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I was comfortable with the notion. It seems to me that "soft technologies" are the ones that cause ideas and thoughts to be materialized in the world. The oth

I was comfortable with the notion. It seems to me that "soft technologies" are the ones that cause ideas and thoughts to be materialized in the world. The other technologies seem to be physical transformations of matter and energy. What I'm really curious about is how to best consume these. I suppose a mailing list would be the norm, but I'd like to see them automatically land in Instapaper or Pocket. I'll have to see if there's a way already.

phaemon 11y ago
There are many things that cause ideas and thoughts to be materialized in the world. Money is not one of them. It's simply a crude approximation of trust.
danprisk 11y ago
"What I'm really curious about is how to best consume these. I suppose a mailing list would be the norm, but I'd like to see them automatically land in Instapaper or Pocket. I'll have to see if there's a way already." It was a little laborious, but I went through each essay and used dotEPUB (http://dotepub.com/ http://dotepub.com/) to convert it to epub, then transferred to my ereader manually. I considered looking for a more automated solution, before realising that it would take more time looking for a solution than just manually doing it. Similarly for pocket I imagine with the frequency these are coming out it would be easiest to simply manually add each essay to pocket.
- ilzmastr 11y ago
  here is the script that I use for doing this: https://gist.github.com/ilyakava/47aedca7bc39483d7a94 https://gist.github.com/ilyakava/47aedca7bc39483d7a94 All you have to do is input a txt file of links, in this case: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=8PTFJ2x4 http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=8PTFJ2x4 Here is the output epub for all to enjoy: http://cl.ly/022V1Y1t2I24 http://cl.ly/022V1Y1t2I24 In cases when I care about formatting/metadata, I might use pandoc to merge all the \d+.html files, regex or edit, and then use pandoc to output *epub
  - firun 11y ago
    I've deleted some "Share this" and such stuff if epub and it's available here – https://www.dropbox.com/s/ws3xakwcd6dqbss/Breaking%20Smart%20-%20Venkatesh%20Rao.epub?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/ws3xakwcd6dqbss/Breaking%20Smart%2...

phaemon 11y ago

There are many things that cause ideas and thoughts to be materialized in the world. Money is not one of them. It's simply a crude approximation of trust.

danprisk 11y ago

"What I'm really curious about is how to best consume these. I suppose a mailing list would be the norm, but I'd like to see them automatically land in Instapaper or Pocket. I'll have to see if there's a way already." It was a little laborious, but I went through each essay and used dotEPUB (http://dotepub.com/ http://dotepub.com/) to convert it to epub, then transferred to my ereader manually. I considered looking for a more automated solution, before realising that it would take more time looking for a solution than just manually doing it. Similarly for pocket I imagine with the frequency these are coming out it would be easiest to simply manually add each essay to pocket.

ilzmastr 11y ago
here is the script that I use for doing this: https://gist.github.com/ilyakava/47aedca7bc39483d7a94 https://gist.github.com/ilyakava/47aedca7bc39483d7a94 All you have to do is input a txt file of links, in this case: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=8PTFJ2x4 http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=8PTFJ2x4 Here is the output epub for all to enjoy: http://cl.ly/022V1Y1t2I24 http://cl.ly/022V1Y1t2I24 In cases when I care about formatting/metadata, I might use pandoc to merge all the \d+.html files, regex or edit, and then use pandoc to output *epub
- firun 11y ago
  I've deleted some "Share this" and such stuff if epub and it's available here – https://www.dropbox.com/s/ws3xakwcd6dqbss/Breaking%20Smart%20-%20Venkatesh%20Rao.epub?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/ws3xakwcd6dqbss/Breaking%20Smart%2...