startup bullshit
Just shipped some stuff for work, so I thought I'd take a second to explore some thoughts that have been on my mind about BS performance…
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) January 29, 2015
Being tall
What it's like to be the tallest person you know, a picture series pic.twitter.com/mE9Gltzats
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) September 27, 2017
Against generalism:
Is there a correlation between
1: the difficulty of focusing hard on making one thing great
2: The way we are educated to be generalists
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) July 10, 2015
Unrealistic expectations and incorrect models of reality:
1. Thinking a lot lately about how much of life's frustrations are really caused by unrealistic expectations and incorrect models of reality
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) August 22, 2017
Low battery
😂 love this more than I can explain. There's an entire essay or novel to be written about this. Let's try some tweets? https://t.co/4c3u4psis7
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) July 16, 2017
A young boy’s idea of cool:
it's always fascinating to me to think about where young boys get this sort of idea of what coolness is, and how exactly they fudge it https://t.co/7SEdgSBpQL
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) June 15, 2017
My life through video games:
Let's do a thread about my life through video games! Always meant to write an essay about it but it's impt to me so I've been putting it off pic.twitter.com/OW4pGcM7KU
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) September 9, 2017
Best things I’ve written, off the top of my head
Just for fun + to see what happens, here's a list, off the top of my head, of the best things I've ever written:
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) June 16, 2017
The homophobia I inherited / the relationship between disgust and morality
8. I distinctly recall being both homophobic and transphobic as an adolescent, in a sort of idle, ignorant way. "Inherited from society"
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) July 10, 2017
Legacy issues in language
Language is full of interesting legacy issues. The pocket supercomputer I'm writing this on isn't really a "phone" or a "mobile"
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) July 27, 2015
Documentary ideas
I have a lot of oddball documentary ideas in the swirling around backstage. Let's try and articulate some https://t.co/wPjCV12xqi
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) May 28, 2017
Tattoos
I have an elaborate vision for a style system of tattoos that I find so intriguing I think I'm going to learn to draw so I can convey it
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) September 26, 2017
Indian men fashion
I have a Pinterest board called "Indian Men's Fashion". It began with the belief that Indian men can't simply dress like white guys: pic.twitter.com/PrmNp2ubHC
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) September 9, 2017
Fashion
I think a lot about fashion and weirdness. If this looks odd and funny now, consider moral, ideological, intellectual fashions pic.twitter.com/TYHWGqxsYY
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) September 25, 2017
Learning:
4/ If you want to learn ecommerce marketing, you shouldn't Google "ecommerce marketing". You should look for successful ecommerce businesses
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) June 6, 2014
Racism in SG
1/ the 1st important thing Chinese friends can do is to shut down overt racism when they witness it. Sucks that this needs to be said…
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) September 1, 2014
variations in tone when writing on the web
1/ Interesting realization about tone on the web. I (and others) use capitalization, punctuation + short sentences when I'm confident, angry
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) October 11, 2014
writing advice: Don’t forget about the reader:
1/ My heart smiles + aches when I see writers doing what I used to do: spilling tonnes of ideas, information, data onto the page
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) October 15, 2014
more writing advice:
1/ I think I've come a pretty long way as a writer, blogger, content creator. Most important lesson: Be purpose-driven. Know your end-goal.
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) October 26, 2014
mvp model of personal development
1/ It's very interesting and useful I think to apply the MVP model of product development to personal development. pic.twitter.com/ef1dY1UNr8
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) November 23, 2014
feature requests
1/ There shd be a way to text a person a todo list via IM. Would make grocery shopping easier for me+wife. Wld be gratifying. Cc: @jiggityk
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) November 29, 2014
Influencer marketing
1/ I have pretty strong opinions about the whole Gushcloud thing. Not sure if they're misinformed and ignorant, but here goes:
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) December 23, 2014
Narcissism travel
1/ "Has travel become another exercise in narcissism"? Sure. But so's any sort of public-facing identity performance, writing included
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) January 5, 2015
my writing process
1/ Had a really difficult time with some content recently. Feel like it's worth talking about, 1 instance of a broader problem worth solving
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) January 2, 2015
attempted summary of word vomits (stopped at 10)
9/ The best ideas get implemented w/ minimal resistance, b/c they reveal selves to be superior to the status quo. (We shd study success.)
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) January 18, 2015
on growing up
1/ On growing up: A man should be
sensitive (to inputs from reality),
smart (at making sense of reality), and
strong (to effect reality).— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) April 23, 2015
frustration
0144hrs. Was hoping to be asleep by now. Am not. Mildly troubling. I want to fix this. Will maybe post a few tweets to try to clear head.
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) January 17, 2015
echo chambers
It's interesting to witness how people throw the term "echo chamber" around to criticize others who are careful about curating information
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) November 11, 2015
list of truths
1. If you're not engaging with a fear, you're probably hiding from it
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) June 23, 2017
games and meta-games
I want to write a blogpost about games and meta-games, inspired by that last post I retweeted. But I'm feeling sleepy, so let's try tweeting
— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) April 26, 2016
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