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People often tell me that their friend group talks about living near each other. And yet, almost none of them have successfully clustered their friend group yet.
Here's how I got 22 of my friends to live within walking distance āØ
priya rose
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priya rose
@Prigoose
hyperstitioning the golden age āØ @fractal_nyc
- turned on data after a 5 hour flight only to learn that my house had flooded, my friends had formed a 14 person coordination chat, a shop vac was acquired, all wet items were removed and dried or thrown out, our house has been disinfected...and everything is all good now
- a redditor did spaced repetition with his kids. he taught: - his 4yo daughter to read at a 5th grade reading level - his 3yo son to do times tables up to 12x12spaced repetition for babies
- Replying to @PrigooseOh also, friends had come by to care for my 15mo daughter so my husband could focus on de-flooding. And at the end of it all my friends went out and bought him birria tacos This week was my husband's first week solo parenting and I'm happy he is so well supported while I'm away
- Corridors were invented in 1597 Everything around you was once a concept in a human's imagination
- Replying to @Prigoosethis is what living near your friends looks likes, and the reason i advocate for it. it just makes life way easier, especially if you are a parent, and especially in the event of emergency!
- there was a long period of time -- 300 million years -- when trees fell over but didn't rot. microbes that could ingest wood hadn't evolved yet. so the earth was just littered with trees! those trees got packed down by other trees that fell on top of them, and that became coal
- Replying to @Prigoosesome second order effects: - his daughter started reading their junk mail for fun. she learned who their representatives were and started learning about politics - after times tables, his son could learn more advanced math like prime factorization, fractions, and light algebra
- Replying to @PrigooseAnd here's a play by play of what actually happened. I love having competent friends š„²I always wondered how my NYC community would perform in an emergency situation. We got a test of that last night! At 8:53pm, @__drewface called me and a few of his closest friends. He said that he'd arrived home to a flooded apartment. His wife was abroad, his baby daughter was
- Replying to @Prigoosereddit dad stopped doing anki with his daughter when she was in second grade because she was busy with normal kid stuff but doing anki early still had a compounding effect
- āNever attribute to stupidity or malice that which can be adequately explained by structural alignment of incentives.ā -Hanlon's Razor as revised via @kevinakwok
- The Story of Fractal, or How I Built a Campus For My Friendsā¦ Three years ago, my husband and I announced "The Neighborhood NYC" which became known as Fractal. Our initial goal was to bring 1000 friendly, ambitious nerds within a 5 minute walk of each other. But by the time we
- we're having a baby āŗļøwatch out, world.
