I spend so much energy being sensible on twitter that on Facebook I just,
this triggers a memory – when I was a teenager, my parents brought me to see some family friend who would go into a trance state and tell fortunes. they asked him about my schooling and he growled "butthi yengeyo poothu", which translates to sth like, "his mind roams unknown"
at the time it seemed kinda spooky and weird, but on retrospect, damn, he right, and what a badass thing to say
someone told me recently that you're supposed to say "in retrospect", not "on retrospect", and initially i was like "lol fuck off fren, i use words how I like", but now it's gnawing at me

in retrospect I still like "on retrospect"...

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14 Oct
let me take you on a quick ridealong on my brain

where do I even start

I woke up

did some stream-of-consciousness writing, I had dreamt that an old twitter friend was back on twitter (alas, they are not) Image
satisfied that I had done a bit of a braindump, I decided to open the bird app, and I discover that I have a dozens of replies and DMs from when I was asleep, which I am probably not going to be reply to, hence this:
I have my coffee, shower, and in the shower I think, "ok, ok, let's try and be productive, we should check our email". (I don't check my email often.)

in my inbox, I'm reminded that, a week ago, I posted about my Patreon, and got 5 new patrons Image
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13 Oct
sometimes I think about making a todo app 😂

"but visa there are literally 9999 todo apps"

yea and none of them do what I want
it probably wouldn't be simple tho. idk it feels indulgent to even think about thinking about
I would say

compare the average person's twitter style vs my twitter style

and you get a sense of the difference between the average todo app, and the kind of todo app I would make, if I knew how to do it
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13 Oct
it's interesting – every single one of these things is a thing I've probably said as an individual, and could be described as "representative of my values", and yet something feels strange to me about these being "the rules" of some community. not in a *bad* way, just, hm
I don't mean to knock on the founders – I know of them from Quora, they're gd ppl and I respect that they're trying to address a very difficult challenge

I get the sense that at some level I feel like the problem is not quite solvable, not in this way, not with these parameters
When I look at these things there's a part of me that tends to initiate a simulation of a malicious actor – how would I foil and thwart these rules to be a terrible person & ruin everything for everyone? In this case, I'd be a Genuinely Curious Person Who's Just Asking Questions
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12 Oct
One of my favorite things about my twitter feed is how diverse it is in terms of where people are from around the world. Reply with a pic of where you’re from, and I’ll QT a thread of my favorites

Here’s a view of Keppel Harbour from Harbourfront library, Singapore 🇸🇬 Image
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12 Oct
someone quote-tweeted one of my "build an audience" tweets with a very interesting disagreement that I want to explore. they're a small account so I don't want to stress them out by quote-tweeting them in turn. but lemme break it down
1. "This craze arnd "follow & make friends in social media" "create content for social media" is the toxic madness that has kept most of humanity unhinged in today's world."
2. "I wd rather encourage scholarly pursuits for one's internal satisfaction without engaging outer world."
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11 Oct
I always like looking for people's transformation pics and stories (Amy's shared her journey on her Instagram in the replies), mainly to study the little details about the body and facial language. There's a whole "cinematography of confidence" that you can study and learn
I can share my own transformation entirely through body language, even w/o much change in body composition. the most obvious difference is the hands, I made this whole video with my hands in my hoodie pocket the whole time. I'm "stuck", revving w/ brakes
compared to this – obvious superficial differences are the colors and jewelry, sunlight, etc – and then the hands – but it's also really about the openness, expressiveness, no longer "blocked" or "repressed", no longer policing and imprisoning myself

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