John Stokvis
@johnstokvis.com
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does Product at Outschool. formerly at Indiegogo, Twitter, Groupon a captain at sea
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The world is full of inanimate objects silently rooting for you, if you just take a moment to notice
about 2 years ago
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I highlighted a bunch of passages when I read
@tricialockwood.bsky.social
âs No One is Talking About This years ago, and every now and then one will pop up again and I am forced to pause and sit in awe of just how perfectly she puts her finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist.
4 days ago
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Watching stinky baseball
@jonbois.bsky.social
24 days ago
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no one: me: funny you should mention that. I've memorized all the lyrics to Tom Lehrer's The Elements - there's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium...
27 days ago
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Farce is one of my favorite genres because when done well, itâs superficially silly but underneath is a profound exploration of the human condition. Itâs enjoyable the way people enjoy watching those intricate rolling ball sculptures. The intricate mechanics that all make weird sense together.
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29 days ago
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A type designer walks into a bar, with thick black lines accentuating her eyes, nose, and mouth. The bartender says âwhy the boldface?â
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about 1 month ago
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Why did we call it âmicrobloggingâ when âtake fountainâ was right there?
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about 1 month ago
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Ursula K. LeGuin, in the afterword to A Wizard of Earthsea. Wowee.
about 1 month ago
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@visakanv.com
âs description of good work having âan idea in the carâ echoes the feeling of reading a lot of AI writing. The human impulse towards efficiency strips all the dynamic life from the writing. Lots of interesting parallels between the photocopier and LLMs as well, prob not a coincidence.
about 1 month ago
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Quibi never stood a chance
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about 2 months ago
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@visakanv.com
âThe lotus of my optimism grows out of the mud of my despair.â đ„ Itâs like the serenity prayer for the person blessedcursed with an overactive mind.
2 months ago
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This reflects the difference between a âtechnologyâ and a âproduct.â Technology is how something functions. Itâs amazing and fascinating to people who are into how things work (which is not everyone) Product is how something functions in a personâs specific context. Very different things!
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3 months ago
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meta-note Thereâs a lot that is tragic (in the Greek sense of the word) about what happened to Twitter, but 1 of the most profound is the lost potential for it to be the medium for something like this. Not a post with a screenshot of a book. But another strand in a great web of connected thought
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3 months ago
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(Re-)reminder to stop writing for everyone and write for someone instead, whoever that someone is for you (for me). Via
@visakanv.com
3 months ago
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Absolute gem in
@visakanv.com
âs FAN. To paraphrase: Ppl who are blindly confident are unlikely to worry about being blindly confident So if you worry about being blindly confident, you likely donât need to worry about it as much as you do (esp if worrying holds you back from doing what want to do)
3 months ago
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plot twist: the tech CEO is the child and the venture capitalist is a hallucination, they're actually a surgeon and tech CEO is on the operating table and the surgeon is saying "I can't operate on this person, they're my child" and the surgeon is the mom
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3 months ago
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My favorites are the ones I've seen in action (coincidentally, one by kids, one for kids). Titus Andronicus put on by high schoolers. What they did with the over the top violence was đđ Comedy of Errors when done right, the jokes had an audience of middle schoolers falling out of their chairs
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3 months ago
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Are we talking about people writing stuff in books today? Sweet! That means I can share one of my all time favorite poems: Marginalia by Billy Collins
3 months ago
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being a Mets fan is enough of an adventure, thankyouverymuch
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3 months ago
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âTwas brillig, and the NPCs Did mog and rizz in their drip: All skibidi were the delulu OPs, And the looksmaxxers did simp.
3 months ago
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Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction
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4 months ago
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Honestly saying âI donât knowâ is such a power move. If you think about it, it also creates a sympathetic bond with the audience because itâs highly likely many of THEM donât know as well. After all, youâre the one on stage and they came to watch you speak.
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6 months ago
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Cake Pop Demon Hunters
7 months ago
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reposted by
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EssonnianDragon
7 months ago
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Any game designers out there? Specifically focused on deck building games?
9 months ago
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âIt depends,â is almost always the answer.
9 months ago
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The hilariousness and brilliantness of this website reinspires my confidence in what is possible with this whole internet thing â â â
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10 months ago
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RIP Tom. You were one of the first to show me that humor and truth were great friends. Thanks for everything.
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10 months ago
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He died in 2002, well before social media transformed everything, but I know Chuck Jones would have had an account just to repost stuff like this
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11 months ago
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The âpersonal FAQ because Iâm being milkshake-ducked by AI slop for engagementâ is going to be the new âlink in bio,â isnât it?
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12 months ago
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This is an interesting angle I hadnât considered before. One of the reasons we converse with other people is to ground ourselves in reality. Itâs hard to see the truth when we only have a single point of reference, we choose another perspective to orient ourselves.
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12 months ago
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It seems like a cruel irony that when a problem in a relationship is that one person isnât listening, the most direct way to fix it revolves around telling that person âyouâre not listening.â Which would work if âŠyou know⊠that person were listening.
12 months ago
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LLMs are averagers by nature. A below average writer? Itâll help. An above average writer? It will bring you down. It pushes all writing towards the average. On every dimension: originality, perspective, syntax⊠Tell it to be weirder? Itâll give you the most average weirdness you can think of.
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about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
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Thoughtfulness, empathy, self-awareness, and the desire to express himself clearly No one is perfect, but I have to imagine that wherever this student is right now, heâs doing ok
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about 1 year ago
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If you were a skilled at plumbing, electrical, or HVAC and a good teacher (and enjoyed those things), you could make a really nice business charging a premium for fixing stuff and teaching people how to do it (or even just cogently explaining what youâre doing)
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about 1 year ago
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Streaming show review good
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about 1 year ago
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Alt text won't be able to do it justice, but the italicization in this section makes
@chuckwendig.bsky.social
's point best. Generative AI is not writing. If you want to see what writing looks like, check this out. This is writing with a capital WRITE.
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about 1 year ago
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One of the funny(?) things about all this is it FEELS new and different, but it is one of the oldest human truths: itâs about the journey, not the destination. Explored in every culture for all of human history. Of course âthis time itâs different, no actually itâs notâ is also one of those truths
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about 1 year ago
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reposted by
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Ron Marz
about 1 year ago
I will never understand people who make things -- films, stories, art, music -- abdicating the making of those things in favor of a machine doing it. The joy is in creating something, not in avoiding the work of creation.
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This jibes with my sense that most complaints about âAIâ (whatever that is) are actually complaints about the effects of capitalism. The problem is they canât consider any alternatives to capitalism (feels too big, donât want to, donât know any, etc) Btw this what the Luddites were on about too.
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about 1 year ago
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Be wary of taking parenting advice from anyone, esp someone on the internet, but
@visakanv.com
is speaking to the âNot sure Iâm readyâ question. Whatever you think your limitations are, youâre probably wrong. Parenting shows you reserves of strength, grace, and patience you didnât know you had.
about 1 year ago
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Someone whoâs lived in Chicago for a few years glancing up at any random street address
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about 1 year ago
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Improvement fixes and bugs
about 1 year ago
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This is a cognitive bias turducken. False consensus wrapped inside attentional bias wrapped inside the backfire effect wrapped inside the Semmelweis effect wrapped inside naĂŻve realism wrapped inside the third-person effect. That it pretty accurately describes how many people feel says a lot.
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about 1 year ago
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Word out with your nerd out
about 1 year ago
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I think I found something by that was made in a lab specifically to appeal to
@sheilakathleen.bsky.social
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Eminem - LOSE YOURSELF (Sung by 331 Movies!)
YouTube video by The Unusual Suspect
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xYtaBfwpg_k
about 1 year ago
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Corollary: you finding out about a thing â no one knows about a thing
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about 1 year ago
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Not always, but highly likely to be true: There are things that set you apart as a kid or teen, things that you are probably tried to hide or suppress. Those very things (not a variant, the thing itself) will be the source a disproportionate % of the good in your life as an adult.
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about 1 year ago
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Itâs worth considering what a tragic love story Unstoppable Force and Immoveable Object are. The only other thing in the universe that could possible understand them is each other. People always talk about what would happen if they met. And yet it is cosmologically impossible for them to do so.
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about 1 year ago
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Bingo. You COULD label students responding to a meaningless, rote task by making it simpler and more efficient as âcheating.â Although a completely different, entirely logical response would be to ask what an assignment would look like that imbued them with meaning and creativity
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about 1 year ago
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