Author, explorer, xenophile, programmer, netizen, conversationalist. Former musician and entrepreneur. Everything is at sive.rs/
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Feb 5
Recording the audiobook for "Useful Not True", I video'd it too, then lovingly (hand-craftedly) subtitled the videos, which altogether communicates the message of the book better than plain text. I'll post all here now. Watch and see if it hits.
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Jun 12
India tech friends: I just bought my ticket to IndiaFOSS in BLR Sept 26-27: fossunited.org/indiafoss/202… Want to meet? Email me: sive.rs/contact
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May 21
Fight Club: I liked it the first time years ago, but watching a second time when you already know the end reveal? Elevates it from good to great. So many brilliant details in the screenplay. What else in life is better the second time?
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Apr 28
I have so much more to say on this subject, but this book is done now because I believe short books are useful. So the conversation continues on the website:
sive.rs/u
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Apr 27
Since we moved from city to rural land, to a house where the bathroom and kitchen are outside, my boy observed: “This year there are way more full moons.”
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Apr 28
FWIW he wasn’t joking. Living in the city, you don’t notice the moon so much. Living in the country, full-vs-new moon makes a HUGE difference, since we need to go outside at night. We notice it more and therefore feels like there are “way more” full moons than before.
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Apr 27
For the last three years, my boy and I have had a pet mouse. We got her from a pet store, and he’s carried her in his hand through so many adventures in forests, beaches, and playgrounds. Drawings and stories for and about her. You’ve never seen a mouse so loved....
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Apr 27
My favorite LLM prompt: “List the top cities in {COUNTRY}, and anthropomorphize each one, listing the good-natured stereotypes and jokes that other people in {COUNTRY} say about people in this city.”
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Apr 27
… works great with regions, too. Replace {COUNTRY} with “the Balkans” or “the GCC”. Funny but educational.
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Apr 26
Your outside doesn’t need to match your inside.
You can feel terrified inside, but just pretend to be brave for one minute. By doing that, you were actually brave.
You might be a total introvert, but need to attend an event, so you act social for one hour...
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Apr 25
When I got my first guitar, the nice man at the shop put on new strings and tuned it. A week later, I brought it back to the shop because it sounded terrible. He told me it was just out of tune. I said, “But you tuned it already!” He explained...
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Apr 25
Good book on cultural psychology: Tribal. Great insights and examples of how change happens on the personal, cultural, and institutional level. My notes at sive.rs/book/Tribal
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