2026mar8: everything seems to happen in cycles, or seasons. I think this might be more intuitive for people who live in places with actual winters. And maybe it’s more intuitive for women, because they have a monthly cycle built into their biology. how can someone learn to appreciate and flow with cycles better?
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Every time I meet @neuranne, I seem to end up writing a blogpost. ( The last time we met was months ago, but I still think about the conversation we had. She was at the finishing line of both her PhD and her book, and she was looking forward to being free from the daily gauntlet of her work, to explore unknowns and free-roam with curiosity. I, on the other hand, had published my last book over a year before that, and I had been in free-roam mode ever since, and I was starting to get really tired of it. I yearned for the focus and clarity of having a clearly-defined project to work on.
We both laughed and saw how both experiences can exist. A person could be sweating in the sweltering heat all day and long for air-conditioned comfort, and another person could be freezing and longing for some warmth. Sometimes we’re hungry, sometimes we’re not, sometimes we’re sleepy, sometimes we’re not. All things happen in cycles, there are often diminishing returns to almost everything. Even the most delicious chocolate cake in the world gets sickening after one too many servings. A vacation can go on for too long. I explored this idea somewhat in my essay Are you having fun, son?, contemplating how perhaps the dose maketh the joy.
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In 2020jun05, I wrote a note to myself about how I hadn’t been writing any wordvomits lately, because twitter was just too gosh darn fun, interesting, exciting, compelling, and it was drawing all of my attention. I rediscovered this note earlier today (2025jun01), and thought to myself, man, twitter doesn’t feel like it used to. It’s still pretty much my main source of information, and I check on it several times a day, but I no longer have fun on it the way I used to. Part of it could be that the environment has changed– which I think is true– but I feel inwardly like my internal shift is more significant. The former does probably affect the latter. But I suspect that if twitter were somehow still the way it was in 2020, I’d probably still be getting bored of it in 2025. Because my personal cycle is largely complete. I don’t want to stop tweeting, but I’d like to explore different territory, different mediums. (I did do lots of youtube videos and that was a great experiment, but I haven’t quite had the right context and circumstance to go harder on it. I might once I move to my new place and have my own office/studio setup where I can really film and stream freely.)
Point is… even poasting has cycles. And while I’d like to never stop tweeting, I think the era of me posting extensive interwoven tapestries of threads is mostly done. Part of me now wants to translate that material into stuff that’s more accessible to people who aren’t twitter power users. Part of me wants to try and explore different kinds of material entirely. We’ll see how it goes.
I may have more to say about this at some point, but I’m publishing this as-is for now.
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Cyclical or seasonal interests
“I’ve been tweeting a bunch lately about status and misunderstandings and thresholds. This seems to be something that I care about in cycles.” — https://visakanv.com/1000/0837-broken-telephone/
No!!! Just take notes!! You’ll find them interesting again in 3-5 years!! It’s just a long game!!! https://x.com/visakanv/status/1387678338261471238
“First check if you give a shit… I think most people, if they stopped to take a fresh inventory of everything going on in their life, will find that some of the topography of their concerns and interests have changed underneath their feet. It’s rare for ppl to really be perfectly in tune with themselves” https://x.com/visakanv/status/1594403271804088320