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Visakan Veerasamy
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A habit I recommend picking up is - after watching the last episode of any tv series, watch S01E01 again
They’re ringing the bells when Jon Arryn is dead
The cinematography has always been fantastic. I miss Ned and Cat, such good people
Ew
Well she got what she wanted
Dany didn’t actually want to be a queen in S1, she just wanted to go home

Interesting to contrast with Sansa
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Visakan Veerasamy
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In an idea-riffy mood this afternoon, thinking about narratives.

For whatever reason, humans seem to be wired for narratives. We’re susceptible to them, dependent on them.

This seems true whether or not we’re aware of it, and whether or not we explicitly articulate it
Alan Watts had many great riffs on this, eg “we are all constantly telling each other who we are”. There’s a finite/infinite, living/dead component to this - many play within boundaries, some play *with* boundaries. Hit “inspect element” and mess around
Everything in our lives is either a part or potentially a part of the story we tell ourselves about who we are and what it’s all about. Every object, person, relationship, idea, thought, memory - all are bits in a larger story we get to write and edit
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Visakan Veerasamy
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Just realized that another way of framing this - which is going to be annoying because it repurposes very loaded language - is that I’m becoming a more religious person. The nuance is that I’m writing my own religion from first principles
Pair with
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Visakan Veerasamy
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one of the coolest things I can do is refer someone else who's more qualified than me + a better fit than me for something. I manage to simultaneously...

1. make at least two people very happy
2. create some real wealth in the world
3. avoid actually doing any work myself
there is some meta-work:

1. you gotta keep track of who's good at what (which I find naturally interesting to pay attention to)

2. you gotta be Not Be An Asshole + Not Tolerate Assholes, which is generally advisable anyway
"keeping track of who's good at what" is a subset of "keeping track of what's good", which is a subset of "cultivate taste"

1. cultivate taste
2. share it with others freely
3. don't be an asshole

holy shit, people *love* you now
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Damon gets the sudden urge to check to phone and demands Katherine give it back to him. YESSS READ YOUR DAMN MESSAGES. Its like he got this feeling something wasn't right
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