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mastodon 4.7.2Hi! I'm Catherine. I've been a forum regular since the late '90s.
Here's a visualization of my history discovering various tools, languages, and communities: https://www.datawrapper.de/_/MKPpj/
There is a door charge. Accepted currencies:
— perspectives that are new to me
— flaws, to prove you're not a robot
— insights, broadly defined
— well-written takes, narrowly defined
— humor, defined by my laugh reflex
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Joined November 05, 2022
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Critics call me:
"these resources"
Forbes calls me:
"this woman"
Twitter:
@CusickCatherine
There should be basic prereqs before executives can legally lay anyone off, like needing to know the person's name and which one they are
@mxbck@front-end.social This chili lives up to its own hype: https://www.ambitiouskitchen.com/best-vegetarian-chili-recipe/
Jammy pepper pasta also a crowd favorite: https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/jammy-pepper-pasta-salad
If fish is still on the table, and/or it'd be preferable to mask what fish there might be while still eating more of it, the anchovies in this basically melt into a savory sauce: https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/rigatoni-with-fennel-and-anchovies
Articles are always referring to the past as "the winter of 2023" and I'm like, so yesterday
So much visible aging is just experiencing loss.
Years of crying. Years of laughing.
My first pull request got merged into main 😭
Please reply with suggestions for how to celebrate this time-honored n00b milestone
Resources on "Looking After Yourself" from the Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) in Perth, Western Australia.
I'm reading through the one on Tolerating Distress. It's incredibly helpful.
https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-Yourself
"We need to acknowledge that our work impacts human beings, and human beings are messy and complex in ways that cannot necessarily be captured by an elegant equation."
@dkiesow@social.kiesow.net YEARS of work, in two quick photos! Congratulations!!! 👏
@ChrisHardie@mastodon.social Absolutely worth emailing Justin at Buttondown.
If Buttondown is missing features you need, he lists alternatives: https://buttondown.email/alternatives
Every time I compare my output to my fantasy output to my role models' output, I conveniently ignore that I have no access to others' ambitions for themselves, and they have no access to mine.
People can't see how you measure "not enough." They can't guess what you had imagined you'd accomplish by now. They only care about what you do.
If you omit that you had grander ambitions, no one misses what never happened.
Focus on what did happen.
"Rebuilding local news isn’t a journalism problem — it’s a small business problem."
"There are always going to be the free riders – tech companies, perhaps – who benefit from the interconnectedness of the world while refusing to do the work. They may even taunt, from their blogs, those who try. Their paths are going to intersect with ours; that’s just the way it works. Often, we’re not in a position to choose not to deal with them.
"But occasionally, we are. Not because we want to eliminate anyone’s livelihood, or harry executives, or because we imagine our subscription fee makes much of a difference. But just because we can."
https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2023/11/30/why-were-dropping-basecamp/
What's the opposite of a filter bubble? I run into people who disagree with me about almost everything like... daily
"The Strategic Rehearsal method is a unique kind of simulation exercise our team has developed over several years with dozens of companies (DiBello, 2001; DiBello Missildine & Struttman 2008; DiBello 2019). This approach allows participants to rehearse, experiment with, fail, and rework novel approaches to organizational problems while being held accountable to non-negotiable outcomes. It involves a reality analogous setting with realistic constraints and opportunities for navigating the options. The ultimate goal of the Strategic Rehearsal method is to help challenge the existing mental models participants use to approach problems by providing a platform of new leading goals and activities to help reorganize entrenched behavioral patterns."
Lia DiBello
Missed this one when it came out:
"Since 2006, an A.I. researcher named Marcus Hutter has offered a cash reward—known as the Prize for Compressing Human Knowledge, or the Hutter Prize—to anyone who can losslessly compress a specific one-gigabyte snapshot of Wikipedia smaller than the previous prize-winner did. You have probably encountered files compressed using the zip file format. The zip format reduces Hutter’s one-gigabyte file to about three hundred megabytes; the most recent prize-winner has managed to reduce it to a hundred and fifteen megabytes. This isn’t just an exercise in smooshing. Hutter believes that better text compression will be instrumental in the creation of human-level artificial intelligence, in part because the greatest degree of compression can be achieved by understanding the text."
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web
Nicholas Carr's 2003 Harvard Business Review Essay, "IT Doesn't Matter," turns twenty.
"What makes a resource truly strategic – what gives it the capacity to be the basis for a sustained competitive advantage – is not ubiquity but scarcity. You only gain an edge over rivals by having or doing something that they can’t have or do."
Just another Monday night, tripping over casual references to a "national conversation" on the platform fka Twitter
[pub date 10 November 2017]