MattDemers

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by MattDemers 1y ago
I think people also don't acknowledge how much terminology, slang and other culture originate and spread there. When it breaches into Twitter (usually through funposters) people kind of ignore the unsavoury origin and rewrite the histo
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Climbing a mountain to meet an old man(mattd.substack.com)
1 points by MattDemers 3y ago|0 comments
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by MattDemers 3y ago
Drink the verification can.
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by MattDemers 3y ago
>Why remove it in the first place? Because that would get in the way of Pocket.
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by MattDemers 3y ago
While I realize this does nothing for mobile (RIP third-party clients), Control Panel for Twitter [1] has been nice for me to use as a browserscript. Defaults/hides "For You" and tweaks a bunch of other stuff (hideable trends
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by MattDemers 3y ago
I like this a lot, thanks!
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by MattDemers 3y ago
Thank you; finding a habit tracker on IOS that isn't juiced to the gills with social and/or subscription features is impossible.
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by MattDemers 3y ago
>Implicit in the article is an assumption that life is lacking, and I'm not sure that is a healthy outlook. It's essential to the eventual "I have a course/lifestyle/Notion template to sell you" pitch that p
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by MattDemers 3y ago
This reminds me a lot of TransparentTextures.com; thanks!
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by MattDemers 4y ago
This means that management needs to be good enough to realize that it's a good idea to include young talent, give them opportunity, and respect their different perspectives. This means better stories, and also means that the management
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by MattDemers 4y ago
It's funny how I'm STILL looking for an RSS solution that feels the same. I've settled on TTRSS, but it's not 100% there.
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by MattDemers 4y ago
A reminder that if you pay for ProtonMail, you get a free SimpleLogin account to go with it.
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by MattDemers 4y ago
It was to podcasting what House of Cards, Orange is the New Black and Arrested Development Season 4 were to Netflix.
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by MattDemers 4y ago
You gotta love the usage of social justice vocabulary with this. Find a way that it'll "impact low-income taxpayers" and suddenly it's morally correct to keep things from being more convenient for the vast majority of pe
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by MattDemers 4y ago
Selling Notion templates is a complete cottage industry right now. So many people who were once selling video courses are just bundling up what they think mid-level managers will think looks sexy/smart from a note-taking/organizat
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by MattDemers 4y ago
>I hope one day governments catch up to the harms they're doing, and regulate them just as they did for Big Tobacco and many other truly evil industries. But how does that happen when our government officials (at least in North Amer
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by MattDemers 4y ago
If you're a fan of Calvin, would definitely recommend the 10th Anniversary Book [1], as it has its fair share of commentary by Watterson. [1]: https://archive.org/details/calvinhobbestent00watt
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by MattDemers 4y ago
Serial was probably the first "killer app" of podcasting, with an episodic look at a crime that they (arguably) had a hand in reversing the decision for. Every bit of True Crime podcasting owes something to Serial, and it was a no
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by MattDemers 4y ago
>The finger was shot off during the invasion of Juno Beach on D-Day. By friendly fire, apparently!
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by MattDemers 4y ago
>What I get from this sentence (out of context) is to not burn bridges. Have a way to go back if you decide the new direction isn't right for you. I think that it's more speaking to... "I know why this thing that I'm
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A perception of yourself that you just can't shake(mattd.substack.com)
2 points by MattDemers 4y ago|3 comments
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by MattDemers 4y ago
Got inspired by some writing about personal change that happens when your brain says "Nope, this (person, job, situation) isn't working for you anymore." Felt it applied well to creatives and athletes who feel like they still
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by MattDemers 4y ago
>Yet in no where in the article did the affected parties go on record to corroborate this. Not excusing the article, but it feels very rare that we get someone "on the record" or an objective "this is actually happening du
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by MattDemers 4y ago
I've been using Obsidian in order to store a "clips" folder with some front matter/tags/aliases.
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by MattDemers 4y ago
I'll agree; we're just getting to the "Substacks writing about writing Substacks" phase now. Up until now all those people were on Medium.
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by MattDemers 4y ago
I guess my thoughts are: isn't this activism, though? "They are using their time to impart the results that they want. They're developing the tools and implementing them to get their opinions and actions across to as many peo
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by MattDemers 4y ago
>My biggest frustration with the self-help industry is that nothing addresses the fundamental action that needs to be taken. It's little tricks and hacks. They might work temporarily but then that goes away...because guess what you
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by MattDemers 4y ago
>Important to know that most "normies" that consume home automation have a tech representative who deals with their setup. I wouldn't have assumed that; I was more thinking the "got some Hue bulbs for Christmas and so
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by MattDemers 4y ago
> The web has changed but Google isn't keeping up. I'd argue that Google incentivized the web to change in a way in order to better exploit/profit from Google, and that's led to a net negative experience for Google us
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by MattDemers 4y ago
A browser search shortcut for: site:reddit.com OR site:news.ycombinator.com %s

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