https://graymirror.substack.com/
His new writing is interesting.
Readit Newsgreyswan commented on It’s Time to Stop Nap-Shaming nytimes.com/2020/11/24/di... · Posted by u/CapitalistCartr
The New York Times is on it.
I must say I fail to understand these products (Figma, XD,...) what is the difference between them and illustrator? how does it help prototype anything? You could just draw rectangle vectors or import images in Illustrator (or Photoshop). So what do these applications add to the formers? what do they do different? FYI I tried XD a bit.
> how does it help prototype anything?
Sketch, Figma, and XD all make it quick to do the most basic prototyping: click hot spot to go to a different screen. They are much more focused on visual design than prototyping.
The most interesting thing about looking back at Kurzweil's writing is the tech optimism we were all smoking back then.
Yeah, I tried Twitter too, but so few of my friends use it, it just seemed like a clunkier, angrier version of HN with about half the average IQ points.
I wouldn't say I recommend trying this, but it takes time to find people you are actually interested in on Twitter.
All the obvious "blue check-mark" people have zero insight at best. There is a whole weird world of small follower count people on there. Small communities. People with unique ideas. People that will actually respond to replies.
Again, I don't think it an addiction you should necessarily cultivate, but there is value to be had.
greyswan commented on More people are searching for an inbox that protects their privacy protonmail.com/blog/searc... · Posted by u/caution
The only thing preventing me from leaving Gmail is that they have awesome clients (web, android, iphone). And all of them sync well. Does anyone else have this?
My nephew lives in a very isolated rural area on the east coast and I think you're overselling the "people in the community learn emergency medicine" part - he has no idea how to handle much more than stopping bleeding for a cut (his answer to any size cut is to slather it with antibiotic ointment, which the doctors then have to scrub out before they can suture) or maybe stabilizing a broken leg enough to move someone to the pickup truck.
Likewise, while he does repair things, I wouldn't say they are done well -- his electrical panel is a mess, I spent a couple weekends trying to help bring things up to code (and I'm not even an electrician), like replacing taped hand-twisted wire splices with junction boxes - the tape was melted on one of them from overheating.
He does own an impressive set of guns, but his car has a hole in it after accidentally shooting it while cleaning a loaded gun, so gun safety is not his strong suit.
He has a 4WD, but it's been a 2WD for the past couple years because he can't afford the parts needed to fix it, he cruises junkyards when he can to try to find what he needs.
His closest neighbor is a half mile away and lives in a glorified shed where the water comes in on a hose and electricity comes from a generator when he can afford to fuel it.
I can believe that there are well trained survival handymen out there who are well equipped to survive on their own, but I doubt that most isolated rural people are that well trained.
I genuinely enjoyed your story about your nephew, but it's bit like telling an anecdote about an incompetent engineer and then saying there isn't a large number of engineers that are good at solving problems.
These articles about the issue were both interesting:
Matt Stoller (Journalist specializing in monopoly) https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/epic-games-kicks-off-the-...
iA (App developer) https://ia.net/topics/monopolies-apple-and-epic
https://graymirror.substack.com/p/3-descriptive-constitution...
He's certainly not for everyone, but the most common criticisms of him I see are usually pull quotes taken from Wikipedia.