#Entheogen Advocate 🍄🌿 🎙️ holpod.com 📝 asim.dev co-founded, led and stepped down from 💚 greensoftware.foundation
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How to code with a newborn
- Buy a standing desk
- Learn how to use a baby wrap
- Play ambient music
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Why nuance feels so uncomfortable:
Uncertainty makes us insecure, so we reach for certainty, usually false certainty, even though most things live in the messy middle.
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Stop telling your kids "don't."
We live the stories we tell about ourselves. "In this house, when someone cries, we hug them." Seth Godin: "People like us do things like this."
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Are you in a cult? You might not know you joined one.
The tell: the biggest risk to any cult is a member chatting to an outsider, because it cracks the fourth wall. Which is exactly the antidote to polarization.
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"Conspiracy theorist" wasn't always an insult.
Early 1900s, it just meant someone with a theory that people conspired. Then, post-JFK, a CIA briefing paper helped weaponise it.
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Why outrage sells: because it works.
If we went abrasively polarizing and picked a side, we'd grow this podcast much faster. We chose not to. Probably why our listenership is small 😅
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They don't want a solution. They want a pill.
Real solutions are messy and long-term. So when anxiety peaks, people don't want a strategy, they want a pill: those people are the enemy, and I have the cure.
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Why you're a monster online and not in person:
When it's just words on a page and you never look them in the eye, you become the worst version of yourself. In person, it mellows into dialogue.
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Victim. Persecutor. Saviour. The drama triangle.
Politicians cast you as the victim so they can play saviour, and for that they need someone to blame.
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I won the argument. I still feel bad about it.
A guy made an earnest point. Instead of engaging, I called him a "climate denier." The room laughed. It's engineered to be indefensible, and I've used it myself.
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How do you change a racist's mind?
Daryl Davis, a Black blues musician, spent 30 years befriending KKK members. 200+ left the Klan. His opener: "How can you hate me when you don't even know me?"
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"Purity testing" is the bedrock of polarization: are you in, or out?
The boundary was never real. There's a fuzzy middle, and every purity test shrinks it until two camps exist that never did.
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I'm a Claude user. I haven't found much online about the carbon impact of the new Anthropic + xAI Colossus deal, as in how much worse Claude is per prompt now.
So I tried to do the math.
tl;dr: about 15% worse 🧵
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Sources:
OpenAI 1.9 GW figure: wheresyoured.at/premium-the-…
AWS Trainium: anthropic.com/news/anthropic…
Google TPU: googlecloudpresscorner.com/2…
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Colossus emissions estimates: Tom Kovach's data center database docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
Cross-referenced via Ketan Joshi: ketanjoshi.co/2026/05/13/why…
Anthropic deal: anthropic.com/news/higher-li…
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