Start Here

Hi, I’m Visa.

@1000wordvomits is my personal project to write 1,000 stream-of-consciousness, unedited essays of at least 1,000 words each. I call them word vomits.

It’s vaguely inspired by the 10,000 hour rule, and by that story about the pottery class divided into quality vs quantity.

I’m previously updated this page in April 2019. It just occurred to me that I should put together a list of what I think are the best word vomits worth reading and sharing. Here they are.

  1. 0675 – being smart vs being kind
  2. 0657 + 0658 – identify your principles by examining your behavior patterns
  3. 0745 – encourage weirdos, discourage assholes
  4. 0536 – Lemmy (This is not a practice life)
  5. 0623 – “asshole grandpa”
  6. 0152 – Letter To A Young Songwriter
  7. 0194 – mvp model of personal development
  8. 0714 – consider the speedrunners
  9. 0466 – beware fuckarounditis
  10. 0744 – we stress to communicate that we’re serious
  11. 0400 – stop hoarding truth in boxes

I’m now updating this again in November 2019, and it’s occurring to me that I ought to be clear about what I am doing here. I think there are 3 primary reasons I do this – to write, to learn about myself, and to be useful to others.

2 thoughts on “Start Here

  1. Ashwathi

    Hi, just discovered your twitter and blog and spent hours browsing late at night…I don’t know how long ago the procrastination posts were from, but you are my Tim Urban, lol. Someone who can relate, but who probably doesn’t have it as bad as me. 😛 My parents are also from different castes, and that has definitely been an experience. An experience that strangely, I’m only just starting to find and hear people talking about — even if to me it seems like I should have heard a lot more about it. Anyway, here are some people you might be interested in following on Twitter re caste and just generally. @rumlolarum (check out her blog, too) @geeimaan, @caselchris1, @everydaycasteism. I don’t know of anyone in Singapore. In fact, the only other people I’ve heard of from Singapore are @LadyKash and Candace Chen. And now you 😛 🙂

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