Bunbledore

Say yes. Show up. Do the work. +- Nerd in chief, My Pet Hooligan. Mutant alien creator. Sometimes wears a wizard hat. -+

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@Matt_Pinner Wild at Heart

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@LouisKnightWebb Encountered this as well. Code quality about on-par with Claude Code at least for the simple refactoring task I used as a test, but then it blithely submitted it to the Perforce depot after having been instructed that it was allowed to check files out but never to submit

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@VLenler @mypethooligan We’ll make sure you’re happy! 🫡

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Anger feels like power but that’s its illusion. At its core it’s an expression of perceived weakness.

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Attention is creative. Motorcycle riders are taught about target fixation. The bike will go where you look, so if you look at the tree on the side of the road you’re going to hit it. Focusing attention on things you’re afraid of works like this too.

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We see what we believe. Most of us think it’s the other way around.

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Art is crystallized time.

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Look who's come to town.
@mypethooligan #karratgang

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I think a lot of writers in popular media are afraid to go to these places, since in order to do this the writer has to engage with their own personal umwelt and share the parts of their own filter that are so foundational to them that they may not even know their shape.

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The “I am” story that shapes my perception of the world is probably a product of a lot of factors. Things that were said to me when I was still at the early stages of shaping it, by teachers, parents, and people I was primed to believe.
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But maybe the greatest of these are the characters and experiences we adopt vicariously through the stories we’re told and shown.

A mythic character becomes a template for self-conception. It changes the shape of the person encountering it in a way that trivial characters don’t.

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Looping back to the original topic of leadership that led here, I think the role of a leader is to shape the “we are” story of the group. And then a really good leader not only shapes the “we are,” but also cultivates the “I am” stories of the people they lead.

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So now I want to play with this idea that the world we believe we move through isn’t the real world at all, but rather an umwelt. That sphere of perception is really a product of belief. 🧵

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The most important story we can tell, then, is the one that begins with “I am.'“ We’re going to wind up embodying whatever that story is, and when we change that story, the umwelt changes too, and we with it.

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We filter by perceived importance, which means that the mechanism by which we assign importance to things - our ascription of meaning to those things - the story we carry with us to sort it all - is going to have a dramatic effect on what we let through that filter.

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So we live in an umwelt - a perceptual world centered around ourselves that consists entirely of what we perceive and what we remember and believe about what we’ve perceived. We then make this make sense through story.
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And that’s an important point.