Mik

Entrepreneur. Eternal tinkerer. Mostly Rational.
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[Mik @rationalyst]

play hard💪, work light 💡

[Mik @rationalyst]

@p_millerd Interesting.

Is the 1 post max to promote diversity?

Are you trying to curate the 1% of highly active users? Or are you trying to incentivize the 90% lurkers to be more vocal.

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@JeremyNguyenPhD Thanks, didn't realize it was that simple!

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@JeremyNguyenPhD That's cool, will try!

[Mik @rationalyst]

@nbaschez, rough draft plan review is so beautiful and well done. It's exactly what I was looking for. I hated reviewing the AI-generated work plans before. This UX makes it so intuitive!

[Nathan Baschez @nbaschez]

Introducing Roughdraft!

A new open source project designed to make collaboration with agents better.

The idea is to bring commenting and suggested changes to markdown (e.g. plan docs) in a nice interface.

Free, local, etc.

👉 https://t.co/J3YOOpL5ES 👈

[Mik @rationalyst]

@p_millerd HTML not md?

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@ray_sorkin Haha "they don't have to be Alexandria ones" love that. Will check it out!

[Mik @rationalyst]

This is such a beautiful an important message!

[kepano @kepano]

File over app

File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.

File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data.

In the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last.

The pyramids of Egypt contain hieroglyphs that were chiseled in stone thousands of years ago. The ideas hieroglyphs convey are more important than the type of chisel that was used to carve them.

The world is filled with ideas from generations past, transmitted through many mediums, from clay tablets to manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. These artifacts are objects that you can touch, hold, own, store, preserve, and look at. To read something written on paper all you need is eyeballs.

Today, we are creating innumerable digital artifacts, but most of these artifacts are out of our control. They are stored on servers, in databases, gated behind an internet connection, and login to a cloud service. Even the files on your hard drive use proprietary formats that make them incompatible with older systems.

Paraphrasing something I wrote recently:

> If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the 1960s.

You should want the files you create to be durable, not only for posterity, but also for your future self. You never know when you might want to go back to something you created years or decades ago. Don’t lock your data into a format you can’t retrieve.

These days I write using an app I help make called Obsidian (@obsdmd), but it’s a delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of an audience to make it worthwhile.

[Mik @rationalyst]

@tferriss The hallucin-immigrants don't fare much better on the reality test.

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@naval Privacy never ends.

[Mik @rationalyst]

@drgurner @CryptoMikli Agree.

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@drgurner @CryptoMikli There is often a trade off between optimization and resilience. A lot of folks end up over optimized.

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@p_millerd The opposite of a feature is just a feature.

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@azlenelza Absolutely interested to test

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@eastdakota

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@thesamparr You should chat with @andy_matuschak Also the book smart notes by @soenke_ahrens is pretty on-point on this topic.

[FOMOInvesting @FOMOInvesting]

🎙️In the latest FOMO Investing podcast:
Michael Burry Unchained and His Newsletter Gang

We cover:
• His Nvidia & Palantir puts
• Why he thinks AI capex may resemble past bubbles
• Is Burry early or right again?

@michaeljburry
https://t.co/UeIINCebaq

https://t.co/rvVWpuK70f

[Mik @rationalyst]

@p_millerd @obsdmd I wonder if there is something like an open source license where you can agree to cancellation process that allows easy sharing of data, o dar pattern, refund of remaining term and no need to talk to someone.

A modern symbol that rhymes with "he is a man who keeps his word"

[Mik @rationalyst]

@p_millerd That's terrible. They need to read @obsdmd file over app manifesto.