DisruptiveDave

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by DisruptiveDave 7y ago
I wonder if we are actually describing the same experience in different ways. Maybe your "perception of the world changing" is my "letting your subconscious take over" (which would have the effect of the world looking&#x
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by DisruptiveDave 7y ago
I don't know if I fully agree with that, particularly the memory part of it. Certain people just have those types of memories that are not necessarily tied to flow states/moments. (see Lebron[1], see Sean McVay[2]). I don't t
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by DisruptiveDave 7y ago
Added to the list, thanks.
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by DisruptiveDave 7y ago
Over the past few months I've been studying mushin (no mind) with the goal of understanding the concept better, and possibly laying out proactive steps one can take to put themselves in a position to experience mushin. I'm about 7
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by DisruptiveDave 7y ago
Turning 40 this year with my first kid expected on my birthday. I've progressively become "happier" with each decade (maybe half decade, actually). That's not solely because of this supposed wisdom that comes with age, b
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
Nazis would say "no."
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
> Let's start with curbing speech that encourages harming others. You've already disproven your "that's pretty easy" note. Who defines "harm"? The goal posts seem to move damn near weekly on this. That&
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
This. Though I would slightly amend this with "the threat of violence" vs. simply "aggression." The problem with aggression sans any violence is that those being aggressed against will eventually call your bluff. The thr
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
Likely because it works in some capacity.
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
Safe to assume someone pulling this "trick" plans accordingly, no? You don't HAVE to check bags.
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
> There are 2 ways to fix vicious circles like with "flat earth" 1) make people spend more time on round earth videos 2) change the AI There's a 3rd. It's complex, difficult (to execute and prove), and hardly ever pus
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
> The surveillance economy is a direct result of advertising becoming the default business model for Internet companies. ...and the insatiable content consumption of today's consumer."
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
Go further down the rabbit hole on that one; is makeup a form of fraud? Heels / lifts? Push up bras? Instagram has simply accelerated and magnified what already happens in good ol' regular life (and introduced mass distribution of
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
What does "connection" mean to you in this instance? That's the sticking point here. If a "connection" is simply "I can see a post written by that person every now and then" well, I'm gonna go ahead a
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
> But this addiction is much easier to break for most people than an addiction to something like say cigarettes (or even sugar). Physically? I presume you're right. But here's the problem; you don't need cigarettes to acco
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
By that logic, you couldn't have had connections to friends and family who lived not-near you before social media, right?
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
Schmeh. You should do EVERYTHING in the early stages, because you simply do not know what will work and what won't. You have assumptions, but ego can get in the way here. Paid users are not always less valuable (talking LTV here) than
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
Clap, clap, clap. That is absolutely wonderful.
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
Article isn't about getting angry. And it's not necessarily about volume of cuteness, but rather intensity of a singular moment of cuteness. When my wife hugs our cat and he's being all cat cute like, she'll remark how s
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
Nah, this was a few years ago. I have a screenshot if you want, just hit me up.
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
A subscription music discovery service (pre-Spotify).
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
That's a bit reductionist. You're not considering the full context (which, of course, I didn't lay out) of the targeting + the ad + the rest of the landing page. It wasn't click bait. Taboola and Outbrain click bait has
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
Best landing page I ever designed/wrote had this headline: "Fuck it, we like Reddit and we got some shit to sell." By every single metric (views, clicks, time spent on page, conversions), it murdered every other landing page
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
Kind doesn't really make for healthy discussions when your definition of kind includes leaving out pertinent information and points of view.
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
To be clear, you're saying that people whose job is to - quite literally - understand, diagnose, and treat hundreds (thousands?) of medical issues that they personally haven't experienced, don't have the capacity to understan
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
Which is almost 20 years after he began writing (according to your link). The point is, he didn't start writing at 45. Not that you're implying that, but I see plenty of pieces about people making it big when they're older, b
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
I look forward to the day we stop trying to change the world and instead change ourselves (which will, of course, end up changing the world).
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
The problem here, in this naive view, is how you define an "investigation." The moment that "investigation" goes public around the topic of sexual harassment (or worse), the accused is done. That's the real world. I
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
And if they are innocent? That investigation will come with an impact to the accused. A serious one.
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by DisruptiveDave 8y ago
I think we're saying the same thing here. Look at all sides. Don't make blanket judgments. One person's experience does not necessarily become another's. Science is good, but not a guarantee.

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