This is something I've been working through with Percept Index - the tension between systematic documentation and the guru-industrial complex that wants everything productized. Your "make it, ship it, see if it works" cycle is exactly right. The alternative to becoming a better robot is staying weird enough that the optimization frameworks don't apply.
The psychogeography section connects to something I've been tracking in altered states - how physical spaces program behavior, but also how consciousness exploration requires deliberately breaking those programs. Walking wrong in physical space, thinking wrong in mental space. Same resistance to designed control.
Yeah, the creator business scene is sort of a glutton mess right now. I think too many saw it as an easy way to make money. Now they're just cannibalizing each other trying to remain relevant or something like that.
I think the primary thing, regardless of the way we might get there, that we notice there's something much bigger going on just behind the curtain of what we see. Once you know it and feel it, things get different.
You articulate what had been bothering me since I started this entire thing, and it's why I haven't offered anything.
Something about the whole things just felt...off. where's the line of enough? It feels weird to put a price on something you're trying to figure out yourself. I like the "build in public" philosophy, and it would be nice to be recognized and to make a profit...but not fame and fortune level. That's stupid and counterproductive.
Also, Ikea and Costco are great examples. It's terrifying to go against the flow in the US and suicide in Asia! But I like shopping at these places.
The best advice anyone can give you is just do what feels right. I mean, who really gives a shit how someone else does it? People will care about the way you do it if it bangs.
And Ikea is awesome. Those Swedish Meatballs are good. And Costco has good deals. Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart.
Appreciate the link to the field notes.
This is something I've been working through with Percept Index - the tension between systematic documentation and the guru-industrial complex that wants everything productized. Your "make it, ship it, see if it works" cycle is exactly right. The alternative to becoming a better robot is staying weird enough that the optimization frameworks don't apply.
The psychogeography section connects to something I've been tracking in altered states - how physical spaces program behavior, but also how consciousness exploration requires deliberately breaking those programs. Walking wrong in physical space, thinking wrong in mental space. Same resistance to designed control.
No worries on the link, my dude.
Yeah, the creator business scene is sort of a glutton mess right now. I think too many saw it as an easy way to make money. Now they're just cannibalizing each other trying to remain relevant or something like that.
I think the primary thing, regardless of the way we might get there, that we notice there's something much bigger going on just behind the curtain of what we see. Once you know it and feel it, things get different.
You articulate what had been bothering me since I started this entire thing, and it's why I haven't offered anything.
Something about the whole things just felt...off. where's the line of enough? It feels weird to put a price on something you're trying to figure out yourself. I like the "build in public" philosophy, and it would be nice to be recognized and to make a profit...but not fame and fortune level. That's stupid and counterproductive.
Also, Ikea and Costco are great examples. It's terrifying to go against the flow in the US and suicide in Asia! But I like shopping at these places.
The best advice anyone can give you is just do what feels right. I mean, who really gives a shit how someone else does it? People will care about the way you do it if it bangs.
And Ikea is awesome. Those Swedish Meatballs are good. And Costco has good deals. Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart.
If you want the full cattle chute experience, go visit a Stew Leonards. They even have animatronic anthropomorphic food that sings to you!
Man, I used to work rodeo crew when I was a kid. I've been in that damn cattle chute too often.
This piece is basically a 3-part punk sermon against polish, gatekeeping, and “designed behaviour”:
How great!
We got PBR on ice. Welcome to heck!
Always figured you for a Rolling Rock kind of fellow.
My favorite beer is the free stuff. 😏
Yeah, it could be Love In A Small Canoe beer, as long as it's free.
Nice!