Mind the shavings

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Cake day: August 16th, 2024

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  • Make the people in your head behave the way they should. They have no agency in your head. It’s happening in your head so everything “they” are doing is something you are making them do. “Sorry I was so dumb and wrong, now here’s a five paragraph essay on why you were right”.

    It’s exactly as hallucinatory as running the upsetting scenario multiple times. The first time in real life wasn’t a hallucination; all subsequent iterations were. So you may as well hallucinate in a way that’s less bothersome.

    This carries a risk for people who refuse to acknowledge faults and weaknesses of their own. So, try not to give yourself credit you don’t deserve.

    Imagining you’re a movie director and they have to do what you say may bypass some objections to don’t this, but that’s just an extra layer you don’t need

    If there’s something that needs to be resolved then you might need to handle it differently but this is magic for pure habit busting.











  • Thank you thank you thank you for posing this question.

    This is the biggest issue by far with open source stuff in general, and as a non-programmer who wants to use more and more of it, user unfriendliness hamstrings so much.

    I don’t know the answers but I can tell you for a fact that if open source in general is serious about broader adoption, this needs to be occupying 50% of everybody’s open source discussion time, at least.

    What I know is the standard “fuck you read my 19 pages of 1s and 0s” is the wrong answer.

    Maybe good design is just really hard. I don’t know, I’ve never tried to do it. Seems like the sort of thing that might take three thousands iterations.