This reminds me of a gag voting simulation website from the early 2000s when BushJr was running for president against Al Gore. The (maybe flash?) game simulated voting, but when you tried to click, the buttons would “run away” from the cursor, or change size to avoid being clicked… dark patterns… always fun to “play against”.
More recently though, I must say, YouTube has really jumped the shark in terms of perfecting their dark patterns/algo stickiness. I can’t even go to the site without immediately forgetting my original intent.
Yesterday I scrolled down the front page of my Youtube, and saw the "shorts" shelf. I clicked "Show me fewer shorts" like I have a hundred other times.
I did something else for a few minutes, then I scrolled down another page or so.
The shorts were right there again.
Google is evil. Anyone still working for them is enabling this.
I feel I could write a long response to every comment in this thread as notekeeping is something I consider critical.
Knowing when to commit to “The capital-N Notebook” is something I’ve struggled with as well. What has been effective for me is to scribble daily on a marker/chalk/dry erase board and then transpose the final thought into “The Notebook” at the end of each day. This lets me format, err, mull, etc. and the final (sic clean) notebook still has enough granularity to retrace my thoughts in the med-to-long term.
But this is the way of computer science at large for the last 15-20 years… most new CS students I’ve encountered have spent so much time grinding algorithms and OS classes that they don’t have life experience or awareness to build anything that doesn’t solve the problems of other CS practitioners.
The problem is two-fold… abstract thinking begets more abstract thinking, and the common advice to young, aspiring entrepreneurs of “scratch your own itch” ie dogfooding has gone wrong in a big way.
> Slopacolypse
Really… REALLY not looking forward to getting this word spammed at me the next 6-12 months… even less so seeing the actual manifestation.
> TLDR
This should be at the start?
I actually have been thinking of trying out ClaudeCode/OpenCode over this past week… can anyone provide experience, tips, tricks, ref docs?
My normal workflow is using Free-tier ChatGPT to help me interrogate or plan my solution/ approach or to understand some docs/syntax/best practice of which I’m not familiar. then doing the implementation myself.
This concept comes up a lot, especially on this site. I am sometimes surprised how seldomly it is mentioned by this name:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai
To use anecdotes of specific influencers or even to cultural short/med-term memes misses the OP’s fundamental point in saying
> “this is the future of culture”.
The point is that the future of “culture” is increasingly decentralized; that the ability or more aptly, the opportunity, to accumulate “cultural influence” will tend towards higher entropy as a direct repercussion to the proliferation of the means to accumulate it.
Put differently, as the hardware and software used to record, store, and share content become more widely accessible, anyone with the access and motivation to use the tools truly has the opportunity to become famous.
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