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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · Oct 26

Hello, new friends! 👋

I'm Ben. I'm a software/product guy and one of the world's top Notion experts. I make software and currently run the NotionMastery.com program.

Connect with me if you're interested in my favorite topics: Systems, Complexity, Permaculture.

Here are my favorite books:

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

I'm gonna try to articulate something I've been thinking about for a while, regarding *why* disillusionment, distrust, & dissatisfaction with democracy are rising.

Almost everything I read takes this phenomenon as an exogenous shock, assuming no one chose to make it so. I suspect that's incomplete.

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 23h

100% already exists

Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 1d

not spicy, correct.

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Puppius Caledonius @skanedog.bsky.social · 1d

Every single word of this was written with the intent of taking the world further down the road to darkness.

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 1d

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 1d

ever encounter a reality-breaking event? one time marie and I were talking about don hertzfeld's reiected while walking around vancouver and I picked up a random piece of trash and on it was written "je suis une banane".

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 2d

just Notion, and I don't actually need it

Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 4d

a four panel comic-style rendition of a scene from Patlabor (an anime). customs officer asks "Business or pleasure?" and Kanuka Clancy answers "Combat."

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 6d

i don't think it works but it works (if that makes any sense)

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · Apr 9

Feels like a proxied religious war. Silicon Valley gestating their own egregore with AI fundamentalism, which in turn helps "the right" and "the left" (meaningless terms at this point) workshop/worship their own hyperindivdualized gods; vessels for hopes and fears. Deitycraft—as old as the species.

Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · Apr 9

They are becoming experts at living in their own reality. And I guess the endgame is if they can bear it long enough, they will actually emerge into the white christian utopia that they keep talking about. It's literally large scale group manifesting.

Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 6d

published my story again since it was locked over on twxtter

A Love Story

How my wife and I met

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 6d

aww, thanks! I published my version of the events again too since it was locked over on my twxtter account.

A Love Story

How my wife and I met

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 7d

DMing @mariepoulin.com in ~2010 on twitter to compliment her on a website design had a pretty decent outcome.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 8d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 7d

and under that: non-harm.

Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 7d

me too, buddy.

A comment on robotlegs/robotlegs-framework "I just miss action script3"

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 8d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 7d

Gone through a lot of shit working in web dev over the years, most of it due to my focus on publishing and reading and the genuinely shitty management that comes with those industries, but the current "AI" bubble is the first time I'm actively considering an exit strategy out of dev entirely.

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 7d

I'm in firm agreement. I wonder how much we're ignoring job loss as a measure, not of being replaced, but of simply folks "not enjoying it" any more. Not even just AI—I'd seriously consider something that uses limited computing. At least away from silicon valley.

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 7d

congrats

Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 7d

8/31 of octodoodles is a vibe 🔔

prompt: "Plant" 🌱

okidoki.notion.site/octodoodles-...

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Simon @hojberg.xyz · 8d

I wrote about AI and programming.

About the identity challenges we are facing as programmers and the potential erasure of craft.

There's a fun little easter egg in the header as well :)

hojberg.xyz/the-programm...

The Programmer Identity Crisis ❈ Simon Højberg ❈ Principal Frontend Engineer

On AI, Creativity, and Craft

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 8d

I got hit by a car and the woman absolutely wailed about how sorry she was. Then reported that I was at fault to the police after I'd left in the ambulance. Cheers!

Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 8d

I love "the friction matters" so much. I would get that tattooed on me.

Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 8d

This is why I love Hank.

Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

YouTube video by Hank Green

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 9d

vibe responsibly. know your limit.

Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 9d

Vibe coding is irresponsibly building software through dice rolls, not caring what code is produced

What about when engineers at the top of their game use AI tools responsibly to accelerate their work?

I propose "vibe engineering"!

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Vibe engineering

I feel like vibe coding is pretty well established now as covering the fast, loose and irresponsible way of building software with AI—entirely prompt-driven, and with no attention paid to …

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 9d

family affair

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20d

i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues.
For example:

Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $

Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $

Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy

Top is an empty rectangle with a jagged line in the middle.
The left side is labeled "Frame" "F is happening!"
The right side is labeled "Negation" "F is not true!"
Below is a large image of Kirby, a round pink blob with eyes with a small version of the Frame F shape flying into his mouth. To the right is a large pink rectangle labeled "Kirby" "K is happening, that's why they're saying F"

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Benjamin Borowski 🍁 @typeoneerror.com · 10d

otoh, I name all my bathroom spiders