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24 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
periodic reminder (more for myself than for you) that I tweet for 0.1% outliers in optimism, thoughtfulness, creativity, kindness, competence, ambition, drive, curiosity.

all are welcome to read and hang out, but I won't dilute my writing trying to be "more accessible"
this is not a recent fad or phase for me,

it's a lifelong obsession
on elitism:

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visa is almost done ✍🏾📖 Profile picture
25 Jul
a recurring theme in several conversations I've had recently is about how people seem to simultaneously overrate and underrate founders, artists, creatives, etc

and I found myself thinking, people overestimate the social posture(s), and underestimate the raw volume of work
in my experience + conversations with other writers: you have to write about a million words to get to a point where other people consistently find your writing compelling. maybe you can get by with less if you're judicious in your study. still. it's a lot of writing. 10+ years
some kanye fans think taylor sucks
some taylor fans think kanye sucks

both kanye and taylor are objectively (or "intersubjectively", whatever) top-tier world-class talents, and they've both spend far more time working on their crafts than 95% of people can even begin to fathom
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visa is almost done ✍🏾📖 Profile picture
25 Jul
I haven’t slept all night so I’m slightly deranged and I feel like I have a bit more yelling energy left in the tank so here are some bleary-eyed, fuck-if-its-uncouth tweets. Insert your own caveats or ignore. Fuck it I don’t care:
if you don’t like something about your life you can (often) change it
if you can’t easily change the thing itself overnight, you can “work the problem”. prison breaks are possible, you just have to do the planning, study the guards movements, etc
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visa is almost done ✍🏾📖 Profile picture
24 Jul
This is the same core principle for starting a business or becoming an author, or anything really

just sell one product, then two, then 10, then 100

stop overintellectualizing your shit

the Apple I was an exposed motherboard and the company logo was overwrought as heck

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it could be that you sell 10 products or help 10 people and then realize that oh no, there’s a bottleneck i can’t address, this doesn’t scale

good

you learned something you couldn’t have learned otherwise

start over with this new understanding of constraints
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visa is almost done ✍🏾📖 Profile picture
24 Jul
I don't think it's currently realistic for me to expect me to make say, $100m or more anytime soon

but I do think I will go from my current condition of "hm we can't quite afford to renovate our flat" (low-ish 5-fig expense) to prob having ~$1m to allocate, in under 10yrs
to lay my cards out in the open, I intend to spend most of all of that $ incentivizing creators, artists, public intellectuals, people who I think are helping to make a better public commons globally
I can't speak on behalf of my wife, but I believe she finds this (me having an abundance mindset when I don't have much $ yet) both irresistible and infuriating
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visa is almost done ✍🏾📖 Profile picture
24 Jul
noticed something interesting, obvious-in-retrospect via comments on tiktok

a conventionally attractive girl will get more criticisms for her less-than-stellar dancing (from other girls), compared to a more plain/average-looking girl who's equally mediocre at dancing
a sort of reverse-metaphor thought: being hot is like being a high-follower account. (some?) people feel more comfortable being harshly critical towards you, in part because they assume that you surely deal with abuse all the time already anyway, ie "eh, they can handle it"
it also influences people's assumptions of the person's intent

a hot girl dancing poorly is likelier to be assumed to be "showing off her looks", rather than trying to learn to enjoy dance

this is actually really cruel if you think about it
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visa is almost done ✍🏾📖 Profile picture
24 Jul
I think most people experience obsession as a sort of brief burst of manic intensity

the much more interesting class of obsession is the one where you casually follow up every week for 20 years
whenever I talk about obsession I almost always mean the latter. i'm obsessed about words and I will continue to tinker with words for the remainder of my lifetime
I like music, and I will likely noodle on a guitar happily for the rest of my life, and enjoy learning and growing etc, but I'm not obsessed with music the way Hendrix was

I bet if Hendrix were alive today, he would still be practicing the guitar
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