Shamelessness is a great quality.
-fuels error correction (iterating) ❌
-encourages forgiveness 🫂
-shield against cancel culture 🛡️
Pride and shame are interlinked. When you defend a flawed position, it’s pride and sunk cost that make it hard to let go — escaping the shame of admitting you had wrong (even if you were only partially wrong).
Swallowing your own pride — it’s how we forgive others & let go of grudges, but it’s also how we iterate quicker… being able to let go of bad ideas is just as important as discovering and interconnecting profound ideas.
Being shameless is a pretty good quality. It’s also a shield against feeling canceled — if you don’t care about their shaming, it’ll influence you less. The more you relish their praise (which distracts you from the hunt for the truth), the more their cancel culture will sting.
Let your curiosity and desire for truth outweigh all of this shame, pride, and dissonance. Let it be your escape.
It’s now clear that Jupyter is currently the best open-source system for rendering math notation. It even lets you add html cells above your markdown code to format the markdown post, avoiding pesky errors like line breaking in titles when trying to mention a term encased in the $$ method AI often uses. It bridges to the style of markdown the AI models use most. VS code extensions (even with custom JSON settings) and other open-source editors were futile.
Nostr should find a way to plug into Jupyter for paper publishing, instead of deciding between LaTeX or some other standard — Jupyter has options nested within it (LaTeX and beyond). It’s nice to see something open-source be so robust. It runs locally in the browser, offline.