I had the absolute pleasure to talk to Protesilaos Stavrou. He is such a nice host, permitting to derail his line of topics and inquiries over and over again, and still enjoying the process. 11/10, can recommend.

• We started chatting about development, and being an independent vs freelancer;
• 2000’s/2010’s discovery of attention grabbing techniques on the web; and how interaction, not attention, is the better currency of monetization;
• “build it and they will come”, the bane of independent development;
• working with a Zettelkasten, writing and thinking over long periods of time, keeping your thoughts organized (e.g. for a PhD thesis or other complex project); how you, the user, are the stateful machine that interprets notes over and over like a computer interprets code for execution;
• Luhmann’s theory of dynamic (social) systems.