it's time for another episode of "visa goes through the pictures in his computer"
I got a friend to make this for me once for an essay I was going to write, but I never got around to writing it. The working title was "The Boy Who Wouldn't Behave"
same
(xkcd 1741)
powerful
one of the guys from my secondary school was a classical music nerd. everyone else was getting into pop-punk and emo then, but he was like "fuck ya'll, orchestra 4eva". was scrolling through facebook once and found that he's conducting orchestras now
*whispers* do your thing
guy ordered snorlax plushies on Carousell to please his wife, forgot to check the size
IIRC Carousell bought one themselves to keep in their office, probably because it's such a funny story
2016 was quite a year, huh
when the beloved king of Thailand died, everybody wore black. *everyone*
useful instructions
my cousins and I have always been gangsta
the girls are particularly iconic; I'm just the one that posts on twitter
read the text
dads
been meaning to get a print of this for years
I chat with myself sometimes
yo momma
I once did a Facebook status that was like, "what do you remember about me?" and
my favorite english teacher was brutal af (he was right, btw)
I didn't appreciate how good this poem was when I was 12
I wasn't really interested in it at the time, and there's something quite meta about that. I feel like Carol Ann Duffy might appreciate that I didn't give a fuck about her poem when I was 12 years old
oh wow I've been looking for this picture for ages
this was me at peak fitness I think I could do like 15 pullups then
just accept your fate
how do you do, fellow kids
I love military memes
btw space jam is coming to netflix soon! looking forward to it
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might change my mind on this later but rn in this moment i feel like the biggest lie i've been told in my life has been abt the nature of distraction. or u could say the nature of attention. it seems to me that the misunderstanding of it is woven into the fabric of civilization
i wont claim to have a perfect or even "very good" understanding of it, but I have a growing sense of the misunderstanding of it. a lot of it is downstream of exertion and control
i've circled around and alluded to this a lot over the years, eg:
off the top of my head, a list of things i find myself always a little surprised to have to point out to people:
you seldom have to care about "most people" if you're looking to connect with an exceptional person. this is true whether we're talking about dating, friendships, hiring, audience building, etc
greatness is deviance (from the norm). steve jobs used to use the phrase "insanely great"– which is actually a tautology. people keep tripping up over euphemisms around this. achieving deviant outcomes requires doing deviant shit.
and IME some are so hard to change that it can sometimes be better to work around them even if you additionally believe that the OG belief is wrong or bad or unhelpful
eg in my case I know I have some less-than-ideal beliefs about productivity and rest, yet for the most part it has been easier for me to just work and “earn my rest”, bad as that belief might be, than to dismantle that belief (been trying for like 20 years with minimal progress)
always open to the possibility of some special move or phrasing dismantling that belief, but not counting on it
can easily see a parallel life path where I devoted all my effort to trying harder to dismantle that belief, failing, and having nothing to show for it
since i was a kid i kept seeing variations of this idea being expressed. the president is an idiot. the boss is a fool. the mogul is a clown. and people would be arguing about whether that assessment was correct or wrong. and that in turn struck me as the wrong frame entirely
to me, the correct frame, or the lesson to learn, is that you only need to get some things right. then you can be wrong about everything else and still be a rich/powerful bitch talking shit while the people who get everything else right stay broke and mad
Alison reshared this as a response to “what is your contribution to society”. It’s an entertaining watch and rewatch
what i find myself thinking about is how contribution is downstream of distribution. say you do 10 good works, and 1 gets distributed 1000x more than the others
studying how this played out in all sorts of domains is roughly how/why I ended up specializing in marketing, networking, understanding how things spread.
At any given point in time there’s always good stuff going unnoticed and underappreciated
which is to say, you don’t necessarily have to make a good thing to contribute to society, you can simply find good things and share them with more people
from the perspective of someone who previously didn’t know or care that the thing existed, it’s equally important!
i'm so curious to understand the economics behind this business. have they actually built the thing? how much did it cost to make? what do they do if nobody buys it? how did they finance it? do they sell smaller subs? let's investigate
ok so first of all important detail is it doesn't exist, it seems more like a "if you want it we'll build it" type of deal. a lot of press attention for a thing that doesn't exist! (and the attention economics makes sense there; billionaire bashing is always great for clicks)
next question: does any migaloo submarine exist at all? i don't see any smoking gun of "yes", all of their videos and instagram posts etc appear to be artist renderings