me: people with ADHD aren’t *literally* distracted by random squirrels, that’s just a simplistic stereotype. A caricature, really-
also me:
"oooh, a light thingy" – 30 year old adult male
this guy Oleg Vladimirovich Losev invented LEDs decades before everybody else (in the 1920s) but nobody cared. he was a lonely nerd with no co-authors. wrote to einstein but didn't get a reply
LED is a $54B/yr industry, forecasted to reach $90B+ in the next few years
ha this is interesting – the article/pdf was published in April 2007, and at the time they wrote "predicted to exceed $15B per year" – they were right! in fact it was an underestimation!
oh man, Losev died of hunger – starved to death during the blocade of Leningrad, aged 39
F
what could he have done with a little support and a little more time
"unknown and uncelebrated, this should've been the beginning of the photonic telecommunications revolution"
this familiar fren is called a Seven Segment Display
1. an artist gets 3k RTs for gushing about receiving an order for $900 of prints
2. some other artists plug their own stuff in the replies, presumably hoping to get big orders too
3. some people have a problem with this
I have a range of semi-conflicting thoughts about this
I love art and artists and they should get paid
I think self-promotion can be an art form in of itself, and most people - artists in particular - aren’t typically very good at it
the sin is tackiness and bad aesthetics
I’m pretty comfortable identifying as a self-promoter
yet you may notice I don’t actively tell people to buy my ebook or subscribe to my youtube channel super often - I do those things about once a month. I’d probably make like 2-3x more money if I did it about once a week
as a general rule I don't like to be sold things; earlier today a couple of girls came to my door to try and sell me some coupons for a new food delivery place. I'm like nah, I don't buy such things on the spot. they didn't leave me a pamphlet or anything tho. I like to read
I generally hate to try new apps of any kind. if you want me to try your app you have to go through an extremely lengthy process to persuade me. for context, conaw tried to sell me on roam for about a year at least and I ignored him the whole time until vgr started using it
I think the thing that explains all of this is that status regulators don't really care about the reality of how things work.
here's the fun part: if you do anything that violates the regulations, they will try to put you down with insults ***derived from the social order***
which is to say, they don't actually have a system for processing "the violator is unaffected by us calling them names that we would find deeply shameful and upsetting". It's very entertaining to watch them get confused by this