January
strategy/marketing/biz/career stuff:
- sermon: play the long game
- theory about loving your own writing
- the best content is unwritten
- how to compete with people smarter and more ambitious than you
- any serious marketing person has to end up becoming a product person or otherwise rely heavily on their ability to consistently find great product people to work with
- dropouts should avoid recruiters (who are trying to minimize negative outcomes) and court startup founders (who are eager to maximize positive outcomes)
- as an editor and a marketing consultant I help people think clearly about what they’re trying to say
- people suck at sales / “why you, Mr. Buy My Book?”
- cutesy powertalk
- how to get word of mouth
threads
- thread of video snippets that have moved me deeply
- escaping the tyranny of mainstream aesthetics + refusing to be ashamed
- zen and the art of cleaning your windows
- the people’s oral history of the internet
- why singaporeans are kiasu
- victor wooten thread
- phone gallery cleanup thread
- cult of happiness thread
- (updated old thread) the frame is a useful constraint if you think beyond it
- midnight resistance + FF7 video thread
about me
- Visa’s rules for life [draft] / feral man’s answer to life
- my relationship with my many selves
- the many contexts I’ve experienced
- my personal negotiation philosophy
- I’ve gotten a ton of mileage from being a little extra particular and stubborn about a small handful of things
- I anticipated performative workaholism as a teenager, people said I was being dramatic
- I still don’t have a clear picture of my 💪🏾
- i am a twitter hacker, filter
- I feel like an alien and humanity makes me sick
- abundance mindset, poverty mindset
- ways in which I have been incepted
- mapping my twitter followers
- 100 pullups
questions:
- what actually happens when you break the rules of fight club?
- ask me a question about something you think I wouldn’t be too interested in
- nerd lady friends, can you suggest some cartoons and anime(s) that you liked growing up, and/or like now? (for my wife)
takes:
- take on gillette ad
- take on APA guidelines
- penis-shaming perpetuates the patriarchy
- slack’s logo redesign, shitty logo design criticism
- feelings about MAGA boy vs native protester
- say her name: how news sites use cunningham’s law
- admiration for dua lipa
- pick-me-ism is about loneliness
observations:
- taylor swift is a religion
- why my friend hates winston churchill
- how people cope with uncharitable responses
- thinking again about a hypothetical GTD app designed by a game company
- when you say something should be illegal, you’re indirectly saying that that’s something you think cops should beat people up over and lock them up for
- part of the fun of being an adult is embarrassing kids
- lots of people like to contribute to clear vectors, but few people like to be responsible for making a clear vector
- we’re all on our phones, which is interesting
- interesting how people get affected by other people doing their own thing
- LV sleeve tattoos
- dancer fashion, semi-arbitrary in-group markers
aphorisms:
- the first principle is that you must entertain yourself, and you are the hardest person to entertain
- encourage weirdos, discourage assholes (opposite of society)
- the most important financial choice for millennials is to be atypical
- we are always one traumatic head injury away from being a completely different person
- be so prolific you don’t recognize yourself
trivia / random interesting:
- richard ‘little herculues’ sandrak
- nyc greek coffee cups
- art noveau, aka ‘the french aesthetic’
- chop suey fonts
fun:
- [drinking coffee] ah, the hot bean water is renewing my will to live
- the three gods of rationalbro twitter
- adam sandler looks like vin diesel
- more visacan, less visacannot
- reality is rude
- silicon valley man
- one of which was black!!!
- how do we even words
- where did the concept of Good Boy even originate? wake up doggo
- the story of an entrepreneur
- every commencement speech ever
- hi i’m the indian guy in a western movie
February
- story: you suck at something…
- aggressively seek out outgroup members to agree with
- depressed son of chinese billionaire
- rich kids are boring
- people mis-distribute their seriousness
- working with great people is a ridiculous privilege
- Cunningham’s law in media tweets
- what is the liberal equivalent of “attractive conservative blonde posing with AR-15?”
- becoming a man
- mocking women is bad dating strategy
- celebrities born in 1990
- game design: have environments change in response to player actions
- [riffing] unpopular opinions
- flirting is an OODA loop
- pets as conversation proxies
- smart abusers
- refusing to read Caro
- sleep bottleneck
- make friends
- non-creepy supportive comments
- unpaid work, another
- AOC caricature
- RIP opportunity
- dua lipa thread
- cute brands
- people want to be desirable more than they want sex
- money
- trauma
- memespace map
- “I don’t see color”
- teaching FPS games to wife
- SG $50 note
- goo vs prickles
- meta-thread about household objects
- chilli sauce
- arabic calligraphy
- household objects
- red bull
- bad actors are insufficiently penalized
- wife: what are you doing
- twitter_rpg_strategy_guide.txt
- recommending people to others
- god of war 2nd playthrough
- the only way to really change big picture narratives IMO is to focus on individuals
- Estonia thread
- diogenes
- twitter as a great investment
- India thread
- if you get it, you get it
- the annoying thing about ‘problematic’
- persuading wife to tweet more, and again
- dumb gifted memes, working through post-gifted issues
- dealbreakers
- twitter notifications make me feel post-human
- words thread
- lewis thomas thread
- pick obscure battles
- diaspora
- dickpics are rarely about the recipient
- so much missing from everything
- productivity tip for ADHD types – write it down
- samson hair
- reactions to guy suing parents for giving birth to him
- funny: snakebitten
- infinity war endgame should have an intermission
- funny: if you unfollow me
- response to zero lovecraft’s thread
- WBW’s danger scale
- naive techno-optimism
- bottlenecks
- being misunderstood about menworld
- school trains people to oversocialize from peer group
- disagreements with smart friends over “can the public be educated?”
- because we are social creatures, we tend to have richer models of others than ourselves
- funny: outing yourself as a dipshit
- white people
- Question: how much is this twitter account worth?
- where did the slap really come from
- asian parents
- concentric circles
- 1999 humor
- ask me a question I’ll reply with a pre-existing thread
- milky way emoji
- kenshin thread
- rethinking money
- teenage behavior
- cute vs sexy
- why don’t we learn from aviation more
- chinese guy tattoos
- SG history revision
- plaid shirts
- police dept referring to whatsapp
- rhetorical ooda loop
interesting