Gregg Zigler
@greggzigler.bsky.social
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Emily Dickinson (260)
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Emily Dickinson (260)
I liked the book's ideas about tribes in a post-nation state world. I loved its story of a young girl's journey into adulthood while being guided by people near and far.
December 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I liked the book's ideas about tribes in a post-nation state world. I loved its story of a young girl's journey into adulthood while being guided by people near and far.
and
"I know that you have a secret, Nell, though I cannot imagine what it is, and I know that your secret has made you different from any other girl I have ever taught... [W]e must dispense with what makes you like all the other girls and concentrate on what makes you different."
"I know that you have a secret, Nell, though I cannot imagine what it is, and I know that your secret has made you different from any other girl I have ever taught... [W]e must dispense with what makes you like all the other girls and concentrate on what makes you different."
December 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
and
"I know that you have a secret, Nell, though I cannot imagine what it is, and I know that your secret has made you different from any other girl I have ever taught... [W]e must dispense with what makes you like all the other girls and concentrate on what makes you different."
"I know that you have a secret, Nell, though I cannot imagine what it is, and I know that your secret has made you different from any other girl I have ever taught... [W]e must dispense with what makes you like all the other girls and concentrate on what makes you different."
"[T]here are a few billion other people in the world all trying to be clever at the same time, and whatever you do with your life will certainly be lost ... unless you are doing it along with like-minded people... That is why the world is divided into tribes."
The Diamond Age, Stephenson
The Diamond Age, Stephenson
December 31, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"[T]here are a few billion other people in the world all trying to be clever at the same time, and whatever you do with your life will certainly be lost ... unless you are doing it along with like-minded people... That is why the world is divided into tribes."
The Diamond Age, Stephenson
The Diamond Age, Stephenson
What’s the most essential item of rain gear that you wear or use or carry around this time of year?
December 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
What’s the most essential item of rain gear that you wear or use or carry around this time of year?
The manifesto has an inherent tension between growing communities with shared values and avoiding one-size-fits-all solutions. If the community grows large enough, its software becomes that globally dominant solution.
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The manifesto has an inherent tension between growing communities with shared values and avoiding one-size-fits-all solutions. If the community grows large enough, its software becomes that globally dominant solution.
Its notion of communities cultivating shared values reminded me of the IAF-affiliated Silicon Valley Allied for the Common Good and their efforts to find common ground to solve ad hoc social problems.
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Its notion of communities cultivating shared values reminded me of the IAF-affiliated Silicon Valley Allied for the Common Good and their efforts to find common ground to solve ad hoc social problems.
I don’t know anything about the group of authors, but the manifesto mentions Christopher Alexander, an architect and computer system design theorist whose work inspired “SimCity”, the first (and most “resonant”) desktop computer game I’ve every played. So that’s a big plus in my eyes.
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I don’t know anything about the group of authors, but the manifesto mentions Christopher Alexander, an architect and computer system design theorist whose work inspired “SimCity”, the first (and most “resonant”) desktop computer game I’ve every played. So that’s a big plus in my eyes.
Interesting 2-page manifesto about building a more humane computing environment: resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
resonantcomputing.org
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Interesting 2-page manifesto about building a more humane computing environment: resonantcomputing.org
Everything you’re feeling, name it “love”.
A split second when nothing in the world is dying? 888 goosebumps.
I want my very last second to be like “Damn, I wish I had a million more of these.“
+++++
Quotes from a beautiful documentary about spoken poet Andrea Gibson and her life with cancer
A split second when nothing in the world is dying? 888 goosebumps.
I want my very last second to be like “Damn, I wish I had a million more of these.“
+++++
Quotes from a beautiful documentary about spoken poet Andrea Gibson and her life with cancer
December 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Everything you’re feeling, name it “love”.
A split second when nothing in the world is dying? 888 goosebumps.
I want my very last second to be like “Damn, I wish I had a million more of these.“
+++++
Quotes from a beautiful documentary about spoken poet Andrea Gibson and her life with cancer
A split second when nothing in the world is dying? 888 goosebumps.
I want my very last second to be like “Damn, I wish I had a million more of these.“
+++++
Quotes from a beautiful documentary about spoken poet Andrea Gibson and her life with cancer
I can name 8 for sure and for 2 more I have a guess.
December 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I can name 8 for sure and for 2 more I have a guess.
The sadism in Book Two was tough to read, and I felt buried under a mountain of technical terms whose definitions kept changing. But once I realized that some characters in the book struggled with that, too, I just went with the flow and enjoyed the story. I recommend it!
October 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The sadism in Book Two was tough to read, and I felt buried under a mountain of technical terms whose definitions kept changing. But once I realized that some characters in the book struggled with that, too, I just went with the flow and enjoyed the story. I recommend it!
Another plus: a YKarma-like currency, which I made one trivial pull request to: github.com/rezendi/ykar...
Merge pull request #1 from greggzigler/howto-fbase-email · rezendi/ykarma@3c40fc7
enable email in fbase
github.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Another plus: a YKarma-like currency, which I made one trivial pull request to: github.com/rezendi/ykar...
Nominally a sci-fi novel, Exadelic morphed into a tale of demons, daemons, sadism, romance, and cyberpunk futures. Some tech sounded familiar (like Google-ish mega-corporations) and sadly familiar (like "propaganda warfare"). In the end, it asked the question, what does it mean to be human?
October 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Nominally a sci-fi novel, Exadelic morphed into a tale of demons, daemons, sadism, romance, and cyberpunk futures. Some tech sounded familiar (like Google-ish mega-corporations) and sadly familiar (like "propaganda warfare"). In the end, it asked the question, what does it mean to be human?
We didn’t know if we were plagued by demons or guided by angels, ...
Exadelic, by Jon Evans
Exadelic, by Jon Evans
October 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
We didn’t know if we were plagued by demons or guided by angels, ...
Exadelic, by Jon Evans
Exadelic, by Jon Evans
Congratulations! After educating and challenging and enlightening the minds of so many people throughout your career, you've earned a little (a lot!) of "me time." May this change open up your schedule and mind and heart to many new, rewarding connections.
September 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Congratulations! After educating and challenging and enlightening the minds of so many people throughout your career, you've earned a little (a lot!) of "me time." May this change open up your schedule and mind and heart to many new, rewarding connections.
What’s not clear to me is, are we headed toward a King, or are we headed toward a Mob?
September 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
What’s not clear to me is, are we headed toward a King, or are we headed toward a Mob?
How Hard It Is to Keep from Being King When It’s in You and in the Situation
. . .
A nation has to take its natural course
Of Progress round and round in circles
From King to Mob to King to Mob to King
Until the eddy of it eddies out.
. . .
Robert Frost, 1962
. . .
A nation has to take its natural course
Of Progress round and round in circles
From King to Mob to King to Mob to King
Until the eddy of it eddies out.
. . .
Robert Frost, 1962
September 13, 2025 at 4:12 AM
How Hard It Is to Keep from Being King When It’s in You and in the Situation
. . .
A nation has to take its natural course
Of Progress round and round in circles
From King to Mob to King to Mob to King
Until the eddy of it eddies out.
. . .
Robert Frost, 1962
. . .
A nation has to take its natural course
Of Progress round and round in circles
From King to Mob to King to Mob to King
Until the eddy of it eddies out.
. . .
Robert Frost, 1962
However, when I’m not being a people pleaser, say, when I want to win an argument, I can go too far. In both cases, the first gate (“Is it true?”) should keep me from harming myself and others.
September 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
However, when I’m not being a people pleaser, say, when I want to win an argument, I can go too far. In both cases, the first gate (“Is it true?”) should keep me from harming myself and others.
Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates:
At the first gate, ask yourself, “Is it true?”
At the second gate ask, “Is it necessary?”
At the third gate ask, “Is it kind?”
~ Rumi
At the first gate, ask yourself, “Is it true?”
At the second gate ask, “Is it necessary?”
At the third gate ask, “Is it kind?”
~ Rumi
September 7, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates:
At the first gate, ask yourself, “Is it true?”
At the second gate ask, “Is it necessary?”
At the third gate ask, “Is it kind?”
~ Rumi
At the first gate, ask yourself, “Is it true?”
At the second gate ask, “Is it necessary?”
At the third gate ask, “Is it kind?”
~ Rumi
California has the heft to do good, to do more than virtue posture. It has the ability to help keep the House a bit more representative.
August 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
California has the heft to do good, to do more than virtue posture. It has the ability to help keep the House a bit more representative.
“States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.” In 1947, when Robert Frost wrote this, he was referring to post-WWII nation states. But it’s a pretty apt description of present day US states.
August 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
“States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.” In 1947, when Robert Frost wrote this, he was referring to post-WWII nation states. But it’s a pretty apt description of present day US states.
I liked this poem because it reminded me how at times I can be a people pleaser without even being aware of it.
August 14, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I liked this poem because it reminded me how at times I can be a people pleaser without even being aware of it.
A Wish To Comply
Did I see it go by,
That Millikan mote?
Well, I said that I did.
I made a good try.
But I’m no one to quote.
If I have a defect
It’s a wish to comply
And see as I’m bid.
I rather suspect
All I saw was the lid
Going over my eye.
I honestly think
All I saw was a wink.
Robert Frost
Did I see it go by,
That Millikan mote?
Well, I said that I did.
I made a good try.
But I’m no one to quote.
If I have a defect
It’s a wish to comply
And see as I’m bid.
I rather suspect
All I saw was the lid
Going over my eye.
I honestly think
All I saw was a wink.
Robert Frost
August 14, 2025 at 4:30 AM
A Wish To Comply
Did I see it go by,
That Millikan mote?
Well, I said that I did.
I made a good try.
But I’m no one to quote.
If I have a defect
It’s a wish to comply
And see as I’m bid.
I rather suspect
All I saw was the lid
Going over my eye.
I honestly think
All I saw was a wink.
Robert Frost
Did I see it go by,
That Millikan mote?
Well, I said that I did.
I made a good try.
But I’m no one to quote.
If I have a defect
It’s a wish to comply
And see as I’m bid.
I rather suspect
All I saw was the lid
Going over my eye.
I honestly think
All I saw was a wink.
Robert Frost