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I bring back wisdom from earlier days, which I am certain modern youth will appreciate and admire!

The dead art of music journalism in modern terms. Back in the days of print, it was photocopied memetic street fighting, where you would attempt to come up with a more killer meme than your opponents in dialectic, one so compelling it would reshape the past as well as the present. Thank fuck music journalism is utterly obsolete. I still write, converse and think like that, though. AN ASSERTION IS PROVEN BY SOUNDING REALLY GOOD.

The Four Hour Work Week, which I have just read. I have no plans to go into Internet marketing. But the book tries to explain to the modern generation what the hell we did all day before the Internet. The phrase "poverty jetset" was commonplace. I spent 1993 sitting on the front porch with my housemate the burnt-out ex-Communist, reading all the newspapers, drinking coffee and smoking Lucky Strikes. The book describes the slacker dream in a way that The Official Slacker Handbook doesn't quite communicate out of its time.

It has encouraged me to open GMail every now and then instead of having it open all the time, to read books and to appreciate that I have a really quite excellent job, in which I am not only paid quite well to do some good for the world but can work from home pretty much any time I need to, and go to the office because high-bandwidth communication means a lot less nasty surprises for the sysadmin.

Underground. Wow, communications technology really was shit in the late '80s. No wonder we were still so impressed with photocopiers.

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Date: 2010-09-24 11:21 pm (UTC)
ciphergoth: (Default)
From: [personal profile] ciphergoth
AN ASSERTION IS PROVEN BY SOUNDING REALLY GOOD.

To the extent that you care about believing accurately, you should worry about this a lot!

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Date: 2010-09-25 07:40 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ciphergoth

I do know [livejournal.com profile] hirez - marvellous chap! Could you give an example of the sort of thing from his writing that I need to be reading? Thanks!

My recommended reading on this subject is "Why do humans reason?" The usual caveats about evolutionary psychology apply, but it still remains a useful source of hypothesis generation and pulls together a lot of fascinating research to tell a compelling story. If you haven't already read it, though, you should first read "Biased assimilation" - a classic paper on confirmation bias in the way we interpret research.

Cheers!

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Date: 2010-09-25 09:19 am (UTC)
ciphergoth: (Default)
From: [personal profile] ciphergoth
I can't work out if you're serious. Are you serious?

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Date: 2010-09-25 07:48 am (UTC)
ciphergoth: (Default)
From: [personal profile] ciphergoth
Blurring that line doesn't seem like a good idea to me at all!

But while we're talking musical jokes, did you see Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with the pentatonic scale? Incredibly charming.

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Date: 2010-09-25 09:27 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ciphergoth
Blurring the line between things like musical jokes and actual assertions. You of all people surely agree that some people are just mistaken about matters of fact - please don't go all "what is truth" on me here.

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Date: 2010-09-24 11:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shadowdaddy.livejournal.com
I've not read Tim Ferriss' book but I know of him (follow him on twitter) and admit I'm intrigued. Would consider it all snake oil if he didn't seem to be eating his own dogfood and living the dream he sells.

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Date: 2010-09-25 12:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shadowdaddy.livejournal.com
Whereas I am a slacker by nature, but haven't yet figured out how to make it profitable.

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Date: 2010-09-25 09:46 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sidhedmento
So you read the book! Yes the tech was primative in comparison but it still kind of blows my mind that a kid can work out what whistles and clicks sent down a phone line can get him free international calls. I can't even imagine having a brain that works like that. And then run around in vans doing the shit they did. Clever, fearless little buggers.

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Date: 2010-09-25 09:58 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sidhedmento
AN ASSERTION IS PROVEN BY SOUNDING REALLY GOOD
with the expectation that something unprovable cannot sound good by the nature of it's lack of truth (or whatever your point is)? Then YES.

I second your points about art and what-not from that other comment.

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Date: 2010-09-26 04:00 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sidhedmento
Should I ever need to apply an original label anything I shall refer to your well honed skills before my own.

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