essay drafts
i just feel in my bones that there are about 5-12 essays knocking around inside me that if i just get out of my system i will
rereading old writing
reading my old writing and it’s striking how i wrote about so many of the same things, but far more tediously. writing i
win_loop
have a draft of an essay i’ve sort of lazily idling on titled “win loops” and i might as well just tweet it
dadposting
transcribing.a series of twitter threads i’ve written reflecting on being a dad I. feeding my kid at 5am sets off a seri
ayy players
someone asked what I mean by A+ talent I personally define it as the ability to step into a situation, figure out what’s
unstuck
(original thread) meant to write an essay today but got distracted by twitter lol and now its bedtime so maybe i’ll blur
unsolicited advice
“I’ve noticed a few recent tweets that seem to deviate from your ‘brand’. If you want to continue to g
reality
This post was a stub that evolved into “reality is unrealistic” substack essay a few months later. “But please r
self-bullying
(og tweet) idk if i’ve framed it like this before when talking about trust and freedom etc: a person who bullies themsel
everything is sexual
(og thread) maybe this is jarring for me to say in context here because i inhabit a different vocabulary entirely but i think
irritation with others
(og thread) i hold on to my irritation with other people in large part because i want to think of everyone as peers i want to
mysteriously winning
(og thread) When you’re starting out, it feels like you don’t have a lot of value to contribute. but as you get be
aesthetic conformity vs being distinctive
(og thread) a lot of recommendations on how to look/sound better goes something like “here’s how to conform better
free agent reflections
its been about 4.5 years now since i’ve worked a “proper job”, in another year or so i will have been a free
eggshells
(og thread) in my 30s i’ve been coming around to learning that most people are quite forgiving. i got burned really hars
new guy navigating group norms
(og thread) every group of people develops some set of norms, and there is typically friction when a new entrant joins the gro
abdication
(oct2022 thread) a thing I haven’t quite been able to connect the dots on properly, but have an increasing felt sense of: th
external meaning structures
(og thread) people who are bad at generating their own meaning get much more troubled by disruptions and turbulence in externa
behavior change requires addressing copes
(og thread) vague intuition that a critical factor of why behavior change/redesign is so unsuccessful so often is: insufficien
power
(original thread) experimenting with a frame, not sure if I’m entirely behind it but let’s see how it feels: iR
you can just not do the thing
(og thread) “The entire internet gaslighting itself into watching Morbius is one of the most hysterical things I’v
language
A big part of why I write is so I can think clearly without all of the inelegant clutter of most people’s words, and mo
broscience stress theory
(original thread) my big broscience medical conspiracy theory is that tonnes of things are downstream of stress (which have to
words smoosh concepts smoosh memories
(original thread) there’s something interesting that happens when you void the warranty on your received indoctrination
taskmaster: do you deserve joy?
(og thread) looking back, one of the major anxieties of my teens and most of my 20s was caused by this unhelpful, unhealthy be
hyperinflation
everybody owes each other stuff, we call this society then people invented coin to represent this debt and trade it around, we
better explanations
(dec2021 thread) throughout my life I recurringly find myself thinking the thought “nobody explained this to me the way it o
calendar rehab, aversion to containers
(original thread) might as well talk about it out loud: i experience a deep aversion to putting stuff to do on my calendar (ot
better explanations
(2021dec3 thread) throughout my life I recurringly find myself thinking the thought “nobody explained this to me the way it
my compulsive people
(og thread) hypothesis: a thing abt “my people” is they each have some way in which they are oddly compulsive, at
just hit your target
This is the same core principle for starting a business or becoming an author, or anything really just sell one product, then
coleridge moment
(og thread) Just had a Coleridge moment. i took a nap, and in that nap i was on vacation, and on that vacation i was perfectly
prioritization defeats anxiety
observation: A person who is prioritizing is still not succeeding at the impossible task of doing everything they want to do,
how to scenius, draft
(scenius thread) a more general version of this is my dominant preoccupation, so here are some riffs and thoughts broad stroke
no scolding
(og thread) I seldom articulate this explicitly but one of the cornerstones of my approach to peopling is “no scolding&#
arrogance
(og thread) When I was a teenager, the dominant criticism my closest friends had of me was that I was too arrogant, and they w
gender stuff
I wanna try tweeting like my most straightforward honest feelings about gender stuff; my thinking itself seems to be convolute
handover protocols
“Political visions are fragile. They appear—and are lost again. Ideas formulated in one generation are frequently forg
pre-installed personalities
(original thread) with each passing year I get more and more convinced that people are practically born with most of their per
psychographs
(original 2019 thread) You know how people sometimes go to sleep thinking about a problem and wake up with the solution? I wen
dismantling obsolete beliefs
(2019 thread) there’s a sort of bullshit detector in my brain, which contains a set of beliefs about how the world works
assemble the mindcity
(original thread) Now that more of us are playing the threading game: As we compete+collaborate effectively articulate things
salaryman suspicions
my 6-month hiatus from salaryman life has confirmed a lot of my suspicions about myself there are many layers to this I was wo