I’m starting to get a vision of when I will eventually drop my tweet volume by 90-95%

will transition to becoming a videographer, filmmaker, video essayist

might be a few years away, maybe at about 200k or 250k tweets

all my tweets are scaffolding for something greater

note that I tweet like 100 tweets a day so me tweeting at 5% capacity is still more than a lot of people lol

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@visakanv

7 Jul

the flattening of attention metrics is something that seems to trip up even the most thoughtful of people

1 follow or view from the right person is worth 10,000 casual randos, maybe 100k. this is hardly ever reflected anywhere

in practice it’s a kind of sliding scale but still

https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1345063568744480768

most intuitive way I’ve been able to frame this:

https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1345063568744480768

you may have to talk to 10,000 people before you find your McCartney (and I argue that it’s worth spending 10 years talking to 3 people a day until you do), but the mistake many people make is pandering to the 10k instead of focusing on finding McCartney

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@visakanv

7 Jul

https://twitter.com/fortelabs/status/1412814224636719107

a question I’d explore to try and look for an interesting answer to this, which probably might end up too obscure to fulfill the original query but would still be interesting to know:

which material innovations were most significant in allowing for the ubiquity of smartphones?

https://twitter.com/fortelabs/status/1412814224636719107

one bottleneck is batteries. iPhones use lithium ion batteries. Prototypes throughout 70s, 80s. Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2019 nobelprize.org/prizes/chemist…

another bottleneck is computing power… basically a function of transistors… silicon, right?

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@visakanv

7 Jul

observation:

1. nobody has the time to do everything they want to do

2. the people who take the trouble to prioritize what they want, and then focus on doing whatever is most important to them, are almost never the ones who are anxious about (1)

it's interesting because there isn't actually an immediately obvious reason why this would be the case

A person who is prioritizing is still not succeeding at the impossible task of doing everything they want to do, and so they would still have the same *reason* to be anxious

so this suggests to me that the model is wrong. (all models are wrong, yea yea)

people aren't anxious because there's more than they can do

people are anxious because they aren't doing what they know is their best

if you know that you're doing your best, you sleep pretty good

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@visakanv

7 Jul

sometimes my cat wants to look out of the window, so I carry her to look, and I can watch her and feel her looking at all the things going on outside. and then I can feel when she's done – she starts to gently turn to wherever she wants to go instead, and I put her down

I enjoy this little non-verbal dance of shared understanding

I remember reading once about some guy who did this with his infant child, and how he would respond to her gestures, carrying her higher or lower as she wished, and how after a while she was basically piloting her dad around like a human mech. Makes total sense to me

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