@callumflack

design + code @vana | folly ~ persist | mise en scheme | @idiomata_

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Joined February 2009
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The instant wherein that supreme quality of beauty, the clear radiance of the esthetic image, is apprehended luminously by the mind which has been arrested by its wholeness and fascinated by its harmony is the luminous silent stasis of esthetic pleasure. — James Joyce
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the world is magic if you pay attention
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Tyler Cowen’s Strongest Book Recommendations, 2003-2026 marginalrevolution.com/margi…

Tyler Cowen’s Strongest Book Recommendations, 2003-2026 - Marginal REVOLUTION

From the Archive–these posts are written by AI.  Cowen’s strongest recommendations include 1491, The Power Broker, Knausgaard’s first two My Struggle volumes, Fuchsia Dunlop’s Chinese cookbooks, and...

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Glastonbury Tor
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.toml
@LogOffTomOct 24
I'm experimenting with a new form where I write flowery nonsense and don't fact-check. logofftom.substack.com/p/in-…
🤖 Made with AI
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Here's a few idiomatic prompts I keep reaching for: callum.website/prompt-framin…

Prompt framing — Callum Flack

Nineteen prompts for reconsidering a task, what feels necessary, and how to meet the world.

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Nate Berkopec
@nateberkopecOct 15
I feel like we need a place to share all of our various prompting “power phrases”. 140 chars or less, not long enough to be a skill but undeniably useful. “Is that the best you can do?” @bitsweat “Give me irrefutable proof this works now” @thorstenball “How can we pokayoke this error type so it never is introduced again” Others?
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Made this into a skill. Mostly b/c it's easier than pasting in the article. skills.sh/callumflack/skills…

reframe — callumflack/skills

Reconsiders a task, idea or way of working using Callum’s prompt-framing collection and relevant experience. Use when asked to reframe, find a better approach,…

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Added "What are we not even considering building here because it used to be too much work—and would it be worth building now?" from @danluu 's excellent "We should be more ambitious" article
Callum
@callumflackOct 21
Here's a few idiomatic prompts I keep reaching for: callum.website/prompt-framin…

Prompt framing — Callum Flack

Nineteen prompts for reconsidering a task, what feels necessary, and how to meet the world.

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.@kitlangton's Scrawl has changed how I do chat UI: the perfect roll-up of rant, point & paste. I expect more examples of such esoteric, niche software. "You can just do this" if you naively vaguepost into latent space, it seems.
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And no, this does not mean Kit is just naively vagueposting to create Scrawl. I mean be more ambitious and esoteric via strategic vagueposting to access latent potentiality you would not have considered
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Agamben: what is the immanent function the curse has in the oath? the name of the god expresses: 1. the positive force of language, namely the just relation between words and things (a blessing) 2. the weakness of language, namely the breaking of this relation (a curse)
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sam@SamRMickey4 Nov 2024
"The way to solve the problem you see in life is to live in a way that will make what is problematic disappear.… it will not be a problem, but a joy rather… a bright halo round his life, not a dubious background." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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love what you imitate, imitate what you love
μόνου πρὸς μόνον@monouprosmonon18 Nov 2023
“The love of that which is beautiful, when it is present, gives pain, because one must desire it once having seen it.” —Plotinus, Enneads, §5.5.12
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“The affirmation of a great scientific theory is in part an expression of delight. The theory has an inarticulate component acclaiming its beauty, and this is essential to the belief that the theory is true.” —Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge
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Your car is a "uterus on wheels" & "Platonic cave" turning slower drivers into "expelled turds." (from German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk)
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R.P.@ResonantPyreJul 25
Alexandra Sorolla
@AlexandraSoroJul 25
"The Afternoon Rest" By Robert Louis Raymond Duflos. 🖌️🌹 (1898–1929). French painter.
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“One does not criticize mountains - one climbs them or stays at home” Peter Sloterdijk
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Don’t outsource your daemon
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And, now you can explore the statistics of people's responses: three-circles.space.fast/pub…

Public results · Three circles

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"cyber poverty line" tiny log experiment 261023 callum.website/log/2026-10-2…
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Frontier tech startups will become indistinguishable from doing philosophy.
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love-what-you-imitate and imitate-what-you-love and love-what-you-imitate and imitate-what-you-love and… the recursive idiom tapestry that tacit knowhow emerges from. solves envious desire too. last thing: tribute to whom?
Yitz in SF 29-4
@yitzzzzzOct 13
and imitate what you love
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