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2 Nov, 4 tweets, 4 min read
I actually like lots of modern era stuff. I like some bauhaus-inspired physical stuff even though I hate most of its furniture and architecture.
I love old-er porsches. Perfect fusing of machine and organic curves.

I especially love the Nissan Figaro and cars and appliances that are designed in a way that is almost cheerful.
I like austere architecture provided it is fitting, usually in austere places, or very apart from everything else.
Not a lot. Cassette tapes and players, some old cameras. Things that are very functional. I can't think of any very artistic objects I like made of plastic that would not be prettier as other materials.

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2 Nov
Everything is minimal. Everything is spare. Even landscaping. Everything built is "midcentury" and "modern". There is no fat left to trim.

Whatever begins a new aesthetic movement will not make economic sense, because it will involve us valuing things beyond the economic, again.
I find it weird that the well-intentioned war on stuff, instead of casting out bad stuff, turned to things like the tiny house movement. Minimalism: your-life-this-time edition.
I want busier, greener, more vital things. There's no vitality in all this new art. It lacks scent and taste.
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28 Oct
Be hungry always. Be drunk always.

(Don't have a TV?)

I truly have no idea how other people spend their time and money, sometimes it seems baffling to me when I get glimpses, so it's hard to know just how differently I (we) live. I do not think I'm particularly prolific. ImageImage
The answer is we just try stuff. If it doesn't work you can always try something else.

Simi wanted to learn to dye, so she reads about it, puts down the guide and tries it. (you guys have been saving your acorns and onion skins to boil, right?)

There's no substitute for doing. ImageImageImageImage
We got some chickens and I built a coop after learning the basics of building from videos and just fooling around with materials. I had no idea what I was doing. This doesn't always go well, 8 of our chickens died in a coyote attack due to poor pen design

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3 Oct
Consuming news online is spiritually unwholesome. If you absolutely must read the news you should go down the street and pay with coins for a paper. Then keep walking and read it in a cafe. When a friend comes in you'll remember how little the news matters and put it down.
even better just buy one newspaper, ever, and read it over and over for a few years every time you feel compelled for news. This may cure you.
the guy wandering alleys downtown picking up used cigarettes to find the good ones left has keener powers of observation than a person who is compelled to be 'informed' by the news
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29 Sep
There's a similar problem with newspapers. People read them thinking they will go from being uninformed to informed, instead of simply becoming misinformed.

Most newspapers do not trade in information, but in specific worldview confirmations. A couple examples follow.
One: nytimes.com/2016/12/30/ups…

What do you think about the general views of economists on school vouchers? The narration wants you to think that economist are, on-net, against vouchers, so they couch it as "only a third agree" But... ImageImage
Now read the source: igmchicago.org/surveys/educat…

It turns out 36% agree, 37% uncertain, and 18% disagree. The honest framing is not at all "only a third agree", its really that *twice as many economists agree with vouchers than disagree, plus a wide amount of uncertainty.* Image
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22 Sep
I wonder how much crazy guerilla marketing goes completely unnoticed. Imagine e.g. trying to drive the adoption of something like Cash App: you have ppl reply to *every single* FB marketplace and craigslist ad with "I want this, do you use Cash App?" and then never message again.
Would it increase adoption? Some percent of them would download the app! Would anyone be able to tell you were doing it? Potentially never, unless people talk.

So my question is how many campaigns do crazy footwork like this, where we might never know unless people talked?
Reddit (famously) faked users early on, which is probably common and the only adjacent real life example I can think of.
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19 Sep
This is close to the opposite of the advice I'd give smart people (but it's almost certainly a mistake to write that advice down)

Really good advice is often a dangerous gift, for both parties.
What's wrong: Early on one must cultivate sense, experience, and money, this advice attempts to gain the third at the expense of the first two. It's 💯% defensive advice and assumes no upside to risk, so following it means you forgo all asymmetric upsides

Maxing out 401Ks and IRAs supposes you have no idea what else to do with the money (which may be true) but step 1 is to look for what else your money could be doing.
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