Steve Spalding

Today's What's Hot vibe check is taupe. I have no interest in offering further detail.

Fair play!

I’m not sure this is true. A lot of folks with crappy views know a lot of other folks with crappy views and are very willing to sic them on you. I think its more related to account size than journo vs eugenics aficionado.

I think a lot of social networks have hurt folks to the point where they carry a ton of highly toxic priors with them across the internet, leading to a ton of kind of crappy downstream effects.

Happy to have you!

I think a lot of people would be a ton happier if they were more willing to say, “I have absolutely no idea, but I’d be willing to learn more.”

Brownian motion in csxxn!$ge? networks — final part

Brownian motion in human networks — part six

Brownian motion in human networks - part five

Likely many.

Brownian noise in human networks - part four

Brownian noise in human networks - part three

Brownian noise in human networks — part 2

Brownian noise in human networks - part one

This is true and good.

Young social networks are like those old Windows life sims where you watch the little dots run around and form little coalition's and play together and have fun and devour their enemies in bouts of carnal ecstasy.

I’m entirely convinced that people should see their Internet clout as a constant source of shame and regret, and if they did, peace would reign.

The platonic, unreachable ideal for all social networks is for no one, ever to believe that one day, with enough effort, they could be the coolest person in the room.

There is a very predictable plot arc to social networks.

1. First day of Summer Camp
2. Sophomore year of High School
3. That one time you went to LA.
4. Slightly boring but otherwise satisfying second job.
5. Grinding death march.
6. Fallout New Vegas

Pretty much what @nathanpmyoung.com said, BlueSky seems to be running mostly on vibes at this point, and many of us are trying not to break the spell.

We should just abstract the word “tweet” like we do words like Google or YoYo or Healthcare.

Birds are just retired dinosaurs.

Perhaps the toxic, parasocial heckscape was in us all along.

The vibes on What’s Hot have…soured a bit. Less first day of Summer Camp and more second quarter of Sophomore Year.

I think we might be doing the thing again, which would be a shame.

I don’t know when I became a Silicon Valley insider. This is sort of unsettling. Can I go back?

This is good and right.

Arguments about what to call the word-thoughts posted here is the path to the dark side. We should just agree to rotate.

Revenge is a dish served hashed.

It’s always a race to make this the case.