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Dec 13 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Microsoft just released a tool that lets you convert Office files to Markdown. Never thought I'd see the day.

Google also added Markdown export to Google Docs a few months ago.
Microsoft's new Office to Markdown converter

works with .docx, .xlsx, .pptx, .pdf, and more
github.com/microsoft/mark…
Google added Markdown export a few months ago
Nifty. Someone turned the Microsoft conversion tool into a webapp that runs on your device.
getmarkdown.com

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Sep 3, 2023
Style is consistent constraint

Oscar Wilde once said: "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

When it comes to ideas, I agree — allow your mind to be changed. When it comes to process, I disagree. Style emerges from consistency, and having a style opens your imagination. Your mind should be flexible, but your process should be repeatable.

Style is a set of constraints that you stick to.

You can explore many types of constraints: colors, shapes, materials, textures, fonts, language, clothing, decor, beliefs, flavors, sounds, scents, rituals. Your style doesn't have to please anyone else. Play by your own rules. Everything you do is open to stylistic interpretation.

A style can be a system, a set of personal guidelines. Here are a few of mine:

– I wear monochromatic clothing without logos, buttons, or buckles
– I use YYYY-MM-DD dates everywhere
– I pluralize tag and folder names (e.g. #people not #person)
– I use plain text files for all my writing
– I ask myself 40 questions every year
– I meal prep lunches every week, shave my head twice a week
– I write concise essays, less than 500 words

Collect constraints you enjoy. Unusual constraints make things more fun. You can always change them later. This is your style, after all. It's not a life commitment, it's just the way you do things. For now.

Having a style collapses hundreds of future decisions into one, and gives you focus. I always pluralize tags so I never have to wonder what to name new tags.

Style gives you leverage. Every time you reuse your style you save time. A durable style is a great investment.

Style helps you know when you're breaking your constraints. Sometimes you have to. And if you want to edit your constraints, you can. It will be easier to adopt the new constraints if you already had some clearly defined.

You don't need a style for everything. Make a deliberate choice about what needs consistency and what doesn't.

If you do it long enough, your style becomes a point of view that is cohesive and recognizable.


Style is consistent constraint Oscar Wilde once said: "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." When it comes to ideas, I agree — allow your mind to be changed. When it comes to process, I disagree. Style emerges from consistency, and having a style opens your imagination. Your mind should be flexible, but your process should be repeatable. Style is a set of constraints that you stick to. You can explore many types of constraints: colors, shapes, materials, textures, fonts, language, clothing, decor, beliefs, flavors, sounds, scents, rituals. Your style doesn't ha...
A style can be a system, a set of personal guidelines. Here are a few of mine: – I wear monochromatic clothing without logos, buttons, or buckles – I use YYYY-MM-DD dates everywhere – I pluralize tag and folder names (e.g. #people not #person) – I use plain text files for all my writing – I ask myself 40 questions every year – I meal prep lunches every week, shave my head twice a week – I write concise essays, less than 500 words Collect constraints you enjoy. Unusual constraints make things more fun. You can always change them later. This is your style, after all. It's not a life commitm...
Having a style collapses hundreds of future decisions into one, and gives you focus. I always pluralize tags so I never have to wonder what to name new tags. Style gives you leverage. Every time you reuse your style you save time. A durable style is a great investment. Style helps you know when you're breaking your constraints. Sometimes you have to. And if you want to edit your constraints, you can. It will be easier to adopt the new constraints if you already had some clearly defined. You don't need a style for everything. Make a deliberate choice about what needs consistency and what ...
Style is consistent constraint
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Jul 29, 2023
Sam DMd me to apologize. I like to give the benefit of the doubt so I deleted my tweet

It has not changed my view that @sama's vision is to diminish the freedom of individuals and put more power in the hands of fewer people

OpenAI and Worldcoin are on the wrong side of history. Image
Sam Altman's perspective is that AI could destroy us all, therefore he must be the first create it and control it, so that he can ensure that nothing bad happens to him and his friends.

Sam is building a cohesively anti-humanistic top-down system of control because he is afraid. Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny (The New Yorker, Oct 2016) “Well, I like racing cars,” Altman said. “I have five, including two McLarens and an old Tesla. I like flying rented planes all over California. Oh, and one odd one—I prep for survival.” Seeing their bewilderment, he explained, “My problem is that when my friends get drunk they talk about the ways the world will end. After a Dutch lab modified the H5N1 bird-flu virus, five years ago, making it super contagious, the chance of a lethal synthetic virus being released in the next twenty years became, well, nonzero. The other most popular...
Sam Altman tells me he is worried that "bad actors" could try to use AI for world control and "full enslavement of everyone else"

Meanwhile, his project Worldcoin is creating a database of all humans by asking you to scan your eyeballs in exchange for his proprietary money
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