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A depiction of Odysseus sailing between Scylla and Charybdis. One side is labeled "life is devastatingly meaningless", while the other is labeled "life is excruciatingly meaningful". Odysseus's boat passes through the middle, labeled "ayy lmao"
Which is not to say we're all doing basic research, but I think it's much happier to reserve time for seemingly-unimportant work. It helps thread the needle of the @visakanv.com meme that lives in my head:
hahah I had several past experiences like that- some accidental, some deliberate- and I regretted/grieved every one
two more new posts
visakanv.substack.com
update: food poisoning lol. or a stomach bug of some kind idk. 🚽 all day either way. didn’t see that one coming
been sleeping all day and I can’t quite tell if I’m sick. I want to be optimistic but realistically I’m probably in denial lol
I ran into my piano teacher on the street today and he shook my hand and said, “Go practice.”
“if project management is the meta of doing work, then managing your psychology is the meta of project management” 🔥💯🙌
it’s good on its own
haters might call it preachy in that it presents and centers rebel activity, but it’s quite clear-eyed about how difficult and fraught that activity is
amazing
people tend to think "It's unrealistic if not impossible to make a living doing what you love" because their model assumes you're not going to talk to 100,000 people but once you have a decent-enough product that even 1% of people like, then it's just a matter of distribution
whenever I try to put together some kind of "master resource" it almost always ends up being overwrought and tedious when | write something like a personal recommendation doc for a friend, it almost always ends up being useful for other people and way easier to share too
imo: if you email an author about a very specific bit of their work, and tell them a short story of how precisely that work affected you, and the before/after of how that changed something in your life, you'll instantly be in the top 0.1% of emails they've loved receiving
There’s a throughline in these 3 seemingly disparate @visakanv.com tweets: specificity.
Lots of latent fears prevent people from being specific:
- of loneliness
- of rejection
- of failure
Counterintuitively the opposite is true.
Specificity makes connection, acceptance, and success more likely.
I woke up thinking about the internet. In my lifetime, billions of people began communicating with one another across the planet, daily. It is hard to overstate the significance of this shift for our species.
Twitter breaking for anyone else? >_>
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Introspect .epub is now live! gum.co/introspect
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oh sorry my bad
Ayy! ⛵️
Highly recommend
