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
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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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Cake Pop Demon Hunters
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Any game designers out there? Specifically focused on deck building games?
3 months ago
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âIt depends,â is almost always the answer.
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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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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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4 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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Streaming show review good
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Alt text won't be able to do it justice, but the italicization in this section makes
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'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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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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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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Be wary of taking parenting advice from anyone, esp someone on the internet, but
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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.
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Someone whoâs lived in Chicago for a few years glancing up at any random street address
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Improvement fixes and bugs
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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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Word out with your nerd out
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I think I found something by that was made in a lab specifically to appeal to
@sheilakathleen.bsky.social
m.youtube.com/watch?v=xYta...
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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
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Corollary: you finding out about a thing â no one knows about a thing
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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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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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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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Itâs subtle, but has anyone else noticed that the Mediterranean is now a lake?
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Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie 24 Angry Men
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Mood
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Zuck: the average American has three friends
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âI dont knowe whomst thou are. I dont knowe whatte thou wants. If ye are looking for ransomme I can telle thee I dont have coinne, but what I do have are a very partikular sette of skilles.â
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Some people want to do a thing and other people want to be a person who does a thing. These are 2 fundamentally different goals, but at first glance, the people who pursue them seem very similar. Once I began trying to discern the difference, the world started making a whole lot more sense.
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Whatâs the opposite of a âmidlife crisis?â
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You do not need an algorithm to surface the best stuff. If it is the right post for you, it will find you all on its own.
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I am just as bad as everyone else when it comes to overusing acronyms, but I find it really helpful to think of them as short-term predatory loans for understanding instead of money. Sure present-you gets a short-term benefit, but future-you (and society more broadly) is going to regret it more.
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Of all the perspectives you will read about âhow to adapt to the rise of AI,â this is the most useful, practical, and achievable đ itâs one of the least flashy and satisfying strategies , so most people wonât do it⊠(which also makes it one of the best strategies)
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I have a joke about the fall of Troy, but no actually itâs about horses. đŽ
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i'm sorry or you're welcome
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Hey siri. End human suffering. Sure thingâŠending humansâŠ
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Agency
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Here's a list of writers/talkers that I've found helpful. Some have books, all write/talk on the internet for free so you can get a taste for whether it resonates.
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Some Influences
I've written before that there are two things that are essential - the sine qua non - of doing product: curiosity and empathy. I've also written a bit about empathy, but I haven't written about curios...
https://world.hey.com/johnstokvis/some-influences-3402c896
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Apropos of nothing, Fidelity did a study of investment strategies between 2003 and 2013. The ones who did the best were the ones who forgot they had a Fidelity account.
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Fidelity Reviewed Which Investors Did Best And What They Found Was Hilarious
If you forget you're investing, you'll probably do fine.
https://www.businessinsider.com/forgetful-investors-performed-best-2014-9
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March 2025: 4 Things I learned (đ§, đ«, đș, đ§ââïž)
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Most software interfaces do something close to this, highlighting one choice with a different color However, there's a subtle distinction: - the software version signifies what the software maker wants you to do - the real world version signifies what others in your situation have done
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There are many ways that school teaches us lessons that we must un-learn in adult life. One it nails is âyou will likely be in an environment that will try to smother the passion and creativity that will lead to success and 2 ways to counter that are: - find an advocate - do your own thingâ
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<whispering, barely audible even to people right next to me who are listening> âThere is no how.â
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