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john omar retweeted
i vastly prefer being around people who default to "can" over "cannot".
so much of humanity is immediately drawn to why something isn't possible, won't work, will fail, is "wrong"...when life is just infinitely more enjoyable when you optimize to "possible".
The next wave of jobs in software will be making all legacy codebases faster and cheaper to run.
Last conversion of the Campfire from my token stash goes to JavaScript/Express. As with the others, I'm sure you can find more to optimize. But this gives you a sense of what order of magnitude these options exist within with agent-led development. github.com/basecamp/once-cam…
The lengths people will go to to fill the hole left by not having kids.
I've been actively fighting almost guaranteed age-related loneliness for years, studies show after age 30 you start seeing friends less and when you get older especially men don't have any social life left!
It's preventable, but it takes effort and initiative
We've now organized 70 weekly coworking days where we meet with friends and work together, do show and tell, and try help each other make things (also hardware stuff more recently)
We've also started organizing movie nights, art nights, barbecues, we watched the World Cup final on a projector screen in the garden with friends
We did a collage night the other day where we bought cheap gossip magazines, colored paper, and Pritt glue, and gave everyone scissors to make their own art, I think nobody spent time on their phone for at least 4 hours, making things puts you in a flow state and it's fun to do it in a group because you talk about different stuff while making things than you would for ex having a dinner
Movie nights are nice too but less popular I think cause everyone prefers to watch movies alone and also you can't really talk during a movie
Coworkings range from having sometimes 20 people to sometimes just 2 people, people have their own lives, but me and @rameerez still try to organize them weekly
One thing I realized is that we are usually the ones organizing stuff, but that's not a bad thing, there's even studies about this, there's usually a few people in a group who organize most of the events
If nobody in your group organizes stuff, it doesn't mean nobody wants to do stuff, but you have to take the initiative to bring people together which isn't easy in a time where phones and apps and the internet are simply easier and cheaper dopamine than driving to a friends house for a party
You can start with a coworking day, everyone brings their laptop, and you provide WiFi and coffee, then later you can try more types of events
Having an active social life is just as important or in some studies even more important for health than physical fitness
After a nice party I feel tired but satisfied, I had fun and didn't spend time on my phone or computer but instead talked and laughed with friends etc.
We don't drink alcohol with very few exceptions and nor do our friends, so it's mostly just having really nice food and sparkling water or kombucha etc, and we don't really need alcohol, after a few hours it gets fun enough anyway!
So I recommend everyone, take initiative, and organize something and get people together, it'll be fun! 😊
john omar retweeted
I've been actively fighting almost guaranteed age-related loneliness for years, studies show after age 30 you start seeing friends less and when you get older especially men don't have any social life left!
It's preventable, but it takes effort and initiative
We've now organized 70 weekly coworking days where we meet with friends and work together, do show and tell, and try help each other make things (also hardware stuff more recently)
We've also started organizing movie nights, art nights, barbecues, we watched the World Cup final on a projector screen in the garden with friends
We did a collage night the other day where we bought cheap gossip magazines, colored paper, and Pritt glue, and gave everyone scissors to make their own art, I think nobody spent time on their phone for at least 4 hours, making things puts you in a flow state and it's fun to do it in a group because you talk about different stuff while making things than you would for ex having a dinner
Movie nights are nice too but less popular I think cause everyone prefers to watch movies alone and also you can't really talk during a movie
Coworkings range from having sometimes 20 people to sometimes just 2 people, people have their own lives, but me and @rameerez still try to organize them weekly
One thing I realized is that we are usually the ones organizing stuff, but that's not a bad thing, there's even studies about this, there's usually a few people in a group who organize most of the events
If nobody in your group organizes stuff, it doesn't mean nobody wants to do stuff, but you have to take the initiative to bring people together which isn't easy in a time where phones and apps and the internet are simply easier and cheaper dopamine than driving to a friends house for a party
You can start with a coworking day, everyone brings their laptop, and you provide WiFi and coffee, then later you can try more types of events
Having an active social life is just as important or in some studies even more important for health than physical fitness
After a nice party I feel tired but satisfied, I had fun and didn't spend time on my phone or computer but instead talked and laughed with friends etc.
We don't drink alcohol with very few exceptions and nor do our friends, so it's mostly just having really nice food and sparkling water or kombucha etc, and we don't really need alcohol, after a few hours it gets fun enough anyway!
So I recommend everyone, take initiative, and organize something and get people together, it'll be fun! 😊
Great article on increasing solitude of our societies, in this case US but same probably in EU to a lesser extent:
"Derek Thompson's essay "You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner" argues that Americans have largely stopped having people over.
The headline stat comes from combining the old DDB Needham Life Style surveys Robert Putnam used in *Bowling Alone* with a new replication by Data For Progress.
The share of Americans who host friends or family at home at least monthly fell from 42% in 1975 to 12% in 2026, roughly a 70% drop. Most other forms of socializing also fell by double digits over the last 30 years, including cards, bars, sporting events, and volunteering. The decline in hosting was steeper than the much-discussed drop in church attendance.
He rules out two comforting explanations. People haven't just moved dinners to restaurants, since solo dining is rising and face-to-face socializing is down overall. They also haven't replaced parties with other social activities. Exercise and travel are up, but exercise is mostly solitary, and time spent at home has jumped sharply since the 2010s.
His explanations:
1. Harried dual-earner households. As societies get richer, leisure starts to feel like work, and planning a dinner party is basically unpaid project management. Women historically ran the family social calendar. When they moved into paid work, men didn't take over that job. He admits this can't be the whole story, because total leisure time has actually increased.
2. Intensive parenting. Parents, especially fathers, now spend far more time with their kids, and that time comes out of evenings that used to go to hosting adults.
3. Shrinking friend networks. Close friendships are declining, most sharply among people without college degrees, so hosting is becoming a luxury good. People who never host skew toward independents and non-graduates. He speculates that weaker social ties may lead to weaker party attachment, rather than the other way around.
4. Home is too comfortable. Americans spent almost two extra hours a day at home between 2003 and 2022, much of it on screens and short-form video.
His closing idea is a "Lump of Leisure" theory, a twist on the Lump of Labor fallacy. Technology hasn't made human work unnecessary, but it has made other people less necessary for fun. Social leisure turns out to be finite and easy to displace.
He frames this as a coordination failure rather than a personal one: a dinner party requires schedules, cleaning, food, allergies, and the risk of a dull evening, while TikTok asks nothing of you.
A footnote adds that if everyone gets a bit busier, the difficulty of coordinating a get-together rises multiplicatively, so small increases in individual busyness could produce large drops in socializing overall."
derekthompson.org/p/the-deat…
Moving to Linux/Omarchy is a lot easier now that I can have claude debug why my wifi is dropping packets or figure out how to get my fingerprint reader to be used for auth.
Omarchy fomo drove me to order a cheap Beelink mini.
Omarchy Quattro is out!! This is one of the greatest software releases in my professional career. I hope you enjoy using it just as much as I did building it ✌️ omarchy.org/
The blandest house in a soulless suburban neighborhood can be a palace of joy, beauty and meaning if there's a child inside.
yo
this post affected me deeply
but not in the way you'd think
it affected me deeply because i'm reading it and thinking
why the fuck is one of greatest minds of my generation, one of the most powerful people my age talking about telephone boxes when he doesn't even have kids
now i could say "maybe he can't" and that is sad but say that then
I think you can have kids
i could think "well it's none of my business" but actually it is because you're one of the greatest minds of my generation and one of its most powerful people
you're kind of like taylor swift for nerds
so you affect the entire culture at the rate of like 100 million times the normal person
like it or not you are a role model
with great $ and power comes responsibility
so yes it is my business because you affect the culture
have some kids bro
if you want to experience real beauty, something more beautiful than the world's most beautiful telephone box (yeah i know it's a booth), something more beautiful than the most exquisite european cafe patio
you have children
My euro wife made the same comment our second day back living in the US. The eurocope in Pieter's comments couldn't be stronger.
My biggest shock today was that America still has post offices, like ones you can actually walk into with your stuff and package it and they help you send it out
We don't have them in most of Europe anymore
You have tiny little counters in dirty tobacco shop and a tiny DPD or DHL or PostNL branded counter with agressive staff that really do not want to help you, and no they don't have boxes
Here's a FedEx post office we walked in today, they have envelopes, boxes, bubble wraps, everything!
You'll say but FedEx is private, yes you mean like most European postal companies now that are also private?
Just something as basic as this is abundance and we don't have it anymore in Europe
Never forget Long Island Blockchain.
Allbirds announced a switch from shoes to AI and its stock jumped 600 percent theverge.com/news/912484/all…
Can confirm. Years of living in one of the wealthier neighborhoods in Germany, I've never met a single German who earned the money to buy a house here.
Also lived in France and Italy and saw the same.
This spaceship called earth.
As communities gather this weekend, @AstroVicGlover reflects on the shared spaceship we all call home: Earth.
We're going back to the moon for the first time in 50 years and most Americans have no idea.
We still do extraordinary things.
BREAKING🚨: This is might be the most important photo of this century taken by @AJamesMcCarthy
“We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
