282 karma · joined March 8, 2010
I love talking about decaying currency, certain(non-NFT) blockchain topics, Longhorn football, some philosophy topics, etc and I'll talk to anyone about them most all of the time if I can find a conversation partner(especially during quarantine). I had no real way to make those connection on clubhouse even though I had spoken with interested folks previously.
Most of all, I couldn't catch up. If an amazing conversation happened that you were late to...too bad. You couldn't explore and find if the person speaking was really trustworthy by looking at their back catalogs.
I wanted a clubhouse that lets me pay $9.99 a month to have access to a back catalogs that will let me listen to the interesting conversations that occurred in the past about very long-tail specific topics. Then I want to star those people with different color stars and notification levels so that if they start talking again I can quickly see what kind of conversation it is and jump in. If I'm late I want to back up 30 minutes and listen at 1.75x until I'm caught up. Give me the knobs and dials to customize my experience.
I even 'rebuilt' it tried to sell it as a service once (http://xcursi.com - warning, the cert is expired and I've been too lazy to replace it).
Zen and Lila by Pirsig
Beginning of Infinity by Deutsch.
I also wrote a book where I took a number of Alexander's ideas and applied them to creating a crypto based economic system. - https://amzn.to/2RGhfIf - Probably not interesting unless you are really into crypto or really into pattern languages.
I was in Berkeley a couple of years ago and went on a bit of a pilgrimage up the hill to find some of the house that he designed. I ended up running into some of his family and felt like an ass for invading their privacy(I had no idea they still lived in one of the houses), but was able to speak with one of his daughters and he was apparently not doing so well back then. Every time I see his stuff come up on here I worry that it is bad news.