Tuesday, 02/21/2023

12:22 operating system tracking app

• track everything that you do locally
• sync to cool analytics server where you can see how you live your life
• various levels of fidelity depending on task; ideally on par with web observability tools like sentry, datadog, etc, but for your entire operating system and focused on productivity
• connect with tools that track how well you interact with real life
• FOSS Linux-first model, built into window manager(?); charge for the hosted service, but make alternate FOSS servers easy to host and configure, and local data easy to access
• high fidelity, modernist, 70s aesthetic; like you're reading a NASA performance report of your data.

13:25 film vs hypertext

hypertext can react. film can't. youtube videos can't age, but websites can (and do, and will, forever). something beautiful about the ability to record something once and keep it forever. sure, you can edit and crop videos, but not with the ease and fidelity that text based platforms allow. every docs platform, every presentation software, every blog posting medium allows anyone to edit their words at any time. their previous traces are lost. a youtube video will be recompressedn and restreamed, but will never be worn out, not really, and will stay okay forever. i trust it more than any writing.

13:27 why bionicle won

• new product ip owned natively
• simple pitch and story:

i wrote a bit on twitter about this. design language went nuts too. i loved how those things looked and felt to use and play with. so many possibilities! and they lived in their own world but the best pieces could be hacked back onto robots - which was beautiful. loved using bionicle parts with lego mindstorms. technic mechanical movements are all brilliantly designed.

13:29 i respond too fast

to everything. people take advantage of my time with stupid questions that set me off track. maybe i should make my imformation more transparent, or set up some chatbot in my place, so that i don't have to answer questions for others of things i've documented already. some poeple require payment for dms, or contact info, or emotional labor, or anything of the sort that consumes time; i can't do that. charging for communication is unfair. i just want some of my time back.

16:46 stepping back to not be a fan

trying to have a more casual relationship with everything in my life. i consume too much, i think too much, i read too much; my ratio of input to output is extremely high. i need to learn to back down, do stop caring so much about the 'metagame' or theory or anthropocene and the most important people in it and just focus on doing good work with the people I care about.

16:48 evidence is better than confidence