After years of playing [solo role-playing], I have developed a personal rule about rolling dice: only roll if the potential outcome _advances _or _enhances _the narrative. If rolling would throw the story off track in a way that doesn’t enhance the narrative or creates an unnecessary or nonsensical detour, I won’t roll.
Also, an interesting idea for solo-roleplaying in a shared world.
“Since we started using Application Advisor, we’ve seen a 70% reduction in engineering time tied to upgrades,” says Roberts. “Now we can focus more of our time and resources on the delivery of new value-added features for our customers.”
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Where there is saxophone, synth is sure to follow.
The Internet and social media platforms are now obviously detrimental to collective goods, cooperative politics and sane public debate.
From here.
I’ve encountered this sentiment a lot recently, even from Ben Thompson. If you take out “the Internet,” it’s probably right. My vibe here is: “human culture can not handle everything, everywhere, all the time.” Some can - they turn it off - but most can’t.
See also “narrative schizophrenia”:
Today’s current events are mediated by platforms that incentivize users to frame the news as sensationally as possible, flattening life’s complexity into good and evil, massaging facts without institutional oversight, and forging an era of American life in which our political differences often look irreconcilable.
“For the last year or two, we’ve been tinkering with it,” Daniel Danker, executive vice president of AI acceleration, product and design at Walmart, said at the ICR Conference on Tuesday. “This is the year where tinkering becomes transformation. This is the year where we’ve built a level of mastery around that and we’ll start building things that deeply address customer problems.”
