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(from a shared online canvas event kind of thing)
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I feel like I've been seeing too much of this theme recently
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The moment I pressed the button I realised I forgot to add alt text and now I can't add it after the fact forgive me Bluesky gods π
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but also this is why we don't live in a 10h work week utopia; why, out of all the orders of magnitude for latency to land on, UIs are consistently slightly but not catastrophically sluggish; and why my room has has good basics and decoration but stuff is scattered everywhere atm
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When the natural tendency is that of decay and drift, the only thing that durably stops things from becoming bad is someone or something that cares about stopping them from becoming bad
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should I maintain a chart of overness/backness over time. Or like a gauge readout
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I think my fear of looking stupid still runs very deep, and the only reason I've been able to have any output at all is that I cope by trying to not think about it in advance (which is a different thing to actually getting over it) (and that the reception tends to be positive)
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π bookmarked
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appendix on the software dev example: feature requests only track "things the users realise they like", but they're unrelated to how easy they are; in contrast when working on the backend I often realise "huh this is both doable and useful" even though never explicitly requested
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So this is also why I think a "solution in search of a problem" is not actually a bad thing (except when dishonestly overhyped). It just means having built on the supply side of the canyon! If it's interesting that means we sense that there is indeed a problem it solves π
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It's easy for a system to naively overvalue demand-side over supply-side. Demand-side is legible and reliable, but its upside is capped in comparison. Sometimes instead of sprinting through Jira tickets you need to let someone's idle thoughts develop into a novel capability
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Supply-side is a lot harder to justify to the planning brain though. And so this is why I believe we evolved the quality known as 'curiosity', and some sense as to what things are more curious than others; we'd miss the discoveries without that innate drive!
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It's easy to convince people to join demand-side problem-solving
Conversely, supply-side is less reliable but a lot more serendipitious. An idle exploration uncovering a new groundbreaking idea; a side project growing into a proper thing; or a hidden gem found on a stroll
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let's call those demand-side vs supply-side
Demand-side is more direct and more reliable. Examples: working through user-submitted feature requests; or trying to solve a specific maths problem by breaking it down; or feeling like Chinese food and picking a place by the ratings
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A connection needs to be made across the gap; putting together the thing you desire from things that exist. It might be that the connection is already visible, but if not then what?
Do you look for the fabric for the doll you want to make, or play around with the fabric you have?
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Same genre
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in case you're curious those are the respective links!
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idk how to spoiler-tag images properly, it's not actually adult content, I'm just being overly cautious
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at least this is the advice i tell myself nowadays idk treat it like any other tweet-sized advice
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2. wet foliage
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π€
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too real π
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anyway I got blocked by one (1) person for being a Firefox user lmao
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I opened it in Chrome and it showed up?? sorcery...
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where do you see the "lists blocked by" thing, is it a hidden feature or something π
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or build something idk
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maybe I should just not be a coward and make those lists public anyway π€
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I sound like a broken record but I really miss the ability to do "I'll follow you for now bc I want to be vaguely aware of you but I don't want your tweets to inflate the feed I catch up on daily yet"
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Step 1: feature parity with Twitter (private lists, can turn off retweets from an account)
Step 2: let everyone else build quality-of-life UIs on top of that (easy shuffling between lists; tools for easy list-making by criteria; whatever else you imagine)
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bluesky if we had any amount of non-algorithmic control