{"id":13522,"date":"2023-02-17T19:23:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T19:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/?p=13522"},"modified":"2023-02-17T19:23:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T19:23:51","slug":"thinking-in-dominos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2023\/02\/17\/thinking-in-dominos\/","title":{"rendered":"thinking in dominos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the best memes i\u2019ve come up with is what my friends know as The Dominos Meme \u2013 an expression of earnest, ambitious optimism:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">if we play our cards right <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/65KsVIYWuC\">pic.twitter.com\/65KsVIYWuC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Visa \u2708\ufe0f NYC (Feb22\u2013Mar13) (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1255767736279392256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s really resonated with lots of people, which I am grateful for. What\u2019s funny and interesting about the backstory of this that not so many people know is that it wasn\u2019t something that I came up with out of the blue, or in response to something inspiring \u2013 I actually first came up with the bad version, while thinking about ugly and frustrating things about the world:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">[mic drop]<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cNC86MObxb\">https:\/\/t.co\/cNC86MObxb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9IzDkOLT4r\">pic.twitter.com\/9IzDkOLT4r<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Visa \u2708\ufe0f NYC (Feb22\u2013Mar13) (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1255765496743342080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After making this one, I found myself troubled, and thinking that there has to be something better to focus on \u2013 and so I came up with the more optimistic one. In reality of course both domino dynamics are always playing out all over the world in real time, and we have a bit of a \u201cwhich wolf do you feed?\u201d situation on our hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other dominos i\u2019ve come up with since also include singapore golden age, twitter golden age\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and I also found myself reaching for this essay in another essay, where I was talking about Friendly Ambitious Nerd\u2026 I could maybe do a whole side-essay about reaching for other essays mid-essay, and how those are the essays that we\u2019re really supposed to write. Hm! Huh!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;oh but people without thousands of followers can&#39;t perform this sort of social graph search&quot; yeah so get 1000s of followers first, that&#39;s a solved problem too&#8230; these are all solvable problems, you can do the work to change the odds in your favor <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dqDCVHZgr9\">pic.twitter.com\/dqDCVHZgr9<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Visa \u2708\ufe0f NYC (Feb22\u2013Mar13) (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1572639830189940737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>tbc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best memes i\u2019ve come up with is what my friends know as The Dominos Meme \u2013 an expression of earnest, ambitious optimism: if we play our cards right pic.twitter.com\/65KsVIYWuC &mdash; Visa \u2708\ufe0f NYC (Feb22\u2013Mar13) (@visakanv) April 30, 2020 It\u2019s really resonated with lots of people, which I&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[727],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drafts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-3w6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13523,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13522\/revisions\/13523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}