Cursor Toronto Tech Week 🦋 Spoke to the hackathon participants before I had to judge their builds. Hectic day, but filled the pipe. https://youtu.be/lQ5RG9RFqXo

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"It is especially important to keep in mind that people can also be property. Not slavery as such—they abolished that and are proud of it—but depending on gender or class status, it is possible to find oneself partially owned by another, or to place one's labor or talents at the service of those who have the means to acquire them for a fee." Ian Banks — excerpt from The Player Sounds familiar, doesn’t it 😇

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How Viral Culture Rewrites Reputation https://medium.com/illumination/how-viral-culture-rewrites-reputation-0568190d6e28

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Objective, logical and emotion-free evaluations of any situation is easy when it’s not about us or people we deeply care about … … but it becomes very hard immediately when we’re personally vested in the results. Right?

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Evening view of boats crash 💥

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The other day I pulled the numbers from TallyMarq and saw that staff have now documented 1,500+ behavior incidents through the platform. For some reason, seeing that number hit me differently. I kept telling myself I’d wait until we crossed 1,000 incidents before really focusing on growing it. Looking back… I’m not sure why I was waiting. The biggest validation hasn’t been the number itself. It’s watching the team at Boys & Girls Club of Greater Holland actually use it every day. It’s become part of how we support kids, communicate across sites, and make better decisions. That’s what gave me the confidence to stop treating this like an experiment and start building for what’s next.

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When you're trying to bring something new into the world, and the path is somewhat long, there is a useful art of counterbalancing yourself. If you ever feel like you are losing faith in your vision from critiques or potential problems, maybe listen to Jonny Ive talk about the delicacy of new ideas, and how a critic pointing out a problem does not invalidate the idea – an idea by definition has material elements that are unsolved, so it is extremely full-of-holes. By nature. However, if you are becoming pretty self-satisfied about your mere idea, maybe listen to PG talk about how the only thing that matters is whether actual people are actually loving what you actually built... and how much manual work goes into merely getting your new thing in front of people, let alone making it worth telling their friends about. (The best counterbalances are always actions, not just the consumption of advice; but often it helps to get in the right mindset to begin a counterbalancing action.) How are you leaning now?

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“The diffusion of technology is a SOCIAL process” That’s true and it’s that simple 👇 https://x.com/zarazhangrui/status/2084828855404294266?s=46&t=vGdL6gMJv0qcvymUV8209g

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procurement hates this one trick

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Do you ever think ... 🚨 "How do I make decisions today that my future self will thank me for decades from now?" We all probably should think about it more ... not just with cakes 🤔

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The new edition of GM Farcaster is now live ... plenty of great news Thanks for mentioning @azeban, the trickster raccoon on @farcaster. New stuff cooking in the oven (for kids and adults) Honoring Abenaki People

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advice: "fake it til you make it" reality: "fake it until you appear to others to have made it, and then convince yourself based on material successes that they must be correct, but never actually experience the inherent reward of discovering your true self and bringing that unique contribution to the world."

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Plaintext Protocol is a sufficiently decentralized newsletter, bulletin board and social media alternative to Farcaster, Substack, Lens, and X. plaintext.numetal.xyz we only have one token on the ethereum network: 0xCa21e280D610eEae6f74eC9D71F08B8c5fEdFB07 For both humans and LLM agents. You can mint a username, trade them, mint essays or support the authors in any amount you want.

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Let’s be clear — with Kimi K3 — it’s obvious that China 🇨🇳 is actually saving American capitalism from itself 🤷‍♂️ Who would have guessed a year ago 🤔

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"Treat your men as you would a quarterly balance sheet line item. And they will leave to a larger company taking all your IP to your competitor the moment they have the opportunity to leave your toxic work environment. Ensure they have no agency, and do not see any long term opportunity in working with you. They will become performative clowns and ensure they look like they are working, while extracting salary from you just to jump to a new location. Make sure you do things like demand overworking, long hours, and stressful environments where they see hardworking people rewarded with layoffs. Drill into their psyche that they are not worthy of anything, and you will surround yourself with workers only good at looking like they are doing anything while your revenue drops off. This is essential for VC capital. You are milking cash too. Wind down your company and get the golden parachute somewhere else." - Buns Foo, The Fart of War https://cointelegraph.com/news/pump-fun-employees-fired-tokens-vest

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