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- take baby steps
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- Mint 100 Erasmuses
- write your memoirs
- the solution to your imposter syndrome is not inside your head
- “Shouldn’t I want to make the world a better place?”
- civilization is potty training
- what’s it like to live your dream?
- how to DM your heroes
- encourage your friends to ship their ideas
- ayy lmao
- status quo soldiers lose in the long run
- things I learned from my ex-boss Dinesh
- comms is lossy
- oblique approaches can achieve what directness cannot
- Aug29: AGI fire alarm drill day
- I use scapple to do my think-out-loud maps
- seek excellent peers
- Pericles
- “i’m such a failure”
- narrow utilitarianism
- memed into existence
- thinking is easy, information architecture is hard
- exhaustion funnels: why tired?
- 👶 a theory of pissbabies
- feral free agents
- the death and life of great scenius
- 🎨 everything is a remix
- coordination does not require conspiracy
- 🗽iconography
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- todo lists as narrative devices
- 📱smartphones changed everything
- systems thinking
- problems are solvable: define, solicit, integrate
- 🧵hyperthreading
- jinky, janky, junky
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- dealing with losers
- talking points
- fumbling the bag
- “Wrong.”
- shame
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- fuckability
- troubleshooting arrogance
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- 👑 you are already the monarch of your life
- 🧠❌ you can’t think your way out of a courage deficit
- ⏱ 4 hours
- play long games
- Most People
- do 100 things
- talent is not rare, talent is clueless and scared
- 🎸 let’s jam!
- 📚 the library ethos
- after gifted
- kids in shitty social graphs
- 🗣 hecklers
- narcissism
- magic junkyard
- 👑 earn self-respect
- ☢️ the apocalypse test
- ⚔️ optimize for survival
- cold emails
- 🤝 how I rebuilt my trust in myself
- 🙏🏾 how to ask for help
- 🗿 don’t pedestalize people
- status and status regulation
- elitism
- ❌ when and why I block people
- 🍀 the 4 kinds of luck
- 🏛 the prestige trap
- learned catastrophizing
- listen to kids
- depression
- take deep breaths
- how to be more optimistic
- project management
- thinking
- masculinity
- ➡️ pay it forward
- 💬 practice good reply game
- ↗️ many people like to contribute to vectors, few like to own them
- 🗣 talking to people makes you a better writer
- ⚔️ twitter_rpg_strategy_guide.txt
- 🍵 empty your cup and allow life to surprise you
- 👩🏾🚀 representation matters
- 😂 learn to laugh at yourself
- 👋🏾 everyone loves to make a great introduction
- 🤡 the world is not kind to those who are tacky
- 🔟 @visakanv’s top 10 lifehacks
- 🇺🇸 San Francisco [2019]
- ⚠️ how to get my attention
- 📱 screentime
- 👯♀️ make friends
- 🕸 VV’s memex – a map of directives to live well
- 👫 relationships are challenging + a lot of work
- 🤓 ‘Smart Writing’ is about cultivating taste, suspending judgement and chasing your curiosity
- 💃🏾 flirting is about signalling interest with plausible deniability
- ✋🏾 we need to get better at dealing with assholes if we are to progress as a species
- #StrugglePorn – is it painting a false picture?
- 🍱 I used to be a picky eater
- 🗣 mansplaining is sometimes (but not always) innocuous
- 👘 cultural cosplay: a broader framework for thinking about cultural appropriation
- 🤔 do you know what you want?
- 💋 Narcissist PR works because we can’t shut up about it
- 🧐 It’s my fault and that’s a good thing
- 🚥 a system can only be improved at its tightest bottleneck
- 📺 we turn our lives into mostly-predictable sitcoms
- 😈 sinister connotations allow people to be assholes with plausible deniability
- a list of some of my twitter threads
- 🚦 constraints
- 🔥 hypothesis: the 7 ‘sins’ are really ‘drives’ that can be harnessed
- 👀 when arguing, strive to understand context
- 🚀 the jetpacks of the 2020s will be whatever helps us navigate information overload
- 🐉 Drogon vs Balerion size comparison
- 🔬 a list of predictions, to test my understanding
- 🤯 ideas that expanded my mind
- Politics and the English language [2016]
- ⛰ one must imagine Sisyphus LOL-ing
- beating yourself up is egotistic
- 💀 the heat death of the universe means legacy is ultimately futile
- 🤝 how to build and maintain communities