Brigadoon bugaboo riding the web3 wave. I setup this account to document the adventure. Hoping one day the Mondragon accord will be a thing. 패트릭 IRL.
Joined January 2022
- Tweets1.3K
- Following56
- Followers18
- Likes1.1K
Pinned Tweet
1/13 E.F. Schumacher's "Small is Beautiful" (1973) critiqued the "bigger is better" mentality, advocating for human-scale, decentralized approaches to economics and technology.
Information Avalanche 🌱 retweeted
Photon-powered vibe coding is live @DragonflyFarms 🌞
The solar data center at @EdgeEsmeralda is now running open-source AI models—completely off-grid, fueled by the sun.
Information Avalanche 🌱 retweeted
never met a man who hates costco. it transcends race, class, and creed. i’d trust a costco hospital with my life. i’d send my kids to costco daycare. i’d be laid to rest in a kirkland signature casket
Information Avalanche 🌱 retweeted
I really wish the policy class would think more deeply about how culture works. Yes, people have agency and free will, but everyone is also born into and grows up in a web of meaning and significance that they themselves rarely build
To borrow provocative language, children are "culturally groomed" from birth and that impacts everyone.
And culture is largely built by elites -- not entirely obviously, but they have an outsized influence on it's shape and direction because they almost always run the most influential institutions
Information Avalanche 🌱 retweeted
A fun tool I created to discuss our woo beliefs with friends:
1) Woo Critical (rejecting). You view certain practices as specious, a fun thing to do at best but misleading & potentially dangerous at worst. You actively challenge claims about these and seek to expose what you consider pseudoscience, or avoid these topics entirely as not worth engaging with.
2) Woo Cautious (observing). You’re skeptical but remain open to evidence. Happy to engage in friendly conversations about these practices (although you might not be the one initiating them) but you’re not ready to try them personally.
3) Woo Curious (experimenting). You actively explore these practices while maintaining critical thinking. You’ve found some benefits but not fully convinced, or you think there might be some yet-to-be-discovered scientific explanation to strange phenomena.
4) Woo Convinced (practicing). You’ve integrated these practices into your life based on personal experience & evidence you find compelling. You might even encourage or guide others through these modalities.
This is NOT about factually categorizing the practices themselves
This is NOT about identifying yourself with an overall stance like a personality test either
Instead the woo spectrum is a frame to explore how you relate to specific practices at this point in time - useful for self-reflection & to have better conversations!
Information Avalanche 🌱 retweeted
This comment comes from someone who knows what they are talking about. If you know, you know...
wow this is a truly next level job application
love it!
5) Have Fun & Think Outside The Box.📦
People want to work with fun & interesting people.
One way that I did this was hire @hardrocknicks to do a fun Cameo, then embedded that video in the blog post.
Also included some memes (this also showed that I understood the job).
could someone please speculate wildly on this for me
"The mental health of the young in ex-Soviet republics is stable relative to older people"
Unlike the Western world! nber.org/papers/w33356#fromr…
"If you keep showing up, you'll almost certainly break through — but probably not in the way you expected or intended. You need enough persistence to keep working and enough flexibility to enjoy success when it comes in a different form than you imagined."
-@JamesClear
Some truly dumb statements here
Prescribed burns have been a decades in the making shift in forest management. Yes NEPA and CEQA are dumb and yes enviros are short sighted. Propose something better
And LADWP had no shortage of imported water from the Delta. Fact
Information Avalanche 🌱 retweeted
An extended anecdote to demonstrate the power of a Dangerous Professional incantation: “What are my options?”
Complexity in any any endeavor has underrated hidden costs, similar to technical debt
Increasingly believe that the "good, cheap, fast—choose two" maxim is devious misinformation spread by the slow.
In my experience, "slow" and "expensive" usually go together. I was in a meeting yesterday where lopping a year off a project schedule also ended up reducing the cost substantially. Fundamentally, it takes time to spend, and adding the temporal constraint tends to make things simpler and more efficient.
Information Avalanche 🌱 retweeted
Fellow Mars base AI imagine image generators, drop your favorites here!
Information Avalanche 🌱 retweeted
Now is the time to shove the genie back in the bottle. @CJHandmer @TerraformIndies