Love it.
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I haven't touched my website in a long time. There's a bunch of stuff I wrote that never made it on the site, like this article from June last year that I wrote exclusively for the EINUNDZWANZIG print magazine: https://dergigi.com/2023/06/26/die-frage-nach-der-energie/
Enjoy! (If you can read German, that is.)
I never used a fitbit or similar because I think they are privacy nightmares. I'm also not a big fan of measuring everything (or over-optimizing everything).
But now I'm curious: are there any that don't suck and are reasonably privacy preserving? If anyone knows it's probably the nostr crowd lol
"We shouldn't be surprised by the polarization and outrage maximization that we observe online; it's a natural outcome of the incentive to maximize engagement. We shouldn't be surprised by "you are the product" business models and the walled gardens of subscription hell; it's a natural outcome of the incentive to capture users and user data. We shouldn't be surprised by clickbait headlines and sensationalism; it's a natural outcome of the evolutionary pressure to farm as many eyeballs and brain cycles as possible."
https://dergigi.com/2022/12/18/a-vision-for-a-value-enabled-web/
Time and attention are the ultimate currencies. There is a reason why we "spend" the first and "pay" the latter. And while we do indeed "spend" time and "pay" attention, they are unfit as money because we can't accumulate either. There is a reason why using proper money frees up time and allows for an increase in long-term thinking—both individually and for society at large. Money is as important for capital accumulation as it is for distributed cognition, and if the money is broken, both of these things deteriorate. And with it, so does our time and attention.
By using attention as the de facto currency online, we destroyed depth and nuance, as well as our collective attention spans.
https://dergigi.com/assets/images/bitcoin/2022-12-18-a-vision-for-a-value-enabled-web/scarlett.png
"I may even still be able to write code, and my dream is to contribute to open source software projects even from within an immobile body. That will be a life very much worth living." —Hal Finney
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bshZiaLefDejvPKuS/dying-outside
NOTHING NEW HERE
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