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dannygreer

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dannygreer··on Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
As a kid, I had vivid mental images. That completely changed after a head injury in my early twenties. Now I can’t picture anything in my mind.

I believe the same injury also left me with anendophasia, meaning I don’t have an inner monologue.

Neither has negatively affected my work or daily life. I’ve just become what I’d call a 'generative thinker': I figure things out by doing. Ideas take shape as I speak, write, build, or work through them. Over time I've gotten increasingly better/faster at this. In some instances I believe it even makes me more productive..I don't overthink.

Here’s a helpful overview of anendophasia:

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/anendophasia

And a few active communities for anyone interested:

Aphantasia: https://www.reddit.com/r/Aphantasia/

Anendophasia: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anendophasia/ https://www.reddit.com/r/silentminds/

I’ve lived with and without both mental imagery and an inner monologue, so for me, there’s no question that these differences are real.

dannygreer··on Superlogical
Anybody else using Superset as your multiplexer rn? I'm finding it quite useful but wondering if there are other existing products that I should consider -- Mac Silicon: https://superset.sh/ Curious to see what Superlogical cooks up.
dannygreer··on Tracking the Apple to OpenAI pipeline: 283 moves, 44% from hardware
interesting analysis. apple's lawsuit says the poaching happened "at every level." this is basically the exhibit a dataset. curious what next quarter's snapshot looks like...hard to imagine the pipeline doesn't fall off a cliff now that individual employees are getting legal letters.