it’s just math
when I was at 50 or 500 followers if I said I was going to have 50,000, people wouldve said I’m arrogant. (I didn’t say ex
so you’ve been main character’d
the hardest thing about dealing with being main character’d is managing your psychology, your emotional / physiological resp
take baby steps
this is section 2.5 of introspect. “I always love it when people say ‘baby steps!’ to imply they’re be
the Losev problem
Born in 1903, Oleg Vladimirovich Losev invented LEDs decades before everybody else (in the 1920s). “Unknown and uncelebr
status quo soldiers lose in the long run
Here’s a tiresome thing when some bad shit happens: when people unaffected by it actually spend their precious time and
things I learned from my ex-boss Dinesh
in the 5+ years I worked for my ex-boss Dinesh (@dineshraju), he constantly would ask me about my goals & desired outcomes
vision
1 ✱ We seem to be having a sort of crisis of vision, where hardly anybody seems to have interesting ideas about where we’r
problems are solvable: define, solicit, integrate
(2020feb29 thread) I don’t usually think of myself as a very clear-headed person… until people come to me with their p
👑 you are already the monarch of your life
— 1. talismans — A talisman is simply an object that is meaningful to you. Wedding rings are the most widely appreciated t
🧠❌ you can’t think your way out of a courage deficit
(dec2023: title of this post is a catchy tweet, but do I want it to be a post? idk. maybe i’ll expand on it.) Reflecting
⏱ 4 hours
Realistically, I can only ever be *truly* productive for 4 hours a day. Most days, I’m lucky to even have 2 truly good,
play long games
This is an “aggregate” blogpost where I dump stuff from my tweets and notes. — What do I mean by long game? One
Most People
I’ve been sharing this set of notes more and more as time goes by. I suppose you could say most people care too much abo
do 100 things
“Do 100 Thing” is a phrase I came up with when riffing around the idea of being prolific, making lots of stuff. It
talent is not rare, talent is clueless and scared
(see also: greatness is deviance) When I was younger I thought that talent was rare, but as I get older I realize that the ans
📚 the library ethos
John Locke: “Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them… with something very perve
⚔️ optimize for survival
The big lesson of survivor bias is that you should optimize for being a survivor. You can’t win if you lose – so learn
unlearning coercion
It took me a long time (maybe 10-15 years?) to properly realize that I was in an abusive relationship with myself, where my se
🙏🏾 how to ask for help
One of my new personal rules for myself is, if something annoys me, I’m going to funnel that into content that I can ref
🍀 the 4 kinds of luck
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” – apocryphal quote typically attributed to Seneca I&#
🏛 the prestige trap
I’ve had several conversations with friends who’ve been incapacitated by the burdensome bullshit obligation to Hav
learned catastrophizing
I get young people in my DMs all the time. A common thing I notice about their despair is that they do a lot of generalizing (
soften the ground
(Twitter thread) I notice a thing in my media consumption patterns where sometimes there’s something I want to watch or
take deep breaths
The following post is an ongoing-work-in-progress. The goal is for me to make sense of my learnings about breath and breathwor
project management
Project management, I think, is one of the most important life skills that I was never quite taught. In a sense, it’s th
🕸 VV’s memex – a map of directives to live well
I saw a picture of “Bay Area Memespace“, and for some reason I felt compelled to put together my own “@visak
#StrugglePorn – is it painting a false picture?
good conversation started here with Nat & Gary I’m not personally a fan of Gary’s overall brand, but I appreci
🍱 I used to be a picky eater
I saw somebody make fun of picky eaters on Twitter, and I felt compelled to write about my own experiences. I was like this my
🤔 do you know what you want?
What do you want? Do you really want what you think you want, or did you inherit it from your parents, your peers, from societ
🚥 a system can only be improved at its tightest bottleneck
I’ve been thinking a lot about Tiago Forte’s point about bottlenecks – that the only meaningful improvement you
🚦 constraints
I’ve written a lot about constraints over the years, and this blogpost strikes me as the best “master switchboard&
🤯 ideas that expanded my mind
Disorganized notes. (Revisiting this again in 2023… I remember doing a twitter thread in maybe eigen’s repliesR
⛰ one must imagine Sisyphus LOL-ing
Life, particularly in modern civilization, is an absurd circus. We’re all clowns living in boxes trying to amuse ourselves w
👨🏾🎓 advice for a JC1 Kid
“SO, do you have any advice for a JC1 kid? :p Like a “dear 18 year old me” kinda thing haha” Sure, you
🎁 “Gifted” is a label that can discourage hard work
2014 summary: Used to be a minimum-effort student who was proud of how little effort I needed to get by. Now wish I had learn