Don't forget that in addition to all that, it also matters where you place the machine. Put it in the freezing cold, and no matter how much you tinker with it you won't get what you are hoping for.
Put it in just the right environment, and it's possible it'll work really well with less tinkering.
Yeah, and that's the sort of frustrating truth about all of this - a lot of luck and randomness matters a lot more than just about anything you can do. It doesn't mean you can't influence it and all that, but it's sort of like playing one hand of poker. Sometimes you just a great (or terrible) draw.
Instead, the people who are best able to run the machine are probably psychopaths, for better or for worse. They are people who are convinced that they know how the machine works. They don’t look at a bunch of levers and wonder what to do, nor do they try to experiment with every switch. They look at the dials and just decide—based on intuition? Delusion?—how to turn each one. To people of this sort, the machine isn’t stressful, because to them, the levers are labeled.
This hits home - this is one of my least favorite things I have found to be true that I wish wasn’t true.
it's on my mind because of the post today, but I think the whole "here's to the crazy ones" is more true than people are probably comfortable with. A lot of people here that and seem to think, yes, I'm one of those free thinkers, definitely. But then you realize, no, that's not crazy. You have to really be crazy, not fun-at-a-party crazy. And you're not crazy because you think you'd be good on Survivor or something.
It's a cool effect. I once spent a fair amount of time seeing if you could do the same thing with color, where something looks like it's constantly getting darker or lighter, but alas, I don't think it's possible.
Don't forget that in addition to all that, it also matters where you place the machine. Put it in the freezing cold, and no matter how much you tinker with it you won't get what you are hoping for.
Put it in just the right environment, and it's possible it'll work really well with less tinkering.
Yeah, and that's the sort of frustrating truth about all of this - a lot of luck and randomness matters a lot more than just about anything you can do. It doesn't mean you can't influence it and all that, but it's sort of like playing one hand of poker. Sometimes you just a great (or terrible) draw.
Loved the write up .
Instead, the people who are best able to run the machine are probably psychopaths, for better or for worse. They are people who are convinced that they know how the machine works. They don’t look at a bunch of levers and wonder what to do, nor do they try to experiment with every switch. They look at the dials and just decide—based on intuition? Delusion?—how to turn each one. To people of this sort, the machine isn’t stressful, because to them, the levers are labeled.
This hits home - this is one of my least favorite things I have found to be true that I wish wasn’t true.
it's on my mind because of the post today, but I think the whole "here's to the crazy ones" is more true than people are probably comfortable with. A lot of people here that and seem to think, yes, I'm one of those free thinkers, definitely. But then you realize, no, that's not crazy. You have to really be crazy, not fun-at-a-party crazy. And you're not crazy because you think you'd be good on Survivor or something.
Lol - often it is not fun to live with crazy.
today I learned about the Shepard Tone. How bizarre. Thanks for sharing
It's a cool effect. I once spent a fair amount of time seeing if you could do the same thing with color, where something looks like it's constantly getting darker or lighter, but alas, I don't think it's possible.
At the end this felt like it was a lot less about start ups and a lot more about.. life? 🥲
Yeah, the original version had way more of a "big life metaphor" to it, but I could never quite make it work.