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- Category: culture-sense
- the world is big
- greatness is deviance
- when “women are people” doesn’t work
- psychofauna
- Mint 100 Erasmuses
- “Shouldn’t I want to make the world a better place?”
- civilization is potty training
- shamans are meaning-workers
- oblique approaches can achieve what directness cannot
- Aug29: AGI fire alarm drill day
- seek excellent peers
- 👶 a theory of pissbabies
- the death and life of great scenius
- coordination does not require conspiracy
- shame
- 🏛 the prestige trap
- masculinity
- 👩🏾🚀 representation matters
- 🤡 the world is not kind to those who are tacky
- ✋🏾 we need to get better at dealing with assholes if we are to progress as a species
- ☎️ our metaphors for god adapt to keep up with our technology
- 🗣 mansplaining is sometimes (but not always) innocuous
- 👘 cultural cosplay: a broader framework for thinking about cultural appropriation
- 💋 Narcissist PR works because we can’t shut up about it
- ☕️ Is Ya Kun Kaya Toast “Authentic”? [2013]
- an analysis of power and social dynamics in ‘Mean Girls’
- Category: exemplars
- Category: framing
- focus
- joke about outcomes you want
- the solution to your imposter syndrome is not inside your head
- ayy lmao
- narrow utilitarianism
- feral free agents
- todo lists as narrative devices
- systems thinking
- problems are solvable: define, solicit, integrate
- talking points
- persuasion
- word magic
- dominoes
- Most People
- 🎸 let’s jam!
- kids in shitty social graphs
- unlearning coercion
- 🍵 empty your cup and allow life to surprise you
- 📱 screentime
- 🤓 ‘Smart Writing’ is about cultivating taste, suspending judgement and chasing your curiosity
- #StrugglePorn – is it painting a false picture?
- 👀 when arguing, strive to understand context
- 🚀 the jetpacks of the 2020s will be whatever helps us navigate information overload
- ⛰ one must imagine Sisyphus LOL-ing
- 💀 the heat death of the universe means legacy is ultimately futile
- 🕶 My MBTI Journey: Each new way of seeing can become a new set of blinders
- Category: fun
- Category: index
- Category: junk
- Category: making stuff
- Category: media-sense
- Category: memoirs
- 2,000 copies of F.A.N sold!
- constructive ADHD
- ⏩ ages 17 to 29
- 🎓 I flunked out of the GEP
- 📷 my life in pictures
- 🍳 Breakfast AMAs
- 🎖 NS taught me that people are incredibly different and every interaction can be special
- a sitemap of my memoirs
- 🙏🏾 an oral history of my relationship with religion
- 💍 reflecting on 4 years of marriage [2016]
- 👨🏾🎓 my journey from underachieving student to moderately competent adult [2016]
- first day of work [2013]
- Category: people-sense
- What does it mean to “process” an experience?
- deviants
- safety rituals
- Advanced Stupid
- dealing with losers
- fumbling the bag
- fuckability
- 🗣 hecklers
- narcissism
- cold emails
- 🙏🏾 how to ask for help
- 🗿 don’t pedestalize people
- status and status regulation
- listen to kids
- ➡️ pay it forward
- 💬 practice good reply game
- ↗️ many people like to contribute to vectors, few like to own them
- 👯♀️ make friends
- 👫 relationships are challenging + a lot of work
- 😈 sinister connotations allow people to be assholes with plausible deniability
- 💫 how to bullshit everyone with an inspirational success story
- Politics and the English language [2016]
- 👩🏫 schools are powerful, outdated tools of social programming
- Category: reviews
- Category: socializing
- how to de-escalate tense situations
- how to DM your heroes
- status quo soldiers lose in the long run
- accumulating social capital
- small talk
- hostage
- “Wrong.”
- ☢️ the apocalypse test
- elitism
- 👋🏾 everyone loves to make a great introduction
- 💃🏾 flirting is about signalling interest with plausible deniability
- 👓 different people have different mental models
- 📺 we turn our lives into mostly-predictable sitcoms
- 🤝 how to build and maintain communities
- Category: sovereignty
- why were you late?
- advice for people in their 20s
- do whatever makes your heart sing
- self-worth
- happiness
- write your memoirs
- things I learned from my ex-boss Dinesh
- self-loathing
- “i’m such a failure”
- exhaustion funnels
- don’t be gullible
- troubleshooting arrogance
- ADHD
- 👑 earn self-respect
- ⚔️ optimize for survival
- 🤝 how I rebuilt my trust in myself
- depression
- how to be more optimistic
- 😂 learn to laugh at yourself
- 🧐 It’s my fault and that’s a good thing
- 🔥 hypothesis: the 7 ‘sins’ are really ‘drives’ that can be harnessed
- Category: strategy
- it’s just math
- so you’ve been main character’d
- take baby steps
- the Losev problem
- vision
- 👑 you are already the monarch of your life
- 🧠❌ you can’t think your way out of a courage deficit
- ⏱ 4 hours
- play long games
- do 100 things
- talent is not rare, talent is clueless and scared
- 🍀 the 4 kinds of luck
- learned catastrophizing
- soften the ground
- take deep breaths
- project management
- 🔟 @visakanv’s top 10 lifehacks
- 🕸 VV’s memex – a map of directives to live well
- 🍱 I used to be a picky eater
- 🤔 do you know what you want?
- 🚥 a system can only be improved at its tightest bottleneck
- 🚦 constraints
- 🤯 ideas that expanded my mind
- 👨🏾🎓 advice for a JC1 Kid
- 🎁 “Gifted” is a label that can discourage hard work
- Category: travel
- Category: word-sense