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I have the hardbound copies of these and they're incredible. Being able to leaf through them is fantastic. Highly recommended.

The Recognitions is a fantastic and rewarding book. It made an impact on my thinking that will probably never go away. Be patient with it and enjoy it.

Congratulations on the progress and getting this out the door! It's very exciting to see significant work on Beaker. I look forward to playing with it.

I can't recommend 'On Dialogue' [0] enough. I try to always keep a few copies around to give away. 'Wholeness and the Implicate Order' is also great.

As Werner Herzog says, 'Read! Read as much as you can!'

0 - https://www.amazon.com/Dialogue-Routledge-Classics-76/dp/041...

Any other recommendations in the category of long-term Japanese history and anthropology? I find this subject really interesting, but have struggled to find good sources.

The related book, David Bohm's 'On Dialogue' [0] is short, fantastic and very much worth reading. I recommend it highly.

For those not aware of Bohm (although he's covered in the linked article) he's, well, a pretty incredible guy [1].

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohm_Dialogue, https://www.amazon.com/Dialogue-Routledge-Classics-76/dp/041... 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bohm

I hadn't looked at this since I first read it — should have looked more closely.

There's also a statement up on their site:

"Unfortunately, having to apply US securities regulation to the system had a serious negative impact on our ability to launch Basis."

https://www.basis.io/

The simplicity of 'tell me about yourself' is brilliant. It's all too easy to say 'what do you do?' Which presumes that the other person actually wants to talk about their work.

I've been trying to switch to 'tell me about yourself', but it's somehow harder than I thought.

Were you (or anyone) able to open any of those .img files?

Addresses can be committed to the contract in exchange for sparks. The contract then holds those addresses, until someone burns a spark in exchange for them.

We're not sure exactly when or precisely how that market will get initialized — but you get the basic idea. Your star ownership will get mirrored in the contracts.

Yeah, I was struggling to understand the implementation details also.

Given: "Draft is in-progress and may be frequently updated in the next week(s)." I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, and just look forward to it getting more specific.

That's so interesting! And strange!

jraines mostly got it. It's worth noting the look and feel of the Sachs studio. I doubt anyone is taking that advice completely seriously. But if, instead, you just said 'have fun, do whatever!' things would probably be a huge mess.

"Always. Be. Knolling." [0], is probably my favorite of Tom Sachs' Ten Bullets. As a whole, it's a pretty good office manual. Better for a studio than a startup office — but worth a look nonetheless.

0 - https://youtu.be/49p1JVLHUos?t=15m38s

This whole crypto currency thing has an incredible bug bounty program.

I think it was on HN that I read someone compare social media on your phone to smoking in the 50s.

Always liked that comparison.

That's exactly what makes the problem so interesting.

The user experience of WeChat is clearly great, but that level of centralization really wouldn't fly over here.

"WeChat defies the popular belief that growth is all about user growth. Instead they think about growth as increasing value (e.g., the number of tasks WeChat can do in the daily lives of users).

Unlike other social products, WeChat does not only measure growth by number of users or messages sent. Instead they also focus on measuring how deeply is the product engaged in every aspect of daily life (e.g., the number of tasks WeChat can help with in a day)."

100 times this. I can't think of a single large Western consumer software company who can actually think like that.

It has become a commonplace that WeChat is incredible, and everyone over here wants to build it. But solving that problem is hard. Really hard.

What I love about Vadik is (what I see on his site) as his second principle:

Think long term (like 30 years from now)

I think that's the thing that always comes through in the spirit of his work. Not that the things he makes are always designed to survive, but they're designed for a vision of the future.

Would love a citation there, if you can find it.

Someone just told me this yesterday, and I found it so interesting. I'd be so curious to know what he was writing / who he was writing for. Those must be some fantastic docs!

I kept trying to click on the titles, thinking I'd get to at least see a repo or something.

I first met someone working on hypothes.is at a party about, I don't know, eight years ago? Ten years ago? They pitched me more or less this exact idea. It seemed interesting at the time.

Is this really how long it takes to realize something like this? Sort of boggles my mind.

It's sort of an incredible exchange. Seems worth seeing on its own.

I thought Steve wanted to put a "dent" in the universe. Not a "ding".

"...a language of description (programming language) that serves as an interface between the models in the human mind and those in computing hardware"

We do know what the models in our computing hardware look like, but do we actually know the models in the human mind?

Don't get me wrong, I love everything about this document. But I can't help but feel like that conceit is really dangerous. And seems common in this era of work.

I've been recommending this to people who don't have time to dive in to Curtis' work. It's a great introduction to his thinking.

It's so true. That post is both thorough and correct, and thoroughly depressing. Luckily your parents probably don't have a lot of bitcoin to protect.

Related, but not directly to the article:

This post [1] from Kraken covers how to protect yourself from this kind of attack. It's quite thorough. Interesting even if this isn't a concern for you directly.

1 - http://blog.kraken.com/post/153209105847/security-advisory-m...