Brian Sharp

Former Pres. Software & Design @ImpulseLabs_ Queer. He/him. IG:

[Brian Sharp @bhsharp]

Excellent thread about that stove we're making. I've been cooking on one daily for a couple months now and can't wait to get it in y'all's hands!

[Sam D'Amico @sdamico]

Doing a quick thread on the backstory here @ImpulseLabs_

We realized that putting battery packs in appliances made it possible to greatly exceed the available power you'd get from the wall -- and could crush other stoves at boiling water, getting pans up to temp, etc.

BUT

[Michael Ashcroft @m_ashcroft]

it's funny how much of life is spent making decisions not out of fear of a particular outcome, but out of fear of feeling a certain kind of way

[Brian Sharp @bhsharp]

So @Ariat had an ad on MTV during Drag Race that began with "when you think WORK, you think BOOTS." And now I can't stop wondering if Ariat has a genius in marketing or if that was just REALLY coincidental timing.

[Brian Sharp @bhsharp]

I've always been a very fast writer. I send MUCH longer emails and messages than others. It drives people nuts. Many coworkers have complained. I wondered, is this autism or something?

Nope. I just joined /r/Buddhism and can now say for sure: it's, uh, Buddhism, apparently.

[Brian Sharp @bhsharp]

@ID_AA_Carmack Maybe you should have negotiated repo access in perpetuity to submit bugfixes simply for your own peace of mind.

Though my understanding in this case is that bounding boxes on animating things is an unsolved problem in computer science.

[Brian Sharp @bhsharp]

@beachgrub @tripworks @elonmusk I do the "snooze all suggested for 30 days" in insta every time I see one, FB doesn't have that option so I've stopped using it entirely. Threads it was an instant uninstall for me.

[Brian Sharp @bhsharp]

So, uh, I haven't used Twitter as much as I used to, but just posting a bit recently...

... looks like @elonmusk fired all the people that were keeping the place from being overrun with porn spam bots, huh?

[Brian Sharp @bhsharp]

@beachgrub @tripworks @elonmusk Yeah I really wonder how much the trend of "suggestions", which are clearly the result of annual review systems that incentivize growth PMs to minmax short term metrics, will eventually be the death of a lot of platforms.

They just fundamentally change what the tool does.

[Brian Sharp @bhsharp]

@FurtherForm @elonmusk For me it's literally every post is quickly liked by a lot of women whose bust size exceeds their follower count.

[Brian Sharp @bhsharp]

@BrieFlory So I wanted to let you know that given available research, what I described is NOT an experience unique to people with ADHD or autism or anything else. It is the way the vast majority of humans empathize and if you do, then congratulations, you are one of them! 🥰

[Brian Sharp @bhsharp]

My partner noted I react to him sharing his inner experience by comparing it to one of mine.

When he's sharing something heavy, to him my comparison feels minimizing.

Thought about it and realized I do it cuz I don't know how else to empathize.

Curious if others do this?

[Brian Sharp @bhsharp]

@BrieFlory And there is comfort in capitulating to that belief, but for me it is the comfort of resignation and it robs me of my own power. To challenge my belief and see if it's really true is hard but when I learn the belief was wrong, it gives a profound relief and an empowerment.

[Brian Sharp @bhsharp]

Man if you like cats, Turkey is the place for you.

[Brian Sharp @bhsharp]

@antovsky I think Lulu's reply and this thread just totally changed my approach to this:

https://t.co/cFCfdL7iL6

Namely the "I can probe for clarification but stay in my model of them instead of making them project into their model of me" part, aka don't literally talk about myself.

[Brian Sharp @bhsharp]

@antovsky But yeah whenever someone says "I'm an empath" it's never about joy, usually they're explaining why it's hard for them to be around painful emotions and what I hear is "I have too much of the same thing in me and it resonates painfully like a tuning fork"

[Brian Sharp @bhsharp]

@antovsky "personal distress" is one of the names they use and I think reflects how it's easier to feel upset seeing someone upset than it is to feel joyful seeing someone joyful.

[Brian Sharp @bhsharp]

@Lulu Whoa, I hadn't even chased it that far through to realize that yeah, duh, that's exactly what I'm asking them to do.

[Brian Sharp @bhsharp]

@Lulu I think for people who find it bothersome it's that specifically telling it as a story about me reads to them as me trying to change the subject to talk about myself, and I can probably just leave that out.

[Brian Sharp @bhsharp]

@Lulu Thanks you for saying this, I'm realizing there's no reason I can't ask for clarification without specifically referring to myself. "Is it maybe like the feeling of disappointment you get when X"?