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I wrote a new book! It's called ANTIMEMETICS: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading, and it's about ideas that don't want to be shared or remembered, despite their importance.
Now available for pre-order: darkforest.metalabel.com/antimemetics
Nadia Asparouhova
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Nadia Asparouhova
@nayafia
cloudcat // new book about ideas that don’t spread: darkforest.metalabel.com/antimemetics
- Hi I wrote a book! It's called Working in Public, and it's the story of modern open source and its implications for online communities and the creator economy. Now available for pre-order on Amazon:
- Let’s have some fun! I’m offering two grants of $5,000 for whatever you want: medium.com/@nayafia/5-000…
- Almost two years since I started working on this book and I just got my first physical copy 😭❤️
- If you've ever wondered how Seeing Like a State became popular in tech circles: the short answer seems to be because it was assigned to Venkat's wife in her master's program.Replying to @kevinsimler @fruitoftears and 4 othersMy wife briefly started and dropped out of an anthro masters program at GW ~2003 and this was a first semester text for her. She never read it but I happened to pick it up and read it a year or two later.
- With the help of @jhanatech, I experienced an MDMA roll in less than an hour - without taking any substances. There’s barely any research on this phenomenon, called the jhanas, but great potential for therapeutic use. My piece for @asteriskmgzn:
- Yes! My theory: reading isn't really about what you remember, but how it shapes your thinkingDoes anyone else have that thing where you read books, and like them, and feel like you''re learning a lot about some topic. But then when you're done you literally couldn't recall two facts from the entire thing.
- Climate change is viewed as a monolithic social cause, but after spending two months immersed in the space, I see it as a landscape of tribes, each with its own agenda. I mapped out seven tribes driving climate discourse today:
- I've never bought the story of the tech backlash as it's commonly told. So I tried to tell the story I saw - as a clash between two generations of power - in an essay for Tablet Magazine.
- Replying to @nayafiaI didn't move to Miami bc I care about startups. I want to live in an environment where weirdness can thrive and ppl won't fire you for trying a different hat on. That freedom to engage in unfettered truth-seeking is what fosters new ideas, and it's everything tech is built upon.
- When I was 8 months pregnant, I traded in my Miata for a bigger car. I had spent months trying to convince myself that I could make my beloved tiny car work, but eventually, safety concerns won out. The first day I took it out, an SUV barreled towards me out of nowhere, drivingVolvo posted a 3 min and 46 second ad on Instagram, shot by Hoyte Van Hoytema, the cinematographer of Interstellar and Oppenheimer. It goes against every single rule you can think about as a social lead. Length. Format. Over-produced. Every comment under the ad said it
00:00 - On my second @jhanatech retreat, I voluntarily switched off my consciousness with less than 3 hours of practice. After experiencing what's called "cessation," my jhana practice feels complete. I wrote up instructions for those who are curious to try it:
