Adam Greenfield on Nostr: Oh, and: not to turn you into my nonconsenual accountability buddies or anything, but ...
Oh, and: not to turn you into my nonconsenual accountability buddies or anything, but I’m declaring my entire goal for the next year now.
*By next summer, a small group of people somewhere on Earth has a material capability they did not previously possess, because I worked with them to develop that capability and learn how to use it most fruitfully.*
That’s it. I need to make sure I don’t remain epistemically upstream of the work I believe in – commenting upon it, sanding it into some notionally ideal configuration, but not being exposed to the rigors of use or the stakes of failure. I need to get stuck in.
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