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2 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
In one of my favorite talks, Yochai Benkler claims that if your friends invite you to dinner at their house - and you leave a $100 bill on the table at the end of the meal, it does not increase the odds you'll get invited back.

The audience agreed, but he was speaking at TED...
Anyway - whole point of this is - money can be weird - especially when you're wanting to pay someone for something that they're pretty much doing on their own anyway.

Something here feels profane - like the money after dinner - but also worth trying

The thing I want to figure out, how do you actually set up a system where people are really intentionally thinking about who they got inspiration from -- thinking not just about producing finished work, but blocks for others to ref

Also, more Dhrumils?

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Conor White-Sullivan ๐ƒ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Profile picture
2 Feb
I think the first #RoamGames challenge was a bit too large, and poorly scoped.

We need something more concrete, and an urgent deadline so you aren't tempted to procrastinate

So, new challenge, with awards of $10,000 in cash, or Roam Stock (if legal) granted over next 5 days.
Context:

Roam is far from done - so when hit profitability last year, our focus shifted back towards to R&D the open questions we have around Collective Intelligence.

New folks keep signing up though - we keep adding new features - and we keep NOT providing onboarding
We've felt pretty good leaving things this way

Without a doubt, the best tutorials, guides, case studies, and explanations of what Roam is have all come from the #RoamCult.

But when we saw @roamhacker's Roam42 was obvious we needed to follow their lead
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2 Feb
Alright friends - hate to be the bearer of bad news, but turns out that one of the larger sources of problems with our new synchronization system seems to be how it interacts with @roamhacker's Roam42 extension.

If you're having any sync or performance issues - try removing that
We're going to try to get to the heart of the bug, and hope to have an update soon that will fix -- so you can use both Roam42 and the updated sync system (which otherwise is much faster)

First we're working on a url that will let you fall back to old sync if u need Roam42 more
The good news is - as far as I can tell, this is only a problem on multiplayer graphs where you have collaborators editing at the same time as you.

And we have not yet rolled the new sync system to the book club -- so very few folks seem to be affected by this bug
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Conor White-Sullivan ๐ƒ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Profile picture
24 Jan
Men in tech

if youโ€™ve got 50k in savings and you arenโ€™t willing to give your girlfriend kids THIS YEAR if she wants them...

grow the f**k up, stop wasting her time.
Remarkable poem sourced from @NirantK here

Knock and the door will be opened
Seek and ye shall find

Raise your standards, fly your freak flags.
Genius in 2021 is aiming for a family with more than 8 biological children
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Conor White-Sullivan ๐ƒ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Profile picture
24 Jan
There has never been a music video that hit me as hard as this one.

I have never identified with a character in a music video as much as I identified with this homeless physicist.

It is true, some problems you must be insane or (close to it) to solve.

Talent is hitting a target others canโ€™t hit

Genius is hitting a target others canโ€™t see

Therefore...

To the outsider watching Genius at work, tends to appear either like they are a lousy shot, or absolutely insane

Please try not to see yourself through the eyes of the blind.
The actor in this video absolutely CRUSHED the part btw.

First time I saw this video, and most time Iโ€™ve watched it since, I cried when it got to this scene.

About a month prior I remember looking at my work with the same expression

Itโ€™s not just joy, itโ€™s overwhelming relief.
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24 Jan
Something you should pay attention to if youโ€™re watching @DustinPoirierโ€™s post game interview.

He just knocked out Conor McGregor, and says he โ€œfeels good but..โ€ just wants to get home to his daughter.

SO MANY PEOPLE our age completely missing how much better life is with kids.
Also - if youโ€™re working behind a desk claiming youโ€™ll have kids after you achieve your career goals... Or you need more $$$ 1st?

I WILL BET MONEY you do not work as hard as these fighters.

Approximately no one has as much financial insecurity as an up and coming MMA fighter.
The right time is right now

Sex is better when youโ€™re trying to make babies anyway.

If you havenโ€™t tried for kids yet, youโ€™re a virgin.
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24 Jan
Excited to watch the other Conor (@TheNotoriousMMA) fight tonight

When @RoamResearch had less than 10k in the bank and @hashbrown490 was not yet on the team, his path from plumber to 2 belt champion in 5 years was big part in getting my mind right to win

I sold my first company to Aol at 23, but we sold because we couldn't find a way to make it work.

For years, folks treated me like a success, but I felt like a fraud, and was deeply afraid I'd end up living the phrase

"He had a great future in his past"
When I quit that job, was making more money than anyone in my family had ever seen

But in the 5 years it took to build first version of Roam, the thing which convinced @MeadowsRichard to invest, and Josh to join, I was broke.
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