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Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by mapontosevenths »

throwpoaster wrote: post #15
mapontosevenths wrote: post #10

I very much agree with this author, and the sort of open source ethos it embodies. However, as a corporate stooge I have a hard time balancing my natural desire to work with the garage door up and my "neighbors" (legitimate) need for me to turn my terrible garage band music down and only show up after practice is over (when I have a nice deliverable). Does anyone have any tips for finding the right balance? What is t…

Seems related to the explore/exploit problem, where the standard answer is related to the answer to the Secretary Problem[0], with the important caveat that it depends on whether "passing" on an opportunity legitimately makes it unavailable in future. But another good answer is to open the door and trust the audience. The people who show up to the garage practice are perhaps not people who show up to buy tickets. Ado…

I'd never heard of the secretary problem, though like all of us I've been in that situation hundreds of times. Fascinating read! Thank you.

This is one of those (increasingly rare) internet conversations that might lead to legitimately better outcomes in my life.

Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by frangonf »

mattkevan wrote: post #24

Genuinely curious where the best place online to do this is today. Until recently my reflexive answer would have been Twitter, but [gestures vaguely at the state of it]. Would it be Substack, Bluesky, Mastodon, a personal blog, or somewhere else? Maybe I'm overthinking it, but it's hard to know where to get started.

I think the best way to do this today is having your own site, be it in the shape of a blog, digital garden or whatever and then syndicate, following POSSE[0], in case of wanting community or distribution.

[0] https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF »

frangonf wrote: post #62
mattkevan wrote: post #24

Genuinely curious where the best place online to do this is today. Until recently my reflexive answer would have been Twitter, but [gestures vaguely at the state of it]. Would it be Substack, Bluesky, Mastodon, a personal blog, or somewhere else? Maybe I'm overthinking it, but it's hard to know where to get started.

I think the best way to do this today is having your own site, be it in the shape of a blog, digital garden or whatever and then syndicate, following POSSE[0], in case of wanting community or distribution. [0] https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Yeah. You can follow microformats and use Bridgy to syndicate to BlueSky and Fediverse

Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by TheElectronaut »

simonsarris wrote: post #26
mattkevan wrote: post #24

Genuinely curious where the best place online to do this is today. Until recently my reflexive answer would have been Twitter, but [gestures vaguely at the state of it]. Would it be Substack, Bluesky, Mastodon, a personal blog, or somewhere else? Maybe I'm overthinking it, but it's hard to know where to get started.

> but [gestures vaguely at the state of it] Everyone wants to gesture vaguely at the state of it but it's still by far the best place. Just use the site the way you want to use it, post the way you wish others posted, and mute stuff you don't like aggressively.

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Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by alexpotato »

I forget where I read this quote but have always loved it:

"When I was a teenager, I read about all of these Bay Area guys that launched startups from their garage.

I thought 'Man, those guys must be really tough!'. Why? Because I'm from Canada and working in garages in the winter is really cold."

Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by projektfu »

mattkevan wrote: post #24

Genuinely curious where the best place online to do this is today. Until recently my reflexive answer would have been Twitter, but [gestures vaguely at the state of it]. Would it be Substack, Bluesky, Mastodon, a personal blog, or somewhere else? Maybe I'm overthinking it, but it's hard to know where to get started.

I think YouTube can be a good place for it, probably supplemented by a simple website.

Example, Pete's Garage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQFlaDhWsck

Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by doctorpangloss »

mapontosevenths wrote: post #10

I very much agree with this author, and the sort of open source ethos it embodies. However, as a corporate stooge I have a hard time balancing my natural desire to work with the garage door up and my "neighbors" (legitimate) need for me to turn my terrible garage band music down and only show up after practice is over (when I have a nice deliverable). Does anyone have any tips for finding the right balance? What is t…

how do you know that you are not the super critical one?

Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by dvt »

cyberge99 wrote: post #58
simonsarris wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but [gestures vaguely at the state of it] Everyone wants to gesture vaguely at the state of it but it's still by far the best place. Just use the site the way you want to use it, post the way you wish others posted, and mute stuff you don't like aggressively.

Xtwitter is NOT the best place to be. For anything unless you’re a horny cryptobro.

Curious as to why people think this (other than partisan trend-following). I've been on Twitter since 2009, and it's arguably in the best spot it's ever been, apart from Grok being pushed so aggressively. A lot of people still build publicly on Twitter. If you're conservative you can follow conservatives, if you're liberal you can follow liberals. I find Elon annoying, so I just muted his account because it seems like it was being algorithmically pushed, especially during the DOGE days. But I do follow politics pretty closely, and it seems relatively balanced overall.

Not sure if it turned into Musk's idealistic "town square," but it's certainly more interesting than it was before.

Re: Work with the garage door up (2024)

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Post by kristianp »

mattkevan wrote: post #24

Genuinely curious where the best place online to do this is today. Until recently my reflexive answer would have been Twitter, but [gestures vaguely at the state of it]. Would it be Substack, Bluesky, Mastodon, a personal blog, or somewhere else? Maybe I'm overthinking it, but it's hard to know where to get started.

I like reddit, but feel the moderation model is too skewed towards censorship. I created an informational post recently on a niche subreddit and it seemed well received, but then was deleted by a mod with no explanation.
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