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24 Nov, 7 tweets, 2 min read
Just got this monster of a double-sided book in the mail from @JimmyRis and it is fucking amazing. This is the mind of Ted Nelson???

I am transfixed
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25 Nov
this is an elegant way to talk about the feedback problem that alan watts loved to riff about

how do you trust yourself if you don't trust yourself?

how do you fix a broken system when the "fixing tool" is itself broken? etc
yeah this rhymes with what worked for me, doing tonnes of introspective journaling. few things are absolutely 0 or 100, but if you ramble a lot, really fast, you'll notice that some things feel relatively more or less correct than others

here's a game you can try:

1. make a list of your feelings as quickly as you can. write down wrong feelings even

2. sort them in order of "most to least correct". this order can be wrong too. do it fast

3. make 100 of these lists and compare them to each other
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25 Nov
“why does Yamaha makes both musical instruments and motorcycles” has been a vague curiosity on my mind for 15+ years and for some reason I’ve never googled it
relatedly,
war basically explains the Yamaha thing. Which afaik also explains the electronics boom (which Sony rode to glory) ImageImage
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23 Nov
Can’t sleep, time to do a fresh reboot of VV’s talking points
1. Do it 100 times.

Write 100 songs, cook 100 omelettes, talk to 100 people. It never seems like a huge deal until you try it yourself. It’s manageable, and yet it stretches you, and you’ll be observably different at the end of it. Effective way to get a foothold on a new thing
2. Play long games.

This is kind of a remix of 1. Thousands of people will want to start a substack or podcast. Something like 1% of them or less will stick with it consistently for 2 years. If you commit to things for 10+ years, you develop what appear to be superpowers
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23 Nov
I’m enjoying it so far - a few episodes in - and it does make me feel good to watch a smol nerd achieve success even as she suffers hardship and loss. When you first buy your first set of X supplies from your winnings at playing X, that is a delicious feeling that not many taste
I remember the first time I was “paid” for playing live music in a bar, with beer and spaghetti. It‘s a contender for the most delicious meal I’ve *ever* had in my life, and I’ve had been privileged enough to have had a couple of ridiculously expensive meals over the years since
I do think it genuinely feels good to see someone receive the opportunity to exercise their talents at the highest level, triumph over their doubters, be supported by some friends and loved ones, and achieve greatness - even if they incur painful costs along the way
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23 Nov
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23 Nov
With each passing year I get slightly more comfortable accepting the fact that most complainers don’t really want to do stuff. but still it makes me sad because it means I have to revise my assessment of people in general. I can still love them, but I can’t respect them as much
I spent a lot of my teens and early 20s trying to encourage complainers to do stuff. It was very unproductive and frustrating. I’ve since found that life is 100x better by seeking out people who do stuff. I kinda still have a soft spot for complainers bc in my heart I’m one too
this actually intersects with this previous thread. In a sense it’s disrespectful to “manage” or “deal with” someone in a way that’s presumes they’re diff than who they are. But how do you “really know” who someone “really is”? We barely know ourselves. Yet the 🌍 spins madly on
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