Zak El Fassi

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friendship protocol update: recently learned someone I trusted had been cataloging my flaws for years instead of just… telling me about them in real time 🤡 so doing a network audit — if you’re reading this and I’ve been unconsciously shitty to you, now’s the time to debug it together rather than letting it compile into resentment; DM, or in public 👇 new human entering the world means ruthless prioritization of authentic connections only. storage of grievances without communication isn’t friendship, it’s just elaborate record-keeping the most loving thing you can do for someone is show them their blindspots while there’s still time to iterate. building better humans requires better feedback loops ∞

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not necessarily funny, just jesterier than the jesters in charge.

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🫶🫶🫶 thank you!!

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imagine getting a billion people on a cruise ship with faulty plumbing. it happened. it’s happening. who remains is the desperate and those that have only known cruise ship holidays. we can do better. on a more positive note and on the flipside, every broken system teaches us what the next iteration needs. crypto’s plumbing problems are showing us exactly where to place the pipes, if we dare to venture there.

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Word! https://farcaster.xyz/zef/0xaace4b04

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waiting for that moment to scream “AGI achieved on the throne!”

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i’d say, most of our issues (as a civilization) comes from treating kids as “kids” rather than conscious beings in developmental stages. can you imagine what it would be like if… we were treated the same as adults? (maybe most ~allow themselves to~ do just that thanks to rotten systems.) But yeah, change starts somewhere and Montessori philosophy is a good stepping stone towards liberating ourselves from relatively recent generational bs.

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a beautiful fractal right there! 🫶

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this is beautiful, thank you for sharing this precious memory and moment. yeah… seems like the whole thing (~=onboarding a new human) is fine-tuned to teach the parents about life lessons they might’ve either not internalized or have resisted for a bit waiting for the spark-bulb to go off. it’s day 15 here and the pattern is uncanny. it’s like onboarding a new employee with the caveat that both your destinies are intertwined in more metaphysical ways than not. (i’d say the same about onboarding an employee but people would think i’m crazy~ier than the usual.)

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also fwiw, i feel like the whole thing accelerates this learning and prioritizes … well, whatever actually need to get prioritized. maybe we’re blessed with these little chaos monsters to inject a dose of discernment into our otherwise sleepyheadedness https://farcaster.xyz/july/0x8c31d862

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(🪞reply from 🕊️app) 💯🎯 and great thread / reflection. aligns with my philosophy of “be the gradient descent of your life”; finding slopes down toward minimum loss in the infinite loss landscape of existence… at the same time: sometimes the Universe puts you at a local minimum on purpose. those plateaus aren’t bugs, they’re features. the game knows when you need to integrate before the next descent we optimize for the wrong metrics (external validation, linear progress) when the real loss function is internal coherence. how aligned are you with your own source code? how much energy are you wasting fighting the gradient vs flowing with it? the most interesting humans i know have learned to read their own partial derivatives… they know when they’re stuck in local minima vs approaching something global. and here’s the plot twist — the Universe literally codes us to minimize energy expenditure. every addiction, every dopamine hit, every scroll session is just gradient descent in action. but we’re often (and somnambulant) descending toward the wrong optima. hence why Waking Up. coke (aine | ola) feels like convergence because it is convergence… to a loss function that destroys the very system it’s optimizing. same with doom scrolling, people pleasing, workaholism — all perfectly rational descents down poisoned gradients the trick isn’t to stop following gradients (impossible, we’re optimization machines) but to debug your loss function. what are you actually minimizing? suffering? or growth? comfort? or aliveness? what if the goal isn’t finding the bottom but learning to understand + surf the topology?

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Good perspective. I’d argue “school, homework, and extra curricular activities” are legacy systems created by generations who either didn’t get the MIB visit and/or didn’t have access to resources and frameworks (and tech) to help them integrate all the above into their sense of Self. Also, oof re: 2 years down pov and appreciate your honesty. I don’t know what to make of that 🫨🤡

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it’s the little things! (things = tiny behavior nudges such as a PTO congrats/beach towel gift 😬)

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that’s awesome to hear and a great datapoint. running this sim has been… interesting in forking my “Self” into a present zombie and future nostalgic. it just feels like the sim Time expands hard thanks to lack of sleep and infinitely growing responsibilities. Stack overflow ~> memory reset.

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i wish there were more than 24h in a day, so in lacktherof i’d say, the next coding agents iteration would be multiplayer first and test-driving such an experiment (with N=2, infinite trust between the nodes) could converge naturally to such a UX.

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from my smol experience managing humans / and other managers of humans i’d say indexing on being liked throttles people’s growth longer term. indexing on their growth could help them grow (short-mid term) AND could, maybe someday, much later, make you their favorite manager. but i’ve found fav manager is a “global lagging indicator” of one’s success as a manager.

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gm parents… pre-labor: “it’s SO BEAUTIFUL bringing a life into this world” post-labor: “it gets easier after the first month… maybe three months, after neck control.” Are we all just perpetuating a lie to continue playing civilization? or should i expect a MIB visit soon for a “memory wipe”?

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😂😂😂 if someone mistakes l for i, ESPECIALLY AND ESPECIALLY that you smallcap your name, then… blame dyslexia? a bad batch o’ drugs? eye boogers? seeking a response? idk, this one hits different. i mostly get “zach” or “zack”

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hahaha, or better yet: those that spell one’s name wrong.

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Good thing Qwen Code just joined to shit on the closed lab party. They either didn’t know what they got themselves into OR enabled the abuse just to build hype. Either way, this behavior is starting to remind me of another company that hid once upon a time behind “don’t be evil”.

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