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I miss snap builder. Like to think I constructively criticized it by reporting bugs & sharing aspirations 😢💜 Looking forward to trying Quorum’s take on it using HyperSnap. No backend server needed to maintain shared state. Accumulating $SNAP for the case it’s needed.

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Some thoughts on not missing the forest for the trees 🌳 I've never actually gotten a job simply by submitting an application. For me, that process has always felt like a black box I couldn't get through. Every job I have gotten began with some kind of human connection: someone who knew what I could do, understood the kind of person I was, or was willing to put me in front of the right people. Qualifications matter, but far too often they don't matter as much as having someone ensure they are actually seen. Even so, I applied this evening for roles at Anthropic and Google. It has been a long time since I've seen job descriptions at companies of that caliber that felt genuinely suited to my oddly specific mix of deep research, strategic analysis, writing, and practical experience with AI. I don't assume that submitting an application will be enough to get it in front of a recruiter. So I identified someone I know at Google and someone who can introduce me to a talent person at Anthropic. (continued👇)

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A small confession about exercise: My son just started high school. His first class begins at 7:20am: more than an hour earlier than middle school. So our house has abruptly shifted from waking around 7:30 to getting up at 6:15. The first few days, I simply started work an hour earlier. Finishing at 4pm instead of 5pm was nice. Then it hit me: this is probably the first time in years that I’ve had a quiet hour in the morning when I can actually go outside and exercise without disrupting anyone else’s sleep (see more on this👇). When it's 100° in Florida, early morning is really the only realistic time to do it. The obvious answer was a bike ride: I felt a shocking amount of internal resistance to the idea. Something I’ve had to unpack in therapy is how much my relationship with exercise was shaped by the Army. In my early 20s, exercise was routinely used as the lowest-level form of punishment: you screwed something up, you got 'smoked' (forced to do push-ups, sit-ups, etc until muscle failure).

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I typo Claude to flaude ALL the time.

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Living with anxiety can look surprisingly ordinary from the outside. A half hour ago, my wife called me from the store because two brands of spiral notebooks for our son were slightly different widths. She wanted to know which one she should buy. I told her it honestly didn't matter. "Okay," she said. "I'll buy both." From her perspective, this tiny decision had become a problem that needed to be solved correctly: she lacked the executive function to do so. Choosing the 'wrong' notebook felt consequential enough that buying both was easier than tolerating the uncertainty. From my perspective, the anxiety started before I even knew why she was calling. Because her anxiety has been severe enough over the years to lead to crises, a hospitalization, and a suicide attempt, an unexpected call from her while she's out can immediately make something in me tighten: What happened? Is something wrong? Then I learn it's about notebooks. The anxiety doesn't entirely disappear. It changes shape. (continued 👇)

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Que la tierra No se queme mas

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TIL that Nintendo Switch 2's game chat feature lets you do voice chat in the background without any sort of overlay and does a great job of automatically balancing game volume. I went nearly a year without learning enough about it to use it, thinking it always shrinks the game.

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This summer has been notably sweltering thus far. It’s uncomfortable for me and my wife and kids. Even so, our utility bill was over $400 last month and much of that was the air conditioning at the house - running almost 24/7. We tried keeping it at 79 degrees, but that temp doesn’t do much for us. Thus, these last 5 days that we’ve been on vacation so far have been heavenly because the A/C is usually running at 69 degrees and the hotel, restaurants, and other businesses are running their A/C bills up to keep their customers comfortable. I know we ultimately end up paying for it anyway through higher prices, etc. but it has provided some level of cathartic relief that we won’t be paying another $400+ utility bill for July. 👀

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I’ve reached the point where I admire blockchain technology and immensely value my Web3 experience, yet at the same time, I am sickened by so many people in the ecosystem who bow down to power, choose to look the other way regarding scams and manipulation, and are so easily swayed by fads, trends, and narratives driven by shadowy interests.

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Sometimes I go full thespian and pretend I’m clueless about what’s really going on or act like I actually believe a big lie, just to see how far it goes.

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Friends, after using Farcaster every day for two years, I’m taking a break (actually, I’m doing this with all social media, but Farcaster was the one I used the most). I’m doing this to better handle some IRL matters. The good news is that things are already much better now. Love you all.

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If you think no one here cares about you. I care about you little virtual friend. Stay safe and strong! Whatever you’re going through, everything gonna work out.

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this is why humanity is doomed "we refuse to honestly imagine a dying world"

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I love it far too much when I just happen to check on something and it's at 69%

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