I’ve been circling around a few thoughts recently, and it’s about the idea of “magic”. I guess also semi-joked that I want to be a shaman. It all feels connected. This idea of… the special world.

Here are just some related, relevant tweets for now.

• I believe school made me worse at writing and socializing
• I advise people to be attentive but they often think it’s too much effort
• flirting is an ooda loop
• flirting is about playing with rules and boundaries, teasing around them while paying close attention to your partner
• finite players play within boundaries, infinite players play with boundaries
• “magic” is curiosity + attentiveness + persistence + willingness to revise and re-evaluate everything. And it only seems magical because the average person is not very curious, not very attentive, not very persistent and not very willing to revise and re-evaluate everything.
• Children are naturally curious, attentive…
• people accept the death of creativity the way they accepted the death of mothers and children in childbirth
• authoring your own status games saves money
• learning to be sensitive to other people’s needs is a top tier skill