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Visakan Veerasamy

@visakanv

Feb 21

there’s a thing I often wish I could explain to people… but hilariously, it fits the same pattern I’m trying to explain:

a lot of the most interesting, valuable things you can do are things that have very small windows of opportunity

so in the case of matchmaking, a beginner matchmaker might think it’s a matter of finding the best possible people (according to some set of metrics) for the best possible people.

but the expert matchmaker will tell you that actually timing and seasonality etc matter more

in something like football you might think that the player with the most stamina, best striking ability, etc is the strongest

but the guy that scores the most goals is typically the guy who is most sensitive to the situation. Messi famously just walks around the pitch Observing

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Visakan Veerasamy

@visakanv

Feb 9

one of the oldest stories we have on record is from 1850BC Egypt called "The Eloquent Peasant". It's fairly short yet interestingly complex. i'll try and retell it as quickly and entertainingly as i can

we begin with our boi Khun-Anup, a poor peasant just tryna sell his wares...

to get to the market he has to pass thru land that's owned by nobles. ultimately i believe the land is owned by the pharaoh, but it's administrated by the high steward Rensi, who in turn lets it be run by the local goon Nemtynakht... a ~4000yo matryoshka of bureaucracy

so anyway. the local goon Nemtynakht is a corrupt mf and decides to rob our boi Khun-Anup. he lays out a cloth across the narrow path, which is in between a river and the goon's private fields of barley.

Khun-Anup is like, pls sir, I can't move, I don't wanna trample your cloth

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Visakan Veerasamy

@visakanv

Jan 23

https://twitter.com/societyqueen999/status/1882024595789959223

for starters I don’t think you’re selfish for not having children

and kids actually are a joy to have

but if you need a different reason, I really liked what some other couple once said, about wanting to have “a maximum human experience”. I’ll elaborate how I interpreted that

https://twitter.com/societyqueen999/status/1882024595789959223

but first again I’ll reiterate that you *don’t* have to have kids. i don’t think it’s something that should be done from a sense of weary obligation. I believe it’s possible to have a meaningful, beautiful life without kids and you should do what feels right for you in your heart

https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1826519381037466002

ok so like the first wild thing to me about having kids is that you get to see your own childhood and your own parents from a sort of “exploded perspective” view. it’s like seeing the matrix, the current timeline directly loops over the past and it’s narratively ultra satisfying

https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1826519381037466002

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Visakan Veerasamy

@visakanv

Jan 10

nobody is coming to do an honest audit of your time and energy for you

only you can face the truth of how you are living your life, and whether it’s the life you know in your heart you are actually capable of living

you dont have to do it alone, but nobody else can do it for you

food analogy works decent here

you gotta eat. you dont have to eat alone. but nobody can eat for you

in early childhood we need to be fed

there’s a lot to learn about things like cooking and food prep etc

but nobody can eat for you

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Visakan Veerasamy

@visakanv

Jan 3

when I was young I figured out a bunch of solutions to a bunch of problems and I thought it would make people love me lol but it actually alienated me from them, and it’s turns out it’s roughly because people identify with their problems

(I then went on to solve that alienation problem for myself by making a bunch of new friends, which involved dis-identifying as alienated)

there’s some subtlety here that’s worth getting into

disidentifying is not about denying the truth of something or pretending that it doesn’t exist or that it doesn’t hurt etc

it’s simply removing the pedestal from underneath it, demoting it from its main character status

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Visakan Veerasamy

@visakanv

Dec 21, 2024

Obama is still the only POTUS who was born after 1946. He was the only one born after the partition of India. Gandhi's assassination. the Berlin Blockade. the coinage of the term "Big Bang". Mao's proclamation founding the PRC. the signing of NATO. the Korean War.

only POTUS born after the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1952, after Everest was summited for the first time in '53, after the Fellowship of the Ring was published in '54, after the first Disneyland opened in '55, after Elvis dropped Heartbreak Hotel in 56, Sputnik launched '57

Barbie debuted 1959
Pantyhose also debuted 1959, big year for a particular kind of pervert
Muhammad Ali wins the gold at boxing in the 1960 olympics when Biden is ~18 years old
then JFK and Nixon have the first televised presidential debate also in 1960

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