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Visakan Veerasamy Profile picture
@visakanv
Apr 29, 2021 • 12 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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i feel like somebody might've done this thread before but there's something funny about how like the nolan batmobile aesthetic went on to reverberate thru so much of product design FOR MEN, just like how zimmer's inception Bwongggg is in all movie trailers now
my casual instinct/guess is that this was sort of influenced by the stealth bomber. you know, the... [googles] Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk.

very distinctive, looks like it's from a video game with low polygon count
as people are saying, the blocky aesthetic of the F117 was a consequence of the limitations of the hardware – much like Lara Croft's ol' blocky titties
and as brian eno pointed out, once a limitation is transcended, it will be romanticized. you see kids on tiktoks and fancams etc doing this right now with artificially grainy fancams meant to look like VCR footage


interesting to observe how the honda civic has evolved over my lifetime
the evolution of advertising might be even more revealing
everything has to be cinematic now, everything has to be IMAX, everything has to be sexy, thrilling, swoosh

of course then you get supernormal stimuli burnout. it's like the loudness war in audio. something has to give
your car must now look like a battlestation from which you can drone strike your enemies, otherwise what's the point
here's the entertaining thing for me though: when it comes to actual performance on the battlefield, both US Army Rangers and goddamn ISIS agree that Toyota pickups are the best
thinking also about how they turned all the power rangers into ironrobocopman in the 2017 movie reboot

everything just has to look more like a murderbot
digressing but I'm thinking *also* about how they gave spiderman – your friendly neighborhood spiderman! – a goddamn super-surveillance portable palantir NSA tool
they even made robocop more robocop ykwim

more lens flare

they somehow strip away even more of the human

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Apr 19
I’ve gotten thousands of DMs over the years from people telling me about their problems. Here’s one interesting pattern/cluster I’ve noticed, which I’d loosely describe as

“anxious self-flagellating ambitious guy who desires greatness but refuses to learn from his mistakes”
they tend to say something like, “I know perfect is the enemy of the good but I can’t bear to do merely good so I keep trying to do perfect and keep failing. how do you deal with not being perfect?” and- I’ll prob have to explain this but the vibe is very similar to-
the question I ask in return is something like, “how do you deal with accomplishing nothing over something? that seems like it would be harder to deal with than failing to be perfect, which is the default condition of all human beings from day 1”
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Apr 7
i used to agonize about this for years. i came to see that the agonizing is itself unproductive, lol. like an athlete who refuses to rest because he's not performing at 100%, when rest is required to perform. the ideal end-state is to transcend simplistic notions of productivity,
but ime that's much easier to do from a place of strength rather than weakness, so for a lot of people i actually do recommend getting productive before transcending productivity grindset.

i do believe it's possible to skip the middle, but the people who do don't ask for advice
so like if you're gonna embark on this, buncha basic sanity check things u gotta do. define what productivity means to you. what outcomes you're trying to achieve. do an inventory of how you actually spend your time/energy. a lot of people who struggle, horribly misrepresent this
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Mar 28
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:
👆🏾 that's the FAN frame

👇🏾 Introspect is actually about the same thing

my bio, "focus your time and energy on what you want to see more of" is the "core ingredient" in both frames

it's sovereignty and playfulness over bullying and coercion

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Mar 27
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

visakanv.com/blog/most-peop…
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.

visakanv.com/blog/greatness…
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Mar 20
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
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Mar 16
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
more on this
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