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@july #1287
creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks
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*cries in embedded*
Another good one
Projecting evil, identifying the evil in the world and saying that you are being unassailably right as god is on your side, in pursuit of morality just seems like a really dangerous position to put yourself in.
Unknowingly or naively really believing this and doing this is acceptable. Knowingly and nihilistically doing this is not.
Unknowingly or naively really believing this and doing this is acceptable. Knowingly and nihilistically doing this is not.
because you can print omni-directionally, i'd think of robotic arms for printing on some support. articulated arms in all directions so you can print on top of complex surfaces. I'd love to get rid of also the layer-by-layer printing and supports all together
would be rad because whatever the material is, fibers or materials etc would be directly deposited onto the surface, and you don't need a ton of adhesion or support in microgravity
would be rad because whatever the material is, fibers or materials etc would be directly deposited onto the surface, and you don't need a ton of adhesion or support in microgravity
Just realized that if you 3D print in zero gravity (I.e. space), you don’t need supports
From 2015: there was a bag (from Studio Radiodurans) that was designed to carry $1 million USD in cash that doubles as a Faraday cage for protecting from RFID tracking
And yes, they (Studio Radiodurans) built it because they needed it
https://kottke.org/15/11/the-million-dollar-bag
And yes, they (Studio Radiodurans) built it because they needed it
https://kottke.org/15/11/the-million-dollar-bag
the human imagination and stories remains undefeated
Just finished this
The mother of all heroes journeys
Predates The Iliad, The Odyssey
The mother of all heroes journeys
Predates The Iliad, The Odyssey
How this becomes this is a mystery to me
My wife told me that some of her girlfriends are excited about Waymo because the creep factor goes to zero when there is no one else in the car - another unintended consequence that I'm bullish on self-driving cars / autonomy
The ultimate pop-up city in my mind is autonomous cars. Well more like autonomous cities, through a collection of city blocks that move?
How my thinking goes: if you get autonomous cars (which we already have via Waymo) eventually it won't just be to replace Uber. It'll be a new kind of mobile third space: a place to sleep (between cities) or a pharmacy will come to you, or a mobile pizza truck will come to you, or a place for couples to have sex etc (already has happened on Cruise btw, didn't take long)
If you go down this thinking long enough, what used to be stable (storefronts) get is no longer stable, and anything that used to be situated in one place (a shop, a park, a parking lot, the cleaners, etc) the city becomes more movable. You can configure different configurations of shops and cities and nature to come to you or to be configured (by the city, or by groups) in different ways. The Pop-up city becomes more dynamic, a self-assembling and ephemeral city that makes us question, what is a place?
How my thinking goes: if you get autonomous cars (which we already have via Waymo) eventually it won't just be to replace Uber. It'll be a new kind of mobile third space: a place to sleep (between cities) or a pharmacy will come to you, or a mobile pizza truck will come to you, or a place for couples to have sex etc (already has happened on Cruise btw, didn't take long)
If you go down this thinking long enough, what used to be stable (storefronts) get is no longer stable, and anything that used to be situated in one place (a shop, a park, a parking lot, the cleaners, etc) the city becomes more movable. You can configure different configurations of shops and cities and nature to come to you or to be configured (by the city, or by groups) in different ways. The Pop-up city becomes more dynamic, a self-assembling and ephemeral city that makes us question, what is a place?
I put all my journal notes from 2024 into one doc and it’s about ~250 pages
This part made my heart skip a beat
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I think there’s a general misconception that you are supposed to find PMF. I couldn’t disagree more.
Outside of a few markets that are currently obvious and competitive - I think that PMF is not something that you find, but rather it finds you, or is it?
It may happen quick at times or it may happen not as quick, sometimes it’s more of an accidental state that you encounter, like a car accident, sometimes it’s a huge crescendo that you know if you can reach it it’ll be el dorado - regardless it’s more an art than it is a science or a thing that you make happen
It’s like finding a romantic partner - yeah you found them, but did you really find them? Did they find you? Hm, now it gets interesting.. How did you meet? Yeah it was just an app but you happened to be looking at the same time?
Outside of a few markets that are currently obvious and competitive - I think that PMF is not something that you find, but rather it finds you, or is it?
It may happen quick at times or it may happen not as quick, sometimes it’s more of an accidental state that you encounter, like a car accident, sometimes it’s a huge crescendo that you know if you can reach it it’ll be el dorado - regardless it’s more an art than it is a science or a thing that you make happen
It’s like finding a romantic partner - yeah you found them, but did you really find them? Did they find you? Hm, now it gets interesting.. How did you meet? Yeah it was just an app but you happened to be looking at the same time?
Pruning futures, and cutting features - a lot of designing things is letting go of possibilities of what it can be and letting it be one thing that matters most but why? Why does it hurt to let go of all the other possibilities and future ways that this could be, sometimes it feels like I’m cutting off my limbs and I’m doing this willingly, no I’m doing this because I want what kinda bs this? The good kind
Writing is like climbing a mountain. From far away it looks like mountain this mountain you kinda have a general idea of what it looks like. And then you start climbing it and there’s a valley before the actual mountain. Well, turns is there’s also this river you have to cross.
Oh nice we’ve finally started climbing, well there’s also this ice face we have to climb. Glad I brought my crampons, and my ice axe here we go, and on and on until we actually get to the top.
Also if you don’t climb often you realize that getting up is actually about half the battle, now you gotta get down. This is a separate topic in mountaineering and I don’t know if it works with this metaphor but most climbs that end in death are on the way down. Usually because they forced the summit when the weather is bad.
Oh nice we’ve finally started climbing, well there’s also this ice face we have to climb. Glad I brought my crampons, and my ice axe here we go, and on and on until we actually get to the top.
Also if you don’t climb often you realize that getting up is actually about half the battle, now you gotta get down. This is a separate topic in mountaineering and I don’t know if it works with this metaphor but most climbs that end in death are on the way down. Usually because they forced the summit when the weather is bad.
Sometimes I feel like I have a lot of ideas to express and not enough time. When I feel this way I realize I’m not interested in expressing all of them, what I’m interested in more I remind myself is how to express the ones that matter given the constraints and conditions
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