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creating scholarships with learning.

Sometimes when you follow back people who follow you, you end up following back terribly racist and poorly adjusted people.

For the most part I’m here to build education technology but that doesn’t necessarily imply attracting decent souls.

No marijuana until this app works in Spanish

Common sense is uncommon is the third to last level.

Invert, always invert is the second to last level.

If you change the incentive, you'll change the behavior is the final level.

Tryhards vs filthy casuals

Nothing really happens until you whore yourself out a little

form factor is getting cleaner

adding streaks

I like framing it as adaptive learning

needs one minor detail

slightly cleaner personal tutor

personalized AI tutoring

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Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Here’s an observation about shitty Twitter algorithms.

I’ve actually never blocked or muted anyone on Twitter. Never felt the need. 690k followers, countless comments, no filters.

If someone is an ass, I tend to just ignore them or akido them and move on.

I just went over to Twitter and checked my notifications. Some guy posted in an unusually negative way in one of my threads. For a brief moment, I was provoked. But then I looked: he has 8,700 posts and 6 followers. Briefly skimming his profile, it is pure negativity. Imagine this. Like actually take a moment to think about what that process feels like for him, let alone how he impacts others.

Posting eight thousand and seven hundred times, mostly negatively, and after well more than a thousand of those posts, someone elects to follow him.

The algorithm trains us to see this and get angry. When he shows up in our feed, he seems like a normal person who disagrees with us. But he’s not normal. Someone like that is literally and sadly more in the mentally ill camp, even as the algorithm presented him to us like any other normal person, saying we suck.

Imagine if we had more programmable filters and algorithms. Like, mute people with over a thousand posts but with less than one follower per five hundred posts. That filters him out, similarly to how we would visually filter out and thus physically avoid a man holding his own shit in his hand in public on a street, who needs help but not public attention and proximity.

The centralized algorithms we have normalized, are not real life.

We give people virtual access that we would not do publicly, partially because we can program our real-life algorithms with various behavior rules that we can’t do on most virtual platforms.

This was one of the reasons I stopped posting on Tiktok. I card a lot about the folks I was serving (hispanics & technology education) but I underestimated the social consequences of the coding bear market.

The financial/economic consequences wasn't a big deal - I very much enjoy scarcity and doing more with less - but the social consequences were shocking. Apathy, cynicism and just plain cyber-bullying became normalized over the emotional state of the bull market, which was optimism, hope and excitement for the future.

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I’m still using algorithm feeds but I’m more focused on them because of nostr. Rather than building just a funnel for my business, I can improve the user experience straight off social media and build a bridge to introduce and onboard folks to nostr.

Many users inevitably as “why would I use a twitter clone” on an attention span cycle that lasts 1-2 seconds, and now it’s not really a question as much of a function to fulfill another need (education)

I never really mention this feature much but it’s essentially the root design of the app.

The first AI feature I created was an AI therapist centered around self-esteem and that pretty much fuels every other design in the app.

So rox is more of an emotional intelligence kind of thing before it’s a coding instructor, which is why a lot of people really like it when they use it.

Added ecash to the second nostr app I’m building. Need to explore nutsack later.

Gonna add adaptive learning with AI later as well