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Your best ideas seem the least worth it.
Finish What MATTERS is now available.
Finish What MATTERS is now available.
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Meta's ad strategy is to introduce enough confusion that you aren't sure where your money is going, while at the same time making you feel like the amount of money they've extracted from you isn't quite enough to merit untangling what happened to try to get it back.
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Reel translations on Instagram are wild.
I upload, go to bed, and wake up speaking perfect Japanese.
I upload, go to bed, and wake up speaking perfect Japanese.
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The more data-space pulls our heads out of meat-space, the more subtext that is never explored in our interactions.
The more cringe. Also the more blind rage and misunderstandings.
The more cringe. Also the more blind rage and misunderstandings.
Watched a lot of Nathan Fielder interviews in past week and this bit is a great insight into the mindset behind his shows:
“When I hear the word ‘Oh, it’s cringey’ and someone is like ‘I can’t handle it’…I wonder how that person can go through life at all.
Because every us. Almost all in some way.
Like, nothing ends with a cut when you’re in real life. Sometimes there’s nothing else to say, and everyone has subtext of things they’re not saying to each other, and that feels like normal.
It’s interesting that people have a hard time with it.”
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From this talk: youtu.be/_O1-CyzrcYY?si…
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I've seen enough. YOLO'ing KDP translations for every one of my books in every available language (that is, having Claude approve them).
If you prefer to read in Spanish, German, French, Italian, or Portuguese, keep your eyes peeled.
If you prefer to read in Spanish, German, French, Italian, or Portuguese, keep your eyes peeled.
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During the age of the telegraph, privacy was a big concern, because something like half a dozen people would see your message during transmission and receipt.
So people used codes. See, for example, all you could say sending just the word, "antislavery."
So people used codes. See, for example, all you could say sending just the word, "antislavery."
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The telegram had THREE errors, but this one letter cost Franklin J. Primrose $20k (equivalent to $750k today).
He sued Western Union for damages – it went all the way to the Supreme Court.
Where they decided he was entitled to a refund for the cost of the message: $1.15
He sued Western Union for damages – it went all the way to the Supreme Court.
Where they decided he was entitled to a refund for the cost of the message: $1.15
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This case sent a precedent that a company is liable only for the price of their service, if more protection isn't bought. (Primrose could have bought return confirmation for 57¢).
And that you can't recover a losses one couldn't have foreseen causing (it was a coded message).
And that you can't recover a losses one couldn't have foreseen causing (it was a coded message).
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Anyone telling you it "only takes 10 minutes" to freeze your credit in the three major bureaus is a fucking liar.
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Claude Cowork helps me realize how much info-jockeying drudgery we've been increasingly more beholden to in past decades. So mentally liberating to not be scanning for information in cluttered interfaces just to click and do it again. Not a good use of humanity.
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Have you spent a lot of time in both infrared and electric saunas? Do you have a strong preference for one vs. the other?
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