June 26 - July 15
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Please note that 'psychopathy' is a street term, and not part of our medical canon. Maybe everyone else is just sad, hopeful, and easily manipulated by narratives? :P
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So, will AOC's public life be long enough for us to see her become the villain? #totd
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If anyone wants a fully furnished bar in Telawi, for 50k MYR.
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Update, 2019-07-09: so far two teams that checked this out reported back to me. Both teams have not yet decided to pursue this, and one cited unavailability of complete accounts and tenancy as reasons for impasse.
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TFW:
- Some teacher behaves like an explosive snowflake.
- Some student tries to launch an Instagram career with a few welts and no editing whatsoever.
- Some parent tries to help by launching a viral campaign.
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Ladies and gentlemen, in repressed Malaysia, I present to you, the power of skin...
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So I missed a message from two weeks ago, on LinkedIn, from someone who speaks to me once every two years on average. Now I have to check LinkedIn messages every hour for a week? :P
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deepfake nudes: AI has finally caught up with a minor capability of my own brain. (Maybe not... but almost... I think given that I can do an entire room in a fraction of a second, the AI still has a little way to go... I expect to be surpassed within a month.) :P
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Piston-based engine R&D is fun to read. Why can't we have equally competitive work on expanders and compressors? Lol ok i kinda know
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Tired. Always a matter of context switching. But I suppose if I wanted to do less in life for less risk, I would not be in the current job.
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I think one of my largest memory buffers is for aural data. The day after a talky day, I retain most of the soundbites from yesterday's conversations, in the background ruminations of my short term memory. This is good for review, but bad for moving to other work immediately. Of course this is due to some training as well. I need to revisit active management of this.
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I used to be rather vocal about child rights and corporal punishments. Now that they are trending, it is amusing to watch, and also amusing to add nuances to the arguments. Especially when people decry corporal punishments as being damaging because of the pain inflicted - that is not a good argument. Pain is not inherently bad. It is the absence of verbal reasoning which is bad.
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Weak, slightly bloated, and physically malconditioned. (Nothing to do with stature: I have the same BMI when I'm in better shape for the most part. Admittedly I never bothered to build showy amounts of muscle. Lol)
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I've started asking my dates if they can thrive in relationships with someone who doesn't find individual people to be special. Meaning I will commit to a worldview of never granting them a special sentimental status beyond contractual obligations. It's a good filter. I shall keep it.
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It's been almost two years on the current campaign - there are, many adversaries, and I grow weary. However, I have always been, weary - and so I have always conducted myself under the presumption that one day either I shall be less so, or simply dead. On we go. I see advertisements from people hoping to get into conversation with someones intelligent - I haven't had that aspiration in many years. Almost fifteen. It is statistically improbable. As is the probability of success of any business venture I would bother to study. Why do people enjoy certainty - usually it is because they flee discomfort. But I have been too comfortable for much of my life, so usually I seek turbulence. And people who cannot fathom this are bewildered. Why?
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Interviews with convicted psychopaths: I find it amusing that people behave as if, by ignoring these phenomena, it helps them to go away. (There may be good data on that, however.)
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Off to fix bugs. Enforced waking, feeding, work. But not the most effective of any of these.
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Here's where I get off on the casual use of the word, objectification. I find it deployed in the form, "objectification of a physiologically type-formed entity, neglects that entity's psychical qualities." But when I look at people I evaluate both, and USUALLY I find their psyches less well-formed than their physiques, I think, most people are uglier, dumber, less constructed, whatever, on the inside than on the outside. Why discuss your secrets, instead, let us discuss your superficial displays. If you wish, share more. But you should already expect to have come from nothing, and to be recognised for it. That is basic among people.
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/commented on hitting children/ I wish there was a modern protocol for physical challenges, of the "I seek to discipline my child, I have filled in the form, acknowledging all required handicaps granted to the smaller player, and requesting we be armed with baseball bats", variety. It would be so entertaining.
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Caning should be conducted as a sport. The teacher gets a cane. The student gets a cane. The smaller person gets a handcap. There must be a referee.
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Any athlete who went to a newspaper with those injuries in the photo would be laughed at. I laugh at the photos. Hahaha. What a wuss.
Having ignored the subject, and now laughed at it, I expect to now fight and lose...
Need only time and place...
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I've been really slow. I just realised that squareup.com is a deployment of the English phrase "square up," and not some arbitrary reference to the positivity of the company.
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Not sure if my reaction times are slower this month due to (a) weak basal physical condition (b) increased physiological demands of current physical conditioning reducing resources available for cognition (c) disorganised sleep (d) general trauma from long-term high-memory context-switching.
Hmm. Curious. Nevermind. Easy jobs first - off to get groceries.
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What's the price and location for a carwash that removes birdshit, or do I have to do this myself? The RM10 guys are like eight to a team, but no one scrubs hard. Lol
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I must work on standardising my language for communication with people who view objectification as a problem. I think to make clear, that we are not on the same team. Lol. I suppose it is prudent to articulate that objectification of the human spirit is one of my core projects. And one of my pet peeves is the set of people who do not seek to objectify their own thoughts and feelings. It is of no ultimate value to be allied with anyone who views their own experience as special. Of course, in jotting this down, I shall have to be wary of the class of users of the term, "objectivism," for whom the term carries historical references which have no technical grounding whatsover lol. To be subject to a set of information is to have processes which are determined by that information; to objectify a set of information is to be able to subvert any said processes, with knowledge of said processes and their modifiability. Lol.
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/commented on how childhood disciplines shape our thinking/
Perhaps I am so immune to trivial disincentives to the point where as a compensatory measure, I prefer to work on rather high risk projects - where the motivation is complete systemic failure if shit doesn't get done.
The way I see it, I didn't get PTSD as much as I graduated to special forces :p *huge clumsy analogy not meant to offend actual military members*
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Xi, Trump Agree to Restart Trade Talks, China Says:
"Let's just fuck with all the little people. You doing Ok?"
"Yeah, I'm doing Ok. How's Washington doing?"
"It's Ok. How's Beijing?"
"Not bad bro."
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Look, people. Brainwashing is functionally equivalent to execution via torture. You don't get the same person back. It happens all the time. You should expect it of life, regardless of your nation and society. You don't write the rules that other people live by. And the price of freedom is?
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Concerns:
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Bookkeeping.
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Compensation & benefits plans structured to minimise volatility.
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Advertising spend, targeting, art, and copy; the correlation with sales.
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The implementation and maintenance of Carnot cycles.
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The arbitrage between available resources and the long-term value of the company.
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The automation of electrical appliances, optimised for energy and labour cost reduction.
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The plumbing of sewerage, and its maintenance.
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A few thoughts laid out for review.
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Off to remove myself from one mundane responsibility.
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B12 supplementation before bed. Been off it most of the week. Not sure if I'm growing dependent on it. Under observation.
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Reflecting on loss. It doesn't get to me in the humanistic sense, for the most, part, except when I take a break from work to write poetry. But being stretched tightly at work, and driving the business fast (not as fast as I'd like, but still a bit too fast as far as stunt performances go), without a co-pilot, there remains a lot of trauma from having to recalculate risks on the fly. Well, that's just life as one chooses to live it, I suppose.
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Finally found the lady who's dropping pet food around the street outside. I told her I would not disclose her identity, today. However, I also told her to get her shit together, and to drag all her support groups, to lobby Putrajaya via the local Member of Parliament, for Federal Budgets and Cabinet-level attention to the handling of stray animals. I offered to be the lobby administrator. I look forward to her response. If she doesn't get her people together, to fix this properly, the city council is just going to get non-stop complaints about littering of pet food and strays.
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/commented on a comment on 2020 being in six months/ I tend to take the approach that 2050 is in 30 years and I'm just going to sit here and flick peanuts at people until (a) I'm dead (b) I'm free enough to do something else
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/ letter to an old friend (perhaps not a mutual view) / Hello. It's been a while. I still don't know exactly what you think which you don't want to talk about (though to some degree of course I can guess). Recently I met someone who typed ISTJ too. She reminded me of you. I have been testing her limits and so far, I've decided not to engage too closely. The aversion to low-context cultures seems to be a common thing. Be well. Miss you lots.
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The nature of work with an open mind, one that is welcoming of weakness, is arduous. Most people who progress quickly, do so at the expense of the weak, enjoying only the company of those whom they perceive to be equals, or greater than themselves.
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"Suffer no fools, surround yourselves with greatness," these are the thoughts of a mind intent on growth. And at what cost?
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Work with the unwise is always slow. One may extend speech, and find it welcome, and thereby progress consistently; just as often, one will speak to an unwelcome spirit, and then one must wait for that spirit to revert to a state of calm. Meanwhile work will be halted, because there are no other spirits to deploy. Some prefer to apply a salve upon the unruly, and thereby acquire their interest. I believe an unruly spirit will decay, and either remove itself from, or transform into a form that is fitter for, the organisation. I find it disingenuous to distract colleagues from disagreements; disagreements must be stripped naked and subject to the elements, until they cohere.
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Some of us grew too much, too quickly. We remain of infinite patience, limited only by the requirements of external threats upon our forms. Those who are weaker, benefit from our being. Those who are stronger, do not mind that we exist so long as we do not challenge them. We provide growth in small places.
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/a moderate example of negative criticism, from a chat on how much one ought to rip into a fool, before it is of negative ROI/
"Hello John, you have done the minimum work that allows us to not fire you. You are pleased with yourself. However we cannot say we are completely pleased with you. Here are the costs you have incurred due to errors made in the past. This means that in the event of reduced resourcing, you should beware that you are closest to the door. Do what you can to schedule our time to fix your weaknesses. Over the past year, no opportunities have been taken by yourself. Good luck, and may you thrive to the best of your ability despite a record to the contrary."
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(already logged, do not relog) / Is this trolling? (It's about Sarah Fabian.)
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"Well, I agree that a long debate is not fit for this location.
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My summary appreciation is that morals are synthetic and we choose whether we believe in killing or nurturing on a completely arbitrary basis. I want to be completely amoral at the bottom of it all, and therein lies our disagreement -- you may actually believe in a higher good. In which case you would rightly believe me to be evil, according to your definition.
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I don't share your assumptions about right and wrong. So my view that the (person) is admirable is predicated upon that. :)"
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I think I am hitting more targets on rest than on recreation. Fatigue due to imbalanced stimulation of cognitive networks should be addressed more carefully. Perhaps I actually need to take coffee breaks. :P Particularly ones where I'm not investigating the fears tremblings of a potential partner.
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Back on college I would schedule entire days just to think about current issues. I suppose I require more scheduled time. Ah well, infrequent maintenance.
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Time to get into position. A writhing mass of plebitude is out there. Into the morass...
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Probably good idea to take half a day off for recreational thought. But which half? Probably after I run into office to coach on quality and download some data. Maybe I can get by just making a point to be more analytical about kinesthetic data in between bits of paperwork.
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Some of the most irritating queries I get about work, are actually not about work. If I offer a company profile, the queries evaporate. They want to know about my feelings about work - are you fucking stupid? If I wanted to have an opinion about work outside of work, I would not have designed the work to be as it is exactly. Lol. These are the people who begrudgingly force themselves to do things they find obscene, who have regrets about their choices, and who are easily divided in their interests. Why do they bother, to persist? Granted, probably 50-70% of the workforce doesn't have a coherent view of why they do what they do, and what it has to do with their lives in general. So I am being quite mean just by writing this as I contemplate their follies... right? 🤔
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I spend a lot of time thinking about who we will have to fire eventually. I haven't decided so I am working on advertising instead :P
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from a conversation on raising controversial propositions in public/
I generally wouldn't bother arguing with religious humanists on the value of humans. I just tell them "HELLO, I DISAGREE." And I leave it. And drop a lot of laughing smileys. Because that's the etiquette of free speech bombing.
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/chatting with a remote date; on why I have a retirement mindset: /Retirement: oh, well, I think it is a combination of being smart and lazy. I was like this before I graduated. I have not found that [working very hard for targets set by other people yields good value]. So I just set my own targets based on what I find amusing, and most of these do not require much money. But one should not ignore money entirely, for balance, so I do commercial projects because I think I am still young enough to burn a lot of energy and compete in hard games.
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As an asshat who has figured some hard problems encountered in the thought processes of humans, who now waits for other people to figure out pretty basic problems encountered in the thought processes of machines, I wonder if I will ever get tired of waiting... or if I will wait so long that there will be no more hard problems encountered in the thought processes of machines, for me to work on.
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It has not felt like a productive day. Here is my review.
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Three major conversations occured, wherein I evangelised a model for food delivery - each of these conversations required realtime tracking of the counterparty's mental model, dynamic reassessment of semantic tactics, sentence construction, etc.
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Payroll was administered. This is the first month wherein it involved monthly invoices for three months forward, per staff, due to new incentive structures. Many buttons were pressed to bring staff this information.
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I coached two industry players on the soundness of their judgments on industry-related issues. More mental modelling. Some ingestion and regurgitation of two business models was required. A quotation and proposal were emitted.
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A single cheque was written for a supplier, and deposited, and documented.
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I reviewed digital advertising, performing the necessary adjustments, and gambits. A daily chore. I have not made time to deploy yesterday's art and copy.
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I had three or four social conversations with women of varying affinity. These were not too busy.
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I coached staff on quality. I monitored their peer to peer education. I scheduled a meeting for tomorrow.
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I engaged in various social conversations on varying topics, with strangers. More mental modelling.
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I checked my breathing. Neural tone has improved.
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I kept an eye on machinery and power expenditure. There are no new failures today.
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Stop maintaining friends who view sex as shameful. No need for toxic behaviour, duh.
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My preferred pronoun is "it."
Duh...
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I spent a lot of my day, coaching, or training, whichever you want to call it. While I do see progress in the staff, I find little that memorable about the task of coaching in and of itself. I have been at it for twenty some years, and humans started looking all the same after the first four years or so ...
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Working on rebalancing my cognitive portfolio on a daily basis. Perhaps a safe reaction to caffeination is to engage in physical conditioning such that more somatic nerves are stimulated immediately to diversify thought processes.
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While working out, I think of all the friends I have lost, and I find that I still consider the losses affordable. Am I too wealthy, or simply in denial of loss?
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Pls. Do the bottlecap kick challenge with an unsupported bottle, then tell me it's difficult. Cannn oneeee...
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In case you're practicing, try this: start by using your finger to flick the cap off in order to understand the frictional coefficient, and angular momentum required for the task. Use the original cap of the bottle, but do not overtighten it. If you must, oil the cap beforehand.
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If you really wanf to cheat, just use a loose cap.
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What do you do, if by merely existing you infuriate your peers? Cease to exist. Sounds legit.
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Done prodding at work for the day. I think.
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/commented on a young person's lsck of motivation/ I decided I was retired before I graduated. This doesn't mean I have money, it just means I don't need money to be happy. Now I'm 36. I run a small local business. Many people dislike my work, or my interactions with them outside my work. But I am the same person I was at 14, and 19, etc. It has been a happy time. It's easier to suicide, but more interesting to stay alive and just poke at the world to see if I can get it to be less predictable.
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More haptic feedback is required, so it's a long sleeves kinda day.
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Coach all the things, to the things.
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Video comments are my new favourite thing.
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I, a non-foodie, shall accompany my friend to a French restaurant, as a matter of social pedantry. In auxiliary function, I believe this will also increase my data on the local market, within the industry I work in.
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Dog level emergency. Today someone brought in a can of beer...
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/commented/ There was once, someone brought in a can of beer, and then, we chased them out with a broom, and the strays of the neighbourhood were aroused, and rushed in to join the commotion, and we fed them the beer, and they chased away the beer bringers, and smoke descended upon us from a dozen volatile observers, and the strays were incensed and returned in packs, and chased away the smokers, and the Imam came by, awoken by the strays, and a cleansing occurred. And all was clean again.
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Reading about 8chan's origin story and wondering if I would chan sites if I was interested in the medium :p
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Thus begins the next day. The last two months have been a routine slog of testing out new staff and team dynamics at arm's length. Without any staff capable of weilding a whip, I have been encouraging peers to simply jostle about until temperatures reach an uncomfortable level, such that the weak ones fall out. Some interventions have been necessary to even-out power imbalances, uncertainties of direction, and parochial sensitivities. We shall simply see what they make of themselves. Every day presents new opportunities for error. The default direction is growth.
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As usual, I worry that I set targets for myself that are too high. However, if the targets are achievable, they are not interesting. So, aim remains a dynamic variable, in a broader feedback loop.
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I'm waiting for bots to be granted legal personhood. Not even kidding - I have already conducted myself for years with the understanding that they will be no less worthy in terms of consciousness than organic meat. Not clear? Perhaps you think too highly of your own experiences, and too lowly of others.
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I'm waiting for bots to be granted legal personhood. Not even kidding - I have already conducted myself for years with the understanding that they will be no less worthy in terms of consciousness than organic meat. Not clear? Perhaps you think too highly of your own experiences, and too lowly of others.
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I gave my staff an unpaid-optional assignment today. I told them to rewrite the entire company's business processes in Bengali. I told them it would help them perform better at work, if they just taught their instructors how to speak technical Bengali. Plus by the time they're done, they'd have a written manual for running similar companies that could be deployed in any country where people speak Bengali... lol
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So there's this girl I've been on exactly one date with. I'm certain she's too conservative to be a good match for a whack job like me, but she's cute and she hasn't completely turned-off yet, so we just banter, I guess. Today:
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Me: Got your weekend stuffed with dates? ;)
She: Wanna take me on a fancy date?
Me: [In short, I explain that don't think it's something I'd wager a lot of time on. But I have no idea where this is going, and I'm a gambling man, so I offer to pick up the tab as long as she drives, and picks the place.]
She: How do you rate your proposal?
Me: 50 cents? How do you rate yours? What does the rate mean, actually? :P
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Ok, that was my lunch break entertainment. Back to work.
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Fixed the stereo (equaliser). Now I need to rebrain the office soundscape... urgh.
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"Oh she, with the jewel in her lotus," ohm mani padme hohum... /commenting to friends/ You know my style... sit back and watch them screw up. Go in when shit hits fan. No energy to move faster than that. So the real challenge is... how much can I watch in silence before I get off my ass and start pushing people around lol. /context: I got two semi noobs running a full cafe rn - as in this minute/
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- kinesthetic latency ❌
- speech library ✔️
- factory SOP library ✔️
- recent staffing error cache ✔️
- strategic approaches to common errors cache ✔️
- tactical error handling buffer ✔️ (memory error correction is working well enough to retain the current game in memory)
- standard cached reference for personal nutrition, clothing, and grooming ✔️
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Fixing, kinesthetic latencies. Then off we go...
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/commented, on one of those dead horse debates/ The (statutory) institution of marriage confers XYZ legal status to some limited subset, say ABC, of the population.
A policy rationale could include the value of granting XYZ,based on various optimisation targets.
There might ultimately be no rationale, and instead of expanding ABC to be more inclusive, we simply delete XYZ instead.
Lol
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I was slightly confused by someone who confused the use of "no beef," with "no skin in the game," or at least that's what I think they meant to say.
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I've been amused by anthropology on online social networks, since browsing through the wallless graph of Friendster, through profiles from subcultures other than my own. Today I've seen people who:
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- imagine rainbow bridges in the afterlife, for themselves and their pets
- imagine relationships with their family, persisting after life
- imagine a judiciary and canvas of deities, observing them and their neighbours, on an hourly basis
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So, to be completely fair. While they look completely psychotic to me, I'm sure, I look completely psychotic to them, for having none of these beliefs, hopes, or aspirations.
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I am reminded that the point of civil society has always been to determine how to co-exist with people whose existence means nothing to me.
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I had to report my taxi driver for being touchy. Well, that's a first!
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/commented/
First a disclaimer. If you think I am trolling, just let me know it sounds wrong, and I will delete the comment.
To answer the question, "Malaysians" are a fiction in the same way that "the normal person" is a fiction. Some few fellers will make loud videos to push their agendas - many others are just gullible and will let themselves be manipulated. "The price of freedom is eternal vigilence," is a trite but useful adage. Hoping people will leave X alone is a sure way for X to be bullied. Whatever X is, if X wishes to persist in a system, X has to compete. Information warfare is a reality of information systems. Now there are smart and dumb ways to go to war. A smaller and weaker power can pretend to do nothing, in order to attract no attention, but should retain hypersensitivity in recording the development of latent threats. Of course, do not engage an opposing force while unable to defeat it. But if strategic efforts are made where a large and clumsy force is not watching, then small surgical efforts can yield large gains for a smaller force.
What is a good way to change people's minds to become allies, without attracting attention from obvious haters? That is an interesting question lah.
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TFW Your business has been operating for four years and shareholders still tell you to do things that are irrelevant to the core business model.
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/commented on personal interests and earning powers for young people - first note of the day, so not particularly coherent/
One doesn't need to have a high income to thrive. You can design good life around minimum wage if you like. It's not for everyone.
In general, I don't mind working with greedy people if they are also smart. I don't mind working with [greedy and stupid] people as long as they are disciplined.
So I conclude based on the evidence that I prefer hanging out with people who exhibit discipline, intelligence, and self-contentment in that priority.
It just so happens that the available jobs in the market led me to open my current business. It is not that I am passionate about my business product - absolutely not. Lol.
I am just passionate about avoiding whimsical, stupid, and insecure people, in that priority. And many of them are naturally predisposed to work in office jobs because office jobs are a safer place for weaker individuals to federate into stronger organisations.
Perhaps.
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Today I am prioritising more time for thought. Let us see if this helps. Meanwhile many issues remain which require a semblance of brute force. Or do they?
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Getting more sleep. Brain repairs. Now all more sensitive to data. Now I have to wear more protection in office. More health, more problems? #fwp
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Hah, now the taxi company asks me to make a police report on the driver I reported. Fair dinkum. More things to clutter my day. Community service FTW.
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I just realised our largest competitor makes losses equal to 7X our entire balance sheet... per hour. Not really competitors then, are we?
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Dr M urges industry to work with TVET institutions to create specialist workforce:
The problem with human resources development is a lack of fundamentals. Trying to skip the fundamentals to achieve trendy configurations is what got us here from twenty years ago. Don't let it happen again.
Basic infrastructure is missing, not so much new technologies. Fix these in the right order.
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Taking a breather to defrag. Let's lay out the last 24h of interaction as a forest with entities given node IDs.
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- I work at A, where B is a customer
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- B and i have discussed deal C with mr D, and deal E with mr F, which are all in the same industry as A
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- F recently repriced his offer for E, so I pitched E on groups G and H
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- misters I and J formed a team and examined E but were not happy with the product; misters K, L, and M formed another team and examined E, but were not able to obtain clear documentation on E; seeing this, I updated B, G, and H, that E has not performed well as an option; and that was that
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- meanwhile, on a meeting to see K,L,M, I was accosted by N, an affiliate of the O software application which provided the ride booking
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- P from O called me, and requested a police report, so I made my way to Q and talked to R, S, and T, before returning a copy of the new report to O
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- meanwhile, at A, staff U and V have been ill, whereas W and X are new new, and the most clued-in are Y and Z
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- A's mechanical subsystems AA and AB broke in the last day, and I have temporarily patched AA while leaving AB unresolved as it is backed up redundantly by AC; i should get to AB tomorrow, or whenever AC backs up as well
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- also at A, software subsystems AE, and AD have been receiving most of my attention outside of meatcoaching; AE is for bookkeeping, and has monthly major routines, AD is for marketing communications, and has thousands of moving parts which are currently adjusted manually with partial automation, by myself
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- acquaintances from a long time ago, AG and AH, from group AF, are popping by A for a networking session later; AI may also attend; AJ will not;
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- a fleeting counterparty, AK, will pop by for some money we owe him later
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- AL, my car, remains derelict; agency AM has not replied my letter of demand
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- of late, I have met AN, an organiser of events at A, and AO and AP who are shareholders
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- I have not even begun to list my thoughts on items outside of work...
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# TREE MAPS for working-memory management
## Problem:
This May/June I've been overloaded with tasks, as the head of a really flat organisation where delegation is simply not possible most of the time, due to staff competency levels. At the worst point, I've been spending maybe 50% of my non-emergency-handling time trying to remember exactly what I'm supposed to be working on across a dozen business functions, plus R&R items outside of work.
## Solution:
Over the last couple of days, I started looking for a graphing tool, and so far this is the simplest solution for graphing a network of working memory items. It's basically a hierarchical list of bullet points, with colour-coding for urgency. You can click on branches and it expands the branch to full-screen. The example here uses Google Sheets. You can also adjust relative sizes of boxes, but I've left that dimension mostly unadjusted.
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/commented/ I'm definitely not interested in public policy on strays because I'm interested in animal or human rights... I'm just interested in this because I have business interests that are jeopardised by an absence of coherent public policy on the matter.
I want the public policy to be COHERENT. I don't care if it's coherent and all strays live, or coherent and all strays die.
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/commented on someone concerned that they had never fallen in love/
It's pretty easy - if you want to emulate love, just pick any irrational fixation on a small set of preferences. There you go - organised psychosis. Why would anyone hold this as a civilisational ideal? :P
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In case you're wondering about the spike in usage of 'psychosis', in my writing... of course, it's an unironic jab at all the people who call this and that behaviour (often fairly common behaviours) 'psychopathic'. I can do you one better. Your families, cultures, religions, beliefs in human rights, let us examine these carefully - how are they possibly less, 'psychotic'? Each person simply has different affections. And when it comes to the naming of sickness, well, survivor's bias tends to win. :P
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Is it just me, or do you often get customers asking what the song is when Érik Satie's Gymnopedie comes on... ?
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As usual for this time of day, my housemate is yelling. Sometimes it is a mad yelling, but today she seems fairly healthy. I should return to work soon, and it is good to have organised a set of work to a higher degree than in previous days. Perhaps, some progress can be made.
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/commented/ The short answer is: we want them to feel like crap and never come back, if they're not the kind of customer we want in the shop.
So we used to train staff to just yell from the bar, telling people to order drinks. But staff are too timid and shy. So now we have a script, whereby the staff sends a free drink and a printed card with house rules.
That's pretty much the harshest level we can operate at without actually slapping people in the face.
We don't want the customers who bring friends in without ordering. We do want our staff. Lol
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Today we teach English, sentence construction.
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Today we teach, vocal projection.
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Twelve noses, sixteen legs, eight ears, fourty-five types of clothing, seven eyes, four shoes... my train of thought is kinda funny, if I start countingthe sorts of things I see when I'm bored on a train.
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I look at the old, solitary, dishwasher, tall, broad, and bent over his station, in the darkened alley, balding, a circle of white hair. That could be me someday, and I would be happy, as I have prepared myself for many years already.
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This month, I'm in the middle of a rather fascinating talent management manoeuvre. Usually I do the training of low-aptitude staff by myself. Recently, I left some of the more senior ones to train some new ones. Bear in mind that this means that people who are not able to fully hit their own targets, are now training new people. These are all full-timers. Concurrently, we have some part-timers who are high-aptitude and much faster learners. So the latter are tasked with T-celling around the full-timers. I'm looking forward to discovering which ones crack first. #buried
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Training muppets to act like floor traders. Story of my life (recent years).
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Carb cutting day.
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I think it's overreach to assume that unwanted touching should be classified as sexual assault. It depends on the location of assault. No?
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Following the brief discussion below, I added this to my report to the taxi company:
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"Just wanted to add that on the call [from the taxi company], the person who called me mentioned "sexual," misbehaviour. If you look at the report I have submitted, I must highlight that there is insufficient evidence to introduce the concept of "sexual assault," or "sexual harassment," to the actions of the driver. Legally, in many systems, and I am not sure about the Malaysian legal system, "unwanted touching," is sufficient for qualification as "assault," but not necessarily "sexual assault.""
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Story+Party : True Dating Stories - Clever chap. Good MC. Got dragged along by a friend to see the show, and found it was well done. Albeit a little too acoustically loud for my preference.
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Generally, I need to ease off taking B12 before sleep, as a neural tonic/stimulant. I need to get back into chugging protein before bed, instead.
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Debilitating empathy is retrograde. I hope to see it die out in my lifetime, but that is highly unlikely.
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Also what I hope to see within a decade: traditional baggy Muslim headgear reformated as hoodies ala streetgear. It's a happy medium between old, and new, I promise you'll all be happier.
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Better repaired, but not great. The plan is to:
- eat
- coach
- do minor work
- eat
- nap for repairs
- review (probably repeat)
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An emergency has arisen. But I am going for a jog, as these operations have also much much need of improvement.
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We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next :
Natural intelligence is a combination of knowledge, and iterative recognition. It is not bizarre that machines have caught up. A lot of configuration management will now follow. Frameworks and framework descriptors will enable documentation of design, and these can be easily propagated, and mutated.
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GoT training for junior staffer: "Hey, you know the senior staffer is not happy today, right? Make sure he is happy. If he is not happy, you lose your job." #senpaiwtf
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Gendo is anime's worst dad: I'm very offended by this. Why can't you let assholes be!?
:P
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Today we are teaching people to stop work if they find that they have a strong sense of certainty about the outcome of any action. Just, stop, work. It probably means they do not understand the risks they are engaging in.
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Rich, young, skillful, composed; hauntingly beautiful, a painted ghost; claptrap musings, a hundred smokes; where are your boys, today? Where do you go; where do you sleep; what do you think of; how do you eat? So many questions. No reason to ask. Why are you wealthy? What was your path? Do the pauses mean anything? Take off the mask. I want those eyes in me.
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Opinion | How to Fight China and Russia on American Terms:
This just makes me wonder how the US could have strategised its foreign policy in 1945, if it knew how the world would turn out in 2019. Could soft-power initiatives with R & C have wrought a more coherent global order?
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Intermittent jogging (with phone). Two grams of sodium, or so. Some protein. Slept. Improved neural tone. But I am not sure if protein or sodium made the greater difference.
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Maybe nutrition should be administered differently by day. Protein day, carb day...
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Heineken Malaysia's product team must be brain dead. The whole point was to compete with Halal-certified 0% beer products from other countries. Now they have no Halal-certified products, and more SKUs with funny comms. Lol
Come, let's qualify the local market:
It's said the RRP for the new product is close to the price P of fully alcoholic Heineken. So the potential market is... the 40% of Malaysians who don't abide by Halal rules, who also don't want to drink alcohol. Let's call the total size of this market X.
Consider now the remaining 60% of Malaysia's market that does consume fizzy drinks of some kind, paying 25%-50% of P, per drink. Let's call the total size of this market Y.
X is interesting to owners of alcohol companies. But Y is much more interesting as a market...
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Sarawak Report on Taib story: "Sarawak Report is sorry..." #rulelly
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Today:
- carb reduction
- protein addition
- sodium addition
- starting to consider leaving the yellow light on while I sleep again; did it for most of the past years here; turned it off in past weeks for a change-up, but that's resulting in a really low sense of urgency
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Some of my peers are concerned that my life is overly hard. But I think it is rather cushy. Mine are all first-world problems, so to speak. I may be concerned about the risks of life in a second-world country, the absence of civil order, an unstable economy, a non-trivial probability of becoming slandered into non-existence, or simply disrobed of citizenship, but otherwise I am fed, I am read, I am somewhat agile. Somewhat - perhaps it is all a hallucinatory creation of our state, to keep predatory wildlings on leashes. That too takes so many forms: wealth, education, class, freewill. These are all constructions, temporary in time.
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Ancillary target: graduate to using B12 and creatine supplements only in emergencies.
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/commented on nutrition management/
My stack:
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- no hard or soft drugs to speak of, besides what's mentioned below; no nutropics;
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- protein powder for money and time minimisation; good for recovery during sleep; good for waking rate of cognition;
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- creatine (phasing out, as I'm testing messing with sodium levels instead); still useful in emergencies; good for recovery during sleep; bad for tunnelling effects; maybe I'll aim to stablise this down near 0.5-1.0g/day which is half a maintenance dose;
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- caffeine (part of the job, so I'll just go with it; during other desk jobs I just chug coffee and zone out anyway); good for recovery during sleep;
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- alcohol almost never; just for social intimacy, or as an emergency relaxant;
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- B12 (phasing out, reserving for emergencies, as it seems to build dependency); good for recovery during sleep; bad for increased cancer risks; good for waking neural tone, both cognitive and kinesthetic;
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- fish oil; good relaxant... makes it easier to sleep; some cancer risk from increased vitamin E levels; otherwise, in theory, more DHA and EPA are good for brain tissue development;
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Why I take supplements: mostly just looking for value on performance/cost. Four years ago I started a really time intensive business, and sometimes I have to be up for most of 24-hour, and on rare occasions most of 72-hour periods.
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The performance enhancements are very tangible. After going on B12 for a long stretch, I am feeling a need to cycle off to check for dependency. Prior to this job, I've been an endurance athlete (just running) and a general nerd, so I have been monitoring nutritional I/O for almost a decade now...
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