one of my riffs on Twitter that’s taken off and embedded in other people’s minds is the idea of “joke about outcomes you want”. (It’s worth noting somewhere that this is a subset of “focus your time and energy on what you want to see more of“).

I have a lot of tweets about this, which you can find by doing a search for “joke outcomes”.

This is the main thread that I update often, full of examples downthread of people getting outcomes that they joked about.

May eventually update this post to include more context and details.

See also: jokes perform social functions and sustain social order