agora plan]]
• [[veritasium]]
• get back to [[hftf]]: https://twitter.com/hftf/status/1343289788854652929 pull
• [[roam like]]
• [[agora like]]
• [[abstractfairy]] introduced me to [[eric hoffer]], sending https://twitter.com/robkhenderson/status/1341755821978497027 pull
• [[suzuki]]
• Heard about [[immers.space]]
• [[harvey michael]] told me about [[the sovereign individual]]

2020-12-28§

• Empiezo a estudiar para el examen de [[Judeoespañol]]

2020-12-28§

• Finished [[The End of Everything]] by Katie Mack. I liked it, [[vacuum decay]] is definiely my favorite way for the universe to end.
• Started listening to [[4-3-2-1]] by [[Paul Auster]]. I tried listening to this book a while back, and it’s really really good, but it’s also almost 37 hours long. This time I’ll surely make it!

2020-12-28§

• Introduced [[Flancian]] to [[shortlinks]].
• Worked on documenting my current projects in my garden.
• Looked into Tweepy for usage in the [[Agora]] [[Twitter]] bot.

2021-01-28§

• [[nathan schneider]] told me about [[minetest]], a [[minecraft clone]]
• [[letter wiki]]
• [[protocols, not platforms]]
• [[julius caesar]]
  • lost the [[battle of dyrrhachium]] against [[pompey]], but not decisevely
  • won the [[battle of pharsalus]], which decided the [[civil war]]

RecipeRadar is a free recipe search engine and meal planner that respects your time, privacy, and ability to contribute feedback and improvements.

Open source under [[AGPL License]]. Registered as a Community Interest Company in the UK.

One of my life goals is to commit to a project like this and build out open recipes.

Gurlic looks interesting:

Gurlic is an experiment in building a new/old kind of internet community. It is primarily a place for discovering and sharing technology, science, culture and the arts.

That’s from the about page, which continues with principles that make for an important and inspiring read. The one about domains stands out:

Every resource (user, community, publication etc.) must be mappable to custom user-owned domain names.

Basically: even though this is a shared platform, you can bring your own domain and truly own it.

Via @liaizon, whose post also links to a Show HN. And, Gurlic may be becoming federated via Matrix protocol to be called Hummingbird?

“lets you create maps with [[OpenStreetMap]] layers in a minute and embed them in your site.”

Open source under [[WTFPL License]], runs on [[Django]] and [[Leaflet]].

Via Mastodon

2021-02-28§

• [[attack on titan]]
• [[jonathan-the-utopian]]
• [[ctzn]]
• [[only flans]]
• [[flancian]]
• [[push]] [[reading alexander]]
  • [[notsof]]

2021-02-28§

[2021-02-28 Sun 15:14] [[YunoHost ‘Corrupted YAML read’]]§

@levelsio writes about how you can’t really contact him, on purpose.

Reading public tweets sent to me, and replying. People behave much better in public messages than in direct messages, so that’s also nice. And the message length limit really helps keep things efficient.

This is really not how I’m wired. I like meeting people and getting on calls with them. But, I already do mostly answer things publicly, work on my digital garden here, and blog so I can share the same answer multiple times.

Also makes me think about [[Derek Sivers You Don’t Have to Be Local]] https://sive.rs/local

I have been in global mode again for a couple of years, and I see that continuing … except I do go “local” when I travel, eg the folks I know in Berlin.

2021-03-28§

• [[mechanical-monk]] changed his avatar to a picture of himself. I considered doing the same.
• [[andrew burton]]
• [[agora setup]]
• [[push]] [[research]]
  • [[levi hart]] is a fan of [[cold exposure]] — I know little about it.
• [[social coop]] has a limit of 400 chars per post, so 220 remaining there = 1 twitter post.
• [[mercury]] == [[mercurio]] == [[quicksilver]] == [[hg]] == [[hydrargyrum]]
  • [[fish]] accumulate it
• [[aceite de coco]]
• [[fundació joan miró]]
  • [[alexander calder]]
    • [[mercury fountain]]
• [[foucault]]
  • [[discourse and truth]]
    • [[parrhesia]]
• [[did]]
  • [[agora yaml]]

2021-03-28§

[2021-03-28 Sun 03:31]§

I compiled [[Emacs from source]]. I find it pretty fantastic that I can do that. An absolutely amazing tool that I use daily, built by a community of people around the world, I can just download the code and build it myself. Makes me feel positive.

[2021-03-28 Sun 03:36]§

Would like to give [[Snikket]] a go. Or XMPP of some kind, at least.

• Need a critical history of technology

• Problems of representation

• Centralization vs decentralization

2021-04-28§

• [[christopher alexander]]
  • [[reading alexander]] == [[patterning]]
    • [[the timeless way of building]]
  • found [[places for the soul]]
    • [[eishin school]]
  • [[reading alexander]] == [[patterning]]
    • [[the timeless way of building]]
  • found [[places for the soul]]
• [[armengol]]
  • [[hyperlink delusion]]
• [[lorand]]
  • [[knots]]

13:05 last day in ca

not much to do re quarantine, major sunburn, etc. trying to get some work done today but discipline is hard to find here - it's unclear what we would have done otherwise, too.

wondering how i can take better photos, or at least photos that feel the same way they come out on camera, but maybe even the best photographers just have good selection with their nature photography rather than getting every shot right out of camera. i've been afraid of editing photos because aside from the program seriously barring me and bricking on performance a little bit i'm not sure how to make sure i'm getting the magic i used to. i've been taking photos with my phone and honestly it is very good - maybe that much better.

2021-04-28§

• Municipal service provision through [[commons-public partnerships]] facilitated by [[DisCOs]] is mentioned in [[The DisCO Elements]]! Awesome.

  • [[How would you include free software in community wealth building?]]

• Listened: [[Silke Helfrich & David Bollier: What Is The Commons?]]

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• [[subtext]]
• [[switzerland]]
• [[agora]]
  • [[vera]]
    • [[git submodules]] might be making a comeback :)
• [[a pattern language]]
  • [[patterns]]
• [[bolo bolo]]

2021-05-28§

• [[Greenspace Hack]] looks like a nice project. Crowdsourced documentation of greenspaces, as a source of grassroots input into urban planning decisions…
  • https://greenspacehack.com

• [[chris aldrich]]

• Pienso en el tema de mi paper de [[Análisis del discurso político]]

• [[you]]
• [[xmpp]]
• [[push]] flancia
  • a [[digital bolo]]
• [[speedball]] (bad)
  • [[hippie speedball]] (good)
• [[ethan]]
  • [[ethanshamilton]]
• [[gyuri]]
• [[boris mann]]
• [[category theory]]
• [[trees]]
  • [[push]] [[agora bot]]
    • needs to be able to dump [[threads]]
  • [[thread helper]]
  • [[treeverse]]
• [[ox agora]]

2021-08-28§

• previously: [[2021-08-27]]
  • [[push]] [[agora plan]]
    • probably should add [[calendar navigation]] to time related nodes in the agora
    • at least ‘previous day’ and ‘next day’
• [[hyperion]]
• [[all watched over by machines of loving grace]]
• [[meditations on moloch]]
• [[movies]]
  • [[nights of cabiria]]
    • one of [[fellini]]‘s classics I never saw it seems
    • "The magnificent Giulietta Masina (Fellini’s wife) plays an eternally optimistic Rome streetwalker with a heart of gold and a head of cotton candy in her husband’s Oscar-winning masterpiece. This funny, poignant classic inspired the musical "Sweet Charity" and is a must-see for Fellini fans."
  • [[interview with the vampire]]
    • sounds fun to rewatch, very 90s
• [[push]] [[borges]]
  • [[labyrinths]]
• [[push]] [[rusp]]
  • [[conocimientos tradicionales]]
    • [[en]] [[traditional knowledge]]
  • [[jorge carrera medaglia]]
• [[push]] [[jesus]]

2021-08-28§

• Rereading [[All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace]] for Agora [[node club]].

• Trying [[fixing a VTech My Laptop]].

• [[Hyphalinks]]

• [[Problems with SD Card on Android / LineageOS]]. Since moving to [[LineageOS]] ([[Installing LineageOS on Samsung Galaxy S5]]) I’ve had a bunch of problems with my SD Card. Not sure if it’s Lineage specific, or just Android 11 related.

2021-09-28§

• [[lahiru]] told me about [[visuddhimagga]] by [[buddhaghosa]].
  • TIL [[walpola rahula]] was Sri Lankan.
• [[robert haisfield]]
• [[circles]]
  • [[circles ubi]]
• [[node club]]
  • [[push]] [[2021-10-01]]
    • [[murray bookchin]]

• Whales are falling. What pieces of large, overly slow [[top-down]] central systems (such as the [[state]]) are failing first? How can we fill the vacuum with something local and [[bottom-up]]?
• Where do your [[competitors]] get their [[plans]]? Can you make a [[supply-chain attack]] to seed their source with plans they will use?
• You predict the [[future]] if you plant the future.

2021-10-28§

• Welcome to [[today]], my friend! Population: [[us]].
• The [[Agora]] is the maximal constructive subset of the internet.
  • This particular [[agora]] is a local optima that dreams of being global.

• You don’t have to [[move]] [[fast]] when you can [[move]] first. Consider the Muay Thai fighters Karuhat, Saenchai, and Lerdsila.

2021-10-28§

• [[Stono Rebellion]]

[[facebook]] is changing their name to [[meta]]

[[lineup viewer]]

2021-11-28§

• [[sunday]] [[weekend 47]]
• [[push]] [[do]]
  • talk to family over VC
  • do laundry
  • clean the kitchen
  • do four pomodoros on the [[Agora]]
    • move social to /stream
    • pull for wp up top
      • js does not seem to be attaching to the button as expected, probably because it loads late?
      • [[wikipedia]]
      • hacked it by just attaching an event in autoExec.
    • review PRs
    • RSS for /latest, nodes
      • did’t get to this this weekend but I’m happy with having a little progress each weekend. it will be there in [[week 48]] :)
    • see [[do]] for more
• [[magma collective]]
• [[vera]]
  • [[memrise]]
    • restarted learning German
• [[the expanse]]
  • [[the expanse ui design]]
• [[push]] [[gustavo]]
  • plan [[b]]
  • plan [[c]]
  • plan [[f]]
  • plan [[v]]
• [[test]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina pull

2021-11-28§

• Listening: [[Tim Jackson & the Quest for Post Growth]]

• [[Flancian]] mentioned [[metamodernism]]. As something in between [[modernism]] and [[postmodernism]], it sounds worth taking a peek at.

• I like collective knowledge management tools such as [[Anagora]], as when looking at a topic it gives me a subjective view of what my friends/community of practice think about it. As a fallback after that I can see what [[Wikipedia]] attempts to shake out as the objective view.

• It would be good for other [[Agora]] instances to come online, to be able to quickly get a peek at multiple different groups’ subjective view.

• I wonder if one may in some sense see it as similar to [[liquid democracy]]. On any topic, I could choose who I am most interested to see definitions from. I ‘delegate’ the definition to them, if I’ve not had chance to do my own yet. I would probably start in my local instance of Agora. Then perhaps my instance federates with others. At the end of it all, if noone has defined it yet, see what Wikipedia says.

  • also on matrix here

• A couple of mini site tweaks today:

  • I updated my WordPress theme ([[doublescores]]) to automatically rewrite [[wikilinks]] (those wrapped with double square brackets) to point to my corresponding page in my garden.
    • This is good because now I just post via [[micropub]] to my site using wikilinks in the content, and syndicate to Mastodon. The wikilinks get picked up in both places. (by agora bot on mastodon). [[Wikilinks everywhere]]!
  • I updated my garden publish process ([[How I publish my wiki with org-publish]]), so now each page in my garden also links out to the corresponding page at [[Anagora]].
    • I guess I could add other outbound links here - a bit like [[sister sites]] concept. Anagora is kind of an easy case, because I know the corresponding page will be there (because I syndicate it there).

• I made a tasty [[Butternut bhuna]] from scratch today.

Did morning meditation and added stretching

checking out [[cobox]] by [[magma collective]]

also started doing spanish after meditation to piggyback on that time slot. im using [[memrise]]

[[ganesha]]

[[wikihouse]]

[[natural readers]]

2021-12-28§

• [[do]]
  • work
  • [[push]] [[write]]
    • (knowledge) [[commons]]
    • [[commoning]]
  • [[code]]
    • [[agora popups]] make it use /pull/ and retrieve payload in advance (no iframe)
    • [[twitter bot]] quick fix: make it respond to more messages per thread by removing outdated restrictions (now that we have a source of truth for handled)
• love [[mynoise]]
• [[virginia astley]]
  • [[from gardens where we feel secure]]
• [[mañana]]
• [[nfts]]
  • [[digital art]]
  • [[digital artwork]]
• [[flancia]]
  • [[f drop]]
• [[drew devault]]
  • [[please don’t use discord for foss projects]]

• Leí [[La literatura perseguida por la política]] de [[Juan Goytisolo]] y [[Caen octavillas desde el cielo]] de [[Isaac Rosa]]
• Leí [[Introducción. El malestar del compromiso]] a [[Ideas comprometidas. Los intelectuales y la política]] de [[Ferrán Achilés]] y [[Maximiliano Fuentes]]

2021-12-28§

• [[gift economy]] and [[Peer production]]

• [[Gift economies are good]]

• Anagora is a garden reader

A post from 2-20 to see what it looks like

Tinkering with the site, getting the logs section working. This page on group_by in Liquid is useful. Covers posts grouped by year and month, among other expressions.

• [[blockingioerror]] sometimes happening for /index, slightly worrying, need to take a deeper look tonight
  • disabling server side auto-pull seems to have worked around this, we might be hitting some limits.
• [[outsider art]]
• [[gnomon chronicles]]
• #push [[yoga with x]]
  • [[fractal yoga]]
    • [[x with y]]
  • [[playlist]] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PaPoJNiFys&list=PLtG4zc89ZUfGeTuc2vFmS_Q_EESj7Picn
  • #go #playlist
• [[xanadu]]

let’s share what we know - world wide web

Thinking about some conversation from the [[agora discuss]] channel. What is the value of automatic [[licensing]] for text? I think there is a nice spirit in the idea of imbuing everything you do with sharing, as [[neil]] noted. That isn’t without value. But I want someone to come and ask me if they want to do something with my words. I want that connection, I think. [[m15o]] emailed me when they started nightfall city to see if my feed could be added and it was great.

I have [[zines]] that I don’t want digitalized. A physical object going from one person to another — an envelope, a proximity, a hand-to-hand — it seems important to the thing. Maybe this is a little like that. I probably need to think about it more.

There are kinds of aggregation, indexing, etc. that I might in strict terms need to explicitly license to enable, and that I might want to encourage — what are they?

Tomorrow the first concert since [[covid]]. I wonder if it’ll feel strange to be there.

2022-01-28§

• I’ve been unwell the last 3 days, and haven’t done much of interest during this time. Starting to be on the mend now though.
• It did make me reflect on the [[NHS]] though - how fantastic that I could call my doctor, get a diagnosis and a prescription, then pick the medication up the next day and start getting better.
• It’s a level of logistics and coordination that seems remarkable and I’d love to understand better how it fundamentally operates.
• Would it work so well (or at all) if it wasn’t state-maintained?

2022-01-28§

https://hoot.goldandblack.xyz/all

[[Wikipedia:Sunflower]]

[[the agora]]

https://github.com/whateverforever/zettelcon

Resources, links, projects, and ideas for gardeners tending their digital notes on the public interwebs

GitHub - tcort/markdown-link-extractor: extracts links from markdown texts

• [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1487110385446576134 pull
• [[doxometrist]] https://twitter.com/doxometrist/status/1487116951860264962 pull

• #push [[social]]

  • DONE respond to [[tasshinfoglema]]

• #push [[elections]]

  • a [[short story]]

• [[covid]]
  • still not recovered somehow — taking longer than expected
  • [[worked]] today but was low energy most of the day, only really felt myself "activate" after meetings/in the evening
• [[V(λ)]]

• [[backnoded]] #today
  • I worked what felt like a lot, but I didn’t produce that much I think — it was just about catching up with things. we had several incidents; good thing is that two of them were really interesting. we are learning a lot.

• Small [[unit]] [[principles]]:
  • Modern [[special forces]] rely on an initial [[surprise]] to seize the [[initiative]]. [[Delaying]] actions are not in their favor. Slowing them down saps their [[momentum]]. [[Awareness]] leeches their potential for surprise.
  • The bigger the unit, the more [[friction]] [[scales]].
  • If the expected [[movement]] is not [[simple]], it is difficult to [[hide]] and even harder to setup a [[feedback]] [[loop]] for that particular target.
  • Requiring lots of [[control]] makes [[preparation]] difficult.
  • [[Simplicity]] happens by limiting [[goals]], using as much of what is available as possible, and having [[awareness]] of the enemy. Awareness makes it easier to lower the number of goals to only what is needed to finish the mission. [[Timing]] is what must be [[hidden]] for an attack.
  • Hiding your next [[move]] is most useful as a delaying effort.
  • The enemy is usually [[prepared]], but when are they least prepared?
    • The enemy is often least prepared in [[transition]].
  • For a [[raid]], [[speed]] is less [[relative]] because [[resistance]] is a given, since raids are necessarily an [[attack]] on a [[position]] where [[defense]] is [[prepared]]. Due to this, [[time]] works in favor of the defenders, and not the raiders. So raiders need to move with as much [[speed]] as possible.

I love that I can edit journal from agora website now. be the pull request you want to see in the world lol

https://twitter.com/St_Magee

• [[flancia meet]] now at [[8am utc]] every [[saturday]] whenever we show up :)
• published minutes for [[social coop tech group]].
• [[kvistgaard]] told me about [[ruben verborgh]]
• [[phil wang]] == [[lucidrains]]
• [[ffmpeg]]
• [[flancia]]
  • #push [[flancian revolution]]
    • [[2020]] - [[2025]] we build the Agora
      • [[2019]] first writing
      • [[2021]] first code
      • [[2022]] early days
      • [[2023]] we use the Agora to build or help organize [[municipalist]] federations at a global scale
      • [[2024]] the internet is reclaimed for the people
    • [[2025]] - [[2030]] we build Flancia
      • [[2025]] wider basic income deployment
      • [[2025]] In some Flancias, Buddhism and Christianity or Islam start to merge.
        • [[dios salve la flor del loto]]
        • [[2027]] maybe we start building [[maitreya]]
        • [[2029]] [[maitreya]] rehabilitates [[moloch]]
    • [[2030]] in [[Flancia]]
    • [[2040]] after [[Flancia]]
• [[agora]]
  • [[bouncepaw]] implemented [[interwiki]] in [[mycorrhiza]], awesome!
• #push [[2022-05-28]]
  • #push [[social coop tech group]]
    • find the bug report by a user w.r.t. image/media thumbnails?
      • [[nick sellen]] did it!
      • [[social coop issues]] is a thread worth tracking clearly :) https://www.loomio.org/d/6V2tAIZa/issues/154
      • in it [[erik moeller]] reported an issue that Nick can also reproduce:
      • https://social.coop/web/statuses/108240729184803730
    • find where logs are :)
    • document the fix that is currently in [[social coop tech group]]
  • [[four pomodoros]]
    • one for [[social coop tech group]]
    • and then which? :)

I walked along the river with friends today and we chanced upon a street food market — five hours flew by! I am thankful for a beautiful day.

• I woke up before 3am (departure time) somewhere over the Atlantic. It was beautiful.
  • I slept 3, maybe 4 hours during the flight to [[london]] from [[portland]]. Not amazing but definitely not terrible!
• #push [[sqlite]] project
  • [[code of conduct]]
    • [[benedictine rule]]
• #push [[localpedia]]
  • A local copy of [[Wikipedia]] could be a good thing to have on our laptops.
  • An easy way to install a version under X gigabytes probably already exists?

2022-06-28§

• Watching: [[Don’t Look Up]]

• I like Iain M. Banks and I’m currently re-reading [[Look to Windward]] because in [[Red Plenty]] it was described it as an example of a 20th century [[Marxian idyll]]. It’s good and all but I’m reading the [[Culture]] now as kind of all premised on [[Prometheanism]] / [[fully automated luxury communism]]. I’m gonna reread [[A Wizard of Earthsea]] (last read as a young teen!) by [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] next as in [[Half-Earth Socialism]] they describe that as [[Jennerite ecological scepticism]] and that is more my bag lately.

• I feel happy discovering more and more as I get older that sci-fi books I took off my Mum’s bookshelf as a kid are in fact often allegorical for some kind of radical politics that I had no idea of at the time.

• [[Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World]]

• Playing with [[logseq desktop]] today
  • I’m actually really liking this
• Working on doing [[monthly planning]] e.g. [[july 2022]]
• I realized I don’t know what shade of my pink is my favorite. I think I’ might use a color picker to see what the pink in the sparkle heart emoji is. That’s my favorite emoji. 💖
  • I just found one it’s [[#ffadd8]]
• editing my [[google calendar]]
• been thinking a lot about [[worker coops]] for [[zebras unite]] stuff
• [[pdfEscape]]
• [[sodapdf]]
• [[nanonets]]
• [[readiris]]

• [[bean bank]]
• [[ana stone]]

2022-07-28§

• Read: [[What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?]]

• [[flancia]]
  • [[agora]]
    • [[agora discuss]]
    • [[agora meet]]
      • [[coworking]]
        • [[ladee]]
        • [[neil]]
          • [[revolution]]
    • [[agora pkg chapter]] <- [[now]] working on this
      • [[agora doc]]
  • #push [[ladee]]
    • [[ladcia]]
      • [[veranda]]
        • [[17]]
        • [[agora]]
        • [[palaces]]
          • [[mind palace]]
          • [[3d printing]]
        • [[arcologies]]
        • [[midjourney]]
        • [[angkor wat]]
    • [[coworking]] today was great ^
• [[payoff]]
• #push [[agora rfcs]]
  • #push [[feature requests]]
    • [[ifp]] ~ [[tfp]]
    • #pull should [[pull]] backlinks, as per [[robert haisfield]]
    • [[agora paper]] should be [[written]] and [[published]] <- [[agora pkg chapter]]
• [[contract]]
• [[code]]
  • [[pull]]
    • [[electrolysis]]

• Cancer needs fast, constant short-term growth to thrive, so cutting off energy to the body with cancer may help kill cancer.

2022-08-28§

• Back from a short city break to [[Manchester]]. Was a lot of fun. We packed a lot in.

• Read: [[Revolutionary Strategies on a Heated Earth]]

  • Finished reading it earlier today, spread over the course of a few days. Recollections:
  • starts with a convincing overview of how catastrophic ‘business as usual’, green capitalism, etc, will be for the Earth system.
  • covers the various different aspects of the crisis (sounds like polycrisis as per what Nick Dyer-Witheford in [[Nick Dyer-Witheford on Biocommunism]])
  • asserts that only a rupture from capitalism is sufficient to avert disaster, and it is needed soon.
  • so: starting from a position of [[eco-socialism]]
  • Zeller then continues on to make own contribution to present debate as to what should [[eco-socialist]] strategies be.
  • doesn’t like Malm’s take on Leninism. Says it has a misguided stress on violence, and I think also that it misrepresents war communism.
  • seems big on the idea of [[dual power]]. (At multiple scales). I’m interested to explore more what is the difference between ideas of Leninist dual power and libertarian socialist dual power.
  • advocates for [[socialisation]] of energy, transportation, and finance. Socialisation being the first step to large-scale transformation.
    • not sure what is the strategy for actually socialising things though? Is that what hopes dual power can achieve?

• I shoud reread [[The Next Revolution]] to compare and contrast with the recent [[eco-socialism]] stuff.

• Doing a couple [[pomodoro for the revolution]] at Agora Meet.

  • copy highlights from [[Revolutionary Strategies on a Heated Earth]]
  • as above

• New claims:

  • [[Capitalism is the cause of the climate crisis]]
    • Not a particularly new or profound one, but a pretty foundational one for [[eco-socialism]] and thus worth documenting.
  • [[Net zero is part of a global imperialist climate policy]]
    • Don’t know if I agree, but interesting and worth exploring.

• [[Cuba is the most sustainably developed country in the world]]

  • This is actually no longer accurate. Costa Rica is currently top.

• Started [[noding]] surprisingly late!
  • I was doing focused work on the Agora, but somehow not using the Agora to document it :)
  • Unless you consider the [[agora bridge]] repository part of the Agora, that is ;) Which maybe we should.
• Saw [[m d]], it was great.
• I didn’t see [[j]] in the end but I think we’ll see each other soon.
• [[agora bridge]]
  • [[agora bot]]
    • [[agora twitter bot]]
      • Fixed mentions.
      • #push [[opt in writes]]
        • I did some pomodoros on this and got to an improved state. Now the bot works with mentions at least, and after opting in it writes :)
        • Thinking of making #push / [[push]] a trigger for [[opt in]] as well.
  • [[presentation]]
• [[ladee]]
• [[yoga with x]]

• [[work]]
  • 2h
  • took the rest of the day off as planned
• #push [[protopias]]
  • [[flancia]]
    • [[agora]]
      • [[agora chapter]]
        • resume working as per yesterday, bring in pomodoros
      • #push [[tana]]
        • apparently you have to get early access? sigh.
      • [[loomio]]
    • [[social coop]]
      • fixed spam trap
      • but need to update the code repository
        • -> see [[next action]] block below
      • invites only as I think it’s the responsible thing while we make sure our registration system stays unbroken
        • [[registrations]]
        • #push [[next action]]
          • [[social coop]]
            • read technical root, re-found by [[edsu]]: https://git.coop/social.coop/tech/operations/-/wikis/infrastructure-overview
              • note it contains the top level instructions for [[mastodon upgrade]], start the process? or block on new server?
              • set up [[ansible]] and [[sauce]] locally
          • [[agora]]
            • quick [[ui]] fixes: restore filenames in subnode headers
            • try to prevent overflow from node divs, maybe enlarge node column or usable space?
            • [[pulling]]
              • auto pull wikipedia when "nice looking" by default, maybe after larger timeout
              • the pull in [[agora chapter]] should look nicer
              • pulling nodes should work the same as pulling URLs does
              • add CSS borders to iframes (would make wormholes/bridges metaphor clearer)
            • [[pushing]]
              • children blocks get pushed by default with [[autopush]]
              • [[opt in writes]] work with independent git repositories per user
              • [[sign in]] with api.anagora.org or moa.party.
            • [[agora doc]] -> [[agora chapter]]
              • continue with [[comments from editors]], read them all at least, think [[gtd]] inbox
              • they suggested sticking to [[chapter]] throughout, makes complete sense, did that

2022-10-28§

• "The more I reflect on these facts, the more I perceive that the evolutionary approach to adaptation in social systems simply will not work any more… . It has therefore become clear to me over the years that I am advocating revolution"

– Stafford Beer quoted in [[Cybernetic Revolutionaries]]

• [[work]]
• [[social coop]]
  • [[twg]]
• [[flancia]]
  • [[agora chapter]]
    • try to do at least one pomodoro of editing in suggestion mode
      • already did this — it was the first pomodoro of the night!
      • it felt nice to just do it. I had reasons to procrastinate (like emptying the dishwasher and loading it) but I somehow persevered.
  • #push [[yoga with x]]
    • Bienvenidos!
      • [[El pueblo unido jamás será vencido]]!
        • [[Flancia]] es la revolución de la gente buena, definida como la gente que quiere ser buena.
        • Flancia trata de ser opcional.
    • Will probably happen around [[23 UTC]].
  • [[UI]]

    • Make better use of [[unicode]] :)

    • #push [[todo]]

      • [[executable subnodes]]
        • can totally work pretty much as is (in the branch) if we have an [[allowlist]]
      • add more effective [[default handler]] to agora server - [ ] it gives errors for /x/y for example, which I’ve been assuming works for a long while without actually having gone and made it work :)
        • #push [[agora chapter]]
          • my next [[drishti]] -> [[2022-12-04]] is the [[deadline]] for the next iteration
          • answer [[editors]]
            • write email — this was sent on [[2022-11-27]] in the end
            • answer follow up about the meeting, sounds nice
          • start going through comments and incorporating learnings
          • note that UI improvements can yield more interesting screenshots
            • but at least one screenshot of an agora graph is long due
            • ;)

    • [[containers]]

      • [[coop cloud]]
        • [[abra]]
        • [[docker]]

• previously: [[2022-12-27]]
• [[work]]
  • I am still feeling a bit wiped from the [[allergy attack]] yesterday, but I will probably work at least for half a day
  • met [[rg]], it was nice talking to him after a while!
• Really enjoying [[Approaching the Buddhist Path]] by the [[Dalai Lama]] and [[Thubten Chodron]].
  • On [[Afflictions]]: they include what we would call negative emotions, but also destructive/non-constructive views.
  • Chapter 3 got into the cultural and linguistic gaps between Tibetan, Sanskrit and English.
  • On [[positive attachments]]:
    • a baby to their mother
    • people to family members
    • [[bodhisattvas]] to sentient beings (!)

• [[2022-12-01 15:42:54+00:00]] @[[QuincyThinks]]: https://twitter.com/QuincyThinks/status/1598341877568348170 pull

• Previously: [[2023-01-27]]
• [[bouncepaw]]
  • [[nu genea]]
  • #push [[celeste]]
    • the goal of the game is to reach the summit of a mountain
    • T livestreams in [[celeste summit]]
      • [[CLI]] joined!
        • [[holocene calendar]]
        • [[changbai]] in [[merveilles]]
  • working on [[betula]]
  • [[betula in agora]] \o/
  • uses [[GoLand]] as an IDE
    • using [[sqlite]] in [[betula]] as well
• #push [[do]]
  • work on [[agora chapter]]
    • go over latest batch of comments
  • add [[mycomarkup]] support in anagora.org
  • fix pushes in agor.ai
    • this probably requires moving to a non-dev setup, which makes complete sense
  • make [[agora of flancia/steward]] (i.e. compound queries) actually work in any way :)
• [[yoga with x]]
  • [[center]]
• [[flancia]]
  • [[agora chapter]]
    • [[krakauer]]

• [[work]]
  • [[partitioning]]
    • prepare for [[p10g]] meeting tomorrow
    • prepare [[talk]] for tomorrow
• [[flancia]]
  • [[agora]]
    • [[open letters]]
    • try [[3d force graph]] quickly to see if it fares better than the 2d one for the whole-Agora graph? It seems unlikely but not impossible.

• [[work]]
  • ten meetings (!)
• [[flancia]]
  • [[sila]] hadn’t been uploading garden updates due to the [[github]] host key change, fixed
  • [[social coop]] nice progress

• [[Problems]] you can make a [[business]] out of are extremely annoying and tedious things that need to be done frequently for people to make [[money]].

• [[work]]
  • Last day in the Sunnyvale office for this visit.
  • Flying back to Zürich tonight.
• [[flancia]]
  • Will board the flight shortly after the traditional time in which I say I "start Flancia" on a workday, meaning 19:00 (local time).

2023-04-28§

• Read: [[An Ecological Technology: An Interview with James Bridle]]

• Looked into [[keyoxide]] again after seeing a reference in the profile of [[youronlyone]]
• [[social.coop]]
  • [[wiki]]
    • changed links to registration form to point to join.social.coop
    • posted maintenance announcement
    • redoing [[wiki migration]] on wiki.social.coop
    • disabled parsoid
    • enabled registrations
    • done, it seems, pretty much! \o/
• #push [[pfeilstorch]]
  • showed up in my open tabs, is interesting, but I don’t remember how I got there :)

• re-watching [[Fundy’s Mind]] as part of writing a bloody essay explaining how my autistic brain interpreted it (see [[Fundy’s Mind as interpreted by an autistic]] once I published da draft)
• all things [[Obsidian]]
  • installed obsidian-icon-folder (repo) plugin on [[Obsidian]] to feel at home like in [[Notion]] and [[Coda]].
  • fix some [[golink]] syntax issues on some files, because I remembered about [[wikilinks anywhere]]

2023-07-28§

• Bookmarked: [[A leverage points analysis of a qualitative system dynamics model for climate change adaptation in agriculture]]
  • Interested in this from the perspective of the [[leverage points analysis]]. Applied here to the agriculture industry, but would be interesting to see how it might be applied to ICT.

• It’s friday and the behavioural health center is closed during my normal time slot
  • luckily the library is open and I can hang out here and code
  • I’ve been looking at cafes but not a lot of places have power and are not too crowded
  • I have social anxiety disorder so it’s difficult to be around dense groups of people
    • downtown isn’t so bad since the distribution of people is actually better due to large area
  • Created a remote tunnel in vscode so I can edit server from browser without installing vscode on local machine
• The problem with "edge functions" is that they are a form of vendor lockin. I’m playing with supabase and it’s cool but what happens when I want to move to another provider that has a completely different api?
• The lights in this library are shining directly into my eyes. I think it’s for the drug addicts that come in here to try and keep them awake. 
  • There needs to be systemic change in the USA.

• [[Flancia]]!
  • [[work]] until 22 with a break in the middle for [[social coop]] [[twg]] meeting :)
  • then did [[yoga]], [[go/move/28]] followed by [[10 minute breathwork]]
  • Thank you [[AG]] :)
  • Thank you my [[friends]] :)

• Feeling kinda down this last week. I missed satsang today
• Talked to case manager about housing stuff. She put me in her calendar to meet weekly
• I’m going to worksource tomorrow to see about some opportunities
• using javy to compile js to wasm
  • handy for functions that I want on multiple platforms like parsers where I don’t want to rewrite the parser grammer in a slightly different dialect on each platform

• Thrown so snappily that my balls clapped. [[storymine]]

2023-10-28§

• Got org-roam working with Doom Emacs in Termux. To a certain degree. Few niggly issues but decent start. [[Setting up Doom Emacs in termux on Android]]

• Don’t sync org-roam.db between machines.

• Getting into org-roam on Termux. Useful extra tool in addition to orgzly for taking fleeting notes on my phone. Actually, Termux is more the processing of fleeting notes into actual notes.

  • Couple of nice to fixes: pull in the .git folder so I csn commit from here too.
  • Fix that weird error so that I can insert new nodes.

• Enjoying the Upstream interview with Breht and Alyson from Rev Left / Red Menace. They seem a bit more tempered here on another show - left to their own devices can sometimes come across tankie. Lots of good discussion of the need for an [[ecology of organisation]] here. [[What Is To Be Done? with Breht O’Shea and Alyson Escalante]].

• Watching Coraline. It’s fun. I feel a bit seen by the Dad character…

• This bit of text committed from my phone… will it work?

  • Hmm. It gets a bit confusing. Because the changes are synced by syncthing first, so git sees that as a conflict when I pull from the other device.
  • [[Syncing a git repo within a syncthing folder]]
  • OK. Now just syncing via git for a while, lets see how that goes.

• Read: [[Universal basic services: the power of decommodifying survival]]

• [[Problem with Kobo Clara HD battery]]. It is draining really fast.

• Started reading Kate Soper’s [[Post-Growth Living]]. It’ll be about how a move away from consumerism will actually bring about a more enjoyable life.

• [[work]].
  • Back in the office! My [[back pain]] has subsided enough.
• #push [[2024]]
  • Started thinking about [[2024]], which incidentally is 8 * 253 == 8 * 23 * 11.
  • [[Flancia 2024]] might follow [[Flancia 2023]], and even resemble it :)
• [[flow]]
  • [[flow state]]

• [[Distance]] gives you [[time]]. [[Angles]] give you a way to [[flank]].
• [[Questions]] for district or city [[attorneys]]. collapsed:: true
  • If [[prosecution]] is an [[assembly]] line [[process]], what are the [[constraints]]?
  • What do you do in every single [[criminal]] [[prosecution]]?
  • How often do they go to [[trial]]?
  • Who are the [[defense]] [[lawyers]]?
  • What are plea dialogues?
• Show them [[chaos]], and present an [[alternative]]. collapsed:: true
  • Offer [[stability]] in the face of that chaos.
• [[Dormancy]] lets [[seeds]] [[disperse]] through [[time]].
• [[Police]] Departments found it easier to [[recruit]] following police attacks in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• The US military found it much easier to [[recruit]] during the second gulf war, as well as right after [[9/11]].
• If someone is [[blaming]] someone consistently for anything that goes wrong in their [[life]], it is a sign that they are [[owned]] by that person.
• [[Seeds]] must have ways to [[spread]], [[feed]], and protect baby plants.
• 100 million dollar offers: collapsed:: true
  • 1. Pain /what life would like without the pain
    2. Purchasing power
    3. Easy to target/symbols where they are already gathered
    4. Growing market
  • The point of writing is for the reader to understand.
  • The point of [[copywriting]] is for the prospect to feel [[understood]].
  • People [[want]] [[health]], [[wealth]], and [[relationships]].
  • In order of easiest to [[sell]] to: Starving crowd > offer strength > [[persuasion]] skills
  • [[Price]] is what you [[pay]], [[value]] is what you [[get]].
  • The [[Value Equation]]: Dream outcome x perceived likelihood of achievement / [[time]] delay * [[effort]] + [[sacrifice]] = [[value]]
  • Talk in terms of how the prospect will get [[status]] from other people.
  • People [[pay]] for [[certainty]].
  • Most people want an early [[victory]]. So [[fast]] beats [[free]].
  • What points of [[friction]] exist for them if they accept your [[offer]]? What’s the next [[obstacle]]? The obstacle after that? And that?
  • Generate a [[solution]] to every [[problem]].
  • [[Urgency]]: [[deadlines]] make [[decisions]].
  • Seasonal offers should occur more often with local [[businesses]].
  • 1-on-1 delivery bonus after [[sale]]? collapsed:: true
    • Add [[bonus]] to account for each verbalized [[obstacle]].
  • A [[lead]] is a person you can [[reach]]. collapsed:: true
    • A good lead is a person you can reach who has shown interest in your [[product]] or [[service]].
    • Have a library of [[lead magnets]] you can rotate.
  • A good [[call to action]] tells you what to do and [[why]] you should do it right now.
• [[Dotcomsecrets]]: collapsed:: true
  • who do you like working with most? collapsed:: true
    • what dramatic [[transformation]] do you want to help them make?
    • where are these people?
    • how can you find them online?
    • what [[bait]] works on them but [[pushes]] everyone else away?
    • where to find them? collapsed:: true
      • what [[groups]] are they a part of? newsletters? discords? forums? subreddits? twitter circles? what other interests do they have?
  • create customer avatars of who you want to work with collapsed:: true
    • include their [[dreams]], [[fears]], [[passions]], [[goals]], & [[desires]]
  • [[bait]] is anything the [[fitting]] [[customer]] would pay [[attention]] to and [[want]] collapsed:: true
    • book
    • online report
    • podcast
    • tool
  • what result do you want to give them? collapsed:: true
    • change
    • A business is not about [[products]] or [[services]], it is about a [[change]] that [[clients]] want.
  • free stuff is [[bait]] to generate [[leads]]
  • who am I trying to [[reach]]? where do they [[gather]]? where are their watering holes?
  • Three Types of [[Traffic]]: collapsed:: true
    • 1. Traffic you don’t control. (external site)
      2. Traffic you control. (newsletter/subscriptions)
      3. Traffic you own. (when they’re on your page)
  • The back [[story]] has to relate to the [[product]] or [[service]] being sold. If it’s a financial product, the story has to be about something that changed with the character in regard to finances.
  • What are the stories that have happened in the relatable character’s life?
  • A [[story]] is more powerful than telling someone what would work.
  • Polarize with the truth of the character. This helps with [[selection]].
  • What’s going on with the relatable [[character]]? collapsed:: true
    • what embarrassed them
    • what did they enjoy having bought
    • what made them frustrated yesterday that they’re happy about today
    • what antics did your kid get into
    • what funny thing happened to them that teaches a lesson
  • every e-mail has to tie back to an offer
  • Reverse engineering successful [[sales funnels]]: collapsed:: true
    • Demographics
    • Offer
    • Landing page
    • Traffic source
    • Ad copy
  • Don’t create [[traffic]]. Look for it and tap into it. It is something you find when foraging.
  • "The [[money]] you make in your [[business]] depends on how well you manage the [[experience]] of every person who comes in contact with you—no matter how long they stay"
  • Setup [[frame]] that is conducive to a [[long-term]] [[buying]] relationship.
    • collapsed:: true
      1. What is the [[mindset]] of people in the [[traffic]] you’re trying to pull to your [[landing page]]?
      2. Setup Pre-Frame Bridge
      3. Qualifying
      4. Who is a buyer?
      • "If your prospect is aware of your [[product]] and has realized it can satisfy his [[desire]], your [[headline]] starts with the product. If he is not aware of your product, but only of the desire itself, your headline starts with the desire. If he is not yet aware of what he really seeks, but is concerned with the general problem, your headline starts with the problem and crystallizes it into a specific need."
      • Hot Traffic is people who already know who you are.
      • Cold Traffic is people who have no idea who you are.
      • hot traffic bridge: they already trust you, so keep it short
      • warm traffic bridge: longer than hot, needs endorsement
      • cold traffic bridge: very long, they need to be framed before they hit landing page
        • they need to be introduced to the concepts ([[inferential gap]] must be bridged)
        • ‘bridge page’ before ‘offer page’
        • they may not understand the [[problem]], so you will have to show them the cause of a surface problem
      • Will they buy?
      • Will they subscribe to a list?
    • As soon as they [[subscribe]], give them a way to [[buy]] something. collapsed:: true
      • Something priced extremely low that is high value.
    • 5. Who is a hyperactive buyer?
    • Typically in some sort of [[pain]]/starving with a [[problem]].
    • For example, catching someone right after a humiliating [[defeat]]. They will buy multiple items.
    • When in [[pain]] and on a quest, they will spend money to further that quest.
    • collapsed:: true 6. Age & Ascend Relationship on Ladder
      • With [[time]], provide more [[value]].
    • collapsed:: true 7. Change the Selling Environment
      • Switch to phone, video, in-person, snailmail, or live event.
      • Think of it as being invited to the VIP section, staff section, or holy of holies in a [[temple]].
    • You may bump a purchase in the same way grocery stores sell candy bars and tabloids. Offer a one-time purchase that complements the main purchase.
    • Downsell: if they don’t take the bump, offer a [[downsell]].
• [[Shaping]] [[Work]] by 37Signals: collapsed:: true
  • "[[Estimates]] start with a [[design]] and end with a number. Appetites start with a number and end with a design. We use the [[appetite]] as a creative [[constraint]] on the design process."
  • Check [[want]] to use as a [[constraint]]. The more want, the more [[time]] can be spent. The less want, the less time is spent.
  • “fixed [[time]], variable [[scope]],”
  • "The best is relative to your constraints."
  • “We can only [[judge]] what is a [[good]] [[solution]] in the [[context]] of how much [[time]] we want to spend and how important it is.”
  • "Beware the simple question: “Is this possible?” In software, everything is [[possible]] but nothing is [[free]]. We want to find out if it’s possible within the appetite we’re shaping for."
  • What is [[possible]] given what we [[want]]?
  • "People need to feel the [[deadline]] looming in order to make trade-offs".
  • [[Time]] is the ultimate [[constraint]].
  • "When people ask for “just a few hours” or “just one day,” don’t be fooled. [[Momentum]] and progress are second-order things, like [[growth]] or [[acceleration]]. You can’t describe them with one [[point]]. You need an uninterrupted curve of points. When you pull someone away for one day to fix a bug or help a different team, you don’t just lose a day. You lose the momentum they built up and the time it will take to gain it back. Losing the wrong hour can kill a day. Losing a day can kill a week."
  • "You can’t ship without making hard [[decisions]] about where to stop, what to compromise, and what to leave out."
  • "But crises are rare. The vast majority of bugs can wait six weeks or longer, and many don’t even need to be fixed. If we tried to eliminate every bug, we’d never be done. You can’t ship anything new if you have to fix the whole world first."
  • "we mainly [[bet]] the [[time]] on spiking some key pieces of the new product idea. The shaping is much fuzzier because we expect to learn by building."
  • The [[time]] you give is a [[bet]] you place.
  • "…you can’t [[delegate]] to other people when you don’t know what you [[want]] yourself."
  • [[Research]] & Design cycles don’t ship: "The goal is to learn what works so we can commit to some load-bearing structure: the main code and UI decisions that will define the form of the product going forward."
• The [[cost]] of user [[interface]] changes hurt the average person more than they hurt the average developer.
• "it has to fit in the head of the programmer to be maintanable" collapsed:: true
  • if they can read the whole thing and understand it, then it is maintainable
  • [[maintenance]]
• One of the greatest difficulties with managing [[knowledge]] workers is telling the difference between [[waste]] and work. collapsed:: true
  • With [[innovation]] as a [[goal]], most managers have no way to tell the difference.
  • This is because no one knows what the worker knows, except maybe the worker.
  • So the organization would need to rely on [[culture]].
• "The word [[Andhra]] is first observed from Udyotana’s description of ‘those with beautiful bodies, who love [[women]] and [[war]] alike and are great consumers of [[food]]‘ in 779 CE"
• Social [[tracks]] are like physical tracks: it’s possible to [[contaminate]] the [[sign]] if you step on it.
• "The most [[information]] dense [[communication]] looks like [[noise]]. Therefore thermal motion of atoms is a very high bandwidth communication between unknown entities."

2024-01-28§

• Came across [[Graham Jones]]‘ work via [[#ACFM]] and enjoying it.
  • Reading: [[The Shock Doctrine of the Left]]
  • Listening: [[Red Enlightenment (podcast)]]

2024-02-28§

• [[AG]] :)
• [[Lady Burup]] :)
• [[friends]]
• [[work]]
• [[party]] prep
• [[colleen]]

2024-03-28§

• I’ve been picking up the [[guitar]] again regularly recently, for the first time in a long time. And I’m really enjoying it. Drop D tuning and finger picking. Still got the muscle memory for basic chords and picking patterns. Relistening to some [[John Fahey]] too.

2024-04-28§

• [[Ecology]]

  • [[Keystone species]]

• I should put more images in my garden.

  • I stumbled on the page on [[Jean Baudrillard]], which has no text. But the picture is fun.

• Finally finished watching [[Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]].

  • National Working Miners Committee. David Hart.
  • Arthur Scargill. Sequestration of funds. Connection to Al-Zulfikar and Colonel Gaddafi for financial support.
  • Ultimately that negative press seemed to be the final nail in the coffin of the strike.

• Read [[Palestine speaks for everyone]]

• Interesting that in [[Silverbullet]] linking to a date and then visiting it doesn’t do the "right" thing in some sense, as it doesn’t navigate to the journal entry but rather to the node about the date.
  • In some ways this is the correct thing, as that’s the behavior I use elsewhere to get to the journal.
  • But by default alt-shift-d goes to Journal/Day/<date>, so the two aren’t convergent when I would a priori wish them to be.

• [[work]]

2024-05-28§

• [[Listened]]: [[How the North Plunders the South w/ Jason Hickel]]
  • [[Imperialism]] and [[neocolonialism]].
  • [[Unequal exchange]].

• [[work]] was fine :)
  • three days of summit, plus very interesting conversations with visitors from [[STO]] and the team!
  • tomorrow, no meetings except for an [[ER-CH]] one.

• Maybe things will turn out to be [[funny]] in retrospect
  • I have been told that [[Flancia]] seems to lack humour, even though it started as a well-meaning joke! I guess I lost/deprioritized that along the way…
• [[work]] has been tough since last Thursday and I realize that has made it so that I haven’t noded much here for a while.
• [[fellowship of the link]] :)
• [[2024-08-29]]: Jerry says:8am PT, in my usual Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4154650256?pwd=Zm5DWGRJcmFmZGtBMmI1Wkx2WUQyZz09
• [[storm]]

• [[flancia]]
• [[sadhana]]
• [[dhyanas]]
  • I read about the two first [[immaterial states]], very interesting.
• [[zine]]

2024-10-28§

• I biked to work and I’m happy I did, it wasn’t too cold and the exercise felt great both ways.
  • Now I’m cozy at home typing on my mechanical keyboard with Lady Burup (she occasionally also types, but also I just mean we’re spending time together :)).
  • I was also melancholy for personal reasons but it felt constructive, like processing.

2024-10-28§

• [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]]
  • So far: astrophysics, geology, chemistry, particle physics, quantum physics and a little bit of paleontology.
  • All fascinating but I think nowadays I’m most interested in the things closer to home - so, the geology, and hoping there will be some biology and maybe even ecology (though from memory I don’t think there is much of this last one).
  • There’s no social science - so no human history, anthropology, economics, etc. Have to go elsewhere for that. I might listen to [[The Dawn of Everything]] next.

• [[2024-11-27]] took place as well (linking it so I can then go node it :)
• Interesting conversation in [[Agora discuss]]!
  • [[Zicklag]] wrote about [[weird.one]], sounds very cool, it would be great to catch up synchronously with them and [[Erlend]].

2024-11-28§

• Watched [[Agentic Product Development]]
  • Not sure I understand how the talk relates to the title.
  • But I like the concepts discussed a lot.
    • To me it felt like a description of [[IndieWeb]] without really mentioning IndieWeb.
      • Except in the talk subtitle? And one side mention of IndieAuth.

• [[j0lms]]: [[plurality]]
• [[flancia meet]]
  • was quiet but it still felt good to be ‘back’ :)
• had coffee with my neighbours, it was great!
• cleaned the house a bit
• talked to my mum, I enjoyed it and it was great seeing her
• started a new notebook (ha), this one is a square with a pixel grid — a gift from the [[nintendo museum]] by [[mpd]]
• share photos
• run collect over notebooks and papers, this usually makes me feel better (I have a lot of context all around, putting it back in one place/pile usually helps manage it/consolidate)
• [[december 2024 adventure]]
• [[agora writing]]
• had interesting conversations in the [[fediverse]] about:
  • [[ai]]
  • [[sustainability]]
  • leading to [[ilich]], who I still haven’t read — will try to set up his book in my [[kobo]] to read it tonight/soon
• I read about [[recursively enumerable]] sets and languages — I remembered these were some of my favorite back when I studied computer science when I was 27 or 28. This led me to read again about complexity classes, hierarchies and then [[diophantine]] sets :)
• Also had a great time playing with [[Lady Burup]], and we even watched [[3blue1brown]] together! Pictures likely in the Fediverse :)

2024-12-28§

• Reading [[Four Thousand Weeks]]
  • The efficiency trap - the more efficient you get, the more things you will fit into to do list, ultimately not gaining any time.
  • Productivity techniques are a way of facilitating avoidance of making hard choices.
    • By claiming you can get more efficient and fit more in, you can avoid having to decide what not to do.
  • Pay yourself first.
  • Keep three things in progress.

• [[bull]] now supports tabs in editing mode :)
  • enjoying it a lot!
  • I am thinking of which other quality of life improvements could easily be added to [[CodeMirror]] if Stapelberg agrees.
  • [[vim mode]] is probably going too far? :)
• I realized I broke links in [[Agora graphs]] when I pushed the update to remove jquery; I know why, I just need to remember to fix it tonight after work.
  • fix it then :)

2025-03-28§

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand
    • tags: [[Google]]. [[AI]]. [[AI resource use]].
  • How much electricity do AI generators consume? | The Verge
    • tags: [[AI]]. [[AI resource use]].
  • Report | AI in the Public Interest: Confronting the Monopoly Threat — Open Markets Institute
    • tags: [[AI]]
  • Chip Production’s Ecological Footprint: Mapping Climate and Environmental Impact
    • tags: [[Chip production]].
  • What is the Future of Work in the Generative AI Era? A Marxist and Ricardian Analysis
    • tags: [[AI]]. [[The future of work]].

• [[fellowship of the link]] [[2025-05-28]]
  • [[jerry michalski]]
    • [[family systems]]
    • theory: this is internalized.
    • parts try to help but are trapped in old patterns.
    • must be approached with curiosity and benevolence
  • https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0874778956/jerrymichalskisr
    • "You are a natural explorer, adventurer and builder of new worlds. You love travel and experiencing other parts of the country and other cultures. You are a natural visionary. Instinctively, you can see what needs to be re-built or designed in new ways whether it be environments, ideas, projects or people. You have a natural ability to renew and regenerate yourself and others. People will see you as highly creative, practical and productive, innovative and original, and passionately involved in what has heart and meaning for you."
    • "At different times in your life you will be very ecologically minded and deeply concerned about the Earth and very active in making the universe a better place in which to live. You may experience yourself questioning the origins of the universe as a whole or contributing towards theories, projects and services that assist universal understanding. National and international work will appeal to you, or travel that allows you and others to value cultural differences as well as honor inherent similarities found within the human species."
    • "You will find it difficult to be limited, restricted or restrained in any way. With your inherent ability to cut through things and get to the bottom of most situations, you are able to build new worlds internally and externally. The concept of freedom at different times in your life will be very important."
    • [[substack]]

2025-05-28§

• In the latest episode of ‘Neil tries to update something related to Emacs’ (see [[2025-05-27]]):

  • I thought that I might be able to process org-roam.db on my laptop, as that is faster, and then sync it to my phone.
  • Two problems: firstly, it doesn’t work. Not sure why but it must be checking something else other than version to check whether it needs processing. Secondly: the DB contains links to file locations, which are different between devices. So, ultimately a no go anyway.
  • Ho hum. I’ll need to think of a way of doing a full update of org-roam.db on my phone somehow without it taking an eternity / bombing out.
  • At least I have an updated Emacs on my laptop!

• Later: I fixed it by moving the files out of the org-roam dir for the project, then moving them back in and processing then in batches of 1000 at a time.

  • Still took ages, but didn’t crash and I just let each batch run while getting on with something else.
  • I also learned that the slowness is probably down to me having the files on the shared storage rather than on termux’s home. See e.g. https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/2174

• Going to start moving some repos from Github and Gitlab to [[Codeberg]].

• [[Four in five Britons want the government to do more to support repair]].

• [[17]]
• [[53]]
• [[67]]
• [[2063]]
• [[7]]
• [[Höllgrotten]] today with my mum, it was lovely!
• I also cleaned the house, did some light project work, and enjoyed into the evening.

2025-06-28§

• [[Listened]]: [[Trip 49: Debt]]

• Noding from work :)
• I spent the last few days:
  • With my mum, enjoying her last days in Zürich this year.
  • With [[KM]], in [[Copenhagen]] for the first time — it was great!
  • Working, mostly catching up with procedural things but also doing some AI stuff.
  • Playing (after work), mostly coding the Agora with AI. It’s a wonderful experience!

• Yesterday I implemented ‘star nodes’ and fixed a bunch of stuff in the Agora with Gemini and it felt great :)
  • I was able to do this in parallel while I kept working (day job related) into the end of night; I enjoy this pairing.
  • I use two different computers in two different desks and I walk to and fro, which helps a lot.
• Today it’s day 1/2 of my team’s global virtual summit (exploiting daylight savings [[chaos week]]); this brings an end to summit season, which has been intense!
• Plan to see [[KM]] after work :)

• What a great start to the day in [[Bitwäscherei]], and then what a beautiful day at home with Burup!
  • Coded, wrote, talked with my mum, played with Burup, and just generally tried to flow.