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14 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The notion you "don't need anyone" and are "strong and independent" is a bullshit psyop to make you cut off your support network.

Your love of and connection to others makes you stronger.
It's easier to be kind to your loved one than to yourself, often.

Don't run from that power. Understand it and lean into it. Then you become unstoppable.
The damaged will say otherwise and attempt to conflate being capable of being on your own and independent thought with being lonely. It's a coping mechanism. Pity them.
The Illiad is poppycock. With his love for Andromache and Scamandrius, Hector would have prevailed no matter the odds. Athena be damned!

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15 Nov
Imagine life as a game of DnD and your different skills, strengths and weaknesses as abilities that can be quantifed as stats. Similarly, you have an "alignment" that is essentially your paradigm of principles that guide which actions you will take.
Now let's say in this game you know everyone else's stats and alignment, as you do with your party. Doesn't it become easier to anticipate how they will react or how they can help or hinder you?
Now consider that most people aren't in your party. For the sake of your own strategy and success it will benefit you to ensure that different groups make the wrong assumptions about you.
Read 11 tweets
13 Nov
I initially linearly focused on depth in one area but ignored the horizontal plane of other skills. Now I branch out before "completing one".
It may help to visualise as a linear journey initially, though:

Craft
-> Experience and personality enhancement
-> Marketing
-> Business of field
-> General business and financial concepts
-> investment and how to save
-> delegation and building infrastructure
Each line could be expanded out further into the sub-sections and techniques which it encompasses. There is obviously overlap too. It all accelerates and compounds over time in its effects.
Read 4 tweets
13 Nov
The reason I made the hiring decisions I did for Flashpoint 2 is the golden age of talent has passed.

"Tier 1" is as diluted as most country's currencies.
So why not scout the next talent and build the culture that could help them become true tier 1 talent tomorrow?

That is a far more meaningful task than dunking on the would-be all-stars and hoping they eventually respond with some fire.
Tier 1 for analysis peaked when you had hosts with their own flair who could throw to me, YNk and SPUNJ and we all were going to get our shit off, segue effortlessly and blend it all in on camera presence.
Read 6 tweets
9 May
If we're going to be anything approaching a community and work together to grow this space then it's essential the elder statements and figures with big voices be responsible with the public debate tactics they use.
An argument "won" in the fans' eyes because you got the other guy "cancelled" is not an argument won. It's just giving in to the worst aspects of our nature and playing off the evil that lurks in the hearts of all. We can be better than that.
Disagree with, dislike them or deride them as much you like, that's an entirely subjective discussion about tone, but punching below the belt is fucked. Not least since so many of us have had that done to us and know how unfair and destructive it can be.
Read 16 tweets
9 Dec 19
Listen Loco has come to an end. Along with the Worlds content from 2018, we managed over 100 episodes - a record for my LoL talk shows.
.@Locodoco and I have decided not to continue with the show, as it while it was fun we had an unhealthy relationship and could bring out the worst in each other.

It's better for us both to move on to other projects.
@Locodoco I've had people contact me who seemed to miss the point of some of my statements. I didn't legit feel scammed by Loco not getting a big sponsorship. I did the show cos it was fun to shoot the shit.
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