knowable
(2024dec24) surprise, I already had an uncategorized post titled “Knowable”! I want to use it to list out other posts that fit this category. ✱ (original thread) since i was kid i always wondered why things weren’t better. i’ve probably spent thousands of hours thinking and reading and talking about this. my current assessment is […]
language (orwell, russell)
Aug2023: This threadpost will likely eventually become part of a substack essay I’ve been stewing on titled “In other words”, will link when it’s done. 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 models. It’s an act of compression. […]
safety rituals
the meta thing is, this sort of conversation itself will become a safety ritual if you don’t then take some action that changes the game. I think a good way to do this without bullshitting yourself is to take some new (small) action that you’ve not taken before (or recently) but also, you can live […]
self-worth
this is one of those things where someone is trying to make you feel good with comforting noises, which is honestly sweet – but if you’re a thinking person and you investigate this a little closer, there are a lot of followup questions. What IS self-worth even? (original thread) If self-worth is worth that you […]
what’s it like to live your dream?
(nov 18, 2021 thread) there are a bunch of things i wish some earnest person would ask me about, tho if i talk about it now it would distract me from my book lol. but maybe a quick distraction as a treat (been working on it today!!). i wish someone would ask me about what […]
don’t be gullible
Seen two separate things recently on the TL about how substack is a scam and how NFTs are a scam and my personal read is that the real problem is that people are gullible. If you solve for your own gullibility you don’t have to worry about being scammed. As a creator if you build […]
dealing with losers
(2020nov5 thread) I’m not a fan of divvying people up arbitrarily into winners and losers – one should never be gleeful about this – but I do have a subconscious subroutine that does it for me, and it’s very useful mental machinery, even accounting for some small % of error rate (5-10%?) I am being […]
troubleshooting arrogance
When I was a teenager, the dominant criticism my closest friends had of me was that I was too arrogant, and they were right. I was too caustic, abrasive, eager to nitpick, quick to criticize, and I was way too certain of myself. I spent my entire 20s trying to correct for this. The social […]
talent is not rare, talent is clueless and scared
(see also: greatness is deviance) When I was younger I thought that talent was rare, but as I get older I realize that the answer is so much weirder than that. talent is not ~super~ rare. but talent hides, talent often doesn’t want to be found, talent is scared, talent is clueless you could revise […]
⚔️ twitter_rpg_strategy_guide.txt
twitter_rpg_strategy_guide.txt Twitter is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, primarily text-based with limited multimedia support. It combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction, and online chat. Players can read, view and contribute descriptions of objects, other players, non-player characters, and actions performed in the virtual world, as well as the […]
🍵 empty your cup and allow life to surprise you
2024apr29: I think this wants to be a more substantial post about attention. consider my recent conversation with dinesh about focus and epistemology… letting go of preexisting frames and assumptions, being genuinely open and curious 2017feb23 wordvomit (0647) 2019may-thread I never really understood the whole “empty your cup” and “unlearn what you have learned” thing […]