- I’ve found myself naturally referencing and recommending Made To Stick to almost all of my clients. I read it around ~2014 and it permanently sharpened my thinking about good comms. if you’ve found any of my tweets stuck in your head, it’s Dan and Chip’s fault, ha ha https://t.co/aOZEGE3of3
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- thinking about this again, how I used scapple to display paths through my youtube channel, in a way that typical playlists feel kinda insufficient for https://t.co/Eam8fJof8H ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1505283148443099136 ))
- for my homies: I invite u to think about the role you want to grow into, the responsibilities you want to take on, the service you want to do for the world, the friends you want to make, the skills you want to develop
you can become more than you are, over and over again ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1504155350999592961 ))
- here is my personal quick-sketch summary of @utotranslucence’s 2018 classic "Becoming a magician", for future reference for myself
https://t.co/Zqn7YOnam8 https://t.co/UscfE5Aunt
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([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1418963347907629057 ))
- slowly increasing the # of tweets I have literally hotkeyed https://t.co/l9T9Hu2Q5O
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- Feeling nostalgic: what are some articles, essays, blogposts etc that would go into a compilation called "the people’s oral history of the internet"? ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1087384091287158785 ))
- apart from current and recent events (pandemic, ukraine), what else have knowledgeable people been warning about for years? in the mood to update my scenario bingo card
global temps, obviously. falling birth rates, testosterone levels, obesity. antibiotics resistance. what else? ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1500575187301203968 ))
- Can’t sleep, time to do a fresh reboot of VV’s talking points ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1330984685992722433 ))
- QT this tweet with a list of things that seem obvious to you ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1498175001194754053 ))
- keeping an eye out for people who suspect, like I do, that the highest potential value waiting to be realized continues to flit around the periphery, just outside of the scope of every attempt to formalize legible structures (jobs, organisations) ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1437938567968219138 ))
- I’m a layer or two removed from this, but if it’s true, and it rings true to me (or true-sounding enough that it confirms my biases, ha ha), this just further emphasises how powerful and underappreciated Twitter is https://t.co/1BIB23PXWK ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1440805579346223112 ))
- there are lots of competing and overlapping explanations for the perceived problem of "why are dudes so shitty" (however you interpret that)
right now I find myself thinking– I think school, maybe civilization itself, disincentivizes the development of confident, independent men ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1135619614925180928 ))
- I gotta do a thread of things that are marketed/ wrongly, which is almost all things ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1491715557707563012 ))
- An interesting, messy thing about our modern social media landscape is the blurring of personal, private, commons, local public, global public. It’s kind of tragic because things in one context can get misconstrued in other contexts ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/993858232819957760 ))
- this is a mutuals-scenebuilding utterance-crafting workshop tweet: what’s a short-ish phrase from someone around here that’s been stuck in your mind? it could be an entire tweet, or part of a tweet ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1486271074233110528 ))
- https://t.co/4uk0I7nnV1 https://t.co/iHcj9YN7dK
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([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1481582615497162752 ))
- someone in my DMs asked who my biggest influence is, and they were surprised when I said Hayley Williams
so… time for a Hayley thread https://t.co/9k425gY1Lu ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1162573279325851648 ))
- [mutuals only] I wanna assemble a list of friends who have offerings of some kind (product, coaching/consulting services, blog, youtube channel, etc). shill your stuff, friends!! ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1473064786418024451 ))
- my highest tier of recommendation for a friend is “I will sit and watch the whole fucking thing with you”
things that fit this bill:
everything is a remix
sequelitis - megaman x
Randy pausch last lecture
god of war 3 hrs
horizon zero dawn 6 hrs
lotr ~10 hrs
dozen other vids ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1472467222626897921 ))
- almost every mention of Brian Eno’s Scenius idea links to either Kevin Kelly’s 2008 post, Bruce Sterling’s repost of that on Wired, or a quote of Eno speaking in Sydney in 2009.
Here’s a quote from Eno’s 1996 book, "The Year With Swollen Appendices", via https://t.co/uvzrsEfWq4 https://t.co/LL7VvrLANF
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there is a combination of like maybe 7 skills that a lot of my friends and I take for granted, that prob give us a different experience of reality
- read really fast- skim, scan
- Type really fast
- Search skills – knowing how to use keywords & queries to find what you want ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1469974677057507331 ))
- I want more content like this because at some level I feel like if we can all be more honest with each other about all of this, we’d be less exhausted in aggregate. There’s a cognitive “cost” to maintaining social fictions, and comedic truth-telling releases that tension https://t.co/wr9ub3UZut ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1130418167061237760 ))
- I don’t think anybody ever told me that writing fiction would be a tremendous way of managing all of the information you’re interested in, in an incredibly elegant, powerful, memorable way ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1467977128603881472 ))
- twitter_rpg_strategy_guide.txt ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1094684057173016581 ))
- great small accounts (<1k), aug/sep ‘21:
@nylamoreaux
@kterade
@movebetterproj
@lucasstoten
@meaningfulideas
@wheeler_anna
@clarityscape
@MiguelMontevist
@bschne
@LifespanDevelop
@EnzikaOfAsh
@photon_garden
@halit_ayarci_
@alexkcriddle
@SunnyDisposish1
@Luminous_Air
@triztrooper https://t.co/UM2FmALRb1 ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1444938290986057730 ))
- here’s something very satisfying that’s happening for my information architecture across my entire body of work
I’m coming around to find that writing book drafts is one of the best ways to assemble relatively large-ish volumes of information ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1463555647023169544 ))
- a thing i dislike about a lot of advice you’ll find on the internet – and this is kind of a consequence of search engine optimization – is most advice ends up being very tactical. like if you struggle with sleep, you’ll encounter a lot of "use blackout blinds, wind down early…" ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1463080979975720962 ))
- can i watch 65 videos of myself at high speed and take notes on all of them in the next 10 hours ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1461977930280562695 ))
- steve jobs said a bunch of really insightful things over the years, but it can be surprisingly tedious to find them because there’s so much noise from people over-quoting the inspirational babble. I find myself thinking this a few times a year; probably worth making my own set ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1074945441958027264 ))
- @webdevMason Feynman is my gold standard here. Once you get past the nausea of “oh my god there’s nothing stable to stand on”, it’s quite liberating and zen, like surfing on waves https://t.co/CEdxzp9uvS
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([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/995190976531521536 ))
- Mean Girls clarified a lot about the world for me, more than probably 95% of books I’ve read. I often amuse friends by quoting it when talking about international relations (you can’t sit with us!) ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/968915021420883969 ))
- suddenly craving a different kind of internet experience, something very specific yet i’m not sure if i’ve articulated before, something somewhat collaborative but really simple. i think… something that I approximate with twitter but it’s like an itch I can’t quite get to ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1457802981370335234 ))
- I think most people would benefit from writing an itemized list of what they would do with more time/money/capital/etc, and having it on-hand that they can share with others ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1457066665787543555 ))
- a thing I was really late to do in annotating my books is to make indexes. Completely levels up the usefulness of a book as reference material. I think of it as doing a QT thread on a blank page, like
p64 wolf3d’s shareware biz model
p240 importance of doing 1-1s
etc https://t.co/XP18bBVFhf ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1456766248855900160 ))
- in retrospect, this 2014 "i’m not sure if I have ADHD" blogpost is one of the funniest things I have ever written https://t.co/MI7BRMpIy6
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- One of the biggest tells that someone doesn’t know what they’re talking about: glossing over addressing resource constraints, or saying things that imply infinite resources. Effectively everything is resource-constrained, & seasoned practitioners are especially sensitive to this https://t.co/DZi8XbYQqx ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1113154447050334208 ))
- just repeating myself again because people’s imaginations are tremendously constrained in this domain
well, in all domains, but it particularly irks me in this domain, because this is a domain which can expand imaginations in other domains
https://t.co/dCV25YMIDc ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1426380062111125511 ))
- one of my best contributions to nerd twitter might be that I’ve contributed a teensy bit to help to normalize QTing, replying to old tweets, filter:follows searches, etc – things anybody can do, but feels a little weird. if people call me mad I think that’s an acceptable bargain ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1452255016740433925 ))
- if someone says something that directly contradicts something I say, I still have like ~95% confidence that we have common ground and just haven’t found it yet ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1453048427260964870 ))
- super in love with @morganhousel’s description of this phenomena https://t.co/PTZb3aKIHq https://t.co/2fqqHCUMfd
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([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1116281250195501057 ))
- I think one of the reasons I am generally usually in the top 10% of enjoyer of things is that, lots of people have their immersion broken by bad things, but I’m usually imagining how things could be better, and that actually adds to my enjoyment ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1452691446952194048 ))
- there should be some kind of credit system for people who cite sources for things. google should solve this but they’ll probably just wait for some startup to succeed at this and then acquire them. (thought triggered by trying to source quotes and having to wade thru nonsense) ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1452010918259224580 ))
- the ability to do a filter:follows search on twitter is one of its most profound features and I bet hardly anybody working on the product realizes this ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1451827448954322949 ))
- my answer to peter thiel’s "what important truth do very few people agree with you on" is kind of meta – that truth itself, in practice, apart from the hard sciences, is ~ a political concept. truth is fashion, truth is kayfabe, truth is intersubjective https://t.co/wnLvKkCgWY ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1098126954073546752 ))
- I wish everybody on Twitter could each go ultra-viral because it’s actually a very eye-opening and humbling experience. I feel like it would be worth listing out some thoughts from the various occasions where my timeline blew up, even if it gets interpreted negatively https://t.co/hw9EVBMZkl ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1056830537216614400 ))
- Idk if Rosenfelder is quoting Jacobs directly when he says "This is how every developed nation started […] there is no other way."
no. other. way.
everything is a remix
remixers accumulate knowledge and power
you get to originality by first being derivative
No
Other
Way https://t.co/QOYeAunyaa
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([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1411443015462264833 ))
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here is a bit of my summary of @pmarca’s 2007 blogpost about James Austin’s 4 kinds of luck, from his 1978 book Chase, Chance and Creativity
- blind luck
- add variability through tinkering
- add discernment
- add unique frame of reference https://t.co/VC2iCbu8kk
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- There’s a way I use one of my twitter lists that I wish were more seamless - I basically use it as my “secondary timeline”, made up of interesting people who I’m not sure if I want to follow yet. However it takes so many unnecessary steps to add and remove people from timeline 2 ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1282078709856350210 ))
- the truth I hate the most is probably "people who are really knowledgeable are publicly silent about the juiciest stuff, because the upside to talking about it publicly is minimal, and the downside potentially catastrophic"
really sucks for smart kids in shitty social graphs ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1098574025234690050 ))
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Ooh, this is a fun one. Let me try. Just gonna wing it.
- The heat death of the universe. Realizing that there is a universal death ahead reinforces the preciousness of every moment. We are all tracings in the sand, so don’t trade a miserable life for a temporary legacy https://t.co/O24uHkih4n ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1013797773836050434 ))
- The following is a thread for my internet friend @_jordan_bates, who said it’s almost impossible to find "a castle of concepts" or "a whole new module" for perceiving the world. Here are some of mine. Let’s start meta: high-res vs low-res models: https://t.co/19zdOv4ZUs ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1026862789879455745 ))
- this is one of my core obsessions, let me queue up some old relevant threads about this
basically, social media creates tremendous opportunities, but hardly anybody stops to really examine this bc most people operate via old intuitions
this is why I tweet like a maniac https://t.co/FCoessWyXk ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1426378695644569602 ))
- I would like us to invent (or rediscover) more means and modes of relating to people. of expression. there’s a lot we can do from haiku to sonnet, in every imaginable domain, and domains we have not yet imagined ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1449090598057639939 ))
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- Do it 100 times.
Write 100 songs, cook 100 omelettes, talk to 100 people. It never seems like a huge deal until you try it yourself. It’s manageable, and yet it stretches you, and you’ll be observably different at the end of it. Effective way to get a foothold on a new thing ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1330985556872818689 ))
- To an outsider, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez comes across as such a genuine person that the attacks against her seem particularly revealing. I mean, it really shows that you can be near-perfect & it won’t matter because people are motivated to tear you apart and assume the worst ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1016914010686480385 ))
- @sonyasupposedly @SHL0MS one day people will write about how this part of twitter was legendary for all the overlapping origin stories ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1372099809440595968 ))
- "You think you are alone, and as the years go by, if the stars on your side, you may discover that you are at the center of a vast circle of invisible friends whom you will never get to know, but who love you. And that is an immense reward."
https://t.co/vpxmiFnFV0 ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1273250776333168642 ))
- https://t.co/YsF6RSbOCA ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1447577686319058944 ))
- There is an art to replying and commenting, and probably like 60-70% of people I’ve seen on the internet fail at it. The important thing is not to speak your mind, but to “support” the OP. You can support them by disagreeing well & you can “mis-support” them by agreeing stupidly ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1039420186586038273 ))
- what is the modern equivalent of wealthy florentine bankers paying artists to make some of the greatest art that defined their generation? we have a rocketeer and a anti-malaria guy, but who’s making epic sculptures, cathedrals, maybe a grand library? yachts are boring, man ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1249780726527963139 ))
- one of my recurring talking points to anybody who’s willing to listen:
any small group of people loosely-but-truly aligned on something can create powerful vectors by producing public-facing work that’s directed at each other
talking about the creation of scenes, basically ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1153706486586994688 ))
- some jokes are only harmless as long as the parties involved are too powerless to do anything
in this strange sense, praising your friends overmuch can function as a sort of status regulation
again not really an issue for people who aren’t interested in outsized growth ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1440501716051324939 ))
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