Rahul Shankar

Dinner 🍱 popups with Ghosts of Bombay. Thinking about food, cities, memory, technology, and a life well lived.

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Starting a photo thread of stuff in Detroit. This one was on Saturday in Indian Village.

K and I were on a walk in our neighborhood when we saw a bunch of chickens and a duck in a frontyard. The owner invited us back to get a closer look while her granddaughter fed the birds

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@signulll don’t think you need an app. this is the “blackboard” centric approach i’ve used with success. link to gist here https://t.co/hQEjXcaTol

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@QiaochuYuan seeing this a lot with the hospitality business too. the same people who are critical of AI generated writing seem totally fine with quite obvious AI generated copy on IG posts, flyers etc

images are a no no, though!

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@p_millerd 🙏🏽🙏🏽

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have you explored something like the black board model? i modified this to be relevant for non coding work and have what has been an indispensable way to approach memory across various topics and threads. an ever evolving board and bread crumbs for continuity

https://t.co/iZ8JFfZhA1

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@rwitoff can you share what you are doing on the quality and guardrails side of things?

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@visakanv keeping on trucking with dinner popups. trying to play ⚽️, trying to decide what seemingly productive things are actually distractions

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@eshear i don’t do this much these days but estate sales were an interesting source of odd books. lot more work than used book stores though

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@wfenza @Aella_Girl yeah this has been what I’ve learned going from a decade in a “supposed to be hard and take work” relationship to a “wow i can’t believe it can be this awesome” relationship

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@BellaRudd1 @visakanv +1 to this question. i’ve been observing a couple examples locally in detroit but the time frame hasn’t been long enough to make serious observations. also thinking about the same in relation to reviving culturally significant venues

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@visakanv attuned, wise, present

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@michael_nielsen was there something specific about the ‘unnamed fire tower in New Mexico’?

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@visakanv woohoo 100k! well done and well deserved 🧱

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@__drewface i agree with everything most of what you’re saying except the use of the word hacker. there’s a ‘joke about the outcomes you want’ element in play with the word hacker that eventually plays out once you communicate what “accepted” norms are

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i like the detail in the image (priya’s message). makes the endeavor a lot less brittle. if you don’t do this you risk making it a pseudo franchise model with need for a lot more centralized and decentralized governance.. would take time and energy away from the core intent which i think (simplified) is thriving communities, families, and projects incubated by these communities vs managing some kind of fractal franchise

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@eshear very cool. i’ll be curious to see if there’s a broader ecological revival impact too. eDNA studies earlier this year seem to have found rare and near-extinct mussel species returning to the Seine

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@eshear hmmm possibly - the marvelous clouds, zen mind beginners mind, the art of doing science and engineering, sum-forty tales from the afterlives

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hmmm I’ve found some mid to higher end wine merchants have this skill. i have a couple particular places (a retailer and a wine bar) in mind where the selling is largely a conversation about something they clearly love and respect and want you to enjoy as much as them. as opposed to them needing you to spend money on something

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one way i’ve seen this play out is when people are trying to figure out if their therapists/coaches are worth it. the good ones seem to push you towards testing your introspection against external reality + you can usually see subtle or direct signs that they live a balanced, introspective, joyous life themselves and are pushing you in that direction

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@michaelcurzi @benlandautaylor haven’t read it yet but I remember my late grandfather (who read a lot of history) recommending John Keay’s India, a history