The Patreon I’m offering isn’t just a support platform. I’ve included a number of resources to return significant value for supporting my ideas.
https://www.patreon.com/RobotsBuildingEducation?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator
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I’m gonna rebuild https://robotsbuildingeducation.com with a separate application that is centered around nostr and the lessons I learned developing education technology.
The goal will be to create a platform more enriching and pleasant than Duolingo.
It will be done publicly and I’ll be happy to serve folks here. If you want to support, I have a $1/month tier only with the intent of using that money to support my work and the work of other developers here.
Another thing I’ve learned is the heavy lean toward consumerism.
People want sex. They want candy. They want entertainment. They want status. They want to buy things that reinforce a deep selfish need in a competitive marketplace.
This is one of the reasons why video games and social media experiences consumption far more than education technology. Why spend time picking fruit and freshly squeezing it when you can just buy Coca Cola?
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One of the biggest issues I found in edtech and education content creation is that people “don’t have time”
Technically what they’re saying is “I’m not going to prioritize this, so I won’t make time for it”, it’s akin to telling a homeless person you don’t have any cash as a quick out.
The statement is a half truth that is negotiable. One of the reasons is because education is an emotional and social economic choice: when someone learns something they more or less expect some kind of return on investment and coding right now is a rather spoiled skillset.
This result is heavily skewed toward success since it was a paid platform, however outside of it the “I haven’t learned” option is about 99% of the outcomes.
I discovered exactly what the musical.ly founders discovered before they pivoted to entertaintment. A direct quote from them, "Education is against human nature."
Welp. I guess i failed my first startup. I learned a lot about consumer behavior however.
People love to be entertained.
Yea this is because you can’t guarantee randomness in a closed system that is finite (computers).
This is one of the profound things about Satoshi’s design - it is one of the closest things we have to true randomness, and probably by design.
This lecture covers some of the basics of how and why the stuff that’s worked on here is unique
https://www.patreon.com/posts/107248209?utm_campaign=postshare_creator
Nevermind, I’m deleting TikTok and I’m moving to only nostr. I think some folks have seen a spiritual sickness from me for the past couple of months and it’s mostly rooted in how I spend my time online.
Success on the internet used to be working with people to achieve things. Now it’s going viral to make commercials.
TikTok has been a platform where I’ve received enormous amounts of abuse for selling education with the intention to create scholarships. I’ve created about $10,000 in scholarships mostly to be ignored by a collective 100,000+ following that seems to only be moved by the most traumatic social justice pornography they can find online.
The attention economy is dead in favor of the reaction economy, and that has made my soul spiritually sick.
I don’t expect much financial support on nostr to be totally frank, and that’s fine. I’ve seen enough here - people care about the well-being of the internet and that’s the kind of place I fundamentally want to be in with or without reward.
Wow wasn’t expecting that
You seem to suffer from tribalistic thinking. What is happening in Gaza is clearly a genocide and the conditions have been moving in that direction since the Palestinian Authority was removed from power in the 2000s. It isn't even a matter of marxism or conservatism - that is lazy thinking done from a position where you have no particular stake in the governance of Palestinians
I present to you: discourse on TikTok
ok zap only for now on. I started liking instead of zapping out of sheer laziness
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Have been modestly reconnecting with faith lately and it makes life feel better.
The zeitgeist has definitely moved from Tiktok to X.
Rent paid for the year
nixon went crazy on global US hegemony and industry
Censorship resistance, owning your following and multi publish seems to pique enough curiosity. Especially on TikTok where people speak in coded language to avoid automated moderation & lock in with followers