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Issue 61: Monetization, Rotting, How Can I Live Without You?

A variety of entries from Share Commonbase, paired with light commentary

Bram Adams

Bram Adams

— 4 min read
Issue 61: Monetization, Rotting, How Can I Live Without You?

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A variety of entries from Share Commonbase, paired with light commentary (<> indicates how entries are linked)

Dear Reader,

Please entertain the following!

Music

Kingdom Hearts

Kingdom Hearts III - Ending : Don’t Think Twice / Utada Hikaru
shareCB Entry #3964
Ending : Don't Think Twice / Utada Hikaru
<kingdom hearts>

Just A Man

Just A Man
shareCB Entry #3434

I think it's interesting that "How could I hurt you" <> "How can I live without you? Why should I even have to?"

Movies

Paddleton

Paddleton (2019) directed by Alexandre Lehmann
shareCB Entry #3749
<strained friendships tested by mortality>

King Richard

King Richard (2021) directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green
shareCB Entry #3691
<tennis movies!>

Books

Algorithms to Live By

(Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths, Algorithms to Live By)
shareCB Entry #3813
"There may come a time when you will save the entire herd from disaster" <> "the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path—the my-isn’t-that-impressive path—and keep you there for a long time."

The Diary of Anne Frank

(Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl)
shareCB Entry #836
“Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.” <> "Too young to get bitter over it all \ Too old to retaliate like before"

My Feed

Monetizing Your Hobbies

MONETIZING YOUR HOBBIES, ADVICE with Rajiv Surendra
shareCB Entry #3960
<Rajiv Surendara> ... <monetizing and entrepreneurship>

It's Time To Stop Rotting

That moment when you’re done rotting and ready to be a human.
shareCB Entry #3953
"done rotting" <> "you stop drinking just enough to see the dead, floating bodies"

Housekeeping

  • Sign up to the Your Commonbase waitlist if you haven't!
  • I'll be uploading ~50+ movies and book quotes to SCB this week!
  • I wrote an OCR layer for storing URLs in YCB (lot of acronyms in that sentence). The raison d'être being that for some inane reason people put the text for their short videos on the thumbnail instead of the description. This is likely because TikTok feeds people in a grid of images, instead of a list of text.

Example:

{
  "title": "dooney and broke (@fincherslay) on X",
  "author": "https://x.com/fincherslay/status/1923810112902221964",
  ->> "ocrData": [
    "pov you started water based cooking",
    "and now your skin is clear,your",
    "stomach is thriving and yourecover",
    "from illness overnight"
  ], <<-
  "ogTitle": "dooney and broke (@fincherslay) on X",
  "ogImages": [
    "https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GrK_GfcXYAADWp_.jpg:large"
  ],
  "ogDescription": "water based cooking"
}
  • I have so much work to do before we launch the public beta, but I've narrowed it down to the feature set below:

Beta

nb: here at ycb, we like to organize our features by their functionality. the below list is organized in that fashion, where the functions are: store, search, synthesize, and share.

  • store
    • quick capture from ios or chrome
    • store urls, text, and images
    • all entries are automatically embedded
    • API scripts to store from cmd + space on your keyboard, when you take a screenshot on your Mac, Spotify, Letterboxd, Readwise and more
  • search
    • search as you type
    • semantic search and semantic scroll
    • jump to entries 
      • by date (show me all entries on Christmas last year) 
      • randomly (show me any entry from YCB)
      • from the log of your most recently updated entries
  • synthesize
    • add your personal context to entries with comments
      • comments are embedded too!
      • any type (image, url, text) can be a comment
      • thread entries through multiple levels
    • Google Docs integration
  • share
    • store entries to Your Commonbase from Share Commonbase
    • upload your personal collections to Share Commonbase
    • export/backup your data to CSV

we also have an extensive and active roadmap, where you can see our upcoming features and expected launch dates

Best,

Bram

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