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@visakanv
Aug 26, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
this hit me in a deep, deep place that I wasn’t expecting or planning on first thing in the morning. this anti-tank missile bored through my chassis and obliterated me on the inside
I really... wanna meet this kid

I’m always asked first too, Jahara

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Sep 17
I actually wrote @introspectvv because of this. It all began with the question of, how does it ever make sense that I experience boredom when we live in perhaps most exciting, stimulating time in human history? when there’s so much possibility and opportunity everywhere?
I compared it to other experiences like “it’s so crowded, nobody goes there”, etc. in 2016 I didn’t have a succinct 1-word verb for “define your utility-values more precisely”, but I’ve since encoded that into my definition of the word Introspect
there’s at least two kinds of boredom. one is blissful pleasant idleness. nobody minds that. the other extreme is what I call corrosive or foreboding or ominous boredom. (I encountered a book where someone called it DEMONIC boredom lol). And I have a much clearer sense of it now
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Aug 2
debating internally whether to discuss someone's earnestly cringe response to a friend's tweet... i'll paraphrase it: ~"you dont know me but we are uniquely suited for each other and we should get to know one another, pls DM me"

(i dont share this to dunk but to help)
i've sorta been on both sides of this, i vaguely recall maybe having sent some earnest emails and/or DMs when i was a kid that were sort of in this spirit, though I think even then I was at least careful to do what I think is the most important part: offer supporting evidence
basically, if you have a special connection with someone– and you might! I have had this with people I had never met or spoken with before! – the way to connect is not to say "i believe we have a special connection", but to *demonstrate* that special connection.

how?
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Jul 22
a lot of loneliness plays out like this: people accumulate past grievances that they feel have not been appropriately heard. they front-load interactions with this (eg complaining about ex on first date), which makes other people feel unheard. this perpetuates the wretched cycle
a lot of solutions to the loneliness problem begin by finding some way to metabolize the grievances, whether it’s through therapy, or drugs, or art

partial solutions are possible and better than nothing; and most people do live in some state of leaky compartmentalization
how that plays out is you keep it together well enough to not complain about your ex on the first date, but it slips out in a fight maybe six months later, “that’s the thing with you men/women…”
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Jul 21
nonpartisan tweets about framing: scrolling through @joebiden's timeline, which i assume is run by his team, i can't help but notice just how many of the tweets are about trump, with pictures of trump, videos of trump. look at trump, think about trump. imagine trump as president

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@JoeBiden I remember @HillaryClinton doing the same thing. imagine trump as president. picture trump in the oval office
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meanwhile @teamtrump wants you to also imagine trump as president. pictures of trump. videos of trump. trump trump trump Image
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Jun 28
a critical skill if you wanna walk through the walls of culture, and/or “see the matrix” of social reality, is to de-fixate on who the winners or losers of some social exchange are, who’s higher status or lower status, whose group is better or worse, who’s allied with who, etc
the way to de-fixate is to be curious

curious about the truth, curious about how things look from the other side, about how you might be wrong, about what is or is not technically possible, about what the material constraints are, about what the alternate narratives might be,
this sort of thing ordinarily feels redundant to me to say out loud, since it’s kind of been my natural operating system for as long as I can remember. I’m usually only reminded of it when I bump into someone who doesn’t seem to have access to curiosity
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Jun 23
met a couple of different friends yesterday and today for lots of good conversation and I wanna try and remember stuff that came up, so- a thread of kinda disjointed thoughts
one of the most powerful magical forces we’re all in thrall of is how mundane and inert everything appears to be. this is an illusion our minds generate to make things easier to navigate, but it also blocks us from seeing possibilities in plain sight
2. people who are looking for incremental solutions to a problem will often ignore or disregard solutions that eliminate the problem entirely (often requires upstream reconceptualization)
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