rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org

Creativity is like a muscle. If you want to become more creative, you have to exercise it.

When I was in art school (years ago), we exercised every day to become more creative. Artists have to train to get there too. It's not magic or "talent," it's hard work.

When you use AI to give you "inspiration," you are doing the opposite of that. You are atrophying your creativity muscle.

If you want to become a creator, and become more creative, you should stop using AI entirely. Instead, start training your own genuine creativity. Otherwise, it will eventually dry off completely.

#Art #Creativity #NoAI

Today I'm excited to release episode 2 of Mag World, my podcast on evolving your intuition about numbers and scale. In this episode, Mag Perception, Mike and I talk about decibels, sound frequency, hot peppers, and Gustav Fechner. It's listed on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. If you give it a listen, please leave us a rating and/or review!

https://magworld.pw/episodes/02-perception

Watch software developers. I mean *really* watch them.

When they say they spent an hour "writing code", they've actually spent most of that hour *reading* code and *thinking* about it.

Wanna boost your developer productivity?

* Write code that's easier to understand

* Get better at understanding code

More code ain't gonna help here.

Copyright should be 50 years max. All works of art made before 1975 should be public domain.

Look, you can have low taxation or you can have functioning public services. You can't have both. Lots of people, including the UK government, seem to have forgotten this fact. Taxation isn't theft. It's the foundation of society.

If you advertise a subscription with a headline monthly price, but the only way to achieve that is by paying a full year up front, then that's annual pricing, not monthly pricing and should be illegal.

"If nobody hires junior programmers then pretty soon we won't have any _senior_ programmers!" said members of a species that has known about climate change for decades but is increasing CO2 and methane output anyway.

Ordinary croissants are overrated. Almond croissants are underrated. Society's view of chocolate croissants is about right.

Yes things are generally worse than they were 20 years ago but we all still live an easier life than 99.99% of all humans to have ever lived, it's worth remembering that sometimes

The 'just learn a trade' crowd at the moment are the same as the 'you need a degree' crowd from 30 years ago. It's stupid to try and predict the employment needs of future. Just pick something you think you'll enjoy, or can at least somewhat tolerate, as a career.

Can't stop looking at this 7 way venn

Interactive version
https://moebio.com/research/sevensets/

If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 million years to earn a trillion dollars.

If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.

Tax the rich.

I think the biggest weakness of vibe coding is that you can very quickly code the wrong thing. Some of my most productive moments have been 5 minutes of thinking in the shower, forcing me to re-evaluate my entire plan. But you're unlikely to have those "shower thoughts" if you aren't grinding away at the problem yourself.

You weren't the class clown. You were a fucking cunt who disrupted everyone else's education and disrespected the teacher trying to do their job of preparing everyone for life.

Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein was not the monster.

Wisdom is understanding that Frankenstein WAS the monster.

Enlightenment is understanding that I, the person who brings this up at every chance in every conversation, am the monster.

The fact that people are allowed to store their cars in the street is really weird - after all, a car is an individual's own private property and their responsibility. I can't think of a single other item you can store in public in this way.

Phoning someone is so selfish. You're basically saying, drop absolutely everything you're doing right now to talk to me.

Struggling with vibe coding? You just need to get better at prompting. Here is a six video series "course" to teach you how to write the most effective AI prompts and get the most out of vibe coding!

(Do you ever wonder what it would be like if there were some special language for giving commands to computers... a kind of prompting language so they would do *exactly* what you wanted? Maybe someone should invent that.)

Maybe you've had this experience when you walk into an empty room and see all kinds of possibilities, but when the room's furnished all you can see is "Sofa goes *there*", and it's hard to unsee it.

Perhaps if it was just a pile of cardboard boxes with "SOFA" written on them, we might find it easier to let go of that decision?

I've found that prototypes work best when they look like something we'd be happy throwing away.