Doug Belshaw / is on Nostr

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." (Epictetus)

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Founding member of @weareopencoop and occasional collaborator with the @bonfire project.

Admin of https://exercise.cafe and https://wao.wtf. Author/editor of @thoughtshrapnel

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2024-07-05 21:06:56

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@npub1ahr…m294 Market economies is literally the opposite of a strategic approach to government, though?

2024-07-05 12:24:04

How clueless must you be to think that you can 'solve' politics by implementing a series of digital referendums?
Blows my mind 🤯

2024-03-21 07:26:25

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Week that was a bleak start to the day! Thanks for sharing, though. Important stuff.
One thing they didn't really get into was family relationships. It seems to me that the pandemic, a catalyst for many things, helped strengthen or destroy many of those relationships.

2024-03-12 20:29:57

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@npub1pdv…gqz2 Guessing it's a Pixel 4 or above? In which case you may be interested in @npub1tva…2yl5
https://grapheneos.org/releases
(extended support, etc.)

2024-01-31 07:53:58

Yesterday, I was invited to speak at an event in Saudi Arabia. Even beyond the idea of implicitly supporting human rights abuses, I can't imagine anyone would want to go who's read who's read Dave Eggers' book 'A Hologram for the King' (later made into a film featuring Tom Hanks)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hologram_for_the_King

2023-10-07 13:57:55

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@npub1ahr…m294 The idea is that you combine different people's views of your skills rather than rely on your own introspection?
Your experience may differ vastly from mine, but I've found that (although there's overlap) the results surprise me.
Perhaps your mental model is LinkedIn endorsements and you've read what I've written through that lens? I don't see the two as similar.

2023-10-05 20:34:59

It's been over a decade since I was doing postgraduate study.
What are people using these days for citation management and storing research documents? 🤔
(I prefer a web-based workflow)

2023-07-19 18:44:56

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@npub1pdv…gqz2 There's no consent, really. So people like me who can't be arsed with the whole 'process' just think "well if they do that, I'll just go elsewhere".

2023-07-08 11:58:10

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@npub19kv…m4nu @npub17jy…4tr7 Yes, knowledge is power.