Thread by @visakanv

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)

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:

https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1316276461725077504

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

So now I'm thinking, damn. I should probably post about my patreon more often. I should create a roam page for my thinking about this, and think about it more seriously

roamresearch.com/#/app/visakanv…

while thinking about my patreon, I realized that the tension at the heart of it is between my desire to avoid caring about money vs my understanding that more resources means I can help more people, particularly the disenfranchised kids I care about:

https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1098574025234690050

So now I realize, this is a very important talking point for me, inside my own head. I was one of those kids and I remember feeling extremely isolated, gaslighted, etc etc. I want to help those kids. I should make that clearer to me and others. So now we're in wordpress...

very tempted here to switch up to writing a whole separate thing about effective action for change, but I am making the Executive Decision to focus on finishing and publishing this post

got distracted by random nonsense, but came back to publish the post. now it's time to get dinner visakanv.com/blog/kids/

I still haven’t finished checking my email

just to tie this one up – I then ate pizza for dinner with my wife while we watched Money No Enough (1998), then I played Hades for like 4 hours and then showered and went to bed

all in all, pretty representative of a random day in my life