Re: [silk] What are you optimising for?

> On Nov 7, 2017, at 7:45 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > Interesting article by Cory. Curious. I don’t post to mailing lists anymore, silk-list sadly included, but I do continue to read them: because posting engages one in conversations and a kind of anxiety of call and

Re: [silk] PickleJar - Indian Free Stock Photos (Re: Ashim - An Introduction)

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 5:23 AM Gaurav Vaz wrote: > Firstly, branched this off to a new thread, so we can focus the discussion > around this. > > We stopped Pickle Jar after a year of putting up a photo a day. So really, > if we can rally together and collect 1000 photos,

Re: [silk] What are you optimising for?

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Venkatesh H R wrote: Since then I've had to do some winnowing of my own every few years, but it > is progressively harder to do this now. ​This is exactly the point that Cory is making: But today, thanks to a vicious Darwinian winnowing

Re: [silk] What are you optimising for?

I agree with Deepa that one has to schedule some slack into activities. I personally need to schedule space to myself for every day, and when I don't I'm not very productive in other spheres either. Doctorow's thoughts made me realise that everyone goes through these phases, so was very glad to

Re: [silk] What are you optimising for?

Having suffered from "time tension" (I am sure the experts have a better term for it), I tend to build some slack into my activities. Perhaps this has resulted in my achieving far less, but it's helped me retain my sanity. But...different solutions work for different people, I suppose. On Wed,

[silk] What are you optimising for?

Interesting article by Cory. This is something I've been thinking about as well: the need to engineer some some *slack* into everyting you do, as over-optimising (which is usually optimising the wrong variable, or possibly prematurely optimising the right one) can have various adverse effects in

[silk] PickleJar - Indian Free Stock Photos (Re: Ashim - An Introduction)

Firstly, branched this off to a new thread, so we can focus the discussion around this. We stopped Pickle Jar after a year of putting up a photo a day. So really, if we can rally together and collect 1000 photos, which we can schedule and release one a day, we will have stuff to put out for 3

Re: [silk] Ashim - An Introduction

Thanks, glad you liked it, and we’re definitely happy to kick it back off if someone has better ideas on how to actually run it. I think Gaurav and I learned we’re better at building other people websites than trying to run our own. On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 11:08 AM Rajesh Mehar

Re: [silk] Ashim - An Introduction

Oh n... It was a super idea. On Tue, Nov 7, 2017, 14:32 Ashim D'Silva wrote: > > Rajesh, it got hard to source diverse enough photographs that were useful > stock I think. So we ran out of material. > >

Re: [silk] Ashim - An Introduction

Thanks Charles, we hear uber and taxis haven’t exactly got along well since then, but Ubers are quite widely used. Rajesh, it got hard to source diverse enough photographs that were useful stock I think. So we ran out of material. On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 8:17 AM Rajesh Mehar