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@Mattiverse Welcome to micro.blog - looking forward to what you share.
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@joeywingster.bsky.social that’s wonderful. Motion sickness would prevent me from writing like that unfortunately
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@ausrtho Yes, but I’d probably find your location quite exotic, trains or no trains
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@joeywingster.bsky.social you’re not writing while driving are you? I suppose dictation might work. But travel generally seems good for writing
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@lmika Should be easy to arrange!
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@lmika to settle all disputes, let’s just agree to call it libra pondo again
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@jarrod @manton “You kind of get a sense when the platform vendor is going to compete with you instead of work with you.” — Dave Winer’s observation on the WordPress ‘social’ theme. I hope that’s not so.
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@joshuapsteele most recently? <brennan.day/>. Kind of epitomises the indie web for me: hand crafted, opinionated, eccentric, principled, and above all, worth reading.
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@JigmeDatse to paraphrase Upton Sinclair,
It is difficult to get people to understand something, when their likes and subscribes depend upon them not understanding it.
I’ve had a few thankless conversations like that.
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@drwalt worse than ignored:
> “Every journalist who is not too stupid or full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible” – Janet Malcolm.
Louis Theroux quoted this in an interview with Patrick Raddon Keefe. But then not all writers are journalists
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@drjlwells I see what you mean - the top level areas are defined, but they’re what you make them. Johnny Decimal seems a bit like PARA - they’re both ways of organising all your digital/written stuff, and your notes (Zettelkasten or whatever) can sit within that framework (or not).
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@billseitz everything about your site has been inspirational for my TiddlyWiki notebook. To cite just one inspiring post of many: Notice patterns and garden your own private wiki notebook. Thanks!
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@JigmeDatse it pains me when people just don’t want to see the Nazi bar. I know we can’t protest everything but still.
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@drjlwells in what way is Johnny Decimal bottom-up? I’m not seeing that.
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@thoughtshrapnel indeed!
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@mattypenny the famine did have an impact in Strabane, whose population declined from 7,000 to 4,000. A scheme to relieve overcrowded workhouses deported at least six girls from Strabane to Australia, including three in 1848. So yes, quite dark. Irish Famine Memorial
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> all your brain is doing is making links between things. Which is why I don’t have any problem in using LLMs as part of my workflow.
What of the difference between how the brain makes links, with necessary economy, and how AI does it, profligately? How to triage what links matter?
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@bkryer I’m glad someone knows what this cat is thinking!
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> “a polished, erudite prose that had snap, sizzle, and complexity.”
That’s a standard worth celebrating.
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@bobdoto it’s back-and-forth for me too. My writing process oscillates between notes and drafts.
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@drwalt Isn’t it yes and no, no and yes? A car is like a horse & carriage except it isn’t. An ebook is like a book, but not. Blogging is like 17th century pamphleteering but different. Just talking in a cafe like Sartre might still be the very first step to forming ideas? What do you think?
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@chrisfoley Exactly so. I wrote a detailed content calendar once - which I’ve never looked at since.
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@chadkoh I’ve been enjoying your cherry blossom photos – especially since here in Australia the Autumn has just arrived.
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@bobdoto most recently and surely most reflexively ever, Eric Zimmer’s book was written this way too: How a Little Becomes a Lot.
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@cliff538 watch the classic mint cake comedy sketch — Not the Nine O’Clock News series 3 episode 3 (starts 19:56). You won’t regret it. The Archive