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More from @Conaw

4 Jan
An impromptu voice rant on Matthew 20 - the Parable of the Workers in the vineyards, as it relates to creativity and insight, and the collective unconscious (or God) calling more labourers to work on the problem youโ€™re working on. Particularly on Roam inspired projects/clones
Read 12 tweets
1 Jan
One of the worst mistakes I made in 2021 was disavowing the #roamcult hashtag.

Putting out the fire where my friends gathered to appease a nanny state spirit that never much liked us anyway.
Who would of thought that the emails and tweets I got from folks โ€œconcernedโ€ about #roamcult were all from CIA saboteurs
Read 4 tweets
1 Jan
If you would like to bring your meditations on impermanence more fully into the material world, I recommend bringing a husky into your home in 2022.

With one action, everything you posses will be transformed into a sand mandala
Read 4 tweets
29 Dec 21
Three times I've written drafts of this thread in my Roam, and three times I've failed to publish it.

But Feynman is right

So for next 4 hours: one like one tweet on difficult lessons and painful mistakes I made as CEO in 2021

In the words of Bill O'Reilly "We'll do it live" Image
First: A confession.

You know the trope of the Zealot who condemns in the world the thing they are ashamed of within themselves?

Think of the fundamentalist who wants to stone gays, but turns out to be closeted.

Tonight I finally saw that same level of hypocrisy in myself.
I've got a lot of tweets to fill, and it's been a long time since I actually put adequate effort into communicating something that felt important.. so rather than trying to be pithy I'm going to do this more stream of conscious and tell a few of these as stories

So... context...
Read 29 tweets
16 Nov 21
Me: a short-sighted narcissist

โ€œThrough coevolution of our human and tool systems, we can chart the Pareto efficient paths through the graph of all human knowledge and reach world-historic levels of mastery in any skill or subject we wish.โ€

Tiago: A literal saint
A man sets out to reach the pinnacle of his field. He thinks himself ambitious.

In the distanceโ€ฆ the Kirkland Elon Musk declares

โ€œToday I discovered I am above average in this area. I will teach 3.5 Bil students to surpass my skill, that I may retire in obscurityโ€

A man weeps
The Virgin: I will be the best

Vs

The Chad: I will elevate the masses until my skills are unremarkable
Read 5 tweets
13 Nov 21
Planned to launch some big features for Roam yesterday.

Literally went to therapy instead. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ
Now that I've gone once, can say definitively:

Men literally understand the tradeoffs. Avoiding therapy is pure emotional intelligence.
Both of these speeches are completely correct.

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