May 2023 – @visakanv's archives

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It used to be so normal for people to smoke cigarettes everywhere. Old photos of NBA games and boxing had a blue haze – you

Get your motor runnin’Head out on the highwayLooking for adventureIn whatever comes our way Yeah, darlin’ gonna ma

I’ve been wanting to write something called Attention Whores, thinking about how that used to be an insult that was thrown a

Malcolm McLuhan has been on my radar for a long time, but I’d always been kinda avoiding him, the way I had previously avoid

simplistic but feels right: good repetition is mindful, bad repetition is mindless meta: mindless repetition isn’t all that

Scope your problems Why Twitter is more fun than other things- utterances are well scoped Why writing essays and books a

[3:39 PM, 5/21/2023] @visakanv: have i told you about the blessed/wretched thing? it’s another one of my long-stewing pots.

(This post was kicked off by witnessing a younger version of myself struggling with something about permanent records.)

(2023jun1 thread) in response to the time war story, bigolas dickolas: I’ve told variations of this story several times but

collecting some tweets and notes… Neilsen blogosphere study 2012: Buzz in the Blogosphere: Millions More Bloggers and Bl

drafts from time to time people ask me something like “what have you changed your mind the most on” and it’s

someone asked what I mean by A+ talent I personally define it as the ability to step into a situation, figure out what’s

(abandoned substack draft) “My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as se

“Talent. The talent of some men appears slighter than it is because they have always set themselves tasks that are too

Kohai: I need help. I’m stuck. Knotted. Trapped. Overwhelmed. What do I do? Senpai: What do you want to do? Kohai: I want to