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by grahamplace 4y ago
Not called out in the article itself, but the title is most likely a reference to McLuhan's phrase "The medium is the message" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
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by grahamplace 4y ago
Also a happy Beeminder customer! Note that Beeminder allows manual entry of data — I use this to track “work out 3x / week” type goals, but also has plenty of integrations (e.g. Apple Health data) for goals like “walk 10k steps /
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by grahamplace 5y ago
I’ve found that sometimes I need some accountability / social element to help me actually accomplish work. It’s also related to point (5) about going somewhere else, or as Cal Newport puts it, doing a “grand gesture” to signal to yours
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by grahamplace 5y ago
I’m not familiar enough with this space to say how much overlap there is with what you describe, but you may be interested in: https://www.lydianaccelerator.org/ It is the project of a former colleague; I don’t know the la
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by grahamplace 5y ago
This video may be a more informative resource: https://youtu.be/8BoGrRx9R2g It covers some of the history of the Chilly Open, has interviews with participants, etc
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by grahamplace 5y ago
> I also recently discovered that something like 12% of CPU on my 2020 macbook air is used whenever I'm in a room with anything greater than perfect silence, by 'coreaudiod', because it apparently is constantly listening t
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by grahamplace 5y ago
It might be useful for the title of this post to clarify that this is the co-creator of Dogecoin, it’s not mentioned anywhere on the linked thread itself but is very relevant framing for the content. I didn’t realize who this was until I sa
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by grahamplace 5y ago
The team at Culdesac is working on something like this in Tempe, Arizona, with capital from the likes of Alexis Ohanian[1] see: - https://culdesac.com/ - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/bus