All these years and still can’t imagine why we dance so hard to Crystal Water’s Gypsy Woman… or maybe dancing so hard because the emotional heaviness. Feeling all the feelings, not just the heaviness, if you will

Honestly a lot of lessons in this #nostr apps/services which want to replace 🐦 probably could/should also consider

Mastodon Is Easy and Fun Except When It Isn’t - Erin Kissane's small internet website

A very informal inquiry into why some people on the Bluesky network didn

Spreading this collection of reads across each of the streams is less like a burden now. More like, “oh, so that’s where we are? Ok” My collection of notable reads for the week published at Avanceé

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Avanceé Reads for 28 July 23 - Avanceé.Agency

Also published: Question of Value At some point, what evolved from being pushed forward no longer looked like longing for the old things to return.

Spending a few small mental cycles thinking about Monocle wonders if there’s a potential nostr-tied leaning to experiments or opportunities- love how new hardware refreshes the canvas imagination https://flic.kr/p/2oQMNVe

Had gotten into another social stream… nostr has fallen for me a good bit. Don’t be me wrong, #GrowNostr helps some… but it’s not yet as social *for me* Still, these networks are what we make of them. Some really field several worlds at once easily. Others are better for a niche or few. This is ok. A “universal town square” should probably live in the way we treat one another, not the charged silicon in our hands. When the bird becomes a letter, and grams turn to threads, what is worth sipping, dipping, or is there really enough time in these things to be sniffing “I” and “group” between the living? Something each shift asks us to answer for ourselves, and for one another I guess.

Such a difference in how various communities have sprung up. “Communities dominate brands” (which is also a book title) rings as almost the rule making nostr and other items ripe for development

Moved the R&D lab to using the Airs for a monitor last night. Hopefully, this will work as a long term thing. Cause I need to also be moving into restarting the learnings on some LLMs I’ve installed there. And also some NFC bits.

Today’s lesson was a good one… boundaries. Tomorrow, will learn what the remaining work looks like. To empower folks to be the best version of themselves, they need space to “be their renewed selves.” True for parents as much as it is for kids. Truer still for anyone who leads, just as much as it for those who follow.

Really was just a nice cafe style ride today. Hot and humid yes, but had so many good moments https://flic.kr/p/2oNi2Q2

Can’t be there for others when your cup is empty. Tend to you, then strength for others.

Personally, am not a fan of the noise of fireworks. Would rather we moved to drone light shows… besides saving on the noise bits, we actually get pieces of creativity often reserved for screens, not skies

Time to get on the 🚲 while the temps are good and folks ain’t acting out

So so interesting how communities form. Am being taken back to lessons from Howard Rheingold… some lessons being learned again

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That’s just it… people’s inability to realize it means it’s not “super” …yet Nostr is an enabler of something which should be easier… but the floor in UX isn’t the floor in much of nostr (yet) It should get there. But we all might need to be a bit more honest with what this is, versus what it enables. Folks do want to know about the stuff that makes the pipes, they want water to drink View quoted note →

Just read another Kindle sample, “Take Off Your Eyes And See.” This might be a full read. Seems fitting to the day/moment/times

Social folks are going to start saying, “meet me on [the color]” to indicate where they leave here to go to… Some folks are going to just be all 📬 and 📧 with their next Quite a few will 🕳️ And then something new will connect it all… one part 🔗, one part #, one part 🔮

Sunday 🚴🏾‍♂️ in the books, now for some rest (and what looks like incoming rain)… …whatever becomes of the town halls which once existed, it’s probably more true they will remain in the pages/screens read on days like this

So interesting the (English) vibe as folks are moving, talking, shifting… …social moments viewed as they are changing is unique

The past of mobile is still so… close (temporal) to me. So many of the niche moments feel like “yea, we did that last month” and many of today’s concepts and conclusions feel akin to a parent saying “oh that dance is just _____ from when I was your age.” Computing is stuck… or spiraling into itself in different ways. It is very hard to have a unique thing *and* that be widely accepted and appreciated. Takes a long time for even the smallest things (to us today) to make their way from the invented-past. If I could tune/shift one thing regarding Avanceé, it would be to reignite some of those niche moments (devices, services, and experiences). That “wild child Sony attitude” of the 1990s/early-2000s… it would be very nearly that kind of thing… but with the lessons learned since. That would be how bitcoin/nostr seems to be a means forward. To be part of the ecosystem which pulls the present back to itself… rather than the past into the present.