How to Be Someone People Love to Talk to
Make sure the other person walks away better for having met you
Speakeasy
Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.
How to be helpful online
Helping people online is difficult. We expect technical questions and discussions, but everyone involved are just people, so it doesn’t always go smoothly.
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Sparkable
Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.
Octothorpes: Jailbreaking hashtags to connect websites together
My friend Nik and I share a lot of interests, and we like to write about them on our own websites. We’d hang out and talk about printmaking or building websites or the complexity of planning creative work, only to discover later that one or both of us had
How to write it like you told it
What do you say to someone who wants to write but struggles with writing and is tempted to use an LLM-based chatbot?
smol life
Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.
The Shape of What You Meant
You’ve probably been there, looking for someone, not just anyone, but someone who gets it. Maybe you’re building something new and don’t want to do it alone. Maybe your idea doesn’t even have a name yet, but you know it needs others to take shape. You’ve got places to post, share, search, and shout. Too many, really. But despite the flood of tools, you’re still stuck trying to meet someone who actually gets what you're doing. It’s not that the people you’re looking for don’t exist. They do. I...
being able to sit patiently with other people's thoughts, sit patiently with your own, and make both of those processes legible to someone who is not you is very valuable. if you can find a new way to do this that is fantastic news but I suspect it will at least resemble the model we've inherited
basically I really want good ways to surface & recognize people who are meaningful participants in the atmosphere-blogosphere as opposed to e.g. big publishers passively cross-posting b/c they want more reach, but w/o the attendant social engagement that actually makes that valuable for both sides
