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··· 52 52 - Future you. Your posts become a time capsule of your evolving mind. 53 53 - One right person. Maybe one day, someone stumbles across your words at exactly the right moment. And that changes something for them. 54 54 - The work itself. Consistency beats virality. A hundred posts with depth will outlast a single viral hit. 55 55 + - If you have done something cool, or you have studied something for a long time, or you have thought something interesting, and you are writing it up, and you are at a loss how to get started, try to extract out the key phrase. What do you find yourself ranting about to people repeatedly? What does the Wikipedia entry miss that frustrates you? How would the world be different if this were not true? If you were telling a friend in a rush why you were excited to write this down, what would you say? Just say that! 56 56 + - When writing, your first job is to [**make them care**](https://gwern.net/blog/2026/make-me-care).

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··· 53 53 - [Decentralized systems accelerate innovation by maximizing the greatest number of possibilities and variations that are considered](https://faintsignal.org/decentralized-systems-accelerate-innovation/). Centralized systems are efficient, not disruptively innovative. 54 54 - There is a [trilemma with Decentralized Identity](https://maciek.blog/p/dit). You can't have all three: 55 55 - Self-sovereign identity: the user is in control of their identity. 56 56 - - Privacy-preserving: the user's identity is not shared with third parties. 56 56 + - [[Privacy]]-preserving: the user's identity is not shared with third parties. 57 57 - Sybil-resistant: identity is subject to scarcity; i.e., creating more identifiers cannot be used to manipulate a system. 58 58 - Two big unsolved problems on decentralized [[Mechanism Design]] are identity (making sure that the same person can't have multiple identities) and collusion (making sure groups cannot coordinate to manipulate the system). 59 59 - Identity can be delegated to a community. E.g: Gitcoin uses Passport because they know what the identity requirements are for that community. Solving identity at a global scale means "[seeing like a state](https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/soulbinding-like-a-state)" and distorting the messy reality.

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Learning.md

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··· 110 110 - [HTML for People](https://htmlforpeople.com/) - Resource for learning HTML. 111 111 - [Typography in ten minutes](https://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.html) - Learn the basics of typography. 112 112 - [Metaknowledge](https://github.com/RichardLitt/meta-knowledge) - A list of knowledge repositories from multiple people. 113 113 - - Privacy 113 113 + - [[Privacy]] 114 114 - [Reddit r/privacy Wiki](https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/wiki/index) - Guide to becoming more secure online. 115 115 - [Privacy Tools](https://www.privacytools.io/) - Provides knowledge and tools to protect your privacy against global mass surveillance. 116 116 - [Track Awesome List](https://www.trackawesomelist.com/). Track [awesome](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome) lists about all kinds of interesting topics.

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··· 14 14 - Instead of using constructions with "of" or "for", rewrite the sentence to put more information before the noun. 15 15 - **Be consistent**. 16 16 - **Add rhythm**. Vary the sentence length to break the monotony. 17 17 + - [Make the reader care](https://gwern.net/blog/2026/make-me-care). Because if they are not hooked by the first line, they will probably not keep reading, no matter how good the rest of it is. 17 18 - [Writing that sounds good is more likely to be right](https://paulgraham.com/goodwriting.html). Making sentences sound better forces you to fix ideas unconsciously. Good rhythm matches the natural rhythm of thoughts—use rhythm as a guide for getting ideas right. 18 19 - Use the active voice. 19 20 - Write in a conversational tone. Think about readers when writing.