# Recurring ideas 1/2

> Posts @visakanv quotes and reshares himself (4874 total), most-resurfaced first. Fields: times resurfaced · likes · date · theme.


- if we play our cards right
  (resurfaced 339× · 2,088 likes · 2020-04-30 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1255767736279392256)
- this is the heart of philosophy, all else is commentary 🧐
  (resurfaced 224× · 5,058 likes · 2021-09-29 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1443196315970670598)
- 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
  (resurfaced 155× · 2,337 likes · 2018-09-11 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1039420186586038273)
- focus your time and energy on what you want to see more of
  (resurfaced 149× · 5,762 likes · 2020-11-07 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1324978566455468035)
- Everyday is a new opportunity to assign value to things, to decide what is important, what is beautiful, what is good, what is deserving. In this regard you are truly the Monarch of your life, first of your name, bla bla
  (resurfaced 127× · 744 likes · 2019-08-12 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1160746630838009856)
- 1/ It's very interesting and useful I think to apply the MVP model of product development to personal development. http://t.co/ef1dY1UNr8
  (resurfaced 117× · 1,199 likes · 2014-11-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/536346231472013312)
- Questions I Keep Getting About My Threads, The Thread
  (resurfaced 113× · 0 likes · 2019-04-14 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1117341290474008578)
- the big lesson of survivor bias is that you should optimize for being a survivor
  (resurfaced 94× · 1,044 likes · 2020-08-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1294903763761676289)
- @michaelcurzi Plans are worthless, planning is priceless. Spend a day making elaborate plans and then disregard them completely to make whatever you think is most compelling. Repeat monthly or quarterly
  (resurfaced 91× · 804 likes · 2020-11-30 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1333535532882685953)
- My favorite essay of all time was written in 2011, and pretty much predicted the inevitability of today's culture wars (because it happened throughout history over and over again with the advent of each new piece of new media tech) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/02/14/the-information
  (resurfaced 85× · 1,660 likes · 2018-01-25 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/956460114508001281)
- 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
  (resurfaced 85× · 1,063 likes · 2019-04-02 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1113154447050334208)
- Wife and I were laughing about this last night: the thing nobody quite tells you about marriage is: you’re choosing the person in life who’s going to upset, disappoint annoy and frustrate you more than anybody else
  (resurfaced 82× · 2,384 likes · 2018-11-07 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1060046145936777217)
- My goal in life is to be a word artist-magician. Words are proxies for thoughts, and a master manipulator of words is a skilled navigator in the tumultuous ocean of meaning. Moana, but the ocean is the mind of humanity
  (resurfaced 81× · 351 likes · 2018-07-12 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1017314604987265024)
- latest version  some people have asked for a PDF (idk why, but ok) you can have that one here: https://t.co/SY3Oi82hF5
  (resurfaced 80× · 555 likes · 2019-07-04 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1146876326529257472)
- Goo for my prickly friends Prickles for my gooey friends
  (resurfaced 74× · 385 likes · 2018-12-15 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074043268898336769)
- Thank you Mario! But the root of our problem is in another castle!
  (resurfaced 71× · 0 likes · 2021-09-18 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1439067975370227723)
- me: I love you  wife: how much  me: why this obsession with quantification  wife: what gets measured gets managed
  (resurfaced 70× · 3,876 likes · 2016-04-16 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/721180324034519040)
- Meeting internet friends from around the world is always a huge highlight of my life and fills me with a lot of gratitude. Despite the wanton amounts of rampant fuckery on here, there are good, fun, kind, interesting people worth hanging out with
  (resurfaced 68× · 894 likes · 2018-05-31 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1002195033380929536)
- whenever we have a disagreement, the first thing I want to understand is: how have your experiences have been different from mine?
  (resurfaced 63× · 585 likes · 2019-02-19 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1097772276022370304)
- @sonyasupposedly @SHL0MS one day people will write about how this part of twitter was legendary for all the overlapping origin stories
  (resurfaced 63× · 373 likes · 2021-03-17 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1372099809440595968)
- twitter_rpg_strategy_guide.txt
  (resurfaced 62× · 1,441 likes · 2019-02-10 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094684057173016581)
- thinking is easy, information architecture is hard
  (resurfaced 62× · 718 likes · 2018-12-26 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1077735976468832256)
- THE USER EXPERIENCE WILL BE DEGRADED UNTIL METRICS IMPROVE
  (resurfaced 60× · 857 likes · 2019-11-17 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1196038612451676162)
- here's a 10-minute attempt to summarize my 300 page book @introspectVV into ~500 words. didn't precisely meet the brief of "in one breath" but i'll try again multiple times
  (resurfaced 59× · 1,393 likes · 2023-06-14 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1668987664140304388)
- are you also a fidgety boi? you may be interested in my draft notes for Constructive ADHD: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZDV-0WS8DrBDebF3fvUFj9aXQvLnwFc7optFgL1MpFk/edit?usp=sharing
  (resurfaced 55× · 681 likes · 2021-10-14 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1448528076577460225)
- 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
  (resurfaced 54× · 1,143 likes · 2019-07-23 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153706486586994688)
- I’ve basically taught myself to manage my ADHD with notes and threads. My “schedule intelligence” (deadlines, calendars, checklist) is terrible but my recognition and web-jumping is fantastic, so I spent something like a decade using the latter to build an elaborate mind-palace
  (resurfaced 54× · 417 likes · 2018-12-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1076189213744291840)
- Interesting conversation with a writer friend earlier about the fragmentation of information. We both agreed that fragmentation isn't actually a bad thing - what's missing & needed is better threading. Twitter threads are a specific instantiation of a solution to bigger problem
  (resurfaced 53× · 234 likes · 2018-04-18 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/986554117790228480)
- 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!)
  (resurfaced 51× · 1,008 likes · 2018-02-28 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/968915021420883969)
- in this world / we walk on the roof of hell / gazing at flowers  -kobayashi issa
  (resurfaced 51× · 870 likes · 2012-12-15 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/279834532860022784)
- Stage 1: Do unpaid work for yourself  Stage 2: Use that as leverage to negotiate a position where you get paid to do work for others  Stage 3: Save up enough so you can be free to do more, higher-quality unpaid work for yourself <--- I am currently here  Stage 4: We’ll see
  (resurfaced 51× · 831 likes · 2018-07-07 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015469196300337153)
- In some ways, my life's work is abt assembling a sort of tavern for psychonauts, explorers, wanderers, vagabonds, tinkerers, polymaths
  (resurfaced 51× · 317 likes · 2017-11-06 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/927609988813430784)
- The public is insufficiently educated on how to be a good public
  (resurfaced 51× · 261 likes · 2018-09-26 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044880239158022144)
- Alan Watts really changed my life when I was inhibitingly depressed around 2014/2015. Life just seemed so bleak - even with a job I liked and a wife I loved, existence seemed like a jail sentence. Alan helped me see that it was funny, in a hearty and nourishing way https://x.com/alanwattsdaily/status/1080201331464380416
  (resurfaced 50× · 383 likes · 2019-01-01 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1080203630756605952)
- we already live in a boring dystopia
  (resurfaced 49× · 111,396 likes · 2018-04-29 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/990570131238473728)
- @MsHortonTweets people don't wanna make better choices, they wanna make shitty choices and then complain about the shitty outcomes
  (resurfaced 49× · 404 likes · 2020-02-14 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1228239931505434625)
- A long term tension in my life: I don't feel qualified to lead, but I don't see anybody really worth following, either. When, where and how did I inherit these annoyingly perfectionist standards and ideals?
  (resurfaced 48× · 287 likes · 2018-04-04 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/981637431639228416)
- 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
  (resurfaced 48× · 251 likes · 2019-08-17 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1162573279325851648)
- periodic reminder (more for myself than for you) that I tweet for 0.1% outliers in optimism, thoughtfulness, creativity, kindness, competence, ambition, drive, curiosity.  all are welcome to read and hang out, but I won't dilute my writing trying to be "more accessible" https://x.com/visakanv/status/1360222712124219392
  (resurfaced 47× · 368 likes · 2021-07-24 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1418944184031928321)
- The most powerful IRL interview/conversation/flirting skill isn’t asking good questions nearly as much as asking good followup questions - it’s being sensitive to interesting micro-reactions. When you ask a question and they respond “😂... no”, and you go “Why 😂?” Etc
  (resurfaced 46× · 1,057 likes · 2019-05-26 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1132522321854418944)
- Story:  You suck at something  It bothers you, so you work hard at it & many years, through lots of pain and failure  You are now good at the thing & it comes easy to you  You look around and you see that most people suck at this  Why don’t they just get good?? Being good rules!
  (resurfaced 45× · 1,068 likes · 2019-02-07 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093406813159022592)
- people are really not used to dealing with someone who's well-prepared
  (resurfaced 44× · 714 likes · 2020-06-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1272794864413839361)
- Thread of books I'm reading in 2018. Deciding that I'm going to focus on optimizing for "books started" (which is fun and interesting) rather than "books finished" (which for me has a sort of masochistic, completionist connotation I'd like to be free of).
  (resurfaced 43× · 284 likes · 2018-01-23 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/955747886003732480)
- 
  (resurfaced 43× · 276 likes · 2020-11-10 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1326084703217090560)
- *taps mic*  people wanna be fuckable more than they wanna fuck
  (resurfaced 42× · 2,451 likes · 2019-02-13 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1095744739410759680)
- if you ever think someone isn’t creative you should look at their excuses
  (resurfaced 42× · 1,336 likes · 2021-05-12 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1392532247266299905)
- so you're a weirdo, huh
  (resurfaced 42× · 362 likes · 2019-12-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1207750140418650112)
- I want to do a thread of video snippets that have moved me deeply over the years  This bit from Neil Tyson was at the heart of my motivation to stay alive ~2013 – the idea of expanding human consciousness via space travel
  (resurfaced 41× · 623 likes · 2019-01-12 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084014654156754945)
- hypothesis: if you do barely anything with your life but take little notes every day, journal, diary, whatever – snapshots of your opinions, impressions, perspectives, predictions – and then you thread these notes over time, say, 10 years...
  (resurfaced 41× · 566 likes · 2019-01-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087427752498614272)
- I saw someone tweet “I wish smart writing came to me as easily as dumb tweeting” and I am here to share with you my strategy for using the latter to precipitate the former
  (resurfaced 40× · 540 likes · 2019-01-24 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088347054974201858)
- dad: don't crash into the tree!  son:
  (resurfaced 40× · 524 likes · 2021-12-15 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1471180144186331136)
- in a few more words:
  (resurfaced 40× · 294 likes · 2020-04-30 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1255774156307623936)
- Now that more of us are playing the threading game:  As we compete+collaborate effectively articulate things we all care about,  And weave each other’s thoughts into our respective webs,  The desire paths will assemble a mindcity paved with the best individual thoughts
  (resurfaced 40× · 211 likes · 2019-05-27 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1133066996797468672)
- titty
  (resurfaced 40× · 175 likes · 2021-02-19 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1362900338005614592)
- Sermonposting without shitposting gets you pedestalized, which is dehumanizing  Shitpost too much and nobody takes you seriously, which is also kind of dehumanizing  You can nerdpost forever quite happily, but it can be a lonely and frustrating experience  The flow is the point
  (resurfaced 39× · 640 likes · 2020-05-29 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1266263384195862529)
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  (resurfaced 39× · 211 likes · 2020-07-31 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1289171139156045825)
- I think a lot about how Feynman got his Nobel Prize from “piddling around with wobbly plates”. I’m always looking for wobbly plates to piddle with.  And of course the point isn’t to get the Prize, but to enjoy the piddling
  (resurfaced 38× · 506 likes · 2019-02-18 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1097330575549943808)
- until I listened to Alan Watts (around 2015), my attempts at improving myself, fixing my personal issues, etc were compromised by the language of coercion. I made my best effort to be some kind of authoritarian dictator over myself. I made "progress", and fell into a depression
  (resurfaced 38× · 430 likes · 2020-08-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1291469563578597377)
- I just wish that I'd get some sort of intrinsic reward for it. That I'd feel like I accomplished something. I don't feel it. I feel empty.
  (resurfaced 38× · 74 likes · 2015-01-17 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/556512726789279744)
- 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  1. blind luck 2. add variability through tinkering 3. add discernment 3. add unique frame of reference
  (resurfaced 37× · 664 likes · 2020-04-24 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1253742128351477765)
- People typically have high-res models of their own lives and lower-res models of other people’s. We are all born clueless with incredibly low-res models of the world - then we tweak and upgrade our models. Different people do this to different degrees depending on many variables
  (resurfaced 37× · 404 likes · 2018-05-22 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998900404225101825)
- Twitter is the fucking coolest note-taking app. It’s like Evernote with a slot machine attached. Sometimes you get incredible feedback or a response that gives you 10x more value than you expected, and sometimes you get people discussing your genitalia! So exciting
  (resurfaced 37× · 389 likes · 2018-09-14 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1040450987754811392)
- @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
  (resurfaced 37× · 389 likes · 2018-05-12 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/995190976531521536)
- So tomorrow is the 53rd anniversary of Singapore's independence from Malaysia, and since most of my followers are American, it feels like an appropriate time to maybe do an oral history thread about my city? Let me (badly) sing you the story of my people
  (resurfaced 37× · 315 likes · 2018-08-08 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1027221773190750208)
- I love these oil painting cityscapes by Jeremy Mann, they take my breath away every time. When you make art, I think it's always useful to ask the question, "What is it about this medium that lets me do something I can't do with any other medium?" Jeremy has this figured out
  (resurfaced 35× · 732 likes · 2018-05-19 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/997738457677021184)
- Interestingly, when Steve Jobs met Bob Dylan, he worried that Dylan ”wouldn’t be really smart anymore, that he’d be a caricature of himself, like happens to a lot of people.”
  (resurfaced 35× · 231 likes · 2019-02-16 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1096883407219388416)
- under-followed accounts ❤️  @rmbalt @maybegray @marionnjoya @cosimia_ @made_in_cosmos @iiiitsandrea @danlistensto @QiaochuYuan @emmalsalinas @diviacaroline @temujin9 @p_millerd @SrahHernandez @lehoczkyescobar @regancodes @auderdy @Aryeh___ @anomiseditrix @davidklaing @m_ashcroft https://x.com/emmajp9_/status/1203343615164080129
  (resurfaced 35× · 157 likes · 2019-12-07 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1203361986785857536)
- This is Uri Buri of Akko, and when I grow up I want to be him. Uri Buri has solved the game of life
  (resurfaced 35× · 119 likes · 2019-02-25 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1099929623087833089)
- I think about these two pictures from @joulee a lot – very succinct and powerful way of describing how professional creatives have a more structured process, and how that isn't necessarily limiting – you actually get to try more things this way
  (resurfaced 34× · 652 likes · 2018-05-21 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998406389440512000)
- I may have gotten a little carried away but I certainly had a lot of fun doing it
  (resurfaced 33× · 315 likes · 2019-02-18 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1097402088961695744)
- the flattening of attention metrics is something that seems to trip up even the most thoughtful of people  1 follow or view from the right person is worth 10,000 casual randos, maybe 100k. this is hardly ever reflected anywhere  in practice it’s a kind of sliding scale but still
  (resurfaced 32× · 1,166 likes · 2021-07-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1412916757543616512)
- you can’t think your way out of a courage deficit
  (resurfaced 32× · 723 likes · 2020-02-02 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1223823933658451969)
- Can’t sleep, time to do a fresh reboot of VV’s talking points
  (resurfaced 31× · 1,410 likes · 2020-11-23 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1330984685992722433)
- literally any decent piece of advice can be weaponized in some way to justify getting back on your bullshit
  (resurfaced 31× · 322 likes · 2018-11-08 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1060469888462929921)
- its ok if u unfollow me on twitter,,, i know u are still following me in ur heart
  (resurfaced 31× · 119 likes · 2019-02-06 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093213769558241288)
- feeling quite morose that I can't splay out all 58,400 of my tweets onto a giant 360 degree superdome, with all the threads visualized, and then wave my hands around Minority Report style to delete the clutter and rearchitect the best into a megaweb of megathreads
  (resurfaced 30× · 388 likes · 2018-12-09 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1071803092331520001)
- When I was 13, I flunked out of the gifted education program in my country. I was told that my failure was a disappointment to the Indian community. On retrospect that was a really shitty thing to say to a child, and also very myopic, and selfish
  (resurfaced 30× · 317 likes · 2018-11-04 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1058957113890762752)
- some sage elder wisdom from Steven Pressfield (78yo)
  (resurfaced 29× · 531 likes · 2022-02-16 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1493820592083980289)
- "You will lose everything.  Right now, we stand on sacred and holy ground.  Impermanence has already rendered everything [...] worthy of your heartbreaking gratitude.  Loss has already transfigured your life into an altar."  - @WonderOfBeing
  (resurfaced 29× · 408 likes · 2018-09-30 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1046394596022865920)
- pewdiepie being unseated for #1 most subscribed channel by an Indian brand is a little teaser for the giant bollywood-themed steamroller that's going to dominate english-speaking global culture in the coming decades  the average english speaker will be likelier indian than not
  (resurfaced 29× · 356 likes · 2018-10-29 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1056906425622945792)
- ~50 years after Erasmus came Marin Mersenne (1588-1648), an ordained Catholic priest who was called "the post-box of Europe". He was mutuals with Descartes, Pascal, Hobbes, Galileo, Huygenes. If you wanted to get something to someone, you sent it to him, and he'd reroute it https://x.com/visakanv/status/1430451542746800133
  (resurfaced 29× · 128 likes · 2022-01-09 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1480170518825533445)
- I have conversations with and comment on past selves in the marginalia of my books - so if you borrow my books you don’t just get to read the books, but my comments, and my arguments with myself, meta-comments...  I am Extremely Online even when I am offline
  (resurfaced 29× · 79 likes · 2019-01-22 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087570733759324161)
- Repeat after me, if you feel like it:  Life is hard, and full of rejection and failure.  But.  I will never be the one to count myself out.  I will never take up arms against myself.  I will never be the one to sabotage me.  I’m on my side and I root for me to succeed.
  (resurfaced 28× · 1,119 likes · 2020-11-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1326456124422324225)
- One of the reasons narcissist PR works is that we can’t shut up about it
  (resurfaced 28× · 230 likes · 2018-07-10 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1016595001709453312)
- But all of the fun in life - play, conversation, flirting, sex - is what you do when you’re playing *with* the rules. But that doesn’t mean you *break* the rules. You tease around them. While paying close attention. That’s the fun!! Oh my god. People don’t know how to have fun
  (resurfaced 28× · 195 likes · 2019-06-10 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1137973292457795585)
- Somebody Feed Phil is possibly my favourite show on Netflix. It’s so heartening and wholesome, this guy just going around the world & eating beautiful food with kind, warm-hearted, funny, lovable people. The food is a head fake; the whole point - the meaning of life - is friends.
  (resurfaced 28× · 195 likes · 2018-07-26 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1022508497362071552)
- I think a major theme of my life’s work is going to be “how do we coordinate effectively to solve the asshole problem”.
  (resurfaced 28× · 166 likes · 2018-11-21 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065115774057013248)
- a person is a system is a science is a mind is a language is a city is an organism is art
  (resurfaced 28× · 161 likes · 2011-03-05 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/43854427064516608)
- “By middle/high school, the average student has learned how normal people talk. The resulting language is underwhelming and predictable - the safe regurgitations of a thoroughly socialized consciousness.” https://t.co/5evo3vYThl
  (resurfaced 27× · 774 likes · 2019-02-01 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1091287428948623360)
- To me, school today is like medicine before people learned about germ theory and hand-washing. Creative souls die every day and most people shrug the way they must’ve when women and children used to die in childbirth. Leaves from the vine...
  (resurfaced 27× · 533 likes · 2018-07-07 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015531299438669825)
- My favorite example of mansplaining
  (resurfaced 27× · 525 likes · 2018-02-13 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/963406812300025856)
- a quick sketch of a blogpost: how to ask for help  https://t.co/ERYRjedrsV
  (resurfaced 27× · 307 likes · 2020-08-09 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1292486888473804800)
- sometimes simple truths have to be restated in fresh language to brush off the thick dust of familiarity and reveal the godly sheen underneath
  (resurfaced 27× · 302 likes · 2021-02-18 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1362284571937566720)
- "whenever I clear up something for myself it quickly affects everyone around me, as if it were a psychic liberation which in turn affects others' conflicts" – Anais Nin
  (resurfaced 27× · 290 likes · 2019-07-29 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1155751765599346689)
- talking with wife about the different kinds of narcissism & had an odd thought: sometimes it can be “more narcissistic” to be private than public, in the sense that one might want to protect one’s self-image from scrutiny  Narcissism is a convoluted concept, needs disambiguating
  (resurfaced 27× · 239 likes · 2019-03-31 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1112453522002313216)
- 8. it’s very cute when internet antagonists think they can hurt my feelings. you trying to go up against [checks notes] me?? you’ll fuck me up?? Bitch, *I’ll* fuck me up
  (resurfaced 27× · 201 likes · 2019-06-20 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141538699911430144)
- TIL about Erasmus – (probably well known to Europeans, there's a student exchange named after him) – one of the most prolific men of letters in the 1500s, corresponding with literally hundreds of people. he was born out of wedlock, both of his parents died in the plague...
  (resurfaced 27× · 130 likes · 2021-08-25 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1430451542746800133)
- you can’t moralize away a load-bearing coping mechanism
  (resurfaced 26× · 662 likes · 2022-03-21 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1505864899016073216)
- The courage to be disliked, Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. Heard good things, let’s dig in
  (resurfaced 26× · 638 likes · 2018-09-06 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1037715339314847747)
- someone once said something like "I like how visa says he's going to do something, then immediately does it". it's actually an ADHD coping mechanism. if you ask my friends from my teenage days, they'll tell you I was unreliable, full of shit and you couldn't trust anything I said
  (resurfaced 26× · 573 likes · 2020-08-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1293265193825312768)
- my curiosity will be the death of me
  (resurfaced 26× · 472 likes · 2018-12-31 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1079677616951517185)
- the first step to cease being an unintegrated wannabe is to accept that you are one, and will always be one. and to see the beauty, humor, joy and humility in that
  (resurfaced 26× · 469 likes · 2021-07-26 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1419804160594046976)
- When Jason was alone out at sea for months on end, his self unbundled into multiple personalities. "It seemed completely sane". This is consistent with other things I've read about people in ultra-solitude. The coherent self is constructed for interfacing with others
  (resurfaced 26× · 326 likes · 2020-06-30 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1278043599528013824)
- scrolling through my youtube videos and I can see a huge difference in the muscular tension in my face  same hoodie, same macbook camera, similar lighting conditions... holy shit
  (resurfaced 26× · 113 likes · 2020-07-24 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1286758231344218112)
- I think about this quote from Virginia Woolf every time I fall sick
  (resurfaced 26× · 103 likes · 2018-03-30 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/979751155826700288)
- people often think of confidence as bluster and bravado, loud and obnoxious. that’s often actually insecurity  the good stuff is often really quiet and natural: the casual, almost sleepy ease that comes from knowing your stuff really well
  (resurfaced 25× · 235 likes · 2020-11-18 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1329034321466834944)
- A question that made me anxious when I was a teenager is “where does money come from really”
  (resurfaced 25× · 203 likes · 2018-11-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065496480323055617)
- civilization is a sort of iterated, recursive potty training
  (resurfaced 25× · 163 likes · 2019-03-31 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1112288530389061632)
- I am never truly alone, for I have the light of human consciousness pulsing through my nerves. I am a verse in a song that echoes through millennia. I am Feynman and Archimedes, I am laughter and joy, curiosity and awe, discovery and delight  ...anyway, support your local library
  (resurfaced 25× · 151 likes · 2019-10-14 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1183647434246746114)
- When I was a kid, I was brought up in a Hindu household. I went to an Anglican kindergarten. I had friends who were Muslim, Buddhist, Taoist, Christian, Sikh. Heartland Singaporeans can be all-embracing, praying to gods from multiple religions at the same altar. Maximim coverage!
  (resurfaced 25× · 88 likes · 2018-01-08 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/950178328459149312)
- 200+ people who've opted in to be on a list of twitterfriends around the world: https://roamresearch.com/#/app/visakanv-public/page/DdfBkaSC5
  (resurfaced 25× · 62 likes · 2020-08-01 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1289493793922678785)
- slowly and increasingly convinced that the nietzschean yes-sayers are the most powerful beings on the planet
  (resurfaced 24× · 1,001 likes · 2022-07-22 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1550429250402263040)
- Just occurred to me that this was a classic exchange between a VC and a shitposter 2,300 years ago
  (resurfaced 24× · 641 likes · 2020-05-26 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1265124915172093952)
- I think a lot about fashion and weirdness. If this looks odd and funny now, consider moral, ideological, intellectual fashions
  (resurfaced 24× · 197 likes · 2017-09-25 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/912145510441484289)
- "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" applies . You might be right about something, but if you die before you're validated...? Semmelweis insisted that doctors wash their hands. He was fired, then sent to an asylum, where he was beaten, and died.
  (resurfaced 24× · 152 likes · 2018-09-02 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1036252334374846464)
- evergreen quotes
  (resurfaced 24× · 139 likes · 2018-09-20 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1042725956840972288)
- All buddy cop, road trip, “unlikely team” movies can also be watched as metaphors for how to handle the relationships between the conflicting sub-selves within you  Avengers and Inside Out are really the same movie
  (resurfaced 24× · 128 likes · 2019-06-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142832451464519680)
- There’s something very comforting about being surrounded by your own writing, it’s like your past self giving you a hug
  (resurfaced 24× · 70 likes · 2018-09-08 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1038362603263684609)
- it's our 5th wedding anniversary today! ❤️
  (resurfaced 23× · 595 likes · 2018-12-10 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1072061649501048832)
- Possibly the most important thing in a friendship- including one with yourself, or your spouse, or your child - is attention. Deep, focused, undivided, non-judgemental attention.  To really see + hear the other person, in a world where people constantly feel unseen & unheard
  (resurfaced 23× · 309 likes · 2019-07-11 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1149362892157775874)
- I never really understood the whole “empty your cup” and “unlearn what you have learned” thing until maybe a couple of years ago. Like, intellectually it sorta made sense, but... is it really that big a deal?  It actually is, IMO, and I’m wondering now how I learned to see it
  (resurfaced 23× · 282 likes · 2019-05-17 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1129212169701085186)
- I’ve mentioned an essay idea to several people in the past week and have received a lot of positive feedback about it.  I call it the SLINGSHOT THEORY, loosely based on a sweet trick used by rocket scientists - using the gravity of a planetary body to add velocity to a spacecraft
  (resurfaced 23× · 215 likes · 2019-05-04 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1124575393590071296)
- 1. A significant part of why I haven’t been able to be a part of any real ingroup: I think most groups usually have some truth at the heart of it, and also tend to deny some other truth(s). The former makes me seek out deplorable folk, the latter tends to get me excommunicated
  (resurfaced 23× · 160 likes · 2018-05-10 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/994521041618681856)
- "Visa you can't just keep saying that everything is going to be a Golden Age"  me:
  (resurfaced 23× · 156 likes · 2021-03-24 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1374611766143950848)
- @literalbanana [half-jokingly] people contain multitudes, coherence is fascism
  (resurfaced 23× · 116 likes · 2020-01-23 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1220474695595614211)
- Max Planck won the Physics Nobel for his discovery of energy quanta  he had literal nerd house parties!!!  "The Planck home became a social and cultural center. Numerous well-known scienttsts – Einstein, Hahn, Meitner were frequent visitors". They'd play music together
  (resurfaced 23× · 95 likes · 2020-05-21 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1263441103086170112)
- got some time to kill so gonna do some rambling notes to self on the state of my whiteboard  I think the main big picture is the question of wretchedness in our modern times. I roughly define wretchedness as a complex of despair, emotional and muscular tension, knottedness
  (resurfaced 23× · 84 likes · 2023-09-28 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1707292627463528920)
- Me as a child (before Twitter dot com)
  (resurfaced 23× · 84 likes · 2018-04-18 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/986410861039271936)
- Every word is a roughly-hewn representation of an idea, with some vague consensus about what it means. We stretch, distort, invert, resist
  (resurfaced 23× · 58 likes · 2017-05-12 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/862904419658027008)
- I truly can't with this man. Galaxy brain shit. Musical magician 🤯
  (resurfaced 22× · 1,445 likes · 2020-01-29 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1222438497274888193)
- in 1997, statistician David Banks wrote an essay titled "The Problem Of Excess Genius" – why are some periods and places so astonishingly more productive than the rest? His primary examples are Athens, Florence and London + another set of minor examples (Paris, New York)
  (resurfaced 22× · 490 likes · 2021-02-15 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1361219094268186624)
- Agreeing with people who think they disagree with you is the most fun conversation judo move
  (resurfaced 22× · 162 likes · 2018-08-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1032710997067223040)
- Bad actors are not sufficiently penalised for the far-reaching consequences of their actions
  (resurfaced 22× · 151 likes · 2019-02-11 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094894798106816513)
- A funny thing: I think it’s accurate to say that, in terms of benefit to others, my casual-laidback-playful existence now is more “heroic” than the attempted, play-acted heroism of my late teens, which was defined by insecurity. and probably burdensome for others to deal with
  (resurfaced 22× · 80 likes · 2018-09-25 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044486983169409024)
- aggressively seeking out outgroup members to agree with
  (resurfaced 22× · 75 likes · 2019-02-08 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093812468827054080)
- All it takes to make a difference
  (resurfaced 21× · 1,561 likes · 2019-09-20 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1175085109638156288)
- in the 5+ years I worked for my ex-boss Dinesh, he constantly, casually-yet-intensely would ask me about my goals & desired outcomes  "what do you want to get out of this?"  "how will you measure your progress?"  "what's the next step?"  "what's the limiting factor?"
  (resurfaced 21× · 1,551 likes · 2021-06-09 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1402695306899197956)
- 11. joseph campbell on swimming vs drowning
  (resurfaced 21× · 363 likes · 2021-05-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1390231647086252035)
- All advice is context-dependent to a degree most do not realise until they encounter a different context
  (resurfaced 21× · 315 likes · 2019-01-29 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090128599603044352)
- [smashes champagne on the bow of the ship] Hear ye, Hear ye, my substack is officially Open  https://visakanv.substack.com/p/we-were-voyagers
  (resurfaced 21× · 262 likes · 2022-02-04 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1489660012339208192)
- a little joke anecdote I think about a lot:  guy goes to fishing shop and sees all the lures and he’s like wow! do fishes like the lures more because they’re so shiny and colourful?  and fishing shop guy says, my boy, I don’t sell to the fish
  (resurfaced 20× · 1,846 likes · 2021-07-30 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1421131754815987714)
- 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
  (resurfaced 20× · 1,070 likes · 2018-12-18 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074945441958027264)
- Fun and illuminating bit about how young children are natural salespeople - until we teach them to get inside their own heads and get in their own way
  (resurfaced 20× · 679 likes · 2017-12-18 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/942580787282526208)
- "Humans don't mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary."
  (resurfaced 20× · 601 likes · 2018-04-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988359862613495808)
- lesson here: anything you do - however mediocre, tedious, clunky, imperfect - can be a stepping stone, a foundation, a springboard for something more wonderful
  (resurfaced 20× · 404 likes · 2021-07-12 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1414605542320795652)
- tarantino can be a wanker and an asshole but I 100% agree with his takes on taste and creativity
  (resurfaced 20× · 258 likes · 2019-07-28 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1155427055871205376)
- Childhood:  me: I’m just a nerd  others: fuck that... you’re special  me: I’m special? Oh shit! Get a load of me!  others: fuck you, you ain’t special  me: huh. I’m guess I’m not special. That’s kind of a relief. anybody can do what I do!  people: fuck you, you’re not normal  me:
  (resurfaced 20× · 256 likes · 2019-07-25 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1154461709085499393)
- that aside, what a fascinating, touching, intimate couple these two are. I love how they're so often portrayed touching each other lovingly, tenderly
  (resurfaced 20× · 252 likes · 2018-09-20 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1042909125309419521)
- a 16yo former MAGA kid actually DM'd me after that thread and we are having quite a wholesome time  TIL I am a dinosaur 🦕
  (resurfaced 20× · 249 likes · 2019-01-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1086700523397345282)
- I am always thinking about the next 1000 amazing people who aren’t here yet
  (resurfaced 20× · 171 likes · 2021-11-02 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1455506944970543109)
- "Quit while you're ahead."
  (resurfaced 20× · 149 likes · 2018-10-01 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1046686095801384960)
- Did the world need a pair of annoying hippie nerds hijacking infrastructure to make prank calls? Well that depends, does the world need iPhones?
  (resurfaced 20× · 120 likes · 2019-04-04 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1113647429197357056)
- The Great Plague of 1348: “They fell ill in their thousands. Many dropped dead in the open streets...” There was such a multitude of corpses that there wasn’t enough burial ground.  “...as if the city had been emptied.”  “Would the world ever be so full and prosperous again?”
  (resurfaced 20× · 118 likes · 2019-04-20 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1119618716428201984)
- I’m really just sitting here feeling thankful and grateful for everything and everyone that has brought me to this very moment. I love all of you so much. Existence is wild and I’m glad I get to share it with you. ❤️
  (resurfaced 20× · 118 likes · 2019-05-07 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1125886881923624961)
- Reflecting this morning on how my starting conditions were a lot more hostile, cold, abrasive and distant than I choose to remember. I think it’s actually quite remarkable that I’m not much more of an asshole; all credit for that goes to the libraries & storytellers who raised me
  (resurfaced 20× · 115 likes · 2018-08-23 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1032526708480434178)
- If you can imagine this in a way that is respectful and kind: in a sense, my goal in life is to laugh in the face of god. A big, happy, hearty laugh shared between the closest of friends. Children should not live in guilt and fear and shame and anxiety. Existence is hilarious
  (resurfaced 20× · 90 likes · 2018-12-16 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074127523947003904)
- Cool story: In 1817, this guy Walter McFarlane was born in Torrance, near Glasgow, Scotland. He worked for a jeweller, then apprenticed with a blacksmith. He then bought over Saracen Foundry, which is responsible for a STAGGERING amount of ornamental ironwork around the world
  (resurfaced 20× · 85 likes · 2018-11-18 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1064067881451712514)
- people who are really, truly different in non-trivial ways know the truth
  (resurfaced 19× · 600 likes · 2018-10-31 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1057549603413716992)
- "ignore the haters" is a more complex directive than people without haters realize  because it's not always obvious in advance who's a hater and who's not  deciding to ignore some subset of people requires introducing filters  working with filters can change you
  (resurfaced 19× · 245 likes · 2020-07-11 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1281832778879778817)
- you know what's a thing i've wanted for a long time – and maybe this exists, but I think probably not in the way that I'd like:  a "game" in a browser tab that feels like a video game "dashboard" / "war room".  A GTD app designed by a game company, like Firaxis games, or Blizzard
  (resurfaced 19× · 201 likes · 2019-01-13 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084471331414933510)
- Many men grow up in Menworld, where you get bullied, mocked, beaten, threatened, etc for all sorts of minor transgressions (being too emotional, being wrong, etc). To those guys, those seem to be the rules of life; how the world works. The powerful take from the weak, etc
  (resurfaced 19× · 200 likes · 2018-02-14 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/963606743610634240)
- It just occurred to me that palm leaf manuscripts are basically ancient twitter threads
  (resurfaced 19× · 171 likes · 2018-03-23 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/977019031575134209)
- an on-going compilation of my notes, tweets, threads, blogposts and thinking re: strategy, which may eventually cohere into an ebook of its own: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WVN7DZYWwDXOV-hwFbIYUvv3u17e_h3VS1QZZmIGNY0/edit?usp=sharing
  (resurfaced 19× · 116 likes · 2021-11-24 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1463512163960561665)
- all of this can seem very removed, very abstract  but here's what I think I know, from my personal experience  I used to be a much needier person than I am now  and I believe you can actually *see* this change in my *face*  people can feel this difference and treat me differently
  (resurfaced 19× · 111 likes · 2019-07-17 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1151472181806714880)
- Book opens with a joke about how learning the details of technicalities is ineffective when learning a new language. Frank compares 4 years of Spanish (ineffective) vs 13 weeks of rudimentary Nepalese with the Peace corp, mimicking children (effective)
  (resurfaced 19× · 101 likes · 2018-08-25 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1033337021853446144)
- @chumulu A quote I really like that I think explains the translator's challenge well:
  (resurfaced 19× · 91 likes · 2017-11-25 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/934363432442249216)
- I’m 6’4 / 194cm. In Singapore, this basically makes me the tallest person everywhere I go
  (resurfaced 19× · 89 likes · 2018-08-26 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1033590812053987328)
- Here are the people at the Visa event 😂❤️😍🥰❤️
  (resurfaced 19× · 44 likes · 2019-05-05 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1125171903751004161)
- "The B, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations [...] it has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation."
  (resurfaced 19× · 22 likes · 2018-03-06 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/970968593188835333)
- Oscar Wilde, on bad reply game:  "A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company."
  (resurfaced 18× · 1,133 likes · 2020-04-20 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1252069495385911297)
- sometimes people think their bottleneck is time but it’s actually the absence of a supportive context
  (resurfaced 18× · 938 likes · 2022-05-20 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1527658417044656128)
- Every “utterance” (status, tweet, whatever) is a bit of an invitation, a bit of a proposal. “Let’s play this game”. When strangers read the proposal accurately, and support the game, a shared understanding develops. You can make friends this way.
  (resurfaced 18× · 889 likes · 2018-09-11 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1039421328695091200)
- been procrastinating for years on an essay exploring how lady gaga chose to be weird as a positioning strategy in order to get the attention (for her hard-won talent) that would make her a star. she knew she couldn't get to where she is by playing it straight
  (resurfaced 18× · 650 likes · 2018-09-29 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1045939139047186432)
- I am very pro reinventing the wheel  you might think you know wheels, but what do you really know? how do spokes work? what are the principles of good axles?  the Beatles were a cover band, Sony was a radio repair, all learning begins with imitation and reverse-engineering
  (resurfaced 18× · 604 likes · 2021-12-15 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1470927931081822208)
- what's a minimum viable scene?  if you have two sufficiently obsessive people who are trying to impress and outdo each other in public, two is enough  but usually it seems that it takes a broader/wider scene to generate 2 such obsessive people
  (resurfaced 18× · 419 likes · 2019-07-23 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153708306206035968)
- Now here he is demonstrating what it's like to play the chromatic scale, *musically*, over music. Just witnessing this blew my mind. It's like someone reciting the alphabet in a moving, poetic way. Harder than that, since some notes are "wrong". Wooten doesn't believe in "wrong"
  (resurfaced 18× · 343 likes · 2019-01-19 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1086669288927158272)
- 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
  (resurfaced 18× · 334 likes · 2019-02-21 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1098574025234690050)
- *cracks knuckles*  school indoctrinates kids to compete with each other on standardized tests, to see others as competitors rather than potential collaborators. this atomizes people, makes them feel isolated, disconnected, fearful of not measuring up, jealous of others' successes
  (resurfaced 18× · 324 likes · 2019-01-27 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1089599005711986689)
- Following @visakanv on twitter be like
  (resurfaced 18× · 324 likes · 2019-04-02 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1113165222871674880)
- I often see this narrative that SG was a swampy backwater before Lee Kuan Yew showed up & turned it into a bustling metropolis. I think this narrative is inaccurate and harmful. Again, SG has always been along a critical global shipping route! Here are pics from the 1920s
  (resurfaced 18× · 279 likes · 2018-08-08 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1027247398282641408)
- If reality seems unrealistic, it’s because you were holding on to a false idea about how reality is.  Reality isn’t unrealistic; your expectations were  Reality isn’t unrealistic, your expectations were  Reality isn’t unrealistic, your expectations were  Reality isn’t unrealisti
  (resurfaced 18× · 218 likes · 2018-12-15 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074022543453970432)
- Infinite game-ing is about playing with frames  School is a very rigid frame that trains people to think and work within a fixed frame  When people first start experimenting with frames, it looks dumb and we make fun of them  When they get good at it we call them geniuses
  (resurfaced 18× · 210 likes · 2019-07-01 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1145581243007827968)
- This is a very real and underestimated phenomenon  If you make twitter threads, people start contributing to them, allowing you to do more than you can personally conceive  If there is a clear vector, people like to contribute to it  Hardly anybody likes to make a clear vector https://x.com/paulg/status/1080763092932259841
  (resurfaced 18× · 194 likes · 2019-01-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1082392984115531776)
- musicians all over the world playing Stand By Me, together  I remember crying while watching it on repeat, while I was flunking at school and my parents was mad at me for playing guitar instead of studying  I would give my life to protect musicians  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM
  (resurfaced 18× · 183 likes · 2019-01-12 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084020608197771264)
- if you keep a personal record of what’s going on & you index your notes, in a decade or two - and honestly sometimes in just 3-5 years - you can become a very valuable asset to any community: a sort of human switchboard for meaningful history. Remember, the past is never dead...
  (resurfaced 18× · 177 likes · 2020-11-04 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1323944665301753856)
- The galaxy-brain take for those who want to go there: the self is itself an illusion anyway; we are but fleeting assemblages and all our work is necessarily derivative. Narcissism then is a sort of bug, a hallucination; a fixation on a thing that isn’t even actually there. 🤓
  (resurfaced 18× · 144 likes · 2019-03-31 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1112468954352504833)
- 19. Elvis Presley’s manager, Colonel Parker, sold “I hate Elvis” pins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Tom_Parker
  (resurfaced 18× · 140 likes · 2019-08-14 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1161479984063500288)
- Let’s circle back and address some FAQs  “How do I develop taste?”  Well it shouldn’t be something you force yourself to do. What do you already like? What are you already interested in? Explore that with a playful curiosity and ask yourself what’s good, what’s not good. Have fun
  (resurfaced 18× · 135 likes · 2019-01-24 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088356774879494144)
- "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://x.com/InlibroV/status/1272260925085691905
  (resurfaced 18× · 122 likes · 2020-06-17 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1273250776333168642)
- being naive is one of my best assets
  (resurfaced 18× · 113 likes · 2019-05-18 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1129684042775875584)
- When I was a teenager, I fell madly in love with the local music scene. It seemed to me like a dank oasis of sincerity on a sterile, shrink-wrapped island of lies. It was my church, and I was convinced that it could save the world if only everyone would join in its sweaty embrace
  (resurfaced 18× · 79 likes · 2018-03-21 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/976287925221523457)
- where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves  where we had thought to travel outwards, we shall come to the center of our own existence  where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world  ❤️
  (resurfaced 18× · 68 likes · 2019-06-13 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139136781662638080)
- In a sense the media is a sort of moving Potemkin village of understanding, constantly adapting and reconstructing after-the-fact
  (resurfaced 18× · 61 likes · 2015-07-27 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/625509644765544448)
- 1. 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
  (resurfaced 17× · 1,136 likes · 2020-11-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1330985556872818689)
- One of my favourite books I’ve ever read, feels like it’s time for a re-read. My copy is pretty old; I believe it’s actually from the 70s. Check out that killer content page. David was the real deal
  (resurfaced 17× · 492 likes · 2018-11-11 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061692306619678720)
- I rewatched The Big Short last night. I know it's dramatized, but it's really sobering to contemplate how people will think you're insane (literally – they'll think you're mentally unsound) for doing what you think is right, based on your rigorous assessment of reality
  (resurfaced 17× · 288 likes · 2020-01-02 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1212575485164548096)
- my twitter philosophy, which informs my content philosophy, which is informs my life philosophy, is something like... pay attention to the sticky riffs in your conversations, and embellish them, and then use them as landmarks to navigate by, and pave the desire paths
  (resurfaced 17× · 228 likes · 2021-03-24 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1374605676551438339)
- One of my private beliefs that doesn’t translate very well is that true comedy is sacred. And not sacred as in solemn, but sacred as in profound. & even fart jokes can have a profundity to them if you get it right. But strangely few comedians seem to get it. Maybe I’m delusional
  (resurfaced 17× · 225 likes · 2019-03-21 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1108792354855510016)
- everybody owes each other stuff, we call this society  then people invented coin to represent this debt and trade it around, we call this money  the trade of debt ebbs and flows in massive and complex global patterns, we call this the economy https://x.com/GraceSpelman/status/1232071754488729600
  (resurfaced 17× · 205 likes · 2020-02-25 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1232228286928809984)
- I JUST WANT 10,000 TWITTER FOLLOWERS FOR BEING A PRETTY PRETTY PRINCESS IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK
  (resurfaced 17× · 168 likes · 2013-04-26 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/327713353017462785)
- “are you a man or a woman” I am a hypertext library
  (resurfaced 17× · 146 likes · 2021-05-23 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1396432330781184001)
- [drinking coffee] ah, the hot bean water is renewing my will to live
  (resurfaced 17× · 144 likes · 2019-01-04 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1081022604805210112)
- Flirting is a conversational OODA loop  Teaching a single formula then can be counter-productive, because good flirting is about switching formulas on the fly, appropriately and adeptly  so much so that in practice it’s “the formula of no formula”
  (resurfaced 17× · 143 likes · 2019-02-15 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1096310279011426304)
- #nowreading Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse. Been kind of avoiding it because I feel like I already get the idea + all the meta-rationalbros love it. But it seems short and I got time so why not
  (resurfaced 17× · 140 likes · 2018-07-04 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1014460524161974272)
- Shall we? Let’s do this! What is trigonometry? Trigonometry begins with the cult of Triangle worship  Would you like the secrets of the universe? You must recite the Pythagorean prayer before you may obtain it. Recite it!!!  [Mr. Visa gets dragged out of class by security]
  (resurfaced 17× · 136 likes · 2019-07-23 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153573007320743936)
- People tend to assume that this Steve Jobs quote is about making products. He does say "everything around you that you call life" – it applies equally to ideas, perceptions, ways of seeing, ways of being. And so it is with time – we can reimagine our relationship with it
  (resurfaced 17× · 135 likes · 2018-09-29 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1046057150974496769)
- This quote has been sticking with me. I feel like it applies perfectly to thinking about internet celebrity and going viral. You have to have a sense of the broader context, and be able to not take it personally, not fall into the trap of thinking "I went viral, I'm so great"
  (resurfaced 17× · 132 likes · 2020-02-21 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1230957235255173120)
- my brain, when I try to be even the slightest bit sensible:
  (resurfaced 17× · 129 likes · 2020-07-25 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1286993051735351296)
- VV’s theory of boredom
  (resurfaced 17× · 109 likes · 2019-03-26 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1110605022968999938)
- Went to bed early-ish but I can’t sleep because I’m thinking... about Game of Thrones- the final season in particular - and how I’d have done it differently. I think a few little changes could have made a big difference. Let’s do a quick sketch
  (resurfaced 17× · 99 likes · 2020-01-27 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1221872322841235456)
- The imagination deficit is the most staggering thing in the human realm - but few people know it... because most people lack imagination!!!
  (resurfaced 17× · 82 likes · 2019-07-12 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1149668249279139841)
- Thailand is typically described and understood as a Buddhist country  Indonesia a Muslim one  both countries have Garuda (a Hindu figure – legendary king of the birds, Vahana/mount of Lord Vishnu) as prominent features  I love this about Southeast Asia
  (resurfaced 17× · 54 likes · 2019-12-17 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1207073500273332229)
- “We’ll see.”
  (resurfaced 17× · 45 likes · 2018-07-07 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015527319576838150)
- One must imagine Sisyphus excited, stoked, so happy to announce that he’ll be rolling a stone up a hill for all eternity! This is a great opportunity for him to really develop his career. What an amazing journey. All the best on your ceaseless ordeal, Sisyphus! Excited for you
  (resurfaced 16× · 2,205 likes · 2018-07-03 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1013974575044952064)
- I am once again reminded that one of the great psychic divides is between people who’ve made/sold stuff in the open marketplace, and people who haven’t
  (resurfaced 16× · 1,657 likes · 2021-04-30 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1388030349494538240)
- I watched this video over a decade ago and still think about it all the time: Bobby McFerrin teaches the audience to be his backing track and performs a song with them in real time
  (resurfaced 16× · 980 likes · 2020-06-08 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1269857628596785153)
- The longer a relationship lasts, the likelier it is that you’ll step on each other’s toes in recognizably repetitive patterns.  The longer this goes on, the more hollow of an excuse “I wasn’t thinking” becomes.  It thus becomes *necessary* to become more considerate.
  (resurfaced 16× · 485 likes · 2018-12-24 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1077197780727132166)
- #nowreading Debt, by David Graeber
  (resurfaced 16× · 367 likes · 2018-11-22 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065534592793305089)
- I can’t believe I’m about to say this but: you have to periodically recharge your talismans with fresh thoughts and energy or they’ll “decay”
  (resurfaced 16× · 364 likes · 2019-08-12 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1160741723703693312)
- The thing I really enjoy about this exchange between Obama and Seinfeld is that you can see that they’re both very curious people, intellectually rigorous, each dealing with unavoidable filter bubbles, and each recognises that the other person has a valuable perspective
  (resurfaced 16× · 315 likes · 2019-07-29 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1155852963199406082)
- guy: i’ll pay you $100 to bring me a glass of water  me: whoa! nice!! i'm on it  me: *opens 100 tabs* what is water? how do clouds even? history of naval warfare? roman aqueducts? how desalination works?  guy: hey nvm I got it  me: ok  me: *opens 100 more tabs* why ice floats?
  (resurfaced 16× · 291 likes · 2018-12-18 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074979348749312001)
- It is tempting to kick your enemies when they are down, but that is also the best window of opportunity you’ll ever get to make them your friends
  (resurfaced 16× · 251 likes · 2019-01-25 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088912212561817600)
- One of my favourite stories I saw on reddit was a parent who taught her child that the secret of Santa is that YOU get to be Santa, and you get to join the secret group of people who make the world a better place for other people. I find that very compelling and heartwarming
  (resurfaced 16× · 247 likes · 2018-08-23 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1032535882253787136)
- wrote this at 20 https://x.com/ciaralondon_/status/1351317402177437696
  (resurfaced 16× · 229 likes · 2021-01-19 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1351397017344348160)
- I saw a bunch of tweets with people commiserating over how many open tabs they have  cute. 😂  here's how I manage mine  1. get @onetab, this lets you expand your "on-standby" tabs to several hundred
  (resurfaced 16× · 225 likes · 2019-01-11 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1083564545111519232)
- The real flying car / hoverboard / jetpack of 2020 will be a tool that helps you navigate information overload, not physical space
  (resurfaced 16× · 214 likes · 2015-12-05 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/673007121106010112)
- When you worship your heroes, you distract them from the process that enables them to make great work. Encourage the process, participate in the process. They’re people too. Every creative mind is always yearning for more good minds to play with
  (resurfaced 16× · 177 likes · 2019-01-24 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088356040444239873)
- kids in my DMs with ADHD symptoms are always surprised when I tell them that I don't think they should try to suppress their mind's wild swings. My advice is to develop the practice of taking meticulous notes instead. It worked for many prolific individuals throughout history
  (resurfaced 16× · 176 likes · 2019-09-06 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1169987062369439745)
- Enjoyed this video from @noclipvideo interviewing @corybarlog about directing God of War. [17m]  This bit about the game impacting a player and his relationship with his own father, to me this is the heart of art itself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQQh8L1Rf7g&feature=youtu.be
  (resurfaced 16× · 141 likes · 2019-02-06 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093088898358497280)
- Success can be very dehumanizing
  (resurfaced 16× · 137 likes · 2018-11-10 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061174464283459585)
- Real talk, I was skinny as hell until I taught myself how to eat, and it wasn’t easy. 60kg/130lbs in the first pic, 85kg/190lbs now. Wow I used to look almost like I might’ve had an eating disorder. Maybe you could call it an eating... dysfunction...? It was sad, on retrospect
  (resurfaced 16× · 126 likes · 2018-08-27 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1034169569114447872)
- #nowreading The Body Keeps The Score, Bessel van der Kolk
  (resurfaced 16× · 119 likes · 2018-04-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/981357303583485952)
- So like, do you have an interest you wanna blog/tweet about, but you don’t think you have anything novel or interesting to say? Just add one other interest! Architecture and Lasagna. Motorbikes and Monster Movies. Cities are built out of crossroads
  (resurfaced 16× · 103 likes · 2019-07-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1147983907444293632)
- me on one of the saddest days of my life vs one of the happiest  I carry both of these moments with me every day  and yes I had my phone on me both times 😂 thank you technology for helping me document and architect my narrative
  (resurfaced 16× · 72 likes · 2019-07-09 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1148601250663022594)
- @deepfates @Rididelduol everyone here is hot
  (resurfaced 16× · 71 likes · 2021-06-03 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1400488153094316032)
- Hutchinson Guitar Concepts makes the most beautiful guitars in the world. Art. He works WITH the body of the instrument, not ON it. He respects negative space. Tempo. Rhythm. Pacing. Scale. Few artists appreciate the soul of their work this well. If he did tattoos I'd fly to him
  (resurfaced 16× · 68 likes · 2017-11-10 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/929082158534221824)
- let’s solve the Losev problem
  (resurfaced 16× · 67 likes · 2022-02-14 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1493179632278925313)
- @Neats29 exactly. now you know why I am fucking crazy all the time
  (resurfaced 16× · 63 likes · 2020-07-24 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1286565294882709505)
- Why be happy when you could be normal? Jeanette Winterson
  (resurfaced 16× · 57 likes · 2018-07-25 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1022017669908910081)
- The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world - no matter how his affairs may seem to prosper
  (resurfaced 16× · 54 likes · 2019-06-13 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139136038461353994)
- Metaphor for subjective social reality: fridge light. Every time I open my fridge, there's light. Therefore, the fridge light is always on.
  (resurfaced 15× · 569 likes · 2017-11-02 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/926087300722843648)
- I think most of the untapped wealth in the world is in the connections between people who do not yet know each other
  (resurfaced 15× · 437 likes · 2020-07-24 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1286551609011392512)
- Arabic calligraphy has the best aesthetics of all the languages IMO  if I could learn one script overnight for purely aesthetic expression, it would have to be Arabic, no contest. They have the *best* curves, and a very interesting, non-linear relationship with space
  (resurfaced 15× · 389 likes · 2019-02-11 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094989238028779520)
- There’s a recurring moment in multiple conversations I have had with childhood friends (90s kids) that’s quite bleak. They’re 29-30 and realising they’ve been holding on to vague scripts. not done much self-authorship. These are smart people who feel trapped but avoid facing it
  (resurfaced 15× · 359 likes · 2019-06-18 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141043305007894528)
- the thing I really like about the KWML archetypes is how they break it down into the failure modes. Too much yin or too much yang, too soft or too hard, too needy or too detached
  (resurfaced 15× · 343 likes · 2021-06-08 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1402231914547712004)
- me, in a moment of passion in a salon yesterday: “do you wanna raise your lifetime revenue by 5% or do you wanna live fucking gloriously?”
  (resurfaced 15× · 278 likes · 2021-01-24 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1353225221533093888)
- So: the most important thing about the most important thing in life is attention,  and in schools, IMO, we often screw up how we teach it.  If you use threats and coercion to force kids to “pay” attention...  ...you set people up for dysfunctional relationships their whole life
  (resurfaced 15× · 254 likes · 2019-07-11 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1149365496472432640)
- hey, alert, there's a guy (@movebetterproj) hanging out in my mentions and he seems to be fixing people's physical issues left and right, wow https://x.com/selentelechia/status/1442053432827731972
  (resurfaced 15× · 249 likes · 2021-09-26 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1442054179346784257)
- me when I get my ass kicked
  (resurfaced 15× · 240 likes · 2020-06-01 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1267426496836038657)
- Visa’s rules for life [draft]  1. recognise when u get ur ass kicked, & accept it with grace  2. if u *have* to kick someone’s ass, be swift, don’t be a dick about it  3. if u can save an innocent ass from being kicked, do so  4. remember, life kicks everybody’s ass in the end https://x.com/visakanv/status/1057602603792523264
  (resurfaced 15× · 220 likes · 2019-01-01 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1080190859734245376)
- we can heal ancestral traumas  L: ancient Greek kylix from ~340-320 BC R: frostious, 2021 https://t.co/dNrsyOAKho
  (resurfaced 15× · 217 likes · 2021-12-28 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1475766976576311296)
- Around this time, a little earlier, an opera & physics nerd named Norio Ohga wrote a highly critical letter to Sony about the many failings of their tape recorder. Akio and Masaru were so impressed, they hired him as a part-time consultant, & eventually made him Sony's President
  (resurfaced 15× · 177 likes · 2019-04-06 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114572368393826307)
- A crazy thing is that a seemingly meaningless existence can become relatively more meaningful just by thinking about it
  (resurfaced 15× · 168 likes · 2018-10-05 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048057893960871936)
- slowly increasing the # of tweets I have literally hotkeyed
  (resurfaced 15× · 138 likes · 2021-12-04 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1467090668874964992)
- 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
  (resurfaced 15× · 105 likes · 2018-10-29 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1056830537216614400)
- I like this picture that my wife took of me recently when we were waiting for our dinner. I can’t remember what I was thinking about. But I was thinking about something. I live in my head a lot, even if I’m not on my phone
  (resurfaced 15× · 102 likes · 2019-09-16 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1173574145889587200)
- I'm sold. Bitcoin matters. I will buy it, I will use it, I will accept it. There will be others.
  (resurfaced 15× · 71 likes · 2015-01-19 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/556995364327530496)
- I bet the Pope is lonely.
  (resurfaced 15× · 64 likes · 2019-08-19 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1163441924121874432)
- 19. Anais Nin – "In the Diary I only wrote of what interested me genuinely, what I felt most strongly at at the moment, and I found this fervor, this enthusiasm, produced a vividness which often withered in the formal work."
  (resurfaced 15× · 64 likes · 2019-07-29 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1155754096487358472)
- Several anon twitter dudes found my menworld thread and assumed that I’m some sort of desperate lonely virtue-signalling basement rat who’s begging for dates and can’t get any  Well I’m *married*, so I’m not looking, thanks  ... but do I look like a guy who has trouble dating 😂
  (resurfaced 15× · 47 likes · 2018-08-26 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1033610543221760005)
- I have strong feelings about words https://x.com/visakanv/status/1063069532409880576
  (resurfaced 15× · 40 likes · 2019-02-07 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093432764639002625)
- It is possible to tell the truth in a dishonest way. And we pretty much all do it, because narrative bias and imperfect information.
  (resurfaced 15× · 33 likes · 2016-03-24 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/712972281195077632)
- guy: how do I make great art  picasso: make 50,000 pieces  guy: ur kidding  picasso: im not
  (resurfaced 14× · 1,634 likes · 2019-11-28 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1199907654602125312)
- reviews and social proof for my book Introspect, the thread  (buy it here: https://visakanv.gumroad.com/l/introspect)
  (resurfaced 14× · 1,627 likes · 2022-02-03 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1489090454113046529)
- fascinating quote from an anthropologist realizing that people from other cultures can have a sense of humor about their spirituality  https://t.co/3ut1bbJ7R0
  (resurfaced 14× · 1,277 likes · 2021-07-17 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1416348717053976579)
- 💎
  (resurfaced 14× · 955 likes · 2022-02-01 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1488430851863891969)
- the secret ingredient to almost everything good is simply giving a shit
  (resurfaced 14× · 881 likes · 2021-09-20 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1439938701283397632)
- marvelling at how precisely Timothy Gallwey's Inner Game of Tennis (🎾) and Kenny Werner's Effortless Mastery (🎹) say *exactly* the same things about judgement, ego, self-talk, instruction, etc and their impact on performance
  (resurfaced 14× · 662 likes · 2023-10-03 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1709080935348777034)
- when I first started making videos of myself talking, I was stiff, awkward, nervous, anxious, frozen. but I kept at it, because I wanted to git gud. I believed that I could learn to become confident and charismatic on camera. here's some of that journey:
  (resurfaced 14× · 524 likes · 2022-04-17 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1515701969348104195)
- a thing that often seems to surprise people about the act of forgiving and loving your past selves for all their imperfections, failures, incompetence, etc is that you can then begin to feel the warm glow of your future self's love for you
  (resurfaced 14× · 442 likes · 2021-04-08 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1379975866860466178)
- 1. The frame is a useful constraint if you think beyond it https://x.com/visakanv/status/924856413712797696
  (resurfaced 14× · 437 likes · 2018-12-15 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074030700158828544)
- "When there's a note that doesn't work, there's a note on either side of the note that DOES work."  NOBODY TELLS YOU THIS.  "It's always easy! but we make it hard!". "A minute ago this note didn't work, but now it does. I can *erase* the wrong note by *making music*."  Amazing
  (resurfaced 14× · 430 likes · 2019-01-19 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1086670220909895682)
- “I want to produce work but something is stopping me”  It’s usually some form of fear or perfectionism. Your technical skill is not yet good enough to gratify your taste. Let go of the expectation that you have to gratify your taste *today* (or *ever*). Make Crappy Stuff!!
  (resurfaced 14× · 417 likes · 2019-01-24 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088357584631869440)
- “you can make every note work with every chord [...] rather than say this note is good or bad, it’s more, this note hasn’t found it’s consequence yet, or this note is in the wrong context [...] if it feels right, then it's probably fine." – @jacobcollier
  (resurfaced 14× · 399 likes · 2021-07-15 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1415492918228307970)
- "Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefore, the great man, in order to exist, must possess a force of attack which is greater than the force of resistance developed by millions of people."
  (resurfaced 14× · 397 likes · 2021-12-30 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1476540736959127557)
- A very cool thing about having an elaborate 🕸 of threads on twitter is – when new people find and discover you, they start favoriting all these old tweets, and you get to "feel" the paths of their choose-their-own-adventure journeys. It feels a little transhuman
  (resurfaced 14× · 247 likes · 2019-02-02 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1091506683036164096)
- A thing I like to do when researching a person is to look for all the other people they've quoted or mentioned by name. Can you think of some people who should be in this map but aren't?
  (resurfaced 14× · 240 likes · 2018-12-21 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1076018761512103936)
- the library ethos  https://t.co/J3xzAQBtNj
  (resurfaced 14× · 202 likes · 2021-02-21 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1363477674635767815)
- Don’t assume that people who are good at playing a game are necessarily having a good time playing it
  (resurfaced 14× · 197 likes · 2018-11-10 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061172013383831553)
- On planning: "You need to plan the way a fire department plans. It cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event."
  (resurfaced 14× · 188 likes · 2019-07-30 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1156110905748254720)
- 0.01% of people is a lot of people
  (resurfaced 14× · 110 likes · 2021-02-12 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1360222712124219392)
- @mechanical_monk @danlistensto @RealtimeAI I am not fucking around
  (resurfaced 14× · 82 likes · 2021-03-22 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1374025323092746241)
- some overlap between bits, but I basically get all of these things through other things... including twitter, and increasingly, youtube
  (resurfaced 14× · 80 likes · 2020-02-10 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1226735599819710464)
- America: damn, growing Chinese influence is scary  Chinese kids:
  (resurfaced 14× · 61 likes · 2020-01-30 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1222742866054668290)
- Sometimes this big boi meows needily until I pick him up and give him scritches
  (resurfaced 14× · 61 likes · 2018-09-25 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044665015771422720)
- An essay from my coming book, Naughty Boy
  (resurfaced 14× · 58 likes · 2018-08-04 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1025674779783704576)
- I had a bolt of clarity in the shower earlier. Last night I was thinking that all of my books seem to be, in some sense, the same book. I went to bed wondering what that “master book” is.  It is, of course: The Book Of Books, The Story of Stories, the Narrative of Narratives. 📖
  (resurfaced 14× · 56 likes · 2020-06-11 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1270998834223570944)
- It’s ok to misspelling stuff, even grammer wrong sometiems
  (resurfaced 14× · 52 likes · 2019-10-28 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1188700482551730176)
- Fun fact: my existence is literally blasphemous to some people https://t.co/rS42ME11iY
  (resurfaced 14× · 40 likes · 2018-04-28 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/990237868885868544)
- obsessed with meryl streep's description of her process – "total immersion into possibility... infinitely interesting... there's no bottom to it... a lot of it just great, deep, belief"  (h/t @selentelechia)  https://x.com/selentelechia/status/1225637355760967680
  (resurfaced 14× · 0 likes · 2022-11-02 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1587698180426436610)
- never be gleeful about violence
  (resurfaced 13× · 1,409 likes · 2021-01-08 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1347550441962237955)
- news sites have clearly learned how to use a variant of cunningham's law ("the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer") in order to maximize engagement and traffic
  (resurfaced 13× · 880 likes · 2019-02-01 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1091430915417329670)
- A thing I noticed fairly early-ish on is that people care about things more once they’re framed properly. Like, if you watch a documentary about a pit crew or a kitchen or a tattoo shop, you become invested in those people’s struggles and you start to care about them personally
  (resurfaced 13× · 718 likes · 2019-07-31 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1156442052214738945)
- in the early days, humans supposedly stored food surplus in each other's stomachs – I can't eat the whole deer I just hunted, so I share my deer with you today, you share your deer with me tomorrow  IMO the best place to store information surplus is in each other's minds
  (resurfaced 13× · 579 likes · 2019-12-11 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1204654314884460544)
- the interesting part of this to me is when he says “hard to be positive when that’s reality”, when the reality right in front of him only *just* got morphed by his reality distortion field.  It’s not reality that screwed him here, but the expectations that he has about reality https://x.com/amanionearth/status/1325997256223428610
  (resurfaced 13× · 536 likes · 2020-11-11 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1326453565871714305)
- cracking up at this drum lesson by Nate Smith (the 80/20 drummer) where he's trying to demonstrate to you how beginners are sloppy and make mistakes — but because he's so good at what he does, his deliberate mistakes are actually delicious and musical 😂
  (resurfaced 13× · 490 likes · 2021-04-20 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1384602923573805057)
- you cannot insult, harass, shame, embarass and coerce people into becoming better people. because what they'll learn from it is that insults, harassment, shaming and coercion are how you get things done
  (resurfaced 13× · 401 likes · 2020-08-05 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1290978444575010817)
- old paintings of older ruins, a mood
  (resurfaced 13× · 389 likes · 2018-11-20 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1064895346743132162)
- well-arranged words rearrange reality.
  (resurfaced 13× · 382 likes · 2023-06-26 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1673282395402027010)
- I often find myself referencing this Steve Jobs quote about what it’s like to have the means to take responsibility for your own dreams, and can be held accountable for them
  (resurfaced 13× · 310 likes · 2019-03-21 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1108823903248351232)
- Greetings, friend! 👋🏾  Here is a non-exhaustive list of some of my best threads on twitter dot com. Feel free to reply to any tweet in any thread, however old. 🤓  (Looking for a thread and can't find it? Ask me about it, and I'll add it here!)  https://www.notion.so/visakanv/a-list-of-visakanv-s-threads-1a6ed25cf06e49e388a303903d597b73
  (resurfaced 13× · 303 likes · 2019-07-12 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1149747304380825600)
- knowing when to abandon what you know, is more important than knowing what you know
  (resurfaced 13× · 279 likes · 2023-01-26 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1618565420696637445)
- an additional confounding factor:  not only do most people not have any real creative vision or ambition...  many people entertain themselves by PRETENDING that they do  most people want their lives to be sitcoms that pretend to be adventures  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139773860784422912
  (resurfaced 13× · 272 likes · 2019-07-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153713364117282816)
- I want to be both Mr. Rogers and George Carlin at the same time
  (resurfaced 13× · 223 likes · 2018-06-07 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1004558643134545920)
- 57. mindfulness for engineers, via @PearShapedComic  https://billing.mattengg.com/
  (resurfaced 13× · 216 likes · 2020-05-22 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1263643405780832257)
- btw I particularly use XKCD 1227 a lot, I reference it so much I have it memorized and basically hot-keyed: https://www.xkcd.com/1227/
  (resurfaced 13× · 211 likes · 2018-07-18 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1019709874387599361)
- OK let's do this: A Timeless Way Of Building, Christopher Alexander [1979]  I'm actually reading this because I want some inspiration for thinking about how to improve my mind-palace, notes, tweet-webs
  (resurfaced 13× · 162 likes · 2019-06-22 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142442944504328192)
- Friends from abroad are always asking me about Lee Kuan Yew. I usually hesitate to answer, because it's complicated. But I always find myself thinking, "still, I should try." Anyway, here are 4 very different quotes from him that I think help to *hint* at what he was like
  (resurfaced 13× · 151 likes · 2018-10-31 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1057579768885870593)
- @EricJorgenson "Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise." – Russell http://t.co/a9EHjSaKxc
  (resurfaced 13× · 148 likes · 2015-06-01 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/605260007559430144)
- I’ve been stewing this theory for 1 year +:  Just as how the WWE isn’t a wrestling show, but a show ABOUT a wrestling show,  mainstream media is less about the news than a participatory interactive tv show ABOUT the news  Cable News Network is really Cable News Entertainment https://x.com/kebejay/status/1004088279094841344
  (resurfaced 13× · 148 likes · 2018-06-06 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1004190525270851584)
- Conversation with wife: an existential crisis is really a sort of expectation crisis- it’s the horror of falling from the height of your expectations, down to the reality you actually already inhabit. It’s interesting to consider that staying up takes more effort than coming down
  (resurfaced 13× · 136 likes · 2018-11-22 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065531951656796160)
- I love these dreamy architectural paintings by @park_sunga. There's this wistful quality of remembering and forgetting, seeing and unseeing, smoke and softness. Imagine playing a video game illustrated in this style, how lovely that would be
  (resurfaced 13× · 125 likes · 2017-11-30 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/936121164035796992)
- Morning! Because of the complicated relationship our species has with the truth, being truthful can sometimes (often?) actually get you labelled as untrustworthy. There’s a huge gap between our moral fantasies (as told in our modern myths and folklore) and practical reality
  (resurfaced 13× · 120 likes · 2018-12-27 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1078195582672367616)
- The mere presence of bad actors causes decent actors to be unfortunately-yet-understandably suspicious of each other
  (resurfaced 13× · 112 likes · 2019-02-11 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094896309574688769)
- @ollybot_redux 1. screaming into the void  2. screaming at people who are screaming into the void <- you are currently here  3. stepping away from the void and pursuing the light  2 is a common encounter en route to 3, but it’s not actually a prerequisite and can even be a trap u get stuck in
  (resurfaced 13× · 104 likes · 2021-01-31 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1355937650054582273)
- Gonna make a meta index of indexes for all my paper notebooks
  (resurfaced 13× · 104 likes · 2019-11-24 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1198495706207539200)
- To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as though nothing of consequence will happen. Rather - when we are playful, we relate to each other as free persons - and the relationship is open to surprise. Seriousness = pressing for a specific conclusion.
  (resurfaced 13× · 102 likes · 2018-07-04 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1014472771156434946)
- 6. a decade before brene brown, emo bands taught me the social power that comes with being artfully vulnerable & honest. you can make new friends that way. you can build a whole sweaty church of distorted riffs & earnest lyrics. I'm still surprised when people don't realize this
  (resurfaced 13× · 86 likes · 2019-09-04 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1169136251288674304)
- this thread also makes me realise is that a big part of why I write is so I can think clearly without all of the inelegant clutter of (most) other people’s words, and models. It’s an act of compression. My goal is often to reproduce signal with less noise
  (resurfaced 13× · 86 likes · 2018-11-06 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1059629820483518465)
- The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao...  ... which is annoying, because I really struggle to stop my dumb ass from telling everyone about the Tao
  (resurfaced 13× · 86 likes · 2019-03-20 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1108357923875356672)
- Lol even in 1949 Campbell was saying Americans need to grow up  And that psychoanalysts, experts, etc are basically performing the roles of shamans and medicine men  Humans seem to need our Elons and Navals and Talebs to function as a pantheon to project our fantasies onto
  (resurfaced 13× · 73 likes · 2019-06-13 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139134816027152386)
- IMO, playing with moods, aesthetics and vibes is a sort of proxy or precursor to playing with ideas and worldviews, identities, self-concept. Depending on how you frame it, you could even say it’s fundamentally the same thing, or deeply intertwined
  (resurfaced 13× · 61 likes · 2018-12-01 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068925632627728384)
- The world is endlessly fascinating once you learn to look at things this way; everything is a part of a greater thread. Everything is connected, nothing exists in isolation
  (resurfaced 13× · 56 likes · 2019-01-17 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085809531420995584)
- thinking with my mouth
  (resurfaced 13× · 53 likes · 2019-06-27 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1144284388072386561)
- 017: MASCULINITY!  - men are scared of men, just as women are - people are quick to say "daddy issues" but where *was* daddy? - how I navigate "men are trash" - elite commandos behave in a much more nourishing and supportive way than wannabe tough guys do  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRcPqW9yAs4
  (resurfaced 13× · 52 likes · 2020-02-13 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1227940571563450368)
- 38. including a shot of my labyrinth tattoo in my social proof thread, because, skin-in-the-game counts for something, right? I will be updating this book continually for the rest of my life, this is not a passing phase or a casual curiosity for me, it is my life's work
  (resurfaced 13× · 46 likes · 2022-03-26 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1507521403759005696)
- If cables connected the world, one editorialist wrote in 1857, they would ''make the great heart of humanity beat with a single pulse.'' ''Wars are to cease,'' another wrote. ''The kingdom of peace will be set up.'' https://t.co/iu83ogbf7f
  (resurfaced 13× · 42 likes · 2018-01-04 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/948797803504984064)
- How long have we spent in the past ~5 years in passionate arguments that ultimately amounted to nothing? What could've we done w that time?
  (resurfaced 13× · 32 likes · 2016-12-16 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/809557109398388736)
- Grain heavy diet wasn't very good for these folks, now starved of vitamins, iron, protein. Avg height dropped 6 inches. And yet, the (unnutritious) food surplus allowed specialization. Specialized, malnutritioned soldiers were still able to drive remaining hunter-gatherers away
  (resurfaced 13× · 31 likes · 2018-03-02 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/969418906837311490)
- “Courage, Merry. Courage for our friends.”
  (resurfaced 13× · 28 likes · 2018-05-26 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1000301738493005825)
- Bozoma was born in Connecticut to Ghanaian parents. She grew up moving frequently, including to Ghana and Kena, before settling down in Colorado. She was obviously Not White, but she was also not quite African-American, and not quite African. A foreigner everywhere.  I feel this.
  (resurfaced 13× · 27 likes · 2017-12-17 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/942444809528025088)
- selected selfies from 2014
  (resurfaced 13× · 22 likes · 2020-03-15 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1239097501421993984)
- Most casual players do not appear to have caught on to the true potential utility of Twitter, or perhaps they are indifferent to it.  A web of tweets is a living entity that allows players to meet, interact and engage with 1000s of others *at the level of individual thoughts*.
  (resurfaced 13× · 0 likes · 2019-02-10 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094699709027905545)
- 23. it is most preferable to do fuck-all
  (resurfaced 12× · 1,174 likes · 2022-04-01 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1510041270240313348)
- fucking is labor, fuckability is capital
  (resurfaced 12× · 1,122 likes · 2019-10-30 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1189379963142565888)
- our ancestors got picked off by megafauna, our peers get picked off by psychofauna
  (resurfaced 12× · 839 likes · 2022-11-05 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1588796630287147009)
- since I did one, I might as well do the other, so here's my latest overview of @FANswitchboard – this one clocking in at 750 words, which is basically a blogpost lol
  (resurfaced 12× · 591 likes · 2023-06-14 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1668994712806490112)
- 24. consider obeying the inscrutable exhortations of your soul
  (resurfaced 12× · 553 likes · 2022-04-03 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1510429955712200705)
- twitter has both the best and worst content in the world  like imagine you’re walking along a fair, and at one booth is the actual goddess Athena, and at the next booth is some crusty pervert covered in dried cum and Cheeto dust, replying to e-girls  and both have 220 followers
  (resurfaced 12× · 476 likes · 2019-10-13 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1183258446973419520)
- dusting off an old meme format
  (resurfaced 12× · 463 likes · 2022-01-28 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1487070434629586948)
- singaporean kid: ah, what a wonderful day, it sure would be nice to do some running and playing at my local playground  singaporean playground:
  (resurfaced 12× · 440 likes · 2018-10-17 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1052646128934502400)
- i'm very late to james baldwin
  (resurfaced 12× · 418 likes · 2022-07-25 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1551624690200084480)
- If you do a beautiful job of treating your own life as something sacred, other people who witness you doing it will notice. Not everyone. In fact most people won’t notice. But the small handful of people who notice will increase your power level unlike anything else
  (resurfaced 12× · 382 likes · 2019-08-12 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1160748905430040576)
- 2 guys I think about a lot: Dashrath Manjhi, who carved a path through a mountain. Jadav Payeng, who planted a forest. Each did it alone. Each took decades. I wonder, what will happen if I spend decades making friends + introducing them to each other? You may say I’m a dreamer...
  (resurfaced 12× · 357 likes · 2020-01-29 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1222569022241173504)
- this was a tweet about “people who are my type” but actually I realize it’s ex-everything. Ex-mormons, ex-smokers... it takes a certain courage to walk away from something that at one point meant a lot to you, and these people have both a lightness and a darkness about them https://x.com/visakanv/status/1302735438436687872
  (resurfaced 12× · 347 likes · 2020-09-06 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1302736109206601729)
- 28. dudes rock  (ig: borjacatanesi)
  (resurfaced 12× · 327 likes · 2021-05-29 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1398598544362070022)
- 1. we are almost always teaching people how we want to be interacted with  2. different people have different degrees of awareness re: (1)  3. different people have different degrees of control re: (1)  4. different people have different degrees of awareness about (2) + (3)
  (resurfaced 12× · 321 likes · 2020-12-25 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1342579258724511744)
- Much of self-improvement, personal development, introspection, etc can quite simply be reframed as the art of socialising with yourself. Listen to yourself, pay close attention to yourself, don’t interrupt yourself, be kind and supportive to yourself, be constructive in criticism
  (resurfaced 12× · 318 likes · 2019-03-27 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1110805822047571968)
- My favorite 'cold email' – in 1934, by Robert Pirosh, a copywriter who dreamed of becoming a screenwriter. This letter led to him becoming a junior writer at MGM, and 15 years later he won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for the war film Battleground.  I too like words 😍
  (resurfaced 12× · 283 likes · 2019-02-19 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1097753611579215872)
- Step 1 is you do an inventory. List out everything about your life. What are your possessions, relationships, behavior patterns, what is everything of consequence that comes to mind? What do you love? What do you hate? What torments you? List it all out. In writing. Look it over
  (resurfaced 12× · 282 likes · 2022-07-24 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1551102360587407360)
- Yes and: this was actually also possible before the internet, by writing letters, and I think that was the most egregious omissions from my education. But most educators are incompetent writers themselves so how would they teach you? You have to go searching yourself. https://x.com/tszzl/status/1642235428496461826
  (resurfaced 12× · 273 likes · 2023-04-01 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1642252483488808960)
- Each person might think the other person was being rude when they were really trying to be polite
  (resurfaced 12× · 263 likes · 2019-08-06 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1158594010144886784)
- The pattern I’m describing is -  1. start a relationship 2. enjoy the good times and good vibes 3. accumulate “debt” from bad times and bad vibes 4. fail to address the debt; either avoid it or mishandle it 5. ditch the whole thing to repeat the pattern with someone else
  (resurfaced 12× · 260 likes · 2018-12-24 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1077200738898522113)
- but now I realize the only thing that matters is finding True Artists and supporting and challenging them, and the bottleneck there is my own thinking, my own behavior  a summary:  2007: fuck everyone  2013: fuck you guys  2015: fuck Visa  2019: there is no fuck  😂
  (resurfaced 12× · 246 likes · 2019-07-23 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153724639467544576)
- the thing about the ongoing process of journaling that you cannot get from reading a book, etc is – your own relationship with your own writing changes over time. you read things you wrote that you thought were smart last year, but look stupid to you now. and vice versa
  (resurfaced 12× · 224 likes · 2019-01-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087430231227457536)
- "But I am very poorly today, and very stupid and hate everybody and everything." – Charles Darwin, to his friend Charles Lyell
  (resurfaced 12× · 219 likes · 2019-01-21 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087430867012612096)
- The most important person you have to be friends with is yourself
  (resurfaced 12× · 212 likes · 2019-07-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1149278711927078912)
- Haven’t posted a cat pic in a while. This is Little
  (resurfaced 12× · 179 likes · 2018-08-01 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1024529242892075008)
- intrusive thought: it might be necessary to teach people how to read
  (resurfaced 12× · 175 likes · 2021-10-06 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1445579629771718660)
- But I’m not trying to start a cult. I’m just trying to be more in tune with my own emotions, my own body, everything that constitutes my life. The funny thing is you can’t hide the glow when you do it right. When you do it right, there is a “charge”, and people are drawn to you
  (resurfaced 12× · 171 likes · 2019-08-12 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1160752494806327302)
- @fortelabs nobody will top this
  (resurfaced 12× · 159 likes · 2020-01-03 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1212952768891146242)
- “i want to set my pants on fire and do skateboard tricks”  “you shouldn’t do that” vs “how are you gonna do it? are you using an accelerant like lighter fluid? how do you plan to control the spread? do you have an extinguisher on hand?” etc
  (resurfaced 12× · 156 likes · 2021-10-02 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1444098347405479936)
- I think my core thesis (Visa's Bricks Idea) is that the graph paper format of presenting information is undervalued, underrated, underappreciated
  (resurfaced 12× · 155 likes · 2020-11-18 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1329093575649370113)
- capitalism never says “torture the workers” or “incite genocide in distant countries”. all it says is “maximize profits or we’ll replace you with someone else who does”. it’s a system that introduces plausible-enough deniability about the relationship between actions and outcomes
  (resurfaced 12× · 143 likes · 2018-12-07 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1070839474102235136)
- Whenever I come back to SG, one of the first things I gotta eat is Hainanese chicken rice. If I go too long without it I start losing a certain part of my identity. You gotta eat it in one of these neighbourhood coffee shops / hawker centers
  (resurfaced 12× · 138 likes · 2019-05-16 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1128937960278093826)
- 2. here is my quick-sketch summary of @Malcolm_Ocean's 2021 dream boat mashup post  https://t.co/3KCGsDP1Tb
  (resurfaced 12× · 131 likes · 2021-07-24 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1418978325687533574)
- The best things in life are often accidental or peripheral, and you can actually optimise for this
  (resurfaced 12× · 130 likes · 2019-01-29 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090390181427859457)
- Threading some notes from my latest reread of Pressfield’s War of Art (2002). I revisit it often in search of guidance and encouragement when working
  (resurfaced 12× · 119 likes · 2021-08-20 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1428740906992078863)
- TIL Ted Hughes used the voltage metaphor in the 1930s! (H/t @armandcognetta)
  (resurfaced 12× · 119 likes · 2019-08-05 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1158255514309971968)
- This is especially true for people with large follower counts (a lot of noise to sift through, and repetition to endure)...  ... and especially counter-intuitive ro people with smaller follower counts (never more than 20 conversations happening at once). https://x.com/robinhanson/status/961256991258705922
  (resurfaced 12× · 119 likes · 2018-02-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/961258189260914689)
- Hardcore social game: (even I don’t really do this 100% because I’m lazy)  1. Take the 100 or so people you know, identify the 5-10 people you aren’t talking to who you respect+admire  2. Talk to them, earn *their* respect, then ask for introductions  3. Repeat 2 indefinitely https://x.com/patio11/status/1159295669405913089
  (resurfaced 12× · 116 likes · 2019-08-08 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1159298483947364352)
- This is a sort of “basic life”, and if you live a good basic life that’s genuinely something to be proud of, IMO. There is so much cruelty and toxicity in the world - if you manage to avoid giving in to that, and you help someone out now and then, I love you and I’m proud of you
  (resurfaced 12× · 111 likes · 2019-03-31 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1112457967880671233)
- You know how some people get frustrated with all the store-bought options and so they make their own bread, or computer, almost from “scratch”, puttering and tinkering around in a messy junkyard, muttering to themselves?  I’m like that, but with meaning and identity
  (resurfaced 12× · 110 likes · 2020-08-21 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1296681648247828480)
- But when I look back now, the over-articulation seems to cloud the points I was hoping to make. I was sketching with too many lines.  To use fewer lines, though, you need to know precisely what lines to use. I don’t know of any clever way to get to that other than raw practice
  (resurfaced 12× · 106 likes · 2019-06-21 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142149533129818112)
- Me, aged 12, reacting to an anonymous hater
  (resurfaced 12× · 106 likes · 2018-05-24 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/999547614507905024)
- 🤔 magic is curiosity + attentiveness + persistence + willingness to revise and re-evaluate everything 🤔
  (resurfaced 12× · 96 likes · 2019-06-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1138286753142329344)
- Great post by @altimor with a useful coinage: the Tough Tomato principle. Tomatoes were bred to be tougher than “ideal” to withstand the industrial tomato-harvesting process. Incentive systems everywhere similarly create tough tomatoes in *all* sorts of contexts https://x.com/altimor/status/1122889823705083904
  (resurfaced 12× · 89 likes · 2019-04-29 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1122934435035238400)
- been talking to several SMB entrepreneurs lately and here are some of my observations
  (resurfaced 12× · 77 likes · 2018-04-19 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/986884223062556673)
- It's fascinating to me how you can see certain universal motifs across cultures:  Ai Aipec, the chief deity of the Mochica culture (Peru)  the Kirtimukha, face of glory, guardian of the threshold (Hindu)  Hannya, Japanese mask in Noh theater, common in tattoos  the Maori Haka
  (resurfaced 12× · 75 likes · 2019-09-25 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1176913881341448192)
- I think rather I’m motivated by a sort of fear. The world is changing pretty quickly. I’m not confident that my place in it is secure. I don’t have a particular ingroup or tribe that I trust to take care of me. So I need to build my own trust network, person by person
  (resurfaced 12× · 73 likes · 2018-10-05 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048025878909702144)
- Sometimes when life gets foggy, tumultuous and dark, I navigate via the buoys and lights that past-Visas set up for me. When the skies and seas are clear, I set up buoys for future-Visas. This has helped me rehabilitate a broken relationship with myself into something beautiful
  (resurfaced 12× · 68 likes · 2019-01-22 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087573029868122113)
- Also see Neal Stephenson's "Why I Am A Bad Correspondent"  > I am trying to be a good novelist, and hoping that people will forgive me for being a bad correspondent.  https://www.nealstephenson.com/why-i-am-a-bad-correspondent.html
  (resurfaced 12× · 67 likes · 2018-10-17 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1052496832155144194)
- my man michel figured out the problem with traditional schooling almost 500 years ago and we still here indoctrinating kids
  (resurfaced 12× · 59 likes · 2021-01-07 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1347154755827556356)
- All my best friends have kicked my ass
  (resurfaced 12× · 53 likes · 2019-01-15 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085043602516992000)
- the older I get, the more comfortable I am in saying that the LOTR character I most relate to is actually Gandalf
  (resurfaced 12× · 47 likes · 2019-02-23 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1099342568586805248)
- Sony's story begins with Masaru Ibuka [1908–1997]. He graduated from Waseda in 1993, worked in movie film processing, then served in the Navy as a researcher during WW2.  After WW2, he started a radio repair shop in the bombed out Shirokiya Department Store in Nihonbashi, Tokyo
  (resurfaced 12× · 45 likes · 2019-04-06 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114496257089650688)
- I have, in moments of quiet and darkness, contemplated Going Dark. Power is delicious! You can win, like, all the fights, by playing dirty!  But there is one problem with The Dark Side: and that is it is the Path Without Friends. And life without friends is not worth living
  (resurfaced 12× · 35 likes · 2019-07-06 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1147448209175748614)
- @callumflack Pic I took in-game: government imposes military authority and food rationing etc, but the people reject it violently because they found it corrupt and abusive. Crazier than what zombies do to us is what we do to each other when there are zombies at the gates
  (resurfaced 12× · 30 likes · 2018-08-25 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1033297365359194112)
- @drossbucket reminds me of closing paragraph of Rollo May's Man's Search For Himself, quoting Socrates:  "Whether such a city exists in heaven or will ever exist on earth, the wise man will live after the manner of that city..."
  (resurfaced 12× · 15 likes · 2022-06-20 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1538818781060866048)
- 1. ornamental ironwork https://x.com/visakanv/status/1064067881451712514
  (resurfaced 12× · 11 likes · 2019-04-05 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114153798065213441)
- Prophet: ok i'm gonna blow ur fuckin mind are u ready  Disciples: yes  Prophet: love people  Disciples: [writing down] be a cop, got it
  (resurfaced 11× · 1,451 likes · 2022-04-18 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1516107949764071430)
- if I could go back in time to witness one moment in musical history, this might be it
  (resurfaced 11× · 1,370 likes · 2019-02-07 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093508199389360128)
- these 15 seconds reveal that marie kondo is the complete opposite of what ~95% of her haters seem to assume she is
  (resurfaced 11× · 1,000 likes · 2019-01-21 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087300807005851649)
- I feel like “put yourself in the shoes of the people who have the ability to give you what you want, then work give them what they want” is still a dramatically underutilized frame for getting what you want. It applies to everything from dating to jobs. Foundational peopling 101
  (resurfaced 11× · 582 likes · 2019-11-25 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1198840906796785664)
- If you’re like me, keep meticulous notes of whatever you do when you’re procrastinating. I think of it as “deep-self-directed work”. If you’re going to watch trashy movies then write down your thoughts after watching each movie. It’ll come in handy in ways you least expect
  (resurfaced 11× · 397 likes · 2018-12-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1076192695666696192)
- a @sighswoon classic:
  (resurfaced 11× · 341 likes · 2021-10-11 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1447382162399920131)
- To me, this is a great metaphor for how to think about having a sound mind.  You can't have anything that's overly secured or tethered to anything – that then becomes a point of failure. Nothing can be too sacred. But that doesn't mean nothing *is* sacred. Rather, everything is!
  (resurfaced 11× · 340 likes · 2018-10-06 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048504769252216838)
- Meditated on it and I still find it funny  Disagreeable people come at me and try to get me to agree with them that disagreeableness is superior to agreeableness  and I don’t agree  The deeper you get into it the funnier it gets
  (resurfaced 11× · 331 likes · 2020-01-19 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1218720567026569216)
- @QiaochuYuan @Klockwerklime @bahstgwamt @AdmiralOPG @chaosprime @vinayaki_ @nuanceexists @selentelechia world: hi, welcome to the world. you have to pick a tribe  me: I choose everyone  world: then you just offend and upset everybody  me: [tearfully] I choose everyone
  (resurfaced 11× · 301 likes · 2020-06-07 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1269482528118673409)
- Feeling nostalgic: what are some articles, essays, blogposts etc that would go into a compilation called "the people's oral history of the internet"?
  (resurfaced 11× · 301 likes · 2019-01-21 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087384091287158785)
- Every group of friends incubates a nascent society. 99.999% of them fail to do anything with it. once in a few hundred years a bunch of bloggers and nerds create something like The United States
  (resurfaced 11× · 284 likes · 2021-04-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1384025282357563400)
- Pope Pius XII in 1950: “...the future of modern society and the stability of its inner life depend in large part of the maintenance of an equilibrium between the strength of the techniques of communication and the capacity of the individual’s own reaction.”
  (resurfaced 11× · 246 likes · 2023-05-30 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1663501301312016384)
- beginners are comparing themselves to Beyoncé  but it's important to know that Beyoncé herself would not have matched up to Beyoncé now  because Beyoncé now is not just Beyoncé, but Beyoncé with tonnes of experience and an entire team supporting her
  (resurfaced 11× · 214 likes · 2022-05-30 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1531311036770398208)
- It’s so difficult to go from being an underdog to being successful (happens to 1% of people?), and it seems so unlikely when you’re slogging, that... when they get successful, it seems like only 1-5% of *those* are able to adapt and reorient  What got you here won’t get you there
  (resurfaced 11× · 195 likes · 2019-08-28 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1166795590560186369)
- Been telling a few friends lately (was the topic of my previous tinyletter) about my sense that feelings are under-appreciated, under-considered, under-articulated, misunderstood, misrepresented - & all of that is a massive bottleneck. To be in tune with your feelings is sublime https://x.com/vgr/status/1158191381187137536
  (resurfaced 11× · 188 likes · 2019-08-05 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1158237672973824001)
- i know there's all sorts of nuance and blah blah about process and peer-reviews and replicability blah blah don't @ me
  (resurfaced 11× · 184 likes · 2018-12-31 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1079806916996489217)
- I humbly request my mutuals to stop quote-tweeting bad takes and bad examples of dumb people doing and saying dumb shit
  (resurfaced 11× · 166 likes · 2019-11-02 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1190500091582283776)
- 🚣‍♀️ row, row, row, your boat, gently down the stream~  ☺️ merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily...  [**Inception BWOOONG**]  💀👹🤡 LIFE IS BUT A DREAM 🤖👽👺
  (resurfaced 11× · 166 likes · 2018-08-04 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1025658466373758976)
- I've actually been thinking about this class of problem lately a lot on multiple fronts.  1. people are very bad at asking good questions in general  2. people are very bad at modelling other people's minds  3. as a consequence of 1 + 2, people are very bad at getting help https://x.com/visakanv/status/935373856054767616
  (resurfaced 11× · 160 likes · 2017-11-28 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/935377431917084673)
- 61. There is something profoundly *sick* about how systemic problems are atomized into personal failings
  (resurfaced 11× · 152 likes · 2018-12-27 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1078403099830546432)
- P: in fact, saying “if only I could be like X” is an excuse to not change. Like my wannabe-novelist friend, who wants to be a wannabe-novelist full of excuses, not a novelist who struggles and faces rejection  Y: wow, big mood
  (resurfaced 11× · 151 likes · 2018-09-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1037734197471797248)
- I often return to this talk by Liz Gilbert to contextualize this sort of thing for me: https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_your_elusive_creative_genius?view=transcript
  (resurfaced 11× · 140 likes · 2018-12-21 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1075975764900642816)
- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, interpreted by @zenpencils
  (resurfaced 11× · 138 likes · 2018-09-26 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044906258807967750)
- Have decided to revisit High Output Management because I believe it will improve my performance at Overcooked 2
  (resurfaced 11× · 137 likes · 2019-03-29 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1111709623143141376)
- I repeat... if you’re moderately good at articulating something, just enough to strike a nerve, people with relevant experiences and ideas etc will start telling you their stories and dramatically level up your understanding + ability to articulate it even better
  (resurfaced 11× · 134 likes · 2019-01-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1082395393646710784)
- Watching this is so cute and wholesome and I find myself thinking of that French-Iranian novelist... here. Marjane Satrapi https://x.com/mister_nobodya/status/1228576440574148608
  (resurfaced 11× · 129 likes · 2020-02-16 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1228865579273998337)
- Every time you go to sleep, your conscious self dies and slips into the ether, the realm between realms. Multiple ages pass in a night there, but you aren’t supposed to feel it. If you’re lucky, the reboot is successful, and the illusion of continuity holds. One day... it won’t.
  (resurfaced 11× · 129 likes · 2018-07-05 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1014924247414685696)
- also this cover of Hans Zimmer's First Step (from Interstellar) by @tusharlall02 is one of my favorite things to cry to while thinking about the splendor and despair of humanity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKILNbrWxBQ
  (resurfaced 11× · 120 likes · 2018-12-26 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1077748612392611840)
- "but what about Apple, they are are so stylish"  Have you ever seen what the Apple I looked like; it was just a motherboard. It didn't even ship with a keyboard, monitor, and case. You had to get those yourself
  (resurfaced 11× · 116 likes · 2019-03-14 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106136503808225280)
- 29. just discovered /r/enoughpetersonspam, where 31,000+ people voluntarily subscribe to posts about Jordan Peterson, including posts indicating shock at reddit suggesting that maybe they might be interested in Jordan Peterson
  (resurfaced 11× · 96 likes · 2020-10-22 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1319211330402840576)
- Nice  Here’s my #1 rec for @twitter: realize that quote tweets are a killer feature of your product. Add it as a separate part of notifications besides All and Mentions. And separate it from RTs. Ie make it “likes, RTs, QTs”. Sounds radical? It’ll push this game into hyperdrive https://x.com/patrickc/status/1136805365373231105
  (resurfaced 11× · 94 likes · 2019-06-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1137018856075976714)
- This desire, by the way, is how kids end up with bad company. Charming manipulators know how to appeal to a child’s desire for independence, desire to be seen. This is why kids date bad boys and get hideous tattoos. To exercise their *sovereignty*.
  (resurfaced 11× · 81 likes · 2019-03-06 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1103241632328048641)
- there have been like at least 5 instances where I say something, and people think it means I am Saying Something.  I get reactions like  "so you're saying..." "your point?"  Like... I don't know, guys. I'm just thinking out loud here. Why must everything Have A Point
  (resurfaced 11× · 78 likes · 2018-06-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1010461617752965120)
- “After long arguments we often found ourselves in the ludicrous position of each having been converted to the other’s side.” – Orville Wright  “I like scrapping with Orv. He's such a good scrapper.” – Wilbur Wright
  (resurfaced 11× · 74 likes · 2017-11-20 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/932526533301932032)
- I already have several aesthetics thread, but here's one that's like... *only* examples of art that I would like to *actually* print out and surround myself with to keep me inspired  so... @visakanv's refactored aesthetics, the 2019 thread
  (resurfaced 11× · 60 likes · 2019-06-29 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1145033028499955713)
- “Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.” ― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That #quotes
  (resurfaced 11× · 59 likes · 2017-07-21 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/888442009228148736)
- Cheap beers and grand schemes. "Few would stay the course." - #LKY http://t.co/ckfhb3r4Bu
  (resurfaced 11× · 56 likes · 2015-05-05 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/595539072870785024)
- Trauma is a full body experience
  (resurfaced 11× · 53 likes · 2018-04-05 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/981819020386054144)
- Who attended her salons? Some of her guests that you might recognize are: Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclar Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse.  Here's Gertrude in her Paris studio, with portrait of her that was painted by Picasso
  (resurfaced 11× · 38 likes · 2021-02-25 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1364899215151820802)
- Movies thread
  (resurfaced 11× · 35 likes · 2018-11-24 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1066222432195727360)
- 59. In this video I just fanboy about the moon for 2 minutes
  (resurfaced 11× · 32 likes · 2019-12-12 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1205145272411537409)
- "The truth is a matter of circumstance, it's not all things to all people all the time. And neither am I." - Black Widow, in The Winter Soldier
  (resurfaced 11× · 18 likes · 2018-03-03 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/970031924818321408)
- the stuff you joke about (even ironically or whatever) has a way of shaping your reality so be careful and deliberate with that stuff. a lot of people out here fumbling their own bags by joking about outcomes they don’t want. you might as well joke about the outcomes you do want
  (resurfaced 10× · 3,817 likes · 2021-05-18 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1394772091660951555)
- sometimes- quite often, really - the answer to the question of “but what if it hurts” is “then you suffer, lol”
  (resurfaced 10× · 1,177 likes · 2022-04-11 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1513380238641664001)
- inside every hot girl there is a skeleton
  (resurfaced 10× · 824 likes · 2021-02-11 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1359809766780899336)
- Bertrand Russell and George Orwell both had riffs on this: if you're precise about what you mean, and choose your words carefully, you end up improving language just by speaking and writing. This happens because other thoughtful players validate your choices as good ones
  (resurfaced 10× · 668 likes · 2022-04-17 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1515773253901746176)
- i am always pouring some love down the drain because i used to be a sewer rat who needed it
  (resurfaced 10× · 609 likes · 2023-03-17 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1636658389030666240)
- I've finally figured out how I want to present my best work. I'm starting with a pdf / ebook called FRIENDLY AMBITIOUS NERD. It'll be an edited + updated collection of my best threads and essays, released March 1st 2020.  You can pre-order it here: https://visakanv.gumroad.com/l/friendlynerdbook
  (resurfaced 10× · 584 likes · 2020-02-05 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1225025217237417987)
- found the vid, had to speed it up by 12% to fit Twitter's 2:20 limit  this is a great example of how to support masculine expression in a nourishing way  it's attentive, encouraging. Coach supports & challenges the boy to accomplish more than he could before. Increases his power
  (resurfaced 10× · 505 likes · 2021-07-26 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1419641744690278403)
- The urgent and important task of the philosopher is to wake up every morning and ask everyone, “excuse me, what the fuck?”
  (resurfaced 10× · 473 likes · 2020-12-08 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1336101316284669952)
- Too tired to exercise Too anxious to sleep Too stressed to relax Too broke to quit Too overwhelmed to focus Too many things on the schedule Too many overdue tasks Too many unmet obligations Too many unanswered emails Too much going on
  (resurfaced 10× · 452 likes · 2018-05-22 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998874965301575680)
- Meanwhile aspiring writerbros in my DMs: I have written two blogposts. Give me writing advice  Me: write 100 blogposts  Guy: no
  (resurfaced 10× · 429 likes · 2019-03-27 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1110937261141450755)
- had several conversations w/ friends who've been incapacitated by the burdensome bullshit obligation to Have A Meaningful Life / Be Remembered / Do Important Work  strikes me as socially inherited bloatware that causes tedious lag, which ironically prevents you from being awesome
  (resurfaced 10× · 382 likes · 2019-11-18 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1196386783337926656)
- There must be at least one guy whose two primary interests are Bodybuilding and Poetry  Who is he? I wanna hang out
  (resurfaced 10× · 333 likes · 2021-01-05 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1346363313597255681)
- sometimes when I say "I've been thinking about this for a long time", the reality of it is closer to "i've held on to this idea-lattice for a long time, and the ways in which it has degraded in my mind have revealed things to me"
  (resurfaced 10× · 287 likes · 2018-12-26 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1077763540470005760)
- some quick notes from a skim of a book that I obsessed about in 2011, Tor Nørretranders’ The User Illusion
  (resurfaced 10× · 286 likes · 2022-12-31 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1609195706837000193)
- Several conversations with several friends - and also the story of my entire life - is getting me to crystalize some thoughts  The most valuable thing I know is how to make friends  The most powerful + valuable thing I can do is teach it to other people
  (resurfaced 10× · 277 likes · 2019-07-11 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1149277421893373952)
- I've always been a fan of this "Soviet aesthetic". They had a certain appreciation for majestic elegance that I don't think I've seen anywhere else.
  (resurfaced 10× · 264 likes · 2018-01-20 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/954586088965734400)
- The amount of latent wealth sitting around my social graph is staggering to me. Some of you should dare and marry each other, but you don’t know it yet. Some of you should start companies together, but you don’t know it yet. Social media is still not even 1% *truly social*
  (resurfaced 10× · 263 likes · 2019-05-28 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1133293568632606721)
- she is my Mona Lisa... gonna figure her out eventually
  (resurfaced 10× · 261 likes · 2020-05-27 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1265621427849322496)
- i'm reflecting on how layered it is  1. there's some desire in ur heart 2. follow it, get burned. pain 3. create a barrier around the desire, lock it up 4. now feel cold, desolate 5. feel bad abt cold 6. beat self up for feeling bad 7. detach 8. ugh why am i so bored & listless
  (resurfaced 10× · 248 likes · 2022-01-17 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1483028090368688131)
- “Nothing I do is original”  Nothing is! Renaissance paintings are bible fanart. The bible itself was probably compiled and remixed from existing stories. Everything has predecessors, everything is a remix. You can’t make original things. But you can make interesting things
  (resurfaced 10× · 245 likes · 2019-01-24 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088358988457041920)
- I don’t know if I ever specifically set out to learn this, but Ive gotten pretty good at it over the years: I think giving people specific and sincere compliments is a pretty great skill to develop. It’s a the intersection of making people feel good + developing your taste
  (resurfaced 10× · 243 likes · 2019-03-17 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1107176307496894466)
- there's a limited amount of conversation space that most people operate in. you can actually pretty much survey, study and map out that entire conversation space, and "complete" it. it's actually pretty similar to say, learning all they scales and chords and keys in western music
  (resurfaced 10× · 236 likes · 2020-06-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1272796454818508805)
- Gonna do some reading and research into the history of Singapore(an) Indians, aka "my people". Mainstream oral/colloquial knowledge of this history is sparse, and I suspect that it's by design, because of a bunch of uncomfortable details. Let's see what we find out.
  (resurfaced 10× · 230 likes · 2018-05-26 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1000453353841688577)
- A thread of my favorite 2,000-year-old graffiti from Pompeii  Source: https://t.co/wPzPMvrYnO
  (resurfaced 10× · 229 likes · 2018-12-11 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1072436132221206528)
- Going through my old photos - it’s striking how much better I looked 2 months after leaving my job. I *wasn’t* eating better, I was eating junk every day. I wasn’t sleeping better, I was playing video games late into the night. I believe this is largely just lower cortisol levels
  (resurfaced 10× · 227 likes · 2020-03-12 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1238038427850772480)
- I vividly remember what it was like to be a child. I often turn to Maurice Sendak for quotes to help remind people who’ve forgotten
  (resurfaced 10× · 206 likes · 2020-10-06 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1313451625298554880)
- This is why - I’m totally serious - it’s important to have proper documentation and handover protocols.  I’ve seen local music and political and journalism scenes repeatedly stuck in the same small sad loops because nobody has the foresight  Play the 100 year game https://x.com/ssteinlubrano/status/1221583848745656321
  (resurfaced 10× · 187 likes · 2020-01-27 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1221730134157225985)
- "It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering.  [...]  Discourage an artist... you get absolutely nothing in return, ever."  http://www.zenpencils.com/comic/kevinsmith/
  (resurfaced 10× · 179 likes · 2018-09-29 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1046076507112779777)
- "The best advice is not to tell people what to do, but to ask them the right questions. Find out what's going on in their head, and help them frame that in a way that's useful." – @gtdguy  https://x.com/tferriss/status/1168904736227102720
  (resurfaced 10× · 161 likes · 2019-09-10 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1171417632852938752)
- There’s a spectrum from obvious cliché to incomprehensible gibberish and all the magic is in the turbulent sweet spot in the middle
  (resurfaced 10× · 160 likes · 2021-02-18 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1362284122542993408)
- https://x.com/Rahmeljackson/status/1331241180496089088
  (resurfaced 10× · 154 likes · 2020-11-24 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1331286528648122370)
- *fires up the twitter* There is an entire shadow world hiding in plain sight. Learning about this I think was more mind-boggling than learning about the scale and scope of the universe. It’s like social dark matter. Most people don’t see it and many never will
  (resurfaced 10× · 152 likes · 2018-12-15 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074016167759511552)
- Just realised I don’t have an “interesting aesthetics” thread. So here we go. Interesting aesthetics, a thread
  (resurfaced 10× · 149 likes · 2018-07-03 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1014054098075701249)
- children are naturals at being natural, but we socialize it out of them
  (resurfaced 10× · 148 likes · 2019-06-21 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142009018665164800)
- As a picky eater I had no experience in the kitchen. I didn’t know how to crack an egg 😂 I steeled myself by watching lots of beginner cooking vids on YouTube. Those strangers changed my life. It’s the little things. What do you do with your hands...? How do you hold a knife...?
  (resurfaced 10× · 144 likes · 2018-08-27 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1034171223121453058)
- It's all my fault and that's a good thing!  It's all my fault and that's a GOOD thing!  It's all MY fault and that's a good thing!  It's ALL my fault and that's a good thing!  IT'S ALL MY FAULT AND THAT'S A GOOD THING  IT'S ALL MY FAULT AND THAT'S A GOOD THING  GOOD THING  GOOD
  (resurfaced 10× · 133 likes · 2018-04-04 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/981666310961545217)
- So here’s how I think I think about it: a book is a sort of prosthetic. A book is a frame, put together by an author and her support team, a specific window, a specific lens, a particular way of seeing. The book is FOCUSING *FOR* YOU. Am I making sense?
  (resurfaced 10× · 128 likes · 2018-08-06 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1026294894627762177)
- I might be naive/ignorant here but - in my experience it always makes more sense to persuade individuals than to try to change big-picture narratives or “the zeitgeist”. in fact I think doing the former is the only way to properly do the latter
  (resurfaced 10× · 126 likes · 2019-02-09 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094368231723167744)
- Everything is a remix, everything can be further remixed
  (resurfaced 10× · 124 likes · 2019-03-28 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1111243430867296256)
- A comment on my YouTube channel - I’ll write a proper reply when I get to my computer, maybe even make a whole video about it - but basically “crazy amount of effort” is what it takes to get to anywhere worth going. If you saw my twitter at 800 followers you’d say the same
  (resurfaced 10× · 118 likes · 2020-04-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1249002205866151938)
- I think one of the most depressing discoveries I had was the realization that intellectuals can be bought and sold, almost like commodities
  (resurfaced 10× · 114 likes · 2018-09-05 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1037347602725974016)
- A todo list:  - learn the measurement of Milan - draw Milan - ask A how to square a triangle - ask B how the tower of Ferrera is walled - ask C how people in Flanders walk on ice - ask D how to repair a lock, canal and mill, Lombard-style - ask E for measurement of the sun
  (resurfaced 10× · 101 likes · 2018-04-13 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/984626355261259776)
- a flourishing scene is a context where people unblock each other at a tremendous rate https://x.com/__drewface/status/1425112141674303495
  (resurfaced 10× · 100 likes · 2021-08-10 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1425177433066463236)
- his middle name is kindred  this is a quote from Philip Kindred Dick
  (resurfaced 10× · 86 likes · 2022-02-19 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1494890168557322241)
- I quote from Pericles' Funeral Oration enough times that it makes sense for me to make a thread. [~431 BCE]  (Someday maybe I'll even work through multiple different translations and compare them to each other, but for now, I'll work with what I got)  https://t.co/QPoCToCNzz
  (resurfaced 10× · 84 likes · 2021-09-25 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1441713004534321152)
- @sharanvkaur now we have two problems
  (resurfaced 10× · 84 likes · 2021-06-11 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1403411304585392129)
- this guy Oleg Vladimirovich Losev invented LEDs decades before everybody else (in the 1920s) but nobody cared. he was a lonely nerd with no co-authors. wrote to einstein but didn't get a reply  https://web.archive.org/web/20110511132457/http://www.nanophotonics.org.uk/niz/publications/zheludev-2007-ltl.pdf
  (resurfaced 10× · 81 likes · 2020-11-26 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1331934998035742722)
- By being clear about *exactly* what he wants, no more and no less, Ogilvy develops an almost mythical level of freedom and independence. He can’t be bought. This mythical status makes people want him and his preciously genuine counsel even more.  *wipes tear* it’s beautiful
  (resurfaced 10× · 81 likes · 2018-11-11 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061714604844244992)
- One of my fav bits from Lewis Thomas, who was a science communicator / biologist watcher who influenced me a lot:  the biggest massive multiplayer game is *language*. We might not realise it but we are all shaping it, through all our utterances https://x.com/rivatez/status/1093761815870205952
  (resurfaced 10× · 78 likes · 2019-02-08 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093904552116477952)
- A friend once told me why he hates Winston Churchill  Friend has a shit relationship with his distant dad  Dad was raised by depressed, psychotic grandma  Grandma lost all her older children in Bengal famine of 1943  Churchill responsible for famine  So fuck Winston Churchill
  (resurfaced 10× · 78 likes · 2019-01-10 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1083174100497969152)
- trad guy in 2021: we live in a morally corrupt society, I wish we were more like the romans  trad roman guy in 79: we live in a morally corrupt society, I wish we were more like the ancients  https://t.co/A86bJklppv
  (resurfaced 10× · 75 likes · 2021-07-15 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1415508305204547584)
- Two of the most addictive yet engaging games I’ve played were both made by Firaxis games - Civilisation V and XCOM 2. “Eh, just one more turn” -> “damn, it’s 5am”
  (resurfaced 10× · 75 likes · 2018-08-28 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1034548501802143744)
- SG was occupied by the Japanese during WW2 (1942-1945)  - ~100,000 allied troops killed or imprisoned - Between 50,000 to 100,000 Chinese young men were rounded up and killed - people were decapitated; heads were put on pikes in the city, food was scarce, terrible conditions
  (resurfaced 10× · 74 likes · 2018-08-08 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1027257943522066432)
- I just feel like I'm never fucking good enough. Maybe I became an underperforming, lackadaisical underachiever to avoid dealing with that.
  (resurfaced 10× · 72 likes · 2015-01-17 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/556510038559186944)
- @spiritualpoet_ "Love tells me I am everything. Wisdom tells me I am nothing. And between these 2 banks, flows the river of my life." - Nisargadatta
  (resurfaced 10× · 72 likes · 2017-11-02 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/926221136505040896)
- fuck fixed mindset, all my homies hate fixed mindset
  (resurfaced 10× · 71 likes · 2020-07-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1281773357545869313)
- Time for a thread on sensitivity. My personal model of excellence involves 3 variables: sensitivity, smarts and strength. Most people intuitively know why it’s good to be smart and strong, but sensitivity is too-often framed as a weakness https://x.com/visakanv/status/1013257129585664001
  (resurfaced 10× · 70 likes · 2018-07-01 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1013264928143110147)
- A writer is a maniac who toils laboriously  to assemble a sequence of squiggles  that generate a parlor of hallucinations  in an attempt to jailbreak her own mind  out of the prison of her subvocalizations.  The wild thing is this actually works sometimes
  (resurfaced 10× · 69 likes · 2019-04-06 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114430321024311296)
- some recent search queries of mine:  marx engels friendship reddit jessica jones black panther ta nehesi comics mark hamill dave prowse thelastpsych narcissus planescape torment that was your first wish tron highway polyclinic sunday open war is worse than hell
  (resurfaced 10× · 66 likes · 2018-03-13 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/973487317863116801)
- Step 2: identify all the pages that you find interesting enough to want to revisit in the future  Step 3: create an index if you haven't already  Step 4: Highlight/emphasize the best/important stuff
  (resurfaced 10× · 61 likes · 2019-11-24 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1198512155546402816)
- Have you ever instantly developed a deep admiration for somebody for who they are as a person? I last felt this way about Barack Obama (even before he became POTUS44), and I feel similarly about Bozoma Saint John – Uber's current Chief Brand Officer. Her story is remarkable to me
  (resurfaced 10× · 53 likes · 2017-12-17 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/942443781684576256)
- @zoeyspells Fun fact: the original root meaning of the word "weird" is something like "powerful, one who controls fate". One of my favorite words. Wear it with pride! #weirdheart
  (resurfaced 10× · 50 likes · 2017-12-26 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/945757399985434625)
- Debbie Harry, singer of Blondie, 1976  Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad, 2016
  (resurfaced 10× · 45 likes · 2021-03-03 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1367075894615961600)
- a recap / overview of sorts of phase 2 of the VV hypertext universe
  (resurfaced 10× · 45 likes · 2020-06-11 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1271045725837602816)
- Facebook is going to be worth a trillion dollars one day, and on that day millions of people will quote JT's "You know what's cool?"
  (resurfaced 10× · 41 likes · 2015-11-05 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/662392717016567808)
- Practically everything is just a bunch of stuff. And the stuff is made up of other stuff, and there’s relationships between them. You take one thing and you fiddle around with it, try it in different contexts, move it up and down and turn it inside out and you start to understand
  (resurfaced 10× · 41 likes · 2018-11-30 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068612380567826432)
- 36. TIL that Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart were close friends. In 1933, they snuck out of a White House dinner in their gowns and slippers, and flew a Curtiss Condor biplane to Baltimore and back in 1933
  (resurfaced 10× · 39 likes · 2018-11-23 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1066087391939547136)
- Done!! yup needs some micro adjustments but this feels much better. No more dead space and now I can compare/contrast two vert things side by side easily
  (resurfaced 10× · 38 likes · 2023-01-11 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1613078685229395968)
- There are actually some very specific things that I do that reflect my self-as-assemblage, which might seem weird to some people, but I find very therapeutic https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087420081737355264
  (resurfaced 10× · 34 likes · 2019-01-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087568405245321219)
- I’ve blocked about 12 followers out of 8,000+ in 10 years on Twitter. Not counting bots or comically malicious people, but real people who were following me and even said nice and supportive things to/about me. It’s never a pleasant or fun thing to do and I think about it *a lot*
  (resurfaced 10× · 33 likes · 2018-12-22 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1076373429467500544)
- @sonyasupposedly Rip to non-survivors but I’m different
  (resurfaced 10× · 29 likes · 2020-06-26 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1276657651494137856)
- One of my fantasies/goals is to earn the right to have enough quality followers that I can get interesting responses to anything I ask.
  (resurfaced 10× · 26 likes · 2016-03-29 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/714762302269079556)
- Me, in a professional business context:
  (resurfaced 10× · 25 likes · 2018-11-08 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1060495463038636033)
- Being a polytribal weirdheart, a thread
  (resurfaced 10× · 22 likes · 2018-06-02 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1002832408033484800)
- Friendly Ambitious Nerds, poetry edition:  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (L) and William Wordsworth (R) were poetry bros in the UK, both born in the 1770s.  They formed a poetry group with their mutuals  Wordsworth hosted hundreds of visitors and became Poet Laureate of the UK
  (resurfaced 10× · 21 likes · 2020-05-22 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1263820468856840192)
- it's more complicated than that of course — but if you get it, you get it
  (resurfaced 10× · 14 likes · 2019-02-07 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093533013055393796)
- And "ctrl + alt + left cmd + left" lets me move windows across my monitors. All with one hand (other hand is filming this!)
  (resurfaced 10× · 10 likes · 2017-08-16 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/897684421708480518)
- Cloud, Shepard, Terra, Ark, and now Aloy - to me they all embody this idea that if you conduct yourself with decency and humanity, and help others, you can earn their gratitude and loyalty - and in the process collectively become something greater than yourselves
  (resurfaced 10× · 0 likes · 2018-05-04 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/992487552027246592)
- the most legendary comeback in fighting game history
  (resurfaced 9× · 3,971 likes · 2019-01-12 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084072016456515584)
- took me years to begin to understand that one of the most heroic things you can do is not hate yourself
  (resurfaced 9× · 1,117 likes · 2021-11-21 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1462346353862868999)
- Excited newbie: let’s do all the things!!  Grizzled veteran: we have limited time, energy, morale, goodwill. Keeping this in mind, let’s pick one demonstrably good thing we’re confident we can achieve, and get it done decisively so we unlock more resources to do more things
  (resurfaced 9× · 893 likes · 2019-04-02 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1113158107222253568)
- To the Asian kids who wonder if their parents might be nicer to them if they had achieved more in life: lately I’ve been hearing from my ultra-high-achiever friends that their parents guilt them with “oh, you very smart lah, you know everything, we stupid lah”  TLDR you can’t win
  (resurfaced 9× · 867 likes · 2018-11-20 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1064748620342161408)
- Always wack when you get to witness people learn something about themselves in public
  (resurfaced 9× · 774 likes · 2022-03-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1505087102215614468)
- @QiaochuYuan Christian Bale on Wall St bros loving Patrick Bateman
  (resurfaced 9× · 731 likes · 2022-10-11 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1579751011060969473)
- Some examples of my wife's improvisations over the years – she's fantastic at avoiding functional fixedness + seeing new ways of doing things hidden in plain sight. these are just the examples that I remembered to save for posterity
  (resurfaced 9× · 692 likes · 2018-05-08 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/993773481597714434)
- misunderstanding is the default state
  (resurfaced 9× · 542 likes · 2023-11-17 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1725338211080405382)
- George Washington:  1. Respect others 13. If your friend has lice, remove it privately 38. When visiting the sick, don’t play physician 41. “Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes” 46. Take all admonition thankfully 49. Use no reproachful language
  (resurfaced 9× · 530 likes · 2018-09-11 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1039499550262681601)
- I love to go on Twitch and look up people who are streaming with 0 viewers, and then say nice supportive things in the replies. They're always so excited and happy to have you, we both end up happy
  (resurfaced 9× · 514 likes · 2020-08-26 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1298655619268804608)
- Reflecting on my own life experience, I think reducing one's cowardice by half creates far more utility than tripling or quadrupling one's analytical intelligence
  (resurfaced 9× · 495 likes · 2020-03-27 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1243646457049223179)
- @selentelechia 🐨
  (resurfaced 9× · 460 likes · 2021-12-07 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1468285943178162177)
- There comes a point in your personal development where people will start telling you that you should stop being publicly honest about your self-assessment, for reasons ranging from “it’ll make people feel bad” to “it’ll come across as bragging”
  (resurfaced 9× · 391 likes · 2020-01-27 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1221915534280642560)
- 30. the nature of ambition, Grant Snider (@grantdraws)  https://t.co/iPfOacNVnH
  (resurfaced 9× · 335 likes · 2022-04-14 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1514538533687504896)
- tweets that changed my life
  (resurfaced 9× · 314 likes · 2020-07-20 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1285065905676840961)
- I don’t need an employer to give me burnout I can do it all by myself
  (resurfaced 9× · 296 likes · 2021-10-05 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1445329330305830915)
- “...in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. Two years later we ourselves made flights. This demonstration of my impotence as a prophet gave me such a shock that ever since I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions.” — Wilbur Wright
  (resurfaced 9× · 252 likes · 2023-06-25 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1672963345971040256)
- "haters gonna hate" – ben franklin
  (resurfaced 9× · 251 likes · 2019-05-24 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1131979347898691584)
- "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves." -Carl Jung
  (resurfaced 9× · 247 likes · 2011-12-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/150035672588238848)
- the more interesting qn to ask, compared to "how do you compete with smarter people", is "how do you win the love, trust, support & goodwill of smarter people, so that THEY are on YOUR side"  it's interesting how rarely anybody seems to ask this. i think about this all the time
  (resurfaced 9× · 239 likes · 2019-01-27 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1089600578651471872)
- saw a tweet that’s like (I paraphrase) “straight guys used to get to be more fashionably fancy but not anymore”  you can actually wear bold colours, jewelry and makeup etc at any time, and you’ll get loads of compliments and attention from women for it
  (resurfaced 9× · 232 likes · 2021-04-26 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1386567858780442628)
- 8. don't ask questions just consume product and then get excited for next products
  (resurfaced 9× · 217 likes · 2021-03-28 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1376129944602865668)
- I have a term I use for myself called "truth in boxes", which are the truths that are so powerful that we keep them locked away in boxes because otherwise they'll force us to re-evaluate the rest of our lives. Which can be exhausting. Typically we hit "remind me later" on these
  (resurfaced 9× · 206 likes · 2018-12-14 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1073502619711135744)
- @fortelabs Email @Conaw Dickpics Not Titpics  try forgetting that one
  (resurfaced 9× · 189 likes · 2020-09-21 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1308109084772560896)
- 🌹🌸🌷💐 unfollow me 💐🌷🌸🌹
  (resurfaced 9× · 184 likes · 2019-06-09 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1137584835982049281)
- thanks to @ollybot_browne I finally have a visual on what the @visakanv web of threads looks like  https://obrowne.eu/tweetGraph.html
  (resurfaced 9× · 178 likes · 2020-05-26 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1265199033628323840)
- project management is something that *isn't* super intuitive, because it's something that involves things that are bigger than what you might naturally do in a given day. The variance is massive. Some people dick around their whole lives, others build cathedrals and rocket ships
  (resurfaced 9× · 174 likes · 2018-10-31 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1057601960163991552)
- @Coscorrodrift @eigenrobot came to mind as a fun adjacent eg of something “one of us” would do
  (resurfaced 9× · 173 likes · 2021-07-03 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1411292692307349515)
- Wholesome https://x.com/baz00per/status/1049687758711730177
  (resurfaced 9× · 169 likes · 2018-10-11 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1050271813534605312)
- a king is a conduit for the honor of his people  a tyrant or weakling tries to hoard it personally, continually demands more adoration, dries it up with his neediness and impulsivity  a good king honors others in turn, artfully, and in so doing, keeps the “honor economy” flowing
  (resurfaced 9× · 163 likes · 2022-02-09 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1491252302870581253)
- very often when people talk about books (particularly true for intellectual twitter, imo), they frame it in terms of takeaways and learnings and insights  imo there's a whole other way of reading, and it's what I really love about books: that they present different ways of being
  (resurfaced 9× · 151 likes · 2018-10-09 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1049575906719617024)
- This guy Giovanni Vigliotto fraudulently married 104 women. He'd take their money and their belongings, promise to meet, then run away, selling their stuff at flea markets
  (resurfaced 9× · 144 likes · 2021-06-27 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1408970302520893441)
- Feel like doing a Margaery Tyrell appreciation thread. They really did my Queen wrong 😠 https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068511367919886338
  (resurfaced 9× · 140 likes · 2018-11-30 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068512797615484932)
- none of us needs to be happy, well-adjusted, mature, enlightened, etc all the time  we can *take turns*  we can take care of each other  we can sooth and comfort and challenge each other, lift each other up  the meaning of life is friends  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1022508497362071552
  (resurfaced 9× · 139 likes · 2019-12-11 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1204659189307457536)
- culture wars are partially downstream of the media-tech nation dropping paratrooper brainworms inside the OODA loops of those with fragile self-sense and people-sense, and recruiting them as cannon-fodder mooks into profitable-but-destructive psychofauna titan battles
  (resurfaced 9× · 136 likes · 2023-03-13 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1635344195996258304)
- OK so some context – Vic Wooten is a *phenomenal* bass player, considered by many to be the best in the world. He was raised by a musical family, and has a "music is a language, you should learn via osmosis" type of philosophy that I personally find very profound and affirming
  (resurfaced 9× · 135 likes · 2019-01-19 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1086666525778427904)
- I was watching the episode of @patriotact that's about fast fashion, and something struck me about the fake/parody/satire H-M store with giant posters of Hasan on the walls. There's something here about social strategy + slingshot theory + mere exposure effect
  (resurfaced 9× · 133 likes · 2019-11-26 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1199242031924596737)
- egragore?  oh, you mean the psychic megafauna
  (resurfaced 9× · 131 likes · 2021-08-20 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1428673107628154882)
- @nickarner I sometimes think of the ADHD mind as a Gatling gun - it takes a while to warm up, jams easily and is harder to aim, but once you appreciate its idiosyncrasies you can use it effectively
  (resurfaced 9× · 130 likes · 2018-12-21 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1076198966138527744)
- "Can I know you?" "Will you be my friend?" "I think I've fallen in love with you" are all selfish, short-sighted, things to say that force the other person to do all the work of figuring out the relationship you're trying to establish.
  (resurfaced 9× · 130 likes · 2017-11-28 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/935378408472580096)
- This is what draws me to philosophy and marketing. Software engineers say things like “wow you can make stuff with code just by thinking it and typing it” yes and!! have you tried reimagining your entire reality. Wild
  (resurfaced 9× · 129 likes · 2018-10-05 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048058503628120064)
- ~600 years later lived al-Khwarizmi, who was the astronomer & head librarian of the Baghdad house of wisdom. He popularized algebra, algorithms are named after him. He improved on Ptolemy's maps. That's the @RoamResearch logo in his hand. The USSR commemorated his 1200th birthday https://x.com/visakanv/status/1210871220373086210
  (resurfaced 9× · 126 likes · 2020-04-14 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1250114648558297088)
- @QiaochuYuan if we can get more men to do this, and help each other with it, I honestly believe that we can *truly* heal the world
  (resurfaced 9× · 119 likes · 2019-12-10 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1204445182051045376)
- I was like this myself (picky eater) until I enlisted in the army and had no choice but to eat unfamiliar food or starve  Then I decided to teach myself how to food, and it was a very intimate and personal journey  I have a lot of sympathy for picky eaters. It isn’t easy https://x.com/badgaizak/status/1033539211943657473
  (resurfaced 9× · 114 likes · 2018-08-27 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1034168194309677062)
- Singapore is older than people think. It's an island-city along a major global shipping/trading route! (LOCATION!) It was part of the Srivijaya & Majapahit empires, claimed by the Siamese, Javanese, then Malacca and Johor. You can see "Cingapura" in this Portuguese map from 1619
  (resurfaced 9× · 111 likes · 2018-08-08 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1027225263694737408)
- two of my favorite poems *ever* written:  Good Bones, by @maggiesmithpoet  Partition, by @asgharthegrouch
  (resurfaced 9× · 107 likes · 2018-09-24 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044175188819009536)
- In particular I am inspired by Chrysippus of Soli, who died laughing at his own joke. A legend
  (resurfaced 9× · 102 likes · 2018-12-28 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1078746638204588033)
- me: everybody should make friends and help each other out!  friends: visa you are right... and you have been so helpful... you look like you need help, let us help you  me:
  (resurfaced 9× · 101 likes · 2020-12-22 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1341250992071876609)
- me: I'm tired of discussing politics with you guys. I'd rather meet and talk with the prime minister.  my friends: that's so fucking cocky and arrogant of you lmao why the fuck would he want to talk to you  me: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'll figure it out
  (resurfaced 9× · 100 likes · 2021-01-06 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1346896563335876609)
- The Moscow Metro:  Belorusskaya Station (built in 1938)  Komsomolskaya Station (1952)  Taganskaya Metro Station (1950)  Mayakovskaya Station (1938)
  (resurfaced 9× · 100 likes · 2018-09-30 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1046384807985307648)
- "We were about to play Fake Happy for Good Morning America– one of the anchors comes up and she goes "Well this is a song I relate to!" and i was like, 'It's real!! these people are miserable, but they represent us everyday, and they have to look so happy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cbq968JoFU
  (resurfaced 9× · 97 likes · 2019-07-21 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1152893067386507265)
- I've been watching Into The Spider-Verse repeatedly over and over again lately, and I think one of my favorite things about it is how it articulates the Leap of Faith (might be a Kierkegaard reference)  How do you know it'll work out? You won't! Welcome to life
  (resurfaced 9× · 96 likes · 2019-07-17 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1151475928834252800)
- Morning! Thinking about my personal experiences of and with “privilege”. I think in my personal life, with this as with many other things, I have often found myself having received both the short and long ends of the stick, sometimes seemingly simultaneously
  (resurfaced 9× · 91 likes · 2019-03-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1107808770489409536)
- I love hearing about military leaders who are sensitive and empathetic, adored by their men. This is #goals and it's reminding me of the handful of high-functioning men who inspired me during my own military stint https://t.co/N5ttDHVhcD
  (resurfaced 9× · 91 likes · 2018-11-17 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1063755272672276481)
- updated my Hire Me page! I'm ready to take on more clients for marketing consulting:  https://t.co/nKmJE0xqln
  (resurfaced 9× · 89 likes · 2022-08-18 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1560096674777034752)
- when playing Paperclip Maximizer, it dawned on me that capitalism is already a sort of indifferently-destructive AI, kinda https://x.com/cyrilsam/status/1070286561646768128
  (resurfaced 9× · 89 likes · 2018-12-07 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1070837614918266880)
- "How do I build more intimate relationships with people" is a very important question I don't hear many ppl talk abt https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/how-friends-become-closer/538092/
  (resurfaced 9× · 89 likes · 2017-09-03 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/904358262555926528)
- Me, with love, looking at u being back on ur bullshit again
  (resurfaced 9× · 85 likes · 2019-06-21 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142003077894946817)
- the tool should fit the user
  (resurfaced 9× · 85 likes · 2018-12-31 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1079695290418876417)
- inside you there are two wolves. they’re gay. they’re in love. two happy gay wolves
  (resurfaced 9× · 84 likes · 2020-10-08 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1314096222592921601)
- You may have seen me wearing this - I bought it from this older man in SF who spent his youth travelling through Morocco, Egypt, etc. We talked for 20 mins about art & passion & love. He’s one of me.  Talismans are simply objects with stories that are meaningful to you
  (resurfaced 9× · 83 likes · 2019-06-12 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1138662495080439808)
- You know how some people say “oh I’m so random haha I like a bit of everything”? It’s 99% bullshit. I was sort of like that. Except I wrote everything down. After about 500,000 words you realize you repeat yourself and run out of things to say. Random is a comforting illusion
  (resurfaced 9× · 81 likes · 2018-08-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1026301560668581889)
- the thing I love about a good idea is that, when it makes it into your brain, all the other ideas, as well as a large set of memories, all get excited and rush over to meet it, and there's this big huddle and everyone starts re-examining themselves & reconsidering their existence
  (resurfaced 9× · 80 likes · 2018-10-03 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1047383804761989120)
- Gustave Eiffel built the Eiffel Tower in 1889, for the World's Fair.  If you look at his earlier work, you can kinda trace the evolution of his style:  Bourdoux bridge (1860) Maria Pia Bridge (1877) Garabit Viaduct (1884) Colbert Bridge (1888)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Eiffel
  (resurfaced 9× · 78 likes · 2020-04-16 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1250602535632568320)
- none of my tweets are as impressive as the fact that I *kept at it*
  (resurfaced 9× · 75 likes · 2021-02-27 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1365686879195000832)
- Emily understood this
  (resurfaced 9× · 74 likes · 2021-10-15 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1448809487293292546)
- If you only have 5 minutes to check out Singapore, I might have to recommend a walk down South Bridge Road. I’m not sure if there’s anything like if in the world  - Indian food - a Muslim mosque - a Hindu temple - a Buddhist temple - Chinese shops - shophouses - corporate towers
  (resurfaced 9× · 74 likes · 2018-07-25 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1022076187168759808)
- have some butt
  (resurfaced 9× · 65 likes · 2019-01-10 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1083361123426942977)
- A caricature of Johnson by James Gillray mocking him for his literary criticism; he is shown doing penance for Apollo and the Muses  IMO, if you want to ascend into legend GOAT status you have to accept that this not only comes with the territory, it's part of the actual process
  (resurfaced 9× · 63 likes · 2021-12-25 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1474859084968906753)
- “Boys die by violence and accidents at many times the rate that girls do. They drive too fast, get into fights, haze each other, play sports, join fraternities, drink too much and gamble with their lives in a milllion idiotic ways.”
  (resurfaced 9× · 62 likes · 2018-04-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988416423159521280)
- I love african facebook way more than american facebook
  (resurfaced 9× · 58 likes · 2018-03-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/971482153308467200)
- “This is the contradiction behind so much mental activity in the West. We love money and what we imagine it can buy, and at the same time we are haunted by a fear as old as Achilles: surely there most be some value that is beyond buying and selling, something beyond exchange.”
  (resurfaced 9× · 57 likes · 2019-04-20 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1119658928353054720)
- can we collaborate? can we labor together? or can we not? this might be the most fundamental question for human beings
  (resurfaced 9× · 55 likes · 2022-04-15 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1514834076292694022)
- "your duty as someone further along will always be to productively process the pain forged by others, for you must own the hefty responsibility of one who nurtures an empathetic perspective on the viral nature of trauma itself"
  (resurfaced 9× · 54 likes · 2018-09-20 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1042771248869138432)
- The separation turns out to have been an illusion!! And an illusion that was costly to maintain!! Because it takes more effort to remember 5 seemingly different things than 1 thing with 5 minor variations. But you have to see the pattern first before you can cut the knot
  (resurfaced 9× · 51 likes · 2018-12-01 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068931555001720832)
- It's been a while since I've been really captivated by an idea, but the one that's got me hooked right now is the idea that jokes are social – they perform social functions, they sustain social orders. They establish identities and boundaries, they alienate and assimilate
  (resurfaced 9× · 51 likes · 2018-10-03 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1047381266281025536)
- (Black Panther, Charles and Erik in X-Men, the Infamous games, celebrity culture...)  Once you strip away the most cartoonish feel-good heroes and comically-bad “just wanna wreck shit” villains, the difference between heroes and villains is their attitude towards The People
  (resurfaced 9× · 50 likes · 2018-07-22 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1020906022142005248)
- informalize thread https://x.com/visakanv/status/1358496881572073474
  (resurfaced 9× · 47 likes · 2021-02-09 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1359005127789604864)
- never forget how you started
  (resurfaced 9× · 46 likes · 2020-03-22 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1241699995671117825)
- @djmicrobeads @alt_visa i feel like one of the ways in which i am a good person and a good loser is, if someone kicks my ass, i make sure to say, damn, well played. u kicked my ass
  (resurfaced 9× · 39 likes · 2018-10-31 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1057602603792523264)
- 27. Test Drive
  (resurfaced 9× · 35 likes · 2019-01-21 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087333451789873152)
- me, in a dream: *searches “online” for food, finds 2016 photo of friend eating prata*  me: yo can I have some of that  friend: this?? this is years old, man, wouldn’t it be gross?  me: I’m dreaming, time has no meaning  friend: oh ok  me: *wakes up* fuck, that was a cool line
  (resurfaced 9× · 34 likes · 2019-02-18 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1097295428347846661)
- June 2015, possibly the best picture I've ever taken – my cat climbing up to the top of a cupboard and then falling off. My wife calls it "fuckery in motion".
  (resurfaced 9× · 34 likes · 2017-11-15 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/930754379292069888)
- re: the Islamic Golden Age, Baghdad  https://roamresearch.com/#/app/visakanv-public/page/dZTMadHhn?help
  (resurfaced 9× · 30 likes · 2020-04-14 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1250108651454382080)
- @djmicrobeads @default_friend
  (resurfaced 9× · 29 likes · 2020-01-19 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1218708394292305920)
- Beneath the floor of the comparatively neat dwelling that we call our consciousness lie unsuspected Aladdin caves  Here there be jewels and jinns, inconvenient or resisted psychological powers that we have not thought or dared to integrate into our lives
  (resurfaced 9× · 28 likes · 2019-06-13 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139131983236173829)
- "Tropes That Move Visa To Tears" Thread
  (resurfaced 9× · 27 likes · 2017-12-25 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/945244051594346496)
- The Atlantic has really cornered the "the monster is in your pocket" niche
  (resurfaced 9× · 27 likes · 2017-08-06 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/894249257397612548)
- Oddball confession: one of my first life-shaping experiences on the Internet was lying on a video game forum (Darkstone, Delphine Software). Somebody joked that they got “Helm of the Arse Gods”, and I lied and said I got it too. I was like... 8. Everyone cringed and laughed at me
  (resurfaced 9× · 23 likes · 2018-09-01 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1035971726062972928)
- all of the above, in greater detail. always a work-in-progress https://docs.google.com/document/d/1URsFlzlknvmaSunLozmT60N0ZpsqWCQkVY4ygXhe50s/edit
  (resurfaced 9× · 20 likes · 2022-01-08 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1479641459556904961)
- the year is 2045. @stewart is still trying to make a decent goddamn video game. he has now sold his 4th company for five trillion dollars, built from the wreckage of yet another failed games studio.
  (resurfaced 8× · 1,553 likes · 2020-12-01 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1333917634794987520)
- In my alternate universe, any child that reads books under the desk at school is given a full scholarship to do whatever they want. If they want, they get to skip regular school and hang out in the library with all the other self-directed nerds. Some elder nerds loosely supervise
  (resurfaced 8× · 1,424 likes · 2019-11-27 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1199621578280988673)
- Francis Bacon, Of Discourse  - don’t be tedious - let other people talk - if someone is hogging, cut him off - ask questions that people can look good answering - don’t be a poser with smartass questions - don’t bitch about others - eloquence is overrated - It’s Not About You
  (resurfaced 8× · 1,130 likes · 2018-09-11 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1039497179939856384)
- My last two active neurons every night
  (resurfaced 8× · 970 likes · 2022-12-22 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1606034656775634944)
- Notice Gallwey’s story about the high-agency business exec who couldn’t seem to control his arm  Notice how he learned more in ten minutes of non-judgemental observation than in 20 hours of pro lessons
  (resurfaced 8× · 632 likes · 2023-10-04 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1709431837800775891)
- "Women aren't funny"
  (resurfaced 8× · 560 likes · 2018-03-17 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/974891484968185856)
- “I will not be cruel to anybody (including myself)” is a starting prompt that will have you making small modifications at the start and remodeling your entire life and worldview over a few years
  (resurfaced 8× · 541 likes · 2022-08-26 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1562980325805793280)
- each person is on a different trajectory  sometimes, for some period of time, a group of people find themselves in the same vicinity. they feel like peers. they have shared challenges, can relate to each other  but it doesn’t last. eventually they diverge
  (resurfaced 8× · 518 likes · 2022-03-10 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1501908459553316868)
- The cigarette is one of mankind's most compelling conceptions - all at once a surrogate for a mother's breast, a phallus, a meditative act of breath control, a ritualized burning of sacred fires, done in private or with others; a subscription box of Death
  (resurfaced 8× · 507 likes · 2017-12-15 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/941558671368011777)
- "think precisely about what kind of life you want" might sounds like some sort of upper-middle-class luxury fantasy privilege thing to a lot of people, but it's also recurringly *the* thing that I've heard from everyone who broke out of terrible circumstances
  (resurfaced 8× · 473 likes · 2021-05-31 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1399346872259551233)
- I think the big secret of social life is that everybody loves to make a great introduction. If you can become someone that people love to introduce to to other people, you're "in the green" socially. Everybody loves to introduce a great hire, romantic partner, friend, co-founder
  (resurfaced 8× · 383 likes · 2019-03-24 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1109884286247682048)
- This is a good place to start a Thread of Insightful Threads.  This particular one is about how seemingly decent people can support cruel policies: it’s partially because they assume it will be implemented fairly, and that exceptions will be made when and where appropriate https://x.com/alexandraerin/status/1004400861865488384
  (resurfaced 8× · 364 likes · 2018-06-07 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1004769872805367808)
- them: nobody can do what you're suggesting  me: well what if they first do A, B, C, D  them: nobody does all of that  me: ah you're not actually... you don't actually care about what is possible, you're just giving me your 1-sigma heuristics  them: nobody says 1-sigma heuristics
  (resurfaced 8× · 356 likes · 2021-11-26 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1464252035625148421)
- I wanna talk about one of my favorite Quora answers, written in 2015 by David Rose to the question, "Why are there crushed stones alongside rail tracks?" It's an interesting answer about an engineering problem but I got a really deep, fundamental mental model upgrade out of it
  (resurfaced 8× · 342 likes · 2018-10-06 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048488148295081984)
- Fun with stats:  There are 4 people in the world. Alice, Bob, Charles and Denise  Alice and Bob are happily married  Charles and Denise have gotten married and divorced 4 times  In this world, 80% of marriages lead to divorce
  (resurfaced 8× · 331 likes · 2020-05-25 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1264769715022385152)
- you can totally study ethics to learn how to be a more effective evil person
  (resurfaced 8× · 325 likes · 2020-12-14 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1338342567696424960)
- to me, it is risky to not have:  - alt models of reality - alt sources of meaning - alt scenes and social graphs to hang out in - alt identities - alt jobs/income sources  they don't teach *any* of this in school, & people end up depressed, suicidal, abusive... it's insane to me
  (resurfaced 8× · 322 likes · 2019-08-18 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1163192219727089664)
- I sometimes joke that if you wanna play like hendrix you gotta dress like hendrix  it's not really a joke; aesthetic resonance is real. doesn't really matter where you start- but if it's legit, it touches everything you do https://x.com/visakanv/status/1151568182219440129
  (resurfaced 8× · 297 likes · 2019-12-09 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1203917207673044993)
- in reality scenes seem to need like, idk, 2 dozen people  you need the conflict and collaboration and one-upmanship to push people far out of homeostasis
  (resurfaced 8× · 291 likes · 2019-07-23 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153709363078373377)
- this sounds like a smartass tweet but I'm totally serious  you can't win if you lose  so learn to not lose  most major failure conditions are avoidable with a little bit of foresight, planning, study, etc etc. just analyze failures and don't do/be that
  (resurfaced 8× · 266 likes · 2020-08-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1294904026815819777)
- 💡! you don't actually need to "know" what you want in order to do what you want
  (resurfaced 8× · 260 likes · 2022-01-29 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1487347313022361604)
- everyone gets “stuck” when they are  1. unwilling or unable to define the problem 2. unwilling or unable to solicit the right feedback 3. unwilling or unable to integrate it  it’s recursive all the way through, all the way up and down  that’s “all” there is to anything
  (resurfaced 8× · 257 likes · 2021-06-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1405023839256399874)
- Historical fun facts https://x.com/treasurexgoblin/status/1031634336020344832
  (resurfaced 8× · 251 likes · 2018-08-22 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1032176011889111041)
- this is a slightly weird thing to say but this picture of Krishna and Radha from my mum's Facebook stopped me in my tracks because it seriously reminds me of my wife and I (body language)
  (resurfaced 8× · 245 likes · 2018-09-20 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1042906390140866561)
- Nietzsche was the Kanye of 1800s philosophy
  (resurfaced 8× · 242 likes · 2021-08-05 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1423389665634099201)
- A thread of my favorite tweets on this hellscape of a website https://x.com/smithsara79/status/940257849212620800
  (resurfaced 8× · 240 likes · 2018-05-04 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/992404030956556288)
- when you see the beauty in your imperfections. your stutter, your accent, your slouch, your squint, your posture, your gait – every aspect of you is a sacred manifestation of the story of your life, every dissonant horn and screeching string is crying out to tell the story of you
  (resurfaced 8× · 238 likes · 2021-07-26 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1419805409443942410)
- one day starbucks will shake off their shabby disguise as a coffeeshop and reveal their true form as interstellar currency
  (resurfaced 8× · 236 likes · 2021-03-01 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1366467240938246144)
- 49. too busy
  (resurfaced 8× · 224 likes · 2023-06-24 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1672471218015076352)
- I am always thinking about this tattoo by Manu Farranon. It is one of the most perfect things I have ever seen in my life
  (resurfaced 8× · 217 likes · 2021-12-07 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1468358180686086147)
- When I asked a friend about her dating life, she said "every car I've been in has a different vibe, each is a brief little universe that I share with a man I maybe could've loved" and I think about that a lot  she should write novels  she is a dentist, you'll never hear of her
  (resurfaced 8× · 199 likes · 2019-01-17 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085726245646610435)
- disco
  (resurfaced 8× · 198 likes · 2018-04-01 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/980401956979073024)
- This might be naive of me but I still believe in the promise of the internet that I encountered as a young boy – the simple idea that you can create a nice little virtual corner of your own, and you can build out a beautiful and exciting network of correspondence from there
  (resurfaced 8× · 178 likes · 2018-12-13 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1073127552347033601)
- I fucking have it 🔥. every phrase in this is carefully chosen, and expands like a flower into full chapters downstream. we are in the endgame now 🔥🔥
  (resurfaced 8× · 173 likes · 2021-10-07 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1446154770612244481)
- a lot of the value I get out of a book is not WHAT an author says, but HOW they say it  alan watts' cheekiness feynman's joyful curiosity bourdain's sensitivity winterson's radical honesty lewis thomas's sense of awe and splendor sagan's expansiveness randy pausch's warmth
  (resurfaced 8× · 170 likes · 2018-10-09 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1049579132495921152)
- look, my book seems like its slow when you think about how it's a bunch of text being edited, but it's actually going really fast when you think about how it's me revisiting and reprocessing every single traumatic moment in my life
  (resurfaced 8× · 165 likes · 2021-12-08 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1468722857215598592)
- It’s always surprising to me that people think it’s hard to get kids to read. Sure it is, if you make it a burden and a tedious obligation. I read books because it was intoxicating to walk through the mind-palace of somebody who cared about me. Kids are starving for this feeling
  (resurfaced 8× · 159 likes · 2019-03-06 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1103240849821855744)
- I notice a thing in my media consumption patterns where sometimes there's something I want to watch or read or learn more about, but it doesn't really happen until something else "softens the ground".  Eg: I've vaguely wanted to learn more about Miles Davis for a few years now
  (resurfaced 8× · 147 likes · 2020-04-16 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1250907759341518848)
- 16. I strongly believe that almost everything that exists should have someone’s name on it. I love that Steve Jobs got the original Mac team to sign the case. People should be proud of what they put into the world. If nobody wants to put their name on it, it shouldn’t exist.
  (resurfaced 8× · 147 likes · 2018-05-10 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/994556460553007104)
- John Yudkin, figured out that excessive sugar is bad, wrote a book titled “Pure, White and Deadly” - had his career hamstrung for it, and died before the world got around to properly internalizing his findings (we’re still working on it) https://t.co/M1p35DYxjS
  (resurfaced 8× · 146 likes · 2018-10-16 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1052054841436991489)
- China
  (resurfaced 8× · 142 likes · 2019-01-27 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1089384846202302464)
- It takes *everything* to learn to love in a way that you weren’t taught
  (resurfaced 8× · 137 likes · 2019-03-30 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1111898832013410305)
- starting to think that any department of philosophy that isn’t at least 50% staffed by children is bullshit  https://x.com/grahamvsworld/status/1244716625510555648?s=21 https://x.com/grahamvsworld/status/1244716625510555648
  (resurfaced 8× · 134 likes · 2020-03-31 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1244844064341495808)
- not my business to tell other people how to live their lives  but if you're curious: I feel like lots of people mis-distribute their seriousness  too serious about things you don't have to be serious about  not at all serious about things you *ought* to be serious about  😂🤔
  (resurfaced 8× · 129 likes · 2019-02-07 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093552400453885958)
- super in love with @morganhousel's description of this phenomena https://collabfund.com/blog/you-have-to-live-it-to-believe-it/
  (resurfaced 8× · 125 likes · 2019-04-11 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1116281250195501057)
- I once was at a Hindu temple and witnessed two families yelling and shoving over who got to get blessings first. It was the funniest thing. These people earnestly believing that the Infinite Being Of The Cosmos is handing out goodies that you can legit wrestle from one another
  (resurfaced 8× · 124 likes · 2018-04-04 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/981642679669866496)
- Industrial Revolution paintings are some of my favorite paintings. Like the Satan's Anus version of Starry Starry Night. You kind of begin to see where Tolkien got his idea for Mordor.
  (resurfaced 8× · 118 likes · 2017-11-21 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/932884349250179072)
- lets say I want to learn about swords and become a Sword Guy. well, okay. who are the Sword people? what are the Sword communities? this is actually a funnily difficult example but it probably means I got the wrong word. but hey, there are a couple of sword shops in my city
  (resurfaced 8× · 116 likes · 2021-03-07 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1368464903695003648)
- “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” – Samuel P. Huntington
  (resurfaced 8× · 116 likes · 2019-02-01 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1091294137108750337)
- I've actually written about this several times in my own journal(s) as "execute the jailbreak". Everyday life is a kind of psychic prison; breaking from it requires finesse. You're unlikely to be able to do it by chance. You have to know the blueprint, the layout, the guards...
  (resurfaced 8× · 114 likes · 2019-03-14 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106233185279447040)
- I have a terrible memory.  But it doesn't matter.  Because I have great friends.
  (resurfaced 8× · 113 likes · 2019-12-11 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1204656484480503808)
- This radical contrast informed his economic pedagogy. Learning economics is like learning a language; it’s important to start slowly and see each idea in multiple contexts. “If you find this way of learning superior, tip your hat to my Nepali language Instructors.”
  (resurfaced 8× · 112 likes · 2018-08-25 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1033337892096028673)
- there’s something profound about this- how these ideas and images spread, become identities... this feels like a parallel to how the pantheon of ancient gods must’ve evolved, via word-of-mouth. Wish Campbell, Jung, McLuhan etc could’ve lived to see this play out https://x.com/shukeiart/status/1297980272328282112
  (resurfaced 8× · 110 likes · 2020-08-26 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1298512291785302017)
- Marie Kondo: I kept trying to throw things away, I had a kind of nervous breakdown and fainted  some god of tidying: focus your time and energy on what you want to see more of
  (resurfaced 8× · 109 likes · 2021-09-10 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1436394176728289280)
- If you’re playing the public twitter game you gotta know what you’re optimising for, or you’ll likely get swept up in other people’s nonsense. In my case I’m optimising to make thoughtful+kind+interesting friends around the world. I think I’m doing pretty good so far
  (resurfaced 8× · 108 likes · 2018-10-23 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1054714673281556480)
- Googled “manifest destiny” and was tickled to find this painting by John Gast: American Progress (1872). That’s Columbia, she was a personification of the USA who predated Lady Liberty... and SHE’S LAYING TELEGRAPH CABLES!! And also driving the indigenous people off their land
  (resurfaced 8× · 107 likes · 2019-08-06 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1158662647664877568)
- This isn’t about a recent thing but I just got reminded about how sometimes depressed dudes argue with me in a strangely earnest and hopeful sort of way. It’s kiiiind of a “suicide by cop” energy, where you find a kind person to be annoying to until something gives
  (resurfaced 8× · 105 likes · 2019-11-16 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1195564374196252672)
- @nickcammarata @metaphorician @metaLulie wait hold up. all day you're talking to your parts? can we get a monologue demonstration?
  (resurfaced 8× · 103 likes · 2021-06-11 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1403417058822344708)
- When you put something out in the public realm, the reaction is something like:  80% ignore it 15% engage superficially 3% shitty assholes 1% useful feedback 1% new friends  That final 1-2% is worth wading through all the shit for, at least for me, with no inherited ingroup/tribe
  (resurfaced 8× · 99 likes · 2018-05-18 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/997290279051804672)
- editing video always takes longer than I think lol but like-
  (resurfaced 8× · 97 likes · 2022-04-17 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1515680998436278275)
- what Friendly Ambitious Nerd and Introspect does to a mf
  (resurfaced 8× · 97 likes · 2022-03-07 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1500789155198308361)
- Sam Madhu is next level  https://www.instagram.com/sam_madhu
  (resurfaced 8× · 97 likes · 2019-05-26 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1132532325630107649)
- So how do we find partners? To play with, to share burdens with, to be intimate with?  I personally find this hilarious and sad: we literally go on job interviews. 😂 That’s what dates are, aren’t they, most of the time? Two people anxious to match each other’s criteria
  (resurfaced 8× · 97 likes · 2019-07-17 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1151448807382499328)
- Sometimes I legit feel like an alien and the vast sea of humanity makes me feel really sick. I can rationalize my way back to something resembling sanity because it’s necessary for continued functioning, but I don’t... like it. I try to accept it; and I manage it most of the time
  (resurfaced 8× · 93 likes · 2019-01-14 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084673796911452160)
- I think a lot about @ftrain's "The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-computing" – published in 2014, and one of the most moving things I"ve ever read. With such lovely art. https://t.co/EneHmzEs4V
  (resurfaced 8× · 93 likes · 2018-02-07 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/961143987653496832)
- "If you assemble 11 talented players who concentrate intently during training, take care of their diet and bodies, get enough sleep and show up on time, you're halfway to winning a trophy. It's always astonishing how many clubs are incapable of doing this."
  (resurfaced 8× · 92 likes · 2018-01-23 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/955837841799462912)
- I'm reminded of a great line from a letter from HG Wells to James Joyce in 1928: "the world is wide and there is room for both of us to be wrong."
  (resurfaced 8× · 91 likes · 2022-05-29 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1530977820603711489)
- Celebrities are lonely, and their fans contribute to that loneliness by dehumanizing them via pedestalization. The media further exacerbates this. We’ll tweet the same sad tweets when they die but we’re slow to address the underlying issues https://x.com/chiefjalia/status/1006062986648117248?s=21
  (resurfaced 8× · 91 likes · 2018-06-14 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1007194837660065793)
- "The best advice is not to tell people what to do, but to ask them the right questions. Find out what's going on in their head, and help them frame that in a way that's useful." – @gtdguy
  (resurfaced 8× · 88 likes · 2021-12-09 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1468946450167975939)
- @msutherl @nwilliams030 @KevinSimler @leashless @QiaochuYuan @matdryhurst @malloc8 @benvickers_ @nosilverv @bronzejaguar @vanishingmaze @Meaningness @nemesis_global @NoaidiX @SamoBurja @maxdashiell @dthorson @alt_visa @naval My $0.02: a lot of today’s established public intellectuals grew up in a different media environment than the one we’re living in now. They might have Opinions on it, but the more popular they are, the more they’d likely be lagging behind the frontier. Relevant WBW:
  (resurfaced 8× · 85 likes · 2020-03-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1241630272287690752)
- A dawning realisation derived from my obsessive bookmarking and note-taking: I don’t trust Google to consistently serve up content that’s thoughtful, nuanced, etc. It typically gives you something blandly palatable published on a major site. The good stuff is almost crowded out
  (resurfaced 8× · 85 likes · 2018-06-21 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1009726403644780544)
- I very quickly develop crushes on grumpy, angry women 🤔
  (resurfaced 8× · 84 likes · 2019-06-16 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1140158499176865793)
- I just want to say it out loud: Terranigma is the greatest video game of all time (IMHO), and it deserves a big budget remake the way FF7 just did. It was never officially released in North America, but practically everyone I know who's ever played it ranks it in their top ~3-5
  (resurfaced 8× · 83 likes · 2020-05-08 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1258867775772127233)
- !Kung, like our ancestors:  - nomadic bands ~50 people - high levels of accidental injury&death - domineering senior males balanced by coalitions - v intolerant of hoarding & selfishness - occasional hunger, violence, hardship - extremely close&involved childcare - never alone
  (resurfaced 8× · 82 likes · 2018-04-23 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988369747589775360)
- "Talk is cheap, and the road is long, and you’ll see for yourself along the way who sticks around and who calls it quits."  https://visakanv.substack.com/p/are-you-serious
  (resurfaced 8× · 81 likes · 2023-01-08 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1612206968600682496)
- I think being trapped by one’s inherited aesthetics can be a source of frustration, kind of like the pain of being inarticulate
  (resurfaced 8× · 80 likes · 2019-04-13 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1117033304996192256)
- [mic drop]  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094894798106816513
  (resurfaced 8× · 78 likes · 2020-04-30 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1255765496743342080)
- “He just can’t get himself together.”  – Moore & Gillette’s King, Warrior, Magician, Lover https://x.com/malcolm_ocean/status/1471721940653989894
  (resurfaced 8× · 77 likes · 2022-01-19 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1483797843391688704)
- I’m surprised I haven’t seen made like an app or guide or online course or something to help people really internalize this WaitButWhy blogpost, it’s very well done IMO https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/11/the-cook-and-the-chef-musks-secret-sauce.html
  (resurfaced 8× · 74 likes · 2019-06-11 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1138293576582852608)
- #nowreading Ray Bradbury’s Zen In The Art Of Writing. I thought Fahrenheit 451 was alright, but I really became a fan after reading The Martian Chronicles. ZITAOW was a big influence for me a few years ago and I’m excited to revisit it
  (resurfaced 8× · 74 likes · 2018-11-15 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1063013292413579264)
- 37. Nicki Minaj‘s verse in Monster is one of the best things ever written by anybody ever
  (resurfaced 8× · 72 likes · 2018-05-12 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/995227710094913537)
- now we get to my favorite part of Ramanujan's story, and if I'm not careful I'm going to start crying  Ramanujan's new peers encouraged him to write to mathematicians in Britain  a bunch of them dismissed and disregarded him  Except for one man: Godfrey Harold Hardy
  (resurfaced 8× · 70 likes · 2019-08-10 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1160186085403529217)
- we cannot allow our hatred of assholes to turn us into assholes ourselves. it's pretty tricky, and something that people tend to be silent about because it will get you blowback from your own ingroup. "kindness??? to our enemies???"  it's not for them.  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065116502670503936
  (resurfaced 8× · 70 likes · 2019-02-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1098599890157006858)
- Here’s a sort of litmus test I use for thinking about people  Imagine it’s the apocalypse (zombies?) and you and your child are in a disaster scenario. Because of circumstances beyond your control, you have to hand your child to someone and go on a dangerous errand
  (resurfaced 8× · 70 likes · 2018-07-11 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1016918619551219713)
- Turkish pop music is EXCELLENT https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&feature=youtu.be&v=jeDBZpT7-RI
  (resurfaced 8× · 69 likes · 2018-09-11 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1039572061520183296)
- underfollowed accounts (<1k), may 2021:  @SissiPhys @AbstractFairy @imperialauditor @metaphorician @joespurpleshirt @rmpars @brinkerhoft @startingfromnix @nightmask3 @metakuna @AstralPJs @egocv @misen__ @this_is_silvia @secretmoderator @JamieJacksonati @izzyroze @clementix https://x.com/visakanv/status/1382358460591792131
  (resurfaced 8× · 66 likes · 2021-05-01 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1388509517357359104)
- @mattgoldenberg have this open in another window while working on my book, Martin Luther's mentor Johan advising him the same
  (resurfaced 8× · 64 likes · 2021-09-06 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1434946245957615620)
- Games thread
  (resurfaced 8× · 64 likes · 2018-11-24 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1066240039741341696)
- there's a lot of misunderstanding going on here; people seem to assume that other people saying things must necessarily be for or against something, or making some sort of case. I think now is a good to revisit https://sive.rs/horses
  (resurfaced 8× · 60 likes · 2018-06-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1010459628189073408)
- meanwhile, in the sourceland
  (resurfaced 8× · 54 likes · 2019-02-08 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093777144465879043)
- On the utility of art, a thread! https://x.com/clairlemon/status/999458316869713920
  (resurfaced 8× · 53 likes · 2018-05-24 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/999460753785602048)
- Found some old screenshots from a group chat with my local friends from about 2013 or so... it’s funny to look back and realize that I have always been someone who brings people together
  (resurfaced 8× · 52 likes · 2020-08-28 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1299378568409919489)
- One of the best things I've done for myself is get a gaming mouse and map the extra buttons to things I commonly use:
  (resurfaced 8× · 52 likes · 2017-08-16 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/897681598962958336)
- Got out of bed to think out loud about the passage of time and what you can learn simply from observing the world around you for about 10 years - say ages 17-27
  (resurfaced 8× · 51 likes · 2018-11-06 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1059874752762990599)
- I keep accidentally recreating Nietzsche's talking points without meaning to https://x.com/visakanv/status/1452618932121051137
  (resurfaced 8× · 48 likes · 2021-12-31 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1476728532961169411)
- Bozoma's life story reminds me of Obama's, and punches through my heart in the same way. These funny-colored kids with funny-sounding names, casually ostracized for being different, diving deep into the culture of their peers to understand them better than they know themselves
  (resurfaced 8× · 45 likes · 2017-12-17 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/942446395058929664)
- I feel like I've reached a breakthrough/synthesis on this – rather than try to model existing status/class signifiers, which is tiresome, it's far more fun, interesting and exciting to develop + elevate your *own* aesthetics. Bowie, Prince, Hendrix, Manson, etc appreciated this
  (resurfaced 8× · 42 likes · 2019-05-14 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1128245036510879744)
- Someone once asked me “what do kids DM/email you about” and I surprised myself at how quickly and easily I was able to articulate their FAQs. Rereading this I realize it’s *knowledge*: about the struggles of others. This is what I mean when I say being sensitive makes you smarter
  (resurfaced 8× · 42 likes · 2019-02-26 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1100523960821678080)
- Eminem’s Sing For The Moment remains the most succinctly powerful description of the fame trap I’ve encountered yet
  (resurfaced 8× · 42 likes · 2018-06-30 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1012936063197671424)
- Approaching the Sriranaganathaswamy Koyil in Srirangam - I love how it looms in the distance and gets bigger as you approach it. Architecture like this is so underrated in its capacity to move and inspire, imo
  (resurfaced 8× · 40 likes · 2018-12-07 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1070949478729900032)
- does anybody know the origin story behind the "kung fu" font? who was the first person who came up with it? this one is called "Ginko", then there are all these "Asian style fonts", "Chinese style fonts"... what's the story here? "Wonton fonts"...
  (resurfaced 8× · 38 likes · 2019-01-10 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1083371785947475969)
- Each perfume sells not just a smell, but an entire aesthetic. In my opinion perfume, makeup and beauty marketers are some of the best in the game
  (resurfaced 8× · 36 likes · 2018-06-17 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1008300238153498624)
- @Saurya Captain Awkward has the right sort of energy  https://captainawkward.com/2013/01/24/437/
  (resurfaced 8× · 33 likes · 2020-07-07 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1280528968332935171)
- The best art is almost always borne out of love. In a world mutilated by violence and seized with fear, art is *absolutely* necessary. We need more of it. We are all weary and hungry and aching for more connection, more love, more light. How could you think otherwise
  (resurfaced 8× · 32 likes · 2018-05-24 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/999478529342357506)
- Marshall McLuhan x Ezra Pound, 1948
  (resurfaced 8× · 29 likes · 2022-03-29 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1508696083236798465)
- To Understand Is To Perceive Patterns, by @jasonsilva
  (resurfaced 8× · 26 likes · 2020-05-17 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1261858712118890499)
- The highlight of my trip to Cebu in 2015 was heading down to Oslob to snorkel with the whale sharks. They're like, semi-domesticated – they come near the humans because there's food – but you can feel their power and intelligence, like they could destroy you if they wanted to
  (resurfaced 8× · 20 likes · 2019-02-07 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093525559886266373)
- Was looking at some typefaces while buying groceries and thought again about Paula Scher. She’s a designer who really understands typography in a very profound way - its music, rhythms, contrasts. A true artist
  (resurfaced 8× · 19 likes · 2019-04-03 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1113396807432699904)
- "the sheer amount of ink on the page would tell me later on that this was one of the most important scenes"
  (resurfaced 8× · 19 likes · 2019-07-28 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1155411991529287681)
- I’m Singaporean, our drugs of choice are caffeine, alcohol and paternalism https://x.com/nexusprods/status/1170750370445967360?s=21
  (resurfaced 8× · 18 likes · 2019-09-09 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1170907408685625344)
- Today's commute read: picking up where I left off on Dunbar's Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language. Yup, "Dunbar's number" Dunbar
  (resurfaced 8× · 15 likes · 2018-01-24 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/956015597908824064)
- @katgleason @__vansh You can see it in the gender symbols too  Spear of Mars  Mirror of Venus
  (resurfaced 8× · 13 likes · 2019-11-19 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1196665511720828928)
- 1/ Interesting realization about tone on the web. I (and others) use capitalization, punctuation + short sentences when I'm confident, angry
  (resurfaced 8× · 10 likes · 2014-10-11 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/521086763620515842)
- Some nuance to consider is that "The Public" is really an assemblage of many publics.  "Whatever the style, the public intellectual is always speaking to an audience that is not there." https://t.co/9IVUlsXZES
  (resurfaced 8× · 9 likes · 2019-02-05 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1092687829241479168)
- I just discovered the Pepsi rebranding slides from 2008 and it is truly breathtaking
  (resurfaced 7× · 7,054 likes · 2018-10-25 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1055498139602317313)
- My wife predicts divorces & failed relationships with stunning accuracy and I have learned a few of her tricks  relationships are fucking hard, and to work they need a sort of functional “economy” (gratitude, laughter, kindness) and waste elimination system (pain, resentment)
  (resurfaced 7× · 3,183 likes · 2018-08-16 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1029920952258154496)
- some personal news:
  (resurfaced 7× · 1,511 likes · 2023-06-27 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1673595323640582145)
- I’ve told variations of this story several times but it bears repeating  When I was about 8 years old and I first sat at a computer and typed words into a forum and got replies from people elsewhere in the world, I swear on my life I instantly knew I had found The Holy Grail
  (resurfaced 7× · 1,385 likes · 2023-05-31 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1663948899944665088)
- with love: in my view, this isn’t ADHD itself, but punitive, coercive self-bullying. It’s likely inherited from the people in your life who didn’t know how to deal with your ADHD.  This is *mismanagement* of ADHD (it’s not your fault if you don’t know better), not ADHD itself
  (resurfaced 7× · 950 likes · 2021-06-16 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1405250147454308357)
- A thing I didn’t appreciate as a kid, but understand better now, is why so much of the world is suboptimal - it’s not just because people don’t know better, but largely because people are trapped. Many (most?) people are too tired and overwhelmed to bring their A game to anything
  (resurfaced 7× · 783 likes · 2018-05-22 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998871831753908229)
- 🎷
  (resurfaced 7× · 751 likes · 2021-11-09 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1458096242827964435)
- The more I get the privilege of getting to do stuff I actually really want to do, the more I’m forced to reckon with the fact that procrastination isn’t just about aversion to icky, tedious tasks - it’s also substantially about aversion to failure and disappointment
  (resurfaced 7× · 707 likes · 2019-12-30 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1211464225672970240)
- most people recognise good ideas but not great ideas  *great* ideas look like bad ideas, or are otherwise incomprehensible
  (resurfaced 7× · 605 likes · 2022-10-10 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1579303085583011842)
- people don’t say this out loud as much but self-loathing is a form of narcissism https://x.com/house_feminist/status/1289097773837508608
  (resurfaced 7× · 551 likes · 2020-07-31 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1289120029452021762)
- no institution, no bureaucracy, no faceless evil, no corporate overlord coerced anybody to describe each other on a 10-point scale. those mfs did it entirely by themselves. we dehumanize ourselves because it's convenient and entertaining
  (resurfaced 7× · 497 likes · 2022-07-27 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1552235988826882048)
- 20. hmm… A or B?
  (resurfaced 7× · 487 likes · 2022-02-24 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1496944219260260358)
- social environments nudge people towards making themselves and their work more legible in ways that are less-than-ideal for the individual. this is for the convenience of the system, and the deal is validation...  wait this might make more sense as a meme:
  (resurfaced 7× · 473 likes · 2023-04-11 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1645794411979370497)
- My ex-boss gave me this gift. He was more curious about me than I was about myself. He genuinely wanted to understand my motivations & backstory to a degree that I had stopped caring about, because I didn’t think I merited that much concern. a lot of what I do now is pass that on
  (resurfaced 7× · 401 likes · 2019-05-26 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1132525417124880384)
- Many people are too burdened by past obligations to see clearly with fresh eyes what’s happening in front of them, what’s around them, where things are headed. Have you ever been too tired to get ready for bed?
  (resurfaced 7× · 393 likes · 2018-05-22 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998873049049919488)
- Brian Eno, when asked to make the Windows startup sound:
  (resurfaced 7× · 387 likes · 2019-08-08 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1159336202907971584)
- changing your vocabulary is the most cheat-code-esque way to change your life I can think of and it’s perfectly legal
  (resurfaced 7× · 370 likes · 2021-11-30 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1465607878555815936)
- Realistically, I can only ever be *truly* productive for 4 hours a day. Most days, I'm lucky to even have 2 truly good, productive hours, where I'm really moving the needle. And I get by with the output of those 2 hours!   I wish somebody told me this when I was like... 10
  (resurfaced 7× · 357 likes · 2020-08-13 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1294005388463894528)
- periodic reminder to do whatever makes your heart sing
  (resurfaced 7× · 344 likes · 2022-03-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1505810005332615171)
- Sometimes I feel like shit for seemingly no reason, and my idiot @visabrain goes through a checklist that’s like  1. “existential despair?” 2. “has meaning finally collapsed” 3. “emotional turmoil?” . . 204. “Have we eaten, slept, hydrated and exercised lately?”  Oh, yeah. That.
  (resurfaced 7× · 320 likes · 2019-11-28 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1200060633468694529)
- #nowreading Tribe, by Sebastian Junger
  (resurfaced 7× · 315 likes · 2018-04-23 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988356861102444544)
- Noobs: You made a mistake, haha, gotcha! I win, you lose! Suck it, sucker!  Friends: Was that a mistake? It’s interesting how we both things wrong in distinct ways, that reveal our underlying assumptions and allow us to come to a better understanding of ourselves. I appreciate u
  (resurfaced 7× · 296 likes · 2018-07-22 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1020896955856064512)
- 19. there is no advice that cannot be creatively weaponized in some way to justify getting back on your bullshit
  (resurfaced 7× · 292 likes · 2020-11-23 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1330996509786083328)
- I knew jordan peterson was due for some misery when I saw that he was saying "clean your room" to others while living in a messy room himself  aesthetic dissonance
  (resurfaced 7× · 289 likes · 2019-12-09 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1203918374004125698)
- I think a lot about how Steve Wozniak's dad provided him with a bespoke engineering education that you really can't get anywhere else  https://roamresearch.com/#/app/visakanv-public/page/hFsMWQEgb
  (resurfaced 7× · 281 likes · 2020-05-13 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1260405133084524547)
- this eloquently summarizes a large % of my female friends' attitudes towards dating https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1135477611029643265
  (resurfaced 7× · 274 likes · 2019-06-03 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1135498258506141696)
- one of the most powerful, poetic things I've ever read was from Dave Trott quoting a scientist  scientist: neutrinos have more mass than matter  journalist: cool,,, but what does that *mean*, really  scientist: it means... we are the ghosts in someone else's universe  me: 🤯
  (resurfaced 7× · 262 likes · 2019-04-17 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1118582214403321856)
- you can change people’s behavior by describing things
  (resurfaced 7× · 246 likes · 2022-06-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1538415210221842432)
- I’ve talked to hundreds of people about “do 100 thing” - some people get it right away, lots of people warm up to it in time, but most interestingly I’ve started to notice a common feature among those who “don’t get it”, and it is that they have Expectations
  (resurfaced 7× · 246 likes · 2021-01-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1352123285090168832)
- notes on wretchedness  https://t.co/XqVK9w2W22
  (resurfaced 7× · 244 likes · 2023-08-15 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1691391092854247425)
- My dream is that one day every voiceless person gets lifted out of poverty so that their children might get to drink Starbucks, write bad poetry and get cancelled on twitter for their thoughtless thinkpieces reeking of unexamined privilege and outward-projected self-loathing
  (resurfaced 7× · 241 likes · 2020-05-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1263667591668617217)
- just describe things bro
  (resurfaced 7× · 227 likes · 2023-11-12 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1723750210562851243)
- Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!  – I.2.20 (Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio); 3932
  (resurfaced 7× · 223 likes · 2018-12-11 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1072436134825869313)
- look at this adorable 1985 picture of Paul Erdõs (72yo) and Terence Tao (10yo) doing mathematics together
  (resurfaced 7× · 199 likes · 2020-05-17 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1261876213343084544)
- here is my personal quick-sketch summary of @utotranslucence's 2018 classic "Becoming a magician", for future reference for myself  https://t.co/Zqn7YOnam8
  (resurfaced 7× · 197 likes · 2021-07-24 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1418963347907629057)
- @juliagalef Oglaf- Delusionist
  (resurfaced 7× · 197 likes · 2018-05-15 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/996326044868096000)
- "what do you do when you can't compete with people smarter and more ambitious than you?"  IMO: each time you encounter someone working on X, subtract X from the range of things you’re focusing on. over time you develop a narrower focus, of things that nobody else is focusing on
  (resurfaced 7× · 195 likes · 2019-01-27 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1089577060689797120)
- @Nouronal I've corroborated similar stories with minority friends and women friends – there's this ideal of us being all cool and zen and being able to just sidestep abuse. But then what is being done to stop the abuse? The moment we speak up, we're "too sensitive". THE GAME IS RIGGED
  (resurfaced 7× · 188 likes · 2018-05-28 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1001129397385027590)
- when I was a teenager, the dominant criticism my closest friends had of me was that I was too arrogant, and they were right. I was too caustic, abrasive, eager to nitpick, quick to criticize, and I was way too certain of myself. I spent my entire 20s trying to correct for this
  (resurfaced 7× · 186 likes · 2021-01-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1346813649688543232)
- a mariachi band named Childhood Trauma that suddenly bursts into the scene whenever you ask questions like "I wonder why I have such trouble standing my ground in the midst of an uncomfortable disagreement"
  (resurfaced 7× · 185 likes · 2020-05-12 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1260132970892914689)
- Christopher Knight similarly-ish described how, in his 27-year hermit solitude, "I lost my identity. There was no audience, no one to perform for. There was no need to define myself. I became irrelevant."  https://x.com/visakanv/status/945756189811359744
  (resurfaced 7× · 179 likes · 2020-06-30 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1278062102389776384)
- Tchalla: yield man! Don’t make me kill you  Mbaku: I would rather die!  Tchalla: you have fought with honor! Now yield! Your people need you!  ^ this seemingly throwaway sentence is tchalla’s real first kingly act
  (resurfaced 7× · 178 likes · 2022-02-09 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1491247019863977984)
- quick sketch of my personal (ideal) style:  move fast, hit hard, wipe quick and move on to the next thing, but be micro-rigorous in making sure that each new thing quickly considers all past things, and is threaded accordingly
  (resurfaced 7× · 173 likes · 2018-11-13 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1062324957902888961)
- oh tumblr, I have missed you
  (resurfaced 7× · 172 likes · 2019-10-05 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1180394229819797505)
- Welcome, friend, to my space on the twitterwebs.  This is a pinned thread of my best tweets.
  (resurfaced 7× · 172 likes · 2017-12-10 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/939810687991234560)
- if the laws of physics don't forbid it, then it's mostly just a matter of figuring out the steps along the way
  (resurfaced 7× · 166 likes · 2021-01-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1346897857551339520)
- in retrospect, this 2014 "i'm not sure if I have ADHD" blogpost is one of the funniest things I have ever written
  (resurfaced 7× · 164 likes · 2021-03-14 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1371142189724569601)
- Another essay I've been procrastinating on: clocks and calendars are tools imposed by rulers (consider what "to rule" really means) to measure, manage and control the world. it's a way of colonizing time, which is in many ways even more insidious than colonizing space
  (resurfaced 7× · 156 likes · 2018-09-29 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1046041036513058816)
- current mood: nothing is properly knowable or sayable and all the words are wrong
  (resurfaced 7× · 150 likes · 2019-12-13 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1205307098440949760)
- curious about the history of Spongebob Squarepants.  Its creator Stephen Hillenburg sadly died in 2018 aged 57, from ALS  He was inspired by Jacques Cousteau's oceanography as a kid, became marine biologist  Oh and he worked as a fry cook after high school... of course
  (resurfaced 7× · 149 likes · 2022-07-30 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1553375477598785537)
- An interesting thing to observe is how people inadvertently reveal their true beliefs about things when talking about other things
  (resurfaced 7× · 149 likes · 2017-10-27 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/923755217568481280)
- Parents and teachers and peers all unwittingly conspire to create this mass hallucination where people collectively mutilate, cauterize and brand their minds in service of The Economy - and not The Economy itself, but their imperfect, vague and detached conceptualization of it
  (resurfaced 7× · 146 likes · 2018-11-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065507145418924032)
- fan: ilysm omg you're the best 🥺  hater: salutations, fuckface, I have written a thesis in 3 parts about why you suck.  book 1 section (a) part 1.1: your rhymes [click to expand] part 1.2 your song structure part 1.3 your hair-
  (resurfaced 7× · 142 likes · 2020-06-11 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1271026758133755905)
- I’m ~100 pages into Dune, I’m liking it so far. It’s a little demanding re: worldbuilding, but worth the effort I think. It reminds me of Ender’s Game in that it’s really *considered*- it’s pleasurable to inhabit + witness such thoughtfulness. Thanks @maskoficarus for the gift!
  (resurfaced 7× · 139 likes · 2020-02-17 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1229521415767916544)
- Every time this comes across my feed I am astounded again at the *clarity* of this man’s rage. This is the best counter-example I’ve seen that cuts through the faulty assumption that emotion makes people illogical and incoherent. It can also sharpen your mind like nothing else https://x.com/khanoisseur/status/1053531494101196800
  (resurfaced 7× · 138 likes · 2018-11-05 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1059417307108102144)
- I think the western concept of “dating” is *drumroll* outdated
  (resurfaced 7× · 137 likes · 2019-07-17 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1151440187206979584)
- every government is an embarrassment in some way
  (resurfaced 7× · 136 likes · 2021-01-04 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1345988264071581698)
- @liminal_warmth teaching is 10% knowing your stuff and 90% knowing precisely how and why people misunderstand your stuff
  (resurfaced 7× · 135 likes · 2021-12-30 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1476499916394430465)
- I keep referencing this Mcluhan quote lately when talking about the utility of repeating oneself and going in circles
  (resurfaced 7× · 133 likes · 2023-07-28 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1685051660631244801)
- oh wow I have some feelings about this stuff I haven’t revisited in years  a bunch of the guys in the other bands were what I now know to describe as scrubs  and they get very mad when someone achieves success along a dimension they refuse to take seriously
  (resurfaced 7× · 131 likes · 2023-07-22 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1682656952567099392)
- in all my years of searching I have never found a better version of Metallica's Nothing Else Matters than this 2014 cover by Thaikkudam Bridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhYeslfRrbE
  (resurfaced 7× · 131 likes · 2018-12-26 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1077740904067227648)
- A casual thought with 5 RTs becomes an assertion at 50 RTs, a statement at 500 RTs, a proclamation at 5,000 RTs, and a publicly-endorsed decree at 50,000 RTs
  (resurfaced 7× · 130 likes · 2018-12-09 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1071702892371832832)
- I didn’t quite realise until watching the Reputation stadium tour on Netflix: Taylor Swift is a religion
  (resurfaced 7× · 130 likes · 2019-01-03 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1080841949446193152)
- One of the fastest ways to get free personal energy is to realise that you don’t need to reply to things or get defensive about things. Which isn’t to say you have to be all Buddha-like either - just make a todo list item reminding you to crush your enemies at a later date
  (resurfaced 7× · 127 likes · 2018-07-02 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1013743753104723968)
- difference between malware and adware is a legal team  difference between language and dialect is state backing  difference between a cartel and a government is monopoly on violence  difference between lovable outlaw and criminal is PR... and legal team  etc
  (resurfaced 7× · 124 likes · 2020-04-26 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1254483476788604928)
- “If you guys want these crazy ideas, crazy stages, this crazy music, this crazy way of thinking… there's a chance it might come from a crazy person.” - Kanye West https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061703108890259456
  (resurfaced 7× · 121 likes · 2021-01-29 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1355018102027608064)
- "but nobody knows what the future looks like!" “they will in a minute.”
  (resurfaced 7× · 116 likes · 2023-01-19 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1615926172143222784)
- @danlistensto My fav Khalil Gibran poem
  (resurfaced 7× · 116 likes · 2019-09-13 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1172594618803736576)
- via @brianduffytweet  "What we call mental illness is coerced contractual agreements" – Johan Nygren  "We are all pre-programmed with a form of mental illness from the point we’re registered as citizens"  "We needed a story to normalize coercion."  https://t.co/9m1e9pNxsa
  (resurfaced 7× · 115 likes · 2019-01-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087750801416540162)
- once you have a few good riffs or talking points or whatever you wanna call them, those are like buoys or lighthouses that you can navigate by. they are like major cities in a trade network. you can build out everything in between them. connecting them creates additional wealth
  (resurfaced 7× · 114 likes · 2021-03-24 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1374608281482653698)
- My old morning routine: drag myself out of bed, sit in my chair, nurse a coffee and take 1+ hour to for my brain to boot up while scrolling through twitter  My new morning routine: exactly the same, but now it takes 5 minutes because I do it while taking deep breaths & holding
  (resurfaced 7× · 114 likes · 2020-01-27 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1221651212266663941)
- 19. If Google’s latest developments are legit, soon bots will be more interesting and fun to talk to than a subset of people. I kinda look forward to the mess this is going to cause, which feels a little naughty to admit
  (resurfaced 7× · 114 likes · 2018-05-10 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/994565659882274816)
- Alan Watts The User Illusion Lost Illusions Sideways look at Time Lives of a Cell Surely you’re joking Mr Feynman Foucault Seneca Seth Godin Sagan Animal Farm Antifragile Ogilvy Randy Pausch WaitButWhy bill wurtz Russell Brand Derek Sivers pg’s essays Ribbonfarm 48 Laws of Power https://x.com/zackkanter/status/1035365193159778304
  (resurfaced 7× · 108 likes · 2018-09-01 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1035718150053015552)
- 53. It is astounding how few people have any real, interesting ambition. “Make a lot of money” by itself does not count
  (resurfaced 7× · 107 likes · 2018-12-27 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1078396529075924992)
- I suppose then I’d like to travel the world and have coffee with you weird fuckers. Maybe make a couple of humans if my wife is into that. Play in a jazz band. Tell some jokes. Nap in a small boat on a clear lake. Road trip on a motorbike. House parties with more weirdos
  (resurfaced 7× · 106 likes · 2018-07-07 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015485134357721090)
- petition to replace "lose your virginity" with "make your sexual debut"
  (resurfaced 7× · 101 likes · 2014-07-22 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/491484272465702912)
- You can’t get people to read books by telling them that literature is important. You get them to read books by being excited about books. And “books are so exciting!!!” doesn’t cut it, you have to get into precisely what you’re excited about. This is how interest spreads
  (resurfaced 7× · 100 likes · 2019-02-09 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094375677816520704)
- Cute & cool: the snowshoe hare changes colours for camouflage. But it doesn’t know what month it is - it relies on a circadian timer to keep track of the daylight:darkness ratio. If you blindfold it in July (omg 😂) it starts changing color earlier 😭❤️  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowshoe_hare
  (resurfaced 7× · 99 likes · 2019-07-01 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1145624527709192193)
- This is the general problem of assholes in public commons. They make up 1% of the group, cause 74% of the damage, and ruin everybody's experience. And we let them, because we still haven't learned to do better. https://snap.stanford.edu/conflict/
  (resurfaced 7× · 98 likes · 2018-03-21 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/976297392440934400)
- the catch is you often have to get intimately familiar with all the lines before you can really know which are the few lines that do all the work
  (resurfaced 7× · 94 likes · 2019-11-23 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1198142623632035840)
- Idle thought: as a kid I used to think fashion was girly and lame. But as I get older I see it as something that can be as elevated and sublime as poetry. A lot of it is trash (same for poetry), but it is totally capable of being Real Art and in more profound ways than I realised
  (resurfaced 7× · 94 likes · 2018-07-31 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1024124835834675200)
- Study in 1960s found that !Kung bushmen worked as little as 12 hours a week, 25% of urban executives then. They hunt and gather in the day, pool their food in the evening - strong emphasis on sharing + high frequency of movement = minimal surplus accumulation, low inequality
  (resurfaced 7× · 94 likes · 2018-04-23 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988368773831835648)
- IMO, Andy saw it as his job to train and motivate everybody, and to train and motivate everybody to train and motivate everybody else. Which is a blessed thing in my eyes.  What do you think he'd have said about "slowing down A players to train young people?"
  (resurfaced 7× · 93 likes · 2019-07-30 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1156156792180629504)
- it’s quite funny how some people will be jerks to the very people they want approval from  it doesn’t make much sense strategically unless you model them as internally conflicted, then suddenly it becomes clearer
  (resurfaced 7× · 92 likes · 2021-09-09 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1436113248906997781)
- On forecasting:  "It's too bad that all economists and investment advisers aren't obliged to display their forecasts in a stagger chart form. Then we could really have a way to evaluate whatever any one of them chooses to say." – Andy Grove, 1983
  (resurfaced 7× · 89 likes · 2019-07-30 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1156140316522668032)
- I use 3 monitors and I honestly feel like I could use 6. Or 10. Or, seriously, a 360 degree cyberdome. Or an entire room full of digital screens. I might need to start messing around with post-its and papers or something
  (resurfaced 7× · 85 likes · 2019-05-20 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1130426553974775809)
- Only just realized that the Moirai (the Fates, the Weird Sisters) correspond perfectly to Trimurti:  Clotho (Nona) the Spinner – Brahma The Creator Lachesis (Decima) the Allotter – Vishnu the Preserver Atropos (Morta) the Cutter – Shiva the Destroyer
  (resurfaced 7× · 84 likes · 2018-11-08 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1060433573814009857)
- In the mood for a re-read of Joseph Campbell’s classic
  (resurfaced 7× · 79 likes · 2019-06-13 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139128606183968768)
- "I wouldn't mind having an evening like it, say, once a week - ordinarily there's no excitement." - a Londoner who missed the air raids of WW2
  (resurfaced 7× · 77 likes · 2018-04-24 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988610126390050817)
- There's something about Dua Lipa that I find really impressive, but I can't quite put my finger on it. She seems really measured, calm and confident for a 23 year old, an unusually clear sense of who she is. I have a feeling she's going to get a lot bigger in the next 5-10 years
  (resurfaced 7× · 75 likes · 2018-10-19 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1053302775096868865)
- you set one little thing on fire and the photographers are like
  (resurfaced 7× · 74 likes · 2021-02-09 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1359164613749862405)
- now check out the vibes and energy on this guy!! holy shit!!!! totally different!! truly transformational
  (resurfaced 7× · 73 likes · 2020-07-24 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1286759627443466241)
- "The best ideas start out as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible." - David Ogilvy https://x.com/remarksist/status/867814761261547520
  (resurfaced 7× · 71 likes · 2017-05-27 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/868287211342512128)
- I remember sitting here, at 17, drunk and depressed, thinking that the world in front of me was too beautiful for me to feel the way I felt inside (at the time)
  (resurfaced 7× · 71 likes · 2018-07-25 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1022085460338733056)
- A service I provide as a "marketing consultant" is really to just help people think clearly about what they're trying to say. I also do this for writers as an "editor".  In both cases it's really about sitting with the question, "What are you really trying to do / say?"
  (resurfaced 7× · 68 likes · 2019-01-15 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085091322552233985)
- great small accounts (<1k) jan’22  @gene_minkov @Ol_Wall @NonMurkyConsqnc @itsgregormay @m_malignatus @augurydefier @sicongshen @joaomateus @jambarree @mattiasinspace @empirepowder @marm0t @profectedroom @fadnavismehul @l0ath_mindset @juliemosow @frances_lorenz @elocowan https://x.com/visakanv/status/1444938290986057730
  (resurfaced 7× · 65 likes · 2022-02-08 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1491045807209926656)
- people watching me on youtube *get* me a lot better than people reading my tweets, largely I think because of the inescapable problem of plaintext being read in the reader's voice rather than the author's  I feel very Seen by this comment. this is my vibe  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mSLJOcUCug
  (resurfaced 7× · 65 likes · 2021-04-03 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1378462942081904640)
- This is the simple truth - I first heard it from @mengwong - and it explains so much about us. Singapore is that guy that was severely beaten up and pissed on, & with tears in his eyes decided that he was going to steel his heart & be a Tough Motherfucker In This Cruel World
  (resurfaced 7× · 65 likes · 2019-06-15 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139836197662892032)
- This is tough to articulate, *deep breath*  In some (many?) cases it seems like depression, apart from the brain chemistry bits, is a discordant disengagement with value systems themselves, rather than dissatisfaction with the relative stats you have based on your circumstances
  (resurfaced 7× · 65 likes · 2018-11-10 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061169646303232000)
- It’s interesting to me how, while we’ve generally as a species shaken off the idea of kings with divine mandates to rule over lesser humans, a lot (most?) of our aspirational myths are still centered on monarchies - from Thor and T’Challa to Elsa and Jasmine
  (resurfaced 7× · 64 likes · 2018-09-15 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1041034992745246720)
- do this for a few years, and maybe read a few biographies of creative people, etc, and you start to develop a bird's eye view of yourself.  y'know, Jung took 16 years to write The Red Book, intermittently, starting at age 38. Maybe your creative life hasn't even "started" yet
  (resurfaced 7× · 62 likes · 2020-10-18 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1317769088605724673)
- 027: RECREATING MYSELF  - the pain of being inarticulate - the conflict within the self as a conflict btwn diff ppl - holding a grudge against life as self-preservation - the impossibility of self-conquest via coercion - cultivating a nourishing presence  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1oVhF7gBgE
  (resurfaced 7× · 59 likes · 2020-03-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1239454610420424705)
- Don’t obsess over being great or having fun, just be prolific https://t.co/P9eNRXAGSL
  (resurfaced 7× · 59 likes · 2018-11-19 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1064333661921730560)
- “You’ve never heard of her.  ...and you never will.”  https://t.co/61O7XEmwK7
  (resurfaced 7× · 58 likes · 2019-01-06 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1081904614763421696)
- Nobody ever told me how much female attention I would get from wearing & talking about jewelry  The closest thing might be “peacocking” in The Game, but that’s needlessly pretentious & “ironic”  Also notice how guys struggle to say nice things to each other; gotta talk shit 😂
  (resurfaced 7× · 57 likes · 2019-07-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153193484771188738)
- The reason we should be kind to our enemies is not for them. It’s for us. To give in to the rage-monster is to summon a demon that will gladly consume *everything*. Weary elders have been trying to warn us about this for millennia. Nobody wins this fight https://x.com/visakanv/status/1098599890157006858?s=21
  (resurfaced 7× · 57 likes · 2019-02-22 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1099068691767951360)
- we can all be surrogate fathers
  (resurfaced 7× · 56 likes · 2019-02-25 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1099924535476858881)
- kinda wish I could do threads like this
  (resurfaced 7× · 55 likes · 2019-06-11 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1138510427275505664)
- just occurred to me that when AR becomes more widespread, you could probably-maybe choose an AR outfit that you want other people to see you in  though... whether people want to see you in them or not... would be up to them? 🤔 wild times ahead
  (resurfaced 7× · 55 likes · 2019-07-22 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153264488910483459)
- Samin Nosrat agrees! Get people involved in the process
  (resurfaced 7× · 54 likes · 2018-12-19 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1075393091434033155)
- Tired: traveling back in time to kill baby Hitler  Wired: travelling back in time to become friends with Hitler when he was a struggling painter, supporting and encouraging him to work harder so he passes his entrance exam at Vienna and becomes a professional artist
  (resurfaced 7× · 54 likes · 2018-08-30 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1035103479654539264)
- Sometimes I think of humanity as this wretched factory farm, and then there’s The Light Of Human Consciousness - like a lighthouse in the vast uncaring emptiness of infinite space. Libraries are churches to the light of human consciousness
  (resurfaced 7× · 53 likes · 2019-10-14 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1183641993877962752)
- @CathyReisenwitz @eigenrobot Anxiety: everyone’s watching me  Self: nah they don’t  Depression: ever  Self: wait
  (resurfaced 7× · 53 likes · 2018-05-10 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/994387190426681345)
- 
  (resurfaced 7× · 50 likes · 2020-11-29 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1333069889234378752)
- tbc
  (resurfaced 7× · 48 likes · 2022-05-05 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1522160673177751552)
- "The ability to route information effectively and meaningfully is power" is an elaboration of "knowledge is power". What is knowledge? it's having useful information. but not just locked up in a box somewhere. it's information you can use on demand in the right context
  (resurfaced 7× · 48 likes · 2020-05-10 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1259370213046235136)
- Delicious vegan sandwiches with @tasshinfogleman - being vulnerable in public, how to make friends and allies, allies-in-waiting, content strategy (nerdposting + kindposting + shitposting), managing a multiplicity of needs in a relationship, the paradox/tension of “human brands”
  (resurfaced 7× · 47 likes · 2019-04-26 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1121586213255671808)
- Follow my dad on the way out and I think you’ll get a sense of the sanctum-within-a-sanctum feeling. It’s like... the extra quiet room in a restricted section of a library. It’s quite a clever and powerful way to inspire a sense of sacredness and reverence. Great design!
  (resurfaced 7× · 46 likes · 2018-12-05 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1070265636180262912)
- 5. The frame is a useful constraint if you think beyond it  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5GmSYipz6A
  (resurfaced 7× · 45 likes · 2018-12-15 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074036151684452353)
- 1/ On growing up: A man should be sensitive (to inputs from reality), smart (at making sense of reality), and strong (to effect reality).
  (resurfaced 7× · 45 likes · 2015-04-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/591230884449124353)
- @maybegray @m_ashcroft @QiaochuYuan @mesolude Take 1000 selfies  I can already feel my face relaxing in some places I didn’t realize were tense  (This is new/uncomfortable for me, in a good way. I’m a text man)
  (resurfaced 7× · 44 likes · 2019-12-18 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1207374320625799168)
- 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
  (resurfaced 7× · 44 likes · 2018-05-08 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/993858232819957760)
- Thinking today about the 4 dominant media threads in my life:  - Local Singaporean media, primarily Singaporean-Chinese - American media (Nickelodeon + MTV) - Indian media (mainly Tamil, but also some peripheral Hindi/Bollywood) - Japanese media (anime, J-rock, JRPGs)
  (resurfaced 7× · 44 likes · 2018-08-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1032192992579178496)
- I’m not kidding about the hero thing - I was *obsessed* with it. My username everywhere was “visaisahero”. I think I’ve always felt, as a misfit, that an ordinary life was not for me. It felt like I was either going to have to learn to fly, or burn out
  (resurfaced 7× · 43 likes · 2018-09-25 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044484698699780096)
- One of my favorite things: a cold rainy night in a Singapore bus
  (resurfaced 7× · 43 likes · 2017-08-21 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/899601665191419908)
- I’m rewatching Rick and Morty, here’s a thread about what I like about the show. S1E1 opens with a drunk Rick dragging Morty out of bed into a home-made spaceship and a plan to destroy the Earth and repopulate it... and then Rick passes out, cue intro... then family breakfast
  (resurfaced 7× · 42 likes · 2018-08-12 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1028608344649420800)
- Show idea: There’s a new guy in charge in The Bad Place, and he is disappointed with everyone’s lackluster performance. He will be implementing agile workflows effective immediately. *stares at camera* “I just signed up to torture people, man.” (Catastrophe happens off-camera)
  (resurfaced 7× · 41 likes · 2018-05-08 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/994001193096568832)
- Reminded of a riff from Joseph Campbell: all you need to get out of the labyrinth is a ball of thread. But without it you’re lost and hopeless.  The difference between despair and triumph: 🧵
  (resurfaced 7× · 40 likes · 2020-01-02 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1212777677960048641)
- 3. “OK, but you have so many threads. How do you find the right thread to add stuff to? Do you have a database or a spreadsheet or...?”  Not really. I do have a blogpost with links to some of my threads but I never use it. I just do a from:visakanv search https://x.com/ryandawidjan/status/718827648433041408?s=21
  (resurfaced 7× · 40 likes · 2019-04-14 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1117349313963626497)
- Ed Sheeran advises Tom to be prolific (h/t @davelocity)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDyg_41QF1w
  (resurfaced 7× · 39 likes · 2019-08-01 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1156894239524999168)
- if you're a fish you shouldn't be trying to fly. maybe out of curiosity or whatever but don't beat yourself up for being a an incompetent monkey or bird. be the best fish you can be
  (resurfaced 7× · 37 likes · 2021-04-28 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1387454946157629440)
- @metametrician address audience, accumulate status
  (resurfaced 7× · 37 likes · 2020-11-17 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1328505006744428545)
- Do you ever think about how the human nervous system is an electrical system? An elaborate labyrinth of cables and filaments, from lips and fingertips to beating heart - electrical charges travelling at speeds from 1 to almost 300mph - a bustling metropolis of light in your body
  (resurfaced 7× · 36 likes · 2018-01-09 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/950586709053288448)
- 2022 so far. notice the patterns?
  (resurfaced 7× · 34 likes · 2022-12-14 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1603066636277551104)
- "If my humors happen to please some worthy man... he will try to meet me. I give him a big advantage... for all (the) long acquaintance and familarity could have gained for him in several years, he can see in 3 days in this record, and more exactly." https://x.com/aaronzlewis/status/1246007884732944385
  (resurfaced 7× · 33 likes · 2021-02-09 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1359033338279825409)
- I am at heart a much weirder person than I present to the world. Presenting your weirdness in a palatable way requires a lot of marketing skill - in a way you need to understand people better than they understand each other, since you're going to interfere rather than imitate
  (resurfaced 7× · 33 likes · 2018-01-17 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/953486647500316672)
- “We all suffer from spiritual pride. We all do. We must remember that... you are not God [...] you are only human. [...] You must believe in the mercy that you preach.”
  (resurfaced 7× · 32 likes · 2020-09-08 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1303249240626348037)
- @belgianadian Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, down the street from my place
  (resurfaced 7× · 32 likes · 2019-05-28 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1133335524167495682)
- Quincy Jones’s life almost seems fake - like Forrest Gump, or that intro scene in Iron Man where Tony Stark is photoshopped to be hanging out with Bill Gates
  (resurfaced 7× · 31 likes · 2018-12-27 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1078223414563762176)
- If you wanna go to a cool bar, I recommend going to the Atlas Bar. It's a little bit pricey (Gin and Tonic is S$19) but more affordable than you'd expect considering how opulent the place looks. the building it's in has a lot of personality ("the gotham building").
  (resurfaced 7× · 30 likes · 2019-09-09 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1171034065354379264)
- internet me is the hyper-real me, @visakanv is realler than Visakan Veerasamy, whose performance isn't as interesting https://x.com/patio11/status/1046798955483262976
  (resurfaced 7× · 30 likes · 2018-10-01 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1046799459269541891)
- 👽 that’s fine
  (resurfaced 7× · 29 likes · 2019-03-04 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1102411552903258112)
- This is the street in front of my grandfather’s house. I imagine his ancestors before him can’t have been very far from here...? But history will always surprise you, so who knows
  (resurfaced 7× · 28 likes · 2018-12-04 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1069857608708714497)
- This bookstore gives me the good kind of shivers
  (resurfaced 7× · 28 likes · 2018-10-16 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1052155530221768704)
- Still thinking about how cool Zendaya's Joan of Arc outfit was
  (resurfaced 7× · 25 likes · 2018-06-15 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1007646221631029248)
- I went to bed really early (for me) last night, at about 9pm. It's 335am and I'm awake. And I have some thoughts. To get ahead of myself a little, I wonder if this is what I subconsciously try to avoid when I perpetuate a cycle of late sleeping/waking. Being alone w my thoughts
  (resurfaced 7× · 24 likes · 2017-12-26 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/945741482438180864)
- this is a fun and appropriate moment to soft-announce that I'm experimenting with launching a digital currency called $GOLDEN via @tryrollhq – nothing serious yet, just a playful toy currency for Friendly Ambitious Nerds. Idk what we'll do with it but the point is to have fun
  (resurfaced 7× · 23 likes · 2020-06-06 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1269181365293113345)
- @m_ashcroft @stubborncurias Possibly my favorite version of this riff is by Kenny Werner, jazz pianist. He calls it Effortless Mastery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un3p614XExc&feature=youtu.be
  (resurfaced 7× · 23 likes · 2020-03-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1241457796903620609)
- 28. Ramin Djawadi – Driving With The Top Down [2008]
  (resurfaced 7× · 22 likes · 2019-01-21 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087334942512603136)
- @motleykru I’m gonna spend the rest of my life finding the others so y’all can find each other through me
  (resurfaced 7× · 21 likes · 2019-10-15 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1183959756072865792)
- “I want you to know it could be more than this. We could help each other see in the dark. You‘re supposed to be echolocating, but all you are doing is shouting at me.”  (h/t @Tipsycaek)  https://t.co/4cu71dPNoP
  (resurfaced 7× · 20 likes · 2019-11-05 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1191635484876787717)
- @david_perell @eugenewei "A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." – Carl Sagan
  (resurfaced 7× · 19 likes · 2019-09-06 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1169996471304777734)
- @matt_sven I honestly believe that deep down I want my enemies to be my friends
  (resurfaced 7× · 16 likes · 2019-01-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087637766630862850)
- "The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which the B batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces down the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate."
  (resurfaced 7× · 13 likes · 2018-03-06 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/970974301829578752)
- I am firmly in the "y'all will learn to read and write 280char tweets" camp. A year from now everyone will have adapted.  Idk if y'all remember but this was also a thing every time FB changed its format in the late 2000s. Ppl complain then adapt. I think same will happen here
  (resurfaced 7× · 13 likes · 2017-11-08 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/928142150847545344)
- 8. I distinctly recall being both homophobic and transphobic as an adolescent, in a sort of idle, ignorant way. "Inherited from society"
  (resurfaced 7× · 13 likes · 2017-07-10 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/884517745676529664)
- So here's what I know: Everything is connected. Every object, every idea, has a history. Literally, everything. Your body. Your thoughts. Your language. Physical objects around you. Everything is made of other things. Everything is part of a process, even if you don't perceive it
  (resurfaced 7× · 12 likes · 2019-02-11 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1095049157943775232)
- I find myself referencing radical candor in all sorts of contexts
  (resurfaced 7× · 11 likes · 2018-01-18 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/953895336153554950)
- Thinking of getting an ATR2500-USB Mic for doing podcasts, anybody have any thoughts  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBvh8n2YC1U
  (resurfaced 7× · 1 likes · 2019-05-24 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1131995638009176064)
- @bengold @boop whatever makes your heart sing
  (resurfaced 7× · 0 likes · 2020-05-24 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1264420403935498241)
- the only media I've ever encountered that really, really, really recognizes this is Terranigma, which sits at the top of my list of favorite games, favorite stories  the hero's path is *profoundly* lonely and isolating  the hero's secret is he was lonely & isolated to begin with
  (resurfaced 7× · 0 likes · 2019-02-15 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1096328912391495680)
- The most beautiful thing I ever read about grief was written 9 years ago by a redditor called GSnow https://t.co/DX8gaWd5zn
  (resurfaced 6× · 1,994 likes · 2020-10-22 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1319079264050769921)
- It's time for a History of Singaporean Chinese people in Brownface  2012 UOB bollywood-themed party https://www.asiaone.com/singapore
  (resurfaced 6× · 1,109 likes · 2019-07-30 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1156122999042404352)
- finding out the origin of the name of this color Chartreuse was such a fckin trip.  "It was named because of its resemblance to the green color of a French liqueur called green chartreuse, introduced in 1764."  ok, why is the drink called that?
  (resurfaced 6× · 872 likes · 2022-07-30 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1553446723120377856)
- you don’t win big from being the goodest good boy you can be (minimizing negative variance to try and please your internal taskmaster)  you win big by being a bad motherfucker who’s sensitive to feedback (maximizing positive variance in alignment with your deepest feelings)
  (resurfaced 6× · 808 likes · 2023-04-26 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1651229066723315713)
- me: [mildly annoyed] lol look at this person doing me a rude annoyance  wife: [offended on my behalf] yo what the FUCK?  me: [slightly frightened and mostly aroused] oh wow you went all the way to the f-word that's hot
  (resurfaced 6× · 777 likes · 2018-01-12 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/951732605698719749)
- @markdalgleish Goat farming
  (resurfaced 6× · 699 likes · 2019-03-26 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1110459804894392321)
- The children of the 900m Indians, 88m Pakistanis, 70m Nigerians and 36m Filipinos who don't speak English will grow up on the Internet and learn English. Create their own English, really. They're going to colonize the colonizer's language and it will be hilarious and fascinating
  (resurfaced 6× · 688 likes · 2018-10-29 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1056906951118864384)
- sometimes when you have 2 beliefs that seem contradictory, it’s not that one belief is correct and one is wrong, but rather they’re each context-dependent, and you haven’t quite precisely figured out what the respective contexts are
  (resurfaced 6× · 646 likes · 2020-06-03 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1268318677394284544)
- Most men with ambition have no taste and most men with taste have no ambition
  (resurfaced 6× · 630 likes · 2021-04-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1384027967433560073)
- Found the exchange I mentioned earlier. I feel like learning how to do this is just as important and powerful as learning CPR, if not more so. Psychological first aid
  (resurfaced 6× · 562 likes · 2020-08-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1290589900379627520)
- friendly subtweet: sometimes when someone has an idea to do something, the best thing you can do is not to suggest ways to expand and broaden the idea into something more complex than they can handle, but to cheerfully tell them to just fucken do the thing they said they wanted
  (resurfaced 6× · 522 likes · 2021-11-01 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1455243916773494784)
- the problem with disguising your power levels for social reasons is, you can get too good at it and end up disguising them from yourself
  (resurfaced 6× · 521 likes · 2021-11-20 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1461959783427108865)
- A lot of things make a lot more sense when you consider that people have toxic relationships, are sleep deprived, eating junk, sitting for too long, are saddled with debt, and are generally being tortured by existence via thousands of small cuts
  (resurfaced 6× · 471 likes · 2018-05-22 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998872300681244672)
- Someone asked me to do a thread about how I use Twitter search. It all started here.  1. Use from:username to find something someone tweeted https://x.com/ryandawidjan/status/718827648433041408
  (resurfaced 6× · 463 likes · 2019-11-04 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1191254585970610176)
- Lots of people think “I will be successful if I become less stupid, less incompetent, less fail, less embarrassing...”  This is almost entirely back-asswards, an illusion caused by media bias, narrative bias, selection bias, halo effects
  (resurfaced 6× · 462 likes · 2021-04-14 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1382130638552137731)
- Warning: sleep hazard  https://visakanv.gumroad.com/l/friendlynerdbook
  (resurfaced 6× · 407 likes · 2021-03-21 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1373500098588504064)
- a lot of my favorite relationships with people are what i'd call Long Orbit Friendships – often they're other busy creatives from completely different social graphs, and we only really talk like once a year, sometimes once in a few years, but when we do we talk for *hours*
  (resurfaced 6× · 401 likes · 2022-12-12 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1602302107570216960)
- the older I get the more obvious it becomes that you can win at lots of things just by deciding that you're going to stick with it longer than everybody else  have long believed this to be true, but now I think I can start to say with conviction that I *know* it to be true
  (resurfaced 6× · 401 likes · 2019-03-14 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106214902069252096)
- One of my favorite memes from over a decade ago (!!!) was "draw this again", where artists would revisit their older work and reinterpret it  I love paying close attention to what changes and what stays the same, and to how they get better at achieving their own intent
  (resurfaced 6× · 398 likes · 2020-03-18 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1240329775282970624)
- A bit of conviction I have that I’m not sure I’ve articulated strongly:  If you want to make it in a market as a creative, an artist, whatever, you have to be able to “present a vector”.  which is a way of saying, “here’s what I’m doing”, in a way that has a sense of direction
  (resurfaced 6× · 377 likes · 2022-03-31 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1509324864636678144)
- Do what you love, but solve for distribution.
  (resurfaced 6× · 375 likes · 2022-02-02 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1488922328910090240)
- It is painful to accept that we will all die before there is justice in the world  the people who recognise this self-select into one of several different camps  Team “Well fuck it all then” escapes the pain of defeat  Team “We’re going to fucking try anyway” is defeated daily
  (resurfaced 6× · 363 likes · 2018-06-07 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1004556329917210624)
- a person who holds themselves hostage gets genuinely worried for you when they see that you are a free person
  (resurfaced 6× · 352 likes · 2021-12-11 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1469628488927744005)
- some people are so invested in their network of toxic relationships that they protect themselves psychologically by projecting the assumption that non-toxic relationships must be somehow fake. they rationalize the abuse they inflict on each other with "at least we keep it real"
  (resurfaced 6× · 340 likes · 2019-06-01 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1134695021876088832)
- 8/ Counter-intuitively, this means you should do the minimum research possible. Because more research = inertia, time-cost, expectations
  (resurfaced 6× · 318 likes · 2014-11-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/536348666605228032)
- Give people very specific requests and they will be so glad to be able to help. It's like night and day.  Everyone wants to build social capital. Nobody wants to do the thankless, tedious work of figuring out the project management of a new relationship w/ unknown utility
  (resurfaced 6× · 300 likes · 2017-11-28 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/935379042370330624)
- amusing dynamic that plays out at every scale, from families to cities to nations:  local: [sigh] goddamn this place sucks so bad  outsider: haha yea totally!!  local: [laser eyes] the *fuck* did you just say?
  (resurfaced 6× · 294 likes · 2020-09-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1308709191662534658)
- Man’s Search For Product-Market Fit
  (resurfaced 6× · 288 likes · 2020-01-18 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1218418412705075200)
- I think about maps a lot, and I'm underwhelmed and unimpressed by a lot of them. Here's one I quite like – world city populations, by luminocity3d. It's always interesting to me to pay attention to the white areas – western China, the Sahara, etc.  (Also – upcoming cities)
  (resurfaced 6× · 264 likes · 2018-04-19 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/986837632469450753)
- 27. people contain multitudes, coherence is fascism
  (resurfaced 6× · 261 likes · 2020-11-23 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1330997547159044097)
- I once translated Hamlet’s To Be Or Not To Be into Singlish and I think it’s one of my finest works
  (resurfaced 6× · 251 likes · 2018-09-20 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1042694582872399872)
- you don't have to agree with me  i don't have to make sense to you
  (resurfaced 6× · 250 likes · 2023-06-03 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1664948924866785280)
- if you’re a coward, and you misdiagnose yourself as an idiot, you’re going to be stuck there indefinitely https://x.com/visakanv/status/1223823933658451969
  (resurfaced 6× · 242 likes · 2021-08-31 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1432624668200996866)
- it's funny to consider how much of the conversation around things like "what makes you unique, what makes you different" is dominated by people who aren't really all that unique or different. I don't mean this as a putdown or a jab, it's just one of those optical illusions
  (resurfaced 6× · 242 likes · 2018-10-31 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1057549263008292864)
- 
  (resurfaced 6× · 239 likes · 2020-07-31 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1289175852379324417)
- good reply game between old friends can look like bad reply game between strangers
  (resurfaced 6× · 233 likes · 2022-04-05 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1511469503430868996)
- [jerry seinfeld voice] what is a meme? I've had it with these things! it's a picture. with some text. it's a postcard, that's what it is. or a greeting card. that's nothing special. we've been sending these to each other for centuries! why? because we hate each other, that's why.
  (resurfaced 6× · 231 likes · 2020-05-28 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1265901076831600640)
- I’m gonna get weirdly solemn and serious about this:  By repeating the “people say I remind them of Tony Hawk” story several times, Tony has set into motion an old and powerful magic that now summons people to contribute to the story, reinforcing it https://x.com/tonyhawk/status/1348520159858683904
  (resurfaced 6× · 229 likes · 2021-01-11 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1348664625944879106)
- Currently reading David Deutsch’s The Beginning Of Infinity (thanks @RealtimeAI for the gift!) and it is shaping up to be one of the most ambitiously nerdy and optimistic things I’ve ever read. Startlingly lucid thinking, I’m surprised that this isn’t 100x more popular than it is
  (resurfaced 6× · 227 likes · 2020-03-12 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1238146938102378497)
- some women are into suave, charming types  some are into quiet, intellectual types  some are into outdoorsy types  some are into indoorsy types  YOU ARE ALREADY SOMEONE'S TYPE. you just need to present yourself accordingly
  (resurfaced 6× · 223 likes · 2021-06-08 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1402281325139202048)
- A thing I’ve been thinking about lately re: Dune is how effectively Herbert points out the usefulness of having many names. Paul Atreides, son of the Duke, Muad’dib, the Lisan al Gaib, Usul to his close friends. It’s all the same human being, and they’re all different people
  (resurfaced 6× · 212 likes · 2020-03-21 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1241303347409195008)
- Twitter dot com
  (resurfaced 6× · 206 likes · 2018-09-13 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1040181362550964224)
- Wife lol’d when I suggested that are at least 6 people in a marriage:  - Me - Her - My trauma - Her trauma - My model of her - Her model of me  Rick and Morty S2E07 goes into this a little
  (resurfaced 6× · 201 likes · 2019-07-24 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153931083433439232)
- 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 ("I can't seem to study for this test" -> "I can't do anything"). Lots of catastrophic thinking, things get very grandiose  I remember this feeling too
  (resurfaced 6× · 200 likes · 2020-02-15 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1228748804918132737)
- It's worth restating that Da Vinci was a rambling, distracted, self-directed weirdo who would probably not have survived in a modern classroom without getting put on ADHD meds
  (resurfaced 6× · 195 likes · 2018-04-13 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/984648662910353409)
- every day is eight billion new dawns, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere
  (resurfaced 6× · 189 likes · 2023-03-27 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1640421261057859584)
- lady gaga had to perform in parking lots before she could perform at the super bowl  you can't really shortcut this, if you're a serious player  you have to do your parking lot gigs with suboptimal sound and lighting, you have to ship your ugly Apple I  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1517585272040726528
  (resurfaced 6× · 185 likes · 2022-05-30 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1531317497101660160)
- Btw AOC is a marketing *professional*. She knows wtf she’s doing. Brand, messaging, call-to-action, outreach, she knows what’s up
  (resurfaced 6× · 184 likes · 2020-03-03 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1234676109884571648)
- Me, aged 17: how can you trust employers? the economy? Everything is built on lies and manipulation  Friend: lol chill out you conspiracy nerd  *12 years later*  Friend: I got fired, haven’t paid off my student loans, and people tell me to code  Me: *deep breath* I’m so sorry
  (resurfaced 6× · 182 likes · 2019-01-29 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090161445717737472)
- "We are an antihuman society. Our society is alienating, technical, cold, mystifying. Our fundamental human desire is to be close to others, and our society does not allow for that." - anthropologist Sharon Abramowitz, Peace Corps volunteer during Ivory Coast 2002 civil war
  (resurfaced 6× · 181 likes · 2018-04-24 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988610130630492160)
- me: let’s go to bed at 11pm instead of 4am, it’s healthy and good  my brain: nice, here’s a dream of us getting thrown into prison for a crime we didn’t commit, then tortured & beaten by corrupt guards, forced to seek protection from a prison gang, and living in terror  me: wtf
  (resurfaced 6× · 178 likes · 2019-01-29 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090340777295671296)
- [stepping into a quiet room to scream] I cannot help you if you don't fucking read!!!!
  (resurfaced 6× · 174 likes · 2022-12-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1601941511717154816)
- To me, the most critical part of becoming “so good they can’t ignore you” is to be “so prolific you don’t recognise yourself”. Once you cross that threshold you can actually look at your own work with a relatively objective, critical eye https://x.com/visakanv/status/1075091316390809600?s=21
  (resurfaced 6× · 171 likes · 2018-12-21 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1076194861798191104)
- A bit of a fortune cookie thought, but here’s something I’d like to keep in mind more:  you should tweet for the audience you want, not the audience you have
  (resurfaced 6× · 168 likes · 2019-09-16 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1173685814485643265)
- Noob-minus: this is the worst thing I have ever read  Noob-plus: this is the best thing I have ever read  Friends: you’re on to something here! I really liked the part where you talked about X, it made me think about Y. I was kinda hoping for more about Z, but that’s just my POV
  (resurfaced 6× · 166 likes · 2018-07-22 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1020901935556128768)
- Hardy himself was a highly accomplished math genius  but when asked what his greatest contribution to mathematics was, he unhesitatingly replied that it was the discovery of Ramanujan.  He called their collaboration "the one romantic incident in my life."
  (resurfaced 6× · 165 likes · 2019-08-10 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1160187630614528001)
- There’s something interesting about how certain phrases become memes  “Weird flex but ok” “This ain’t it chief” “Wild”  And how these phrases become sort of... templates? Thought & interaction templates that people can use. Kind of related to how brands sell identity templates
  (resurfaced 6× · 165 likes · 2018-11-14 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1062650917894348800)
- I have earned the respect of every tattoo artist in this studio and multiple dudes with full sleeves etc. officially a bad mf ❤️‍🔥. always been etc etc
  (resurfaced 6× · 164 likes · 2022-02-09 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1491382698732302342)
- great marketing attracts great talent
  (resurfaced 6× · 162 likes · 2023-05-01 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1652939956699152387)
- 12. disco record sales
  (resurfaced 6× · 154 likes · 2021-08-11 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1425425050245599236)
- big part of why great ideas are hard to perceive is bc they exist outside the existing configuration.  good ideas play nicely with the existing config. great ideas deviate, break, depart from existing config.  a great idea needs a whole support structure that doesn’t yet exist
  (resurfaced 6× · 153 likes · 2022-10-10 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1579304965931429888)
- humans can create talismans (meaningful objects) at will  intuitive example of "humans charging a talisman" is a wedding ceremony → wedding ring  you can similarly do ceremonies to imbue any object with meaning. trophies, medals.  people compete very hard for some of these
  (resurfaced 6× · 153 likes · 2020-06-14 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1272131291610091520)
- No matter how carefully you articulate your principles, when you meet new people, you're going to see them violated them in all sorts of unexpected, unforeseen ways. This is because your principles are shaped from your experience, which contains assumptions you aren't aware of
  (resurfaced 6× · 152 likes · 2018-05-17 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/996996068129697792)
- artists https://x.com/ShamekaWrites/status/1236491206131101696
  (resurfaced 6× · 151 likes · 2020-03-08 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1236587076096647168)
- casual observation: it's interesting that there's zero mention of the body in Roko's otherwise excellent post about Ugh Fields. it's implied to be an entirely mental/psychological problem (tho if you think about it, "ugh" is a bodily feeling of revulsion)  https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EFQ3F6kmt4WHXRqik/ugh-fields
  (resurfaced 6× · 148 likes · 2021-04-03 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1378448916610383874)
- Culture is made up of layers upon layers of projections and hallucinations  If you study it, you can walk through walls
  (resurfaced 6× · 148 likes · 2020-02-05 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1224947096404365312)
- I think “status regulation” is the most important concept I’ve learned in 2020
  (resurfaced 6× · 146 likes · 2020-06-25 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1276097716699848705)
- 2. At my core I am somewhat sociopathic and nihilistic. I don’t think life is sacred. I think most of social life is an elaborate game of charisma and PR. I _try_ to be somewhat ethical and sincere, but I think that’s mostly because the people I like most also seem to be that way
  (resurfaced 6× · 146 likes · 2018-05-10 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/994522131735003138)
- why did I think this? I do not know. my brain is an autonomous zone beyond my jurisdiction
  (resurfaced 6× · 143 likes · 2020-06-13 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1271886965634265089)
- One of the games I‘m playing on Twitter is to seek out as many other infinite players as I can. Every time an additional infinite player joins a game, the game gets more interesting. A handful makes a scene. Infinite-player scenes invent the future  But the play is the point
  (resurfaced 6× · 141 likes · 2019-07-01 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1145589620068892672)
- 48. this was too much chemistry for two humans to have
  (resurfaced 6× · 139 likes · 2019-01-23 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088044648499601408)
- “Communities devastated by disasters almost never lapse into chaos and disorder – if anything, they become more just, more egalitarian, and more deliberately fair to individuals.”
  (resurfaced 6× · 134 likes · 2018-04-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988434405654904832)
- just hanging with the girls
  (resurfaced 6× · 133 likes · 2020-12-06 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1335387569962450945)
- people don't really do the math  0.1% of people is a lot of people  most aren't willing to take 1000 shots for the 0.1% payoff  they'll write it off as risky lottery chasing  but you just need to be able to afford those 1000 shots  then it's just math, and victory is inevitable
  (resurfaced 6× · 131 likes · 2021-04-16 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1383108054800084997)
- but if you assert “we’ve got it, we’ve got the perfect conceptualization of the absolute truth”, you will attract True Believers who chant it mindlessly, and quickly the heavy fog of familiarity descends upon everyone and you have to abscond into the wilderness to see again
  (resurfaced 6× · 130 likes · 2021-02-18 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1362285711055986692)
- Maybe...observe children at a playground? It’s informal, improvisational, sensitive - failures are small and graceful, individual interactions are not burdened with the weight of the other person’s whole existence. Pressure is minimal, rejection is not a big deal. Just play
  (resurfaced 6× · 129 likes · 2019-07-17 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1151454795279945728)
- u kno how people can be harsher on their loved ones or ingroup members than with strangers? there's a range of reasons, from "I expect more from us", "your incompetence/failure makes me look bad", "this is a sore spot for me", etc  one of mine is, I get annoyed by the "half-free"
  (resurfaced 6× · 127 likes · 2020-10-18 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1317773400429924356)
- take note
  (resurfaced 6× · 125 likes · 2019-01-21 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087429842088259584)
- Benjamin Franklin's rules of bad reply game, 1750
  (resurfaced 6× · 124 likes · 2021-05-20 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1395327923125514243)
- “For a novice, novelty is newness. For an expert, novelty is nuance.” Seek out the nuance and you’ll never be terminally bored https://x.com/soonaorlater/status/1080540134561374208?s=21
  (resurfaced 6× · 123 likes · 2019-01-03 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1080690464695537664)
- I still believe that a single blogger can change the world
  (resurfaced 6× · 122 likes · 2021-02-28 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1366146246398726146)
- nobody can move as quickly, confidently and resolutely as the people who are grounded in a deep understanding of + pursuit of their own aesthetic. these artists look like magicians to people who aren't in tune with themselves
  (resurfaced 6× · 122 likes · 2019-12-09 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1203925446733156357)
- @nicklovescode let there be light  https://t.co/uF4UsJPco1
  (resurfaced 6× · 122 likes · 2020-08-13 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1294052643300548613)
- common assumption is that marketing is about putting a false veneer onto lousy things. some people *do* do that, and it leads to ugly, highly visible failures  far more interesting and satisfying to look for good things that have lousy veneers, and just remove the veneer
  (resurfaced 6× · 121 likes · 2019-11-15 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1195211318078275584)
- 1915, earthquake in Avezzano, Italy, killed 30,000 people in 60 seconds. Rich and poor were all thrust into basic struggle for survival. “An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain,” one of the survivors wrote. “The equality of all men.”
  (resurfaced 6× · 119 likes · 2018-04-23 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988434403498999809)
- to have ADHD, in my view, is to be blessed & cursed to be the custodian of a wild trickster spirit who refuses to be tamed, broken, refuses to obey anybody else's directions – including your own. You can't win, IMO, so you might as well accept your fate and go along for the ride
  (resurfaced 6× · 115 likes · 2019-09-06 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1169989222230421504)
- just as reality is unrealistic, authenticity gets parsed as inauthentic
  (resurfaced 6× · 114 likes · 2021-01-07 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1347297312863735808)
- 39. if you precede your actions with the slightest amount of consideration, you are already ahead of the curve
  (resurfaced 6× · 114 likes · 2019-06-20 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141559712552386561)
- this suggests to me that news will only get more infuriating as time goes on
  (resurfaced 6× · 114 likes · 2019-02-01 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1091431346969268224)
- 39. just looking out for everyone else
  (resurfaced 6× · 113 likes · 2022-09-10 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1568654759594459137)
- Meditating on the fact that when I eventually “succeed” (as defined by others), people will say that I was lucky, and that using me as a case study = survivor bias
  (resurfaced 6× · 110 likes · 2019-11-21 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1197374717809684485)
- One of things Marie Kondo mentions when talking about “Spark Joy” is this idea that... for a lot of people, when they touch their things, they don’t even really have any feelings at all. It’s “just stuff”, and they have to *practice* feeling the feelings. Turning up the voltage
  (resurfaced 6× · 109 likes · 2019-08-05 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1158242268228153345)
- theory about loving your own writing:  1. people who are selfish narcissists are known to be self-obsessed and say that they love their work  2. most people would prefer not to be seen as selfish narcissists  3. most people try to avoid saying things like "I love my writing"
  (resurfaced 6× · 107 likes · 2019-01-13 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084553040596656129)
- there was that mom with "i'm so fit, what's your excuse" that went viral in 2013 – and then a couple of years later revealed that she struggled with eating disorders, marital problems and hating herself  in a way, The Struggle really is a sort of faustian bargain for moral worth
  (resurfaced 6× · 106 likes · 2018-10-22 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1054407764263325696)
- shrooms
  (resurfaced 6× · 105 likes · 2018-05-20 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998216766646927360)
- @kalliopica correct! also consider the pacific ocean
  (resurfaced 6× · 104 likes · 2018-05-15 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/996272715232198657)
- A simple but powerful truth I keep in a box is "sleep is the bottleneck limiting your brain's performance". Understanding this intellectually is easy; rearchitecting the rest of your life to accommodate it is hard. I know it's stupid
  (resurfaced 6× · 103 likes · 2018-12-14 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1073503269824081920)
- 028: THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY, featuring @DavidDeutschOxf!  - parochial problems - the purpose of conversation - creativity and static vs dynamic societies - the danger of creativity - tolerance for deviants - rational vs anti-rational memes - much more  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t511rshmw1Y
  (resurfaced 6× · 100 likes · 2020-03-18 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1240260216056213505)
- @TheAnnaGat one of my fav richard feynman essays is the one where "he fixes radios... by thinking!"
  (resurfaced 6× · 99 likes · 2019-07-22 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153367542238347264)
- IMO our problem is less that “communication is lossy” and more that we *fail to appreciate* that communication is lossy.  If we truly appreciated this, we would all give each other a lot more time and space to revise our statements.  but we don’t, because https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044880239158022144?s=21
  (resurfaced 6× · 98 likes · 2019-01-29 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090131567802908678)
- could spend a lifetime just investigating the colors of india
  (resurfaced 6× · 98 likes · 2018-11-25 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1066676484754956288)
- I had trouble sleeping last night because of this fact that @sharanvkaur pointed to me: in 1933 - when Lee Kuan Yew was 10 years old - ONE in FOUR Chinese adults in Singapore were addicted to opium. ONE IN FOUR https://t.co/gKvvBrFeXA
  (resurfaced 6× · 97 likes · 2019-09-01 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1167969137752072192)
- Chappelle and Seinfeld on letting the idea drive, and “the guy onstage”
  (resurfaced 6× · 97 likes · 2019-07-29 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1155839871807717376)
- putting together a sort of network of musical artists who influenced other musical artists. just getting started, this is going to get very, very busy. any important relationships that come to mind?
  (resurfaced 6× · 97 likes · 2019-07-18 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1151910007073415173)
- 1. mice raised in a warm nest with plenty of food scurried home immediately when subjected to loud, intrusive noises.  2. mice raised in noisy homes with little food similarly returned home EVEN WHEN BEING IN MORE PLEASANT ENVIRONMENTS.  I guess home is home even if it's hell
  (resurfaced 6× · 97 likes · 2018-04-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/981471512925388800)
- So yesterday I announced that I’m setting aside $1000 for “blogpost of the year”.  Having slept on it, I’ve gotten a little more clarity about what exactly I want it to do. I want to incentivise discussion about scenes, scene-building, community creation and maintenance https://x.com/visakanv/status/1376743860143988738
  (resurfaced 6× · 96 likes · 2021-03-31 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1377200161911271425)
- my optimism is not a *substitute* for despair, it’s a manifestation of it, a response to it, an emergence from it. if i did not despair i would not be optimistic, because it would not be necessary to be optimistic. i dont need to be sold on despair, its the mud my lotus grows in
  (resurfaced 6× · 94 likes · 2022-12-01 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1598415399238131714)
- friend: i would die for hayley williams  me: I would restructure my entire life in hayley's honor: strive to embody her spirit, do my utmost to pass on her messages of vulnerability, openness, honesty & kinship to every human being  friend:  me: what, u said ur thing i said mine
  (resurfaced 6× · 94 likes · 2020-06-04 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1268540336458158080)
- "You wanna say something?"
  (resurfaced 6× · 93 likes · 2020-09-27 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1310271389912375296)
- But there came a point where I got fucking sick of it. I realized I wasn’t writing what I wanted, but what I thought would get a reaction out of people. My audience seemed to be getting stupider, not smarter. In 2013 I decided to give up, and walked away from a high-traffic blog
  (resurfaced 6× · 91 likes · 2019-01-26 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1089033953569165312)
- You can end up producing smart work *entirely* by accident, and still own it because you recognized it. It’s yours! That’s the gift that the creative process just gives you sometimes. You can then study and reverse-engineer this, and wow, you just got smarter as a result
  (resurfaced 6× · 90 likes · 2019-01-24 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088353645110775808)
- (Any time there’s a label that starts getting fashionable, it’ll get flooded with bad imitators who use it as a substitute for thinking. Roughly akin to how today’s hot new startup becomes tomorrow’s corporate bureaucracy. It’s an inescapable part of the cycle of trash)
  (resurfaced 6× · 89 likes · 2018-05-11 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/994982985316188160)
- Scarcities in the world:  - Stories - Meaning - Context - Perspective - Empathy - Sincerity - Relationships - Focus - Nuance - Curiosity
  (resurfaced 6× · 88 likes · 2014-12-31 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/550191257117409280)
- Like, I’d really like to live this Yogi Bhajan quote - and I think there’s a lot of truth-value in this - but at the same time, what if you’re the asshole?
  (resurfaced 6× · 88 likes · 2018-10-07 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048773586020786176)
- yikes man, yikes. rough times.  grateful that I wrote it down.
  (resurfaced 6× · 86 likes · 2020-08-06 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1291473991572414464)
- At a meta level I am still playing this game. I would like to be a successful writer by my own constantly-evolving definition of success. I‘d to eventually make a living doing this. I am willing to persist at this for 80 more years if I can. And if I fail, at least I tried, man!
  (resurfaced 6× · 86 likes · 2018-07-07 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015481558059237378)
- The Economic Naturalist, Robert Frank. Can’t remember where I got this but it’s been in my shelf for ages, seems like a Freakonomics type book. Let’s dive in
  (resurfaced 6× · 85 likes · 2018-08-25 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1033335780008058880)
- Paraphrasing Sadhguru: you enjoy your children because they are so helplessly dependent on you. My baby, my booboo. Imagine if your baby came out and said “Who the hell are you?” You wouldn’t like that baby. But she *does* ask that question, it just takes her 14-15 years to do it
  (resurfaced 6× · 84 likes · 2019-01-24 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088366553035268096)
- let's normalize not being normal hahahahahaha got em
  (resurfaced 6× · 83 likes · 2020-06-27 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1276778886315929600)
- Watching a 17-year-old @yelyahwilliams earnestly reaching out to the sweaty Anaheim crowd in 2007 changed me forever; Paramore has my heart always  When they get the crowd singing with them, then kill (most of) the music... ❤️  my entire life is a pursuit of this deep intimacy
  (resurfaced 6× · 83 likes · 2019-01-12 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084052131357683712)
- Watched Easy A a couple of days ago (very witty, clever script) and thinking this morning again about how cultural expectations and pressures around sexual behaviour are really a sort of powerful psychic prison. Slut, prude, virgin, stud - all tools of social control
  (resurfaced 6× · 82 likes · 2018-10-17 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1052423644188692480)
- Jung: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
  (resurfaced 6× · 81 likes · 2021-09-24 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1441282577579446285)
- "Anytime anybody wants something from me, and I have to say no, I wish I could say yes. I wish I had unlimited time and attention and patience and compatibility, and I could make everyone in the world happy and that would be fantastic." – @maybegray being adorably relatable
  (resurfaced 6× · 79 likes · 2021-03-17 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1372059832539213827)
- Found this old picture on my Uber account (must have uploaded it around... 2013? 2014?) I’m a totally different person now! I’m gonna age so well, I can feel it. My sexiest days are still decades away 🥰
  (resurfaced 6× · 78 likes · 2019-05-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1127062277612400640)
- Waiting for the bus
  (resurfaced 6× · 77 likes · 2019-05-22 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1131150526739959808)
- @TheBadPrince Christopher Alexander knew how you're feeling:
  (resurfaced 6× · 76 likes · 2017-01-23 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/823464140324814849)
- Been chewing on a personal formulation of how to navigate the tension between genuine self-love and ugly narcissism  How about this: I should strive to be in the top 5-10% of people who love me the most AND the top 5-10% who are most critical of me  radical candor for the self
  (resurfaced 6× · 72 likes · 2019-08-18 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1163042594340786177)
- if you advance frontiers, heroes are made  there's a force operator on the educational pipeline  you stimulate the formation of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, technologists – you birth these people into society, they make tomorrow come
  (resurfaced 6× · 72 likes · 2019-01-12 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084016609289592832)
- This by the way is why incredibly talented storytellers, performers, artists, authors etc seem to be so much stratospherically better than beginners, amateurs & enthusiasts. They have entire support teams not only helping them but *leveling them up*. Sparring with the mega-mind
  (resurfaced 6× · 72 likes · 2019-01-07 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1082397457818869761)
- Monopolists avoid bragging because it invites scrutiny, audits, attack.  Rather, they conceal their monopoly- usually by exaggerating the power of their nonexistent competitors.  Google frames itself as a small player in a big advertising market rather than a big player in search
  (resurfaced 6× · 71 likes · 2018-04-26 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/989440833790263296)
- On my recent trip to India (Trichy & Karaikudi in Tamil Nadu), I was *fascinated* by the trucks, lorries and buses on the roads. Going through my notes, I find myself wanting to look them up. The brand that stood out the most for me was Ashok Leyland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashok_Leyland
  (resurfaced 6× · 71 likes · 2018-12-12 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1072761311304400896)
- @selfprime @webdevMason Btw Mason I think you’d enjoy this - Victor Wooten, musical genius and incredible teacher + communicator, on a healthy, “natural language” approach to learning. So wholesome and encouraging, “learn-via-osmosis” school of thought https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zvjW9arAZ0&feature=youtu.be
  (resurfaced 6× · 71 likes · 2018-09-21 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1042994501575311362)
- just made my first $0.13 from youtube ads, hope all this money doesn’t go to my head
  (resurfaced 6× · 70 likes · 2020-12-23 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1341797040821477377)
- Joking on the internet is not allowed
  (resurfaced 6× · 70 likes · 2019-05-28 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1133275286844239874)
- 4. once you've exported your bookmarks into the html file, delete them from your browser. close all the tabs. it's processing time. sort your bookmarks into buckets according to your interests. add a string of words to each link to contextualize it + make it easier to search/find
  (resurfaced 6× · 70 likes · 2019-01-11 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1083566622701367296)
- A common false dichotomy in a lot of contexts is “is it better to stand out or fit in?” You can actually do both well, or either terribly. It depends on your sensitivity to the context. Most things worth talking about are complex enough to allow for beautiful differences
  (resurfaced 6× · 69 likes · 2018-12-08 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1071353262912073729)
- it seems nobody I’m following has tweeted about Al-Ma’mun. This guy was like the Pericles of Baghdad, and in a sense we have him to thank for the Baghdad House of Wisdom, creating space for Al-Khwarizmi and friends to translate Aristotle, invent algebra and so on
  (resurfaced 6× · 68 likes · 2021-02-20 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1363074682157625347)
- @halvorz sanity is about “passing” in the eyes of others. you don’t actually have to *stay* sane, you just need to *appear* sane when necessary. Kind of like how video games render graphics
  (resurfaced 6× · 68 likes · 2020-07-02 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1278756586366791680)
- There’s a sort of U curve when it comes to sadposting  When you’re weak & low-status, saying that you’re sad (& being needy) about it will often make things worse  When you’re strong & high-status, & you know how to sell it, talking abt your sadness can empower your whole party
  (resurfaced 6× · 68 likes · 2019-04-27 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1121943570389225472)
- This post was popular on both /r/feminism and /r/mensrights
  (resurfaced 6× · 68 likes · 2018-05-21 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998439444142178304)
- do ya'll know about Doom and Doot, it's just so cute and wholesome to me. I'm going to gush about it for those of you who don't know  DOOM is the popular Id Software shooter game, L is Doom (1993), R is Doom (2016). Both great games for killing demons. Lots of fun
  (resurfaced 6× · 67 likes · 2020-01-15 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1217476050352918529)
- When I was in Junior College, I'd often get frustrated when large crowds of students were bottlenecked when entering or leaving a lecture theatre. 10 years ago and I still think about this. There are two sets of two doors, and yet invariably only one was opened. Agonizingly slow
  (resurfaced 6× · 67 likes · 2018-01-31 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/958745080549949441)
- Singapore began receiving Indian convicts from British India from 1825–1873. These convlcts literally built 1800s SG – roads, bridges and monumental buildings that still exist today. They were housed in a prison where SMU now stands – of which there is no trace, no memorial
  (resurfaced 6× · 67 likes · 2018-05-26 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1000454737681006592)
- I revisit this Liz Gilbert TED talk every year or so: about artists, creativity, mental health, the fear of failure and the curse of success, and how other people talk about you and your work https://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_your_elusive_creative_genius?language=en&view=transcript
  (resurfaced 6× · 66 likes · 2018-11-25 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1066816254097285120)
- I know I'm getting older – but I thought 2017 was an amazing year for memes, better than 2016, 2015, 2014  in case people are forgetting, all of these were in 2017
  (resurfaced 6× · 65 likes · 2019-06-12 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1138708059767726080)
- Love these passages about Leonardo contemplating fear and desire, the power and powerlessness of a mighty whale, existential dread and the inexorable reality of the passage of time
  (resurfaced 6× · 65 likes · 2018-04-13 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/984734783958691840)
- I love seeing scrappy, shitty work. It's a sign that somebody wants to make something, more than they're worried about what people think. ❤
  (resurfaced 6× · 63 likes · 2017-10-20 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/921211731468214272)
- @joespurpleshirt annoying how the villain behind the villain behind the villain is always fear. every episode!!
  (resurfaced 6× · 62 likes · 2021-08-28 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1431668517884112898)
- The nuance in this GIF is pretty challenging to convey in text. “I’m pretty sure you’re wrong, but I don’t want to shut you down - I‘d like you to reconsider this, now that you know I’m not too cosy with the way you frame it.” Body language + tone of voice can be 80-90% of comms
  (resurfaced 6× · 62 likes · 2019-05-08 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1126178517459263489)
- @michaelcurzi the answer to almost every “if you’re so smart why aren’t you X” question is “because you’re a coward”
  (resurfaced 6× · 60 likes · 2021-12-15 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1471004481810698241)
- one of the coolest things I can do with my twitter account is introduce people to each other  today I want to do this for the moms  if you are a mom (or a mom-to-be, I know there are a few of you)  say hi, and make friends with each other  prompt: what's your weirdest mom moment
  (resurfaced 6× · 60 likes · 2019-12-22 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1208789416283496448)
- Finally started watching The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and it’s really good  Check out this bit about children not wanting to disappoint their parents, and having “no attention span” in 1990. “I blame television.”
  (resurfaced 6× · 59 likes · 2019-07-11 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1149239139079901184)
- When I was 17, I was trying to save up money to record my band’s music - and so I worked part-time banquet staff at Shangri-La hotel. It was one of the most interesting experiences of my life (lol at potato quality 2007 camera phones)
  (resurfaced 6× · 59 likes · 2018-11-22 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065516983385374721)
- mainstream commercial nihilism can't be trusted?!
  (resurfaced 6× · 59 likes · 2019-07-12 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1149727125194149888)
- A very large % of everything that’s described as “half-joking” turns out to be powerfully true
  (resurfaced 6× · 58 likes · 2019-06-20 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141532437710639104)
- It took 50yrs for factories to transition from steam power to electric power, even though it was cleaner, safer, more efficient. Why? Existing systems were optimized for the former - you can't just swap A for B, you also need to change the architecture, production line, workers
  (resurfaced 6× · 57 likes · 2018-04-10 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/983545624745267201)
- you are the city, the planner, and its people. you are the holy scripture in the temple and you are the graffiti on the walls. you are the benevolent deity and you are the homeless in the streets. you are the melody and the mistakes. you are the dipshit and the divine
  (resurfaced 6× · 56 likes · 2021-09-27 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1442409120196284416)
- Figured out how to make the black-and-gold shirt work 😎
  (resurfaced 6× · 55 likes · 2019-07-19 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1152128503799672834)
- Do ya'll remember EVONY? I don't know if anybody ever cared about the game itself, but the ads... the ads are a magnificent, breast-y story of A/B testing that goes all the way to double D's and beyond  It started innocuously enough. which do you think got more clicks? 🍒
  (resurfaced 6× · 55 likes · 2019-03-21 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1108656688578465792)
- trying to pick my favorite dude (gender neutral) from each century. not ~necessarily~ good dudes, but, dudes to use as a frame of reference  1500s gotta be MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE. honorable mentions for akbar, shakespeare, galileo, suleiman, cervantes, kepler https://x.com/visakanv/status/1347149274409099266
  (resurfaced 6× · 54 likes · 2021-11-09 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1458030190831943681)
- galaxy-brain: there are no others
  (resurfaced 6× · 54 likes · 2020-10-27 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1320928669611618305)
- REMEMBER: "A psychedelic meditation set in the geometric thoughtscapes of Wanderweird's art, in which the nature of reality is revealed."  https://t.co/lL3quEWyXz
  (resurfaced 6× · 53 likes · 2019-11-03 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1190914650679808000)
- 8. I was at a one year old’s birthday party and I witnessed a mom saying, “what will the next party’s theme be? Whatever Disney fucking wants it to be, that’s what.”   https://x.com/jyrhighness/status/1198818252022935552?s=21 https://x.com/jyrhighness/status/1198818252022935552
  (resurfaced 6× · 53 likes · 2019-11-25 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1199105344678424577)
- This scene cracks me up. The ammosexual ballet 😂😂
  (resurfaced 6× · 53 likes · 2019-04-08 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1115199733541171200)
- IMO this is true for all forms of bigotry  when people read stories about rape, or racial violence, etc,  some people read each new story as a new isolated incident  while others read each new story as part of a long-running thread of a broader pattern https://x.com/helpmeskeletor/status/1067323119117844480
  (resurfaced 6× · 53 likes · 2018-11-29 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068141753134329864)
- Story idea swirling around in my mind for some time: Started out as GoT / LotR fan fiction, of an Indian/Persian race – The Elephants of House Purusha. What if these folks, rather than being Scary Evil Others, were actually kind, gentle, thoughtful, patient, funny?
  (resurfaced 6× · 53 likes · 2018-03-18 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/975223458144530432)
- It’s funny, in three of the 2nd set of pics I’m actively seeking out sunlight - literally sticking my head out of the window for two of them (R). In the first set, there’s sunlight (L) but I’m averse to it. It makes me uncomfortable. Same haircut & fresh shave, complete diff vibe
  (resurfaced 6× · 52 likes · 2020-03-16 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1239402728066912257)
- Time for quackposting!  There is something like mana or chi or energy, The Force, whatever, I don’t care what we call it. Emotional energy. You can feel it at major sporting events, and at literal riots. It’s a kind of fire, or electricity, and it is both powerful and dangerous
  (resurfaced 6× · 52 likes · 2019-07-06 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1147445763321974787)
- In 1992, a Member of Parliament said Little India was pitch dark because there were too many Indians. He apologised. We forgave him.  In 2016, a Member of Parliament called Indians “walking time-bombs.” She apologised. We forgave her.  How many more times will we have to forgive?
  (resurfaced 6× · 52 likes · 2019-08-04 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1158154858991460353)
- @HuanWin reading 48 laws of power at about 20yo was probably my most major 0-to-1 'awakening' moment. "honesty is a blunt instrument that can bloody more than it cuts"
  (resurfaced 6× · 52 likes · 2018-09-12 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1039677900012703745)
- things that make me likelier to follow someone  1. nerdy tweets/threads & questions demonstrating sincere curiosity  2. memoir-type tweets/threads about personal backstory, experiences, oral histories  3. link to a personal website with about page + blogposts/articles on it
  (resurfaced 6× · 51 likes · 2019-06-27 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1144193223209828352)
- The 63 known elements when Dmitri Mendeleev drew up the periodic table in 1869 - leaving gaps for new elements which were later discovered  Everything starts out scrappy
  (resurfaced 6× · 50 likes · 2019-07-29 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1155820325357010944)
- some people tell me they like my short hair better but I definitely feel like I lost *some* mystic powers. my hair looked different every day, it had a life of its own. I miss that
  (resurfaced 6× · 50 likes · 2019-09-21 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1175521231409307649)
- The only thing that matters in life
  (resurfaced 6× · 50 likes · 2018-08-08 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1027107612943237120)
- Interesting bit from Bertrand Russell about the Dutch golden age, resonates with @DavidDeutschoxf's riffs about conjecture and criticism
  (resurfaced 6× · 49 likes · 2020-04-14 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1250118080572710912)
- @mdaviswilson yes, yes. the wisdom is trapped in the booty. shake the hips and all will be revealed
  (resurfaced 6× · 48 likes · 2020-03-10 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1237199273537572870)
- “The banker is more dangerous, more powerful, when the traditional structures of society have given way. There is nothing now to obstruct the progress of money. [...] With no king on his coins, the banker is more or less obliged to be a kingmaker himself.”
  (resurfaced 6× · 48 likes · 2019-04-20 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1119655255237509123)
- I got invited into a whatsapp group that's full of teenagers discussing politics and philosophy. It's hilarious and adorable. Every generation really re-litigates the same questions and arguments over and over again. It's quite heartwarming
  (resurfaced 6× · 48 likes · 2017-11-13 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/930105478746578945)
- I'm going to look this up, but I'd love to hear some anecdotal thoughts and responses: why were robots, cyborgs, Transformers, Astro Boy, etc such a big hit in Japan? Akira, Ghost In The Shell – these are legendary now, but what were their origins? Post-war Industrialization?
  (resurfaced 6× · 48 likes · 2018-05-25 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1000046144410431489)
- Every city has a vibe. Singapore has a vibe too, and I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anybody describe in a way that’s true to my experience of it. Maybe it’s been done in a local novel that I haven’t read. With tenderness & hope: Singaporeans are still recovering from postwar trauma
  (resurfaced 6× · 47 likes · 2019-06-15 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139835148097089542)
- I’ve always been fascinated by the phrase “god-fearing”. I do not fear god, I fear the *mechanisms* by which the image of god is sustained. I fear being murdered if and when an innocent question gets interpreted as blasphemy. Really, I am “man-fearing”. Hell hath no fury...
  (resurfaced 6× · 47 likes · 2018-12-18 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074921247509643264)
- look at this pic hawkeye took of nova, vs the pics she takes of herself on instagram  I cannot stress this enough, how radically different people see and experience the world and how so many of us are locked up in prisons of default settings and perspectives, even our own
  (resurfaced 6× · 46 likes · 2018-09-25 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044535520519319552)
- 4. there's 7,700,000,000+ people in the world, what are the odds that your current social graph is optimal for you? FIND THE OTHERS. Aggressively. this can be counterintuitive, but each soulmate you add to your social graph improves your life dramatically https://x.com/visakanv/status/997290279051804672
  (resurfaced 6× · 46 likes · 2019-01-12 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084064545012760576)
- @nickcammarata though tyrants may command that lamps be smashed  in rooms where lovers are destined to meet  they cannot snuff out the moon
  (resurfaced 6× · 45 likes · 2022-02-06 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1490219272022286337)
- 1. Randy Pausch's Last Lecture. I watch this roughly once every year.  The bit that changed my life: "Randy, it's such a shame that people perceive you as so arrogant, because it's going to limit what you're going to be able to accomplish in life."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
  (resurfaced 6× · 45 likes · 2021-01-05 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1346476088482963461)
- Here’s a video of the number of people who DM me in a month. I think it’s possible that I spend more time replying to DMs than tweeting
  (resurfaced 6× · 45 likes · 2020-06-22 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1275038024984784896)
- Every community has certain things the gatekeepers look out for - certain words and stylings [1]. I haven’t posted in Hacker News for a few years [2] but those folks were suckers for footnotes. _____ [1] http blah blah link to style guide [2] about four years, give or take.
  (resurfaced 6× · 45 likes · 2018-10-06 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048375126570369024)
- i'm a totally different person. who is this guy. tired, anxious, very sad guy energy. nervous, even
  (resurfaced 6× · 44 likes · 2020-07-24 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1286758925556019200)
- here's another way of looking at it  if we have a disagreement, we need to identify our respective assumptions, and talk about our respective experiences. if you're not open to doing that then don't waste people's time by disagreeing with them stupidly
  (resurfaced 6× · 44 likes · 2019-01-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088079902136397825)
- the kingdom of god is within you
  (resurfaced 6× · 42 likes · 2021-10-23 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1451803628595867651)
- for future reference, here's a list of threads and tweets that I've made (that I can remember) that involve me using @scappleapp as a thinking tool  1. memespace start https://x.com/visakanv/status/1095703693083594752
  (resurfaced 6× · 41 likes · 2020-06-15 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1272458761974812678)
- It’s a little early to call it - would need about a week to be sure, but -  this tweet may have just changed my life https://x.com/evanmdriscoll/status/1218670184912900097
  (resurfaced 6× · 41 likes · 2020-01-19 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1218813566779658240)
- It's fascinating to me that a lot of the things we take for granted today – electricity, gas stoves, cars, movies – were all once oddball novelties that needed to be advertised in order to persuade people to buy them
  (resurfaced 6× · 40 likes · 2018-09-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1042460102551252992)
- TIL that Staedtler's logo is not just any random soldier, but it's supposed to be Mars, the Roman god of war. His Greek equivalent, Ares, was treated with some revulsion, but Mars was glorified by the Romans. The month of March is named after him
  (resurfaced 6× · 40 likes · 2019-05-24 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1131822293015863296)
- The Content Distribution Gap:  1. a marketing team needs to distribute their content 2. each person usually has bigger priorities than distribution work 3. team tries to hire freelancers to do it 4. 98% of freelancers can't do it well 5. the 2% that do it well are worth hiring
  (resurfaced 6× · 40 likes · 2018-03-12 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/973040947410829313)
- Lmao there’s a random Lamborghini in a carpark in Yishun  this is a big mood  It’s me, I’m the Lamborghini parked by the KFC
  (resurfaced 6× · 39 likes · 2019-04-03 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1113576845251710976)
- “What makes him unusual is not just the size of his fears but his manner of hanging onto them. Rather than bury those shaming moments of childhood vulnerability, as most of us do, he nourished their memory, translated them into bold cinematic images”.
  (resurfaced 6× · 38 likes · 2019-11-13 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1194538517277184001)
- check out the quality of comments I get!! 🔥🔥🔥  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhtvLR1kmJ0
  (resurfaced 6× · 38 likes · 2020-02-09 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1226578845358182401)
- @QiaochuYuan we live in a largely infantile social reality
  (resurfaced 6× · 37 likes · 2020-11-12 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1326793757283528704)
- every tweet is sacred to me, I say this with full earnestness
  (resurfaced 6× · 34 likes · 2020-07-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1280498692110286859)
- People use me as a Schelling point sometimes; ie “are you going to the party? I’ll meet you at Visa”
  (resurfaced 6× · 34 likes · 2019-01-17 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085791733311406080)
- found a 2021 rewrite i did of a 2010 blogpost  persistent practice and rigorous review
  (resurfaced 6× · 33 likes · 2022-02-24 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1496799526861959169)
- kanye was talking about louise wilson  but really what I’m paying attention to is zane- how he’s able to make artists feel so comfortable and safe, to gently nudge them in such powerful ways
  (resurfaced 6× · 33 likes · 2020-02-29 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1233690131611049986)
- This amazing guy - that I never see anybody talk about - pretty much predicted the Internet, in the 70s, by reasoning from first principles and comparing patterns of human thought against the progressive complexity in the evolution of biology
  (resurfaced 6× · 33 likes · 2019-02-08 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093907396416565248)
- Life-sized Gundam models are really something to behold. A monument to human imagination and contemporary storytelling.
  (resurfaced 6× · 33 likes · 2018-05-25 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1000063876493275136)
- 4. re: socratic method... I honestly just wanna know things, man 😔 but I get it, the well is poisoned, bad-faith actors fuck up everything around me, sigh, sad face  but anyway read this adorable story of a teacher teaching kids binary via socratic method https://t.co/zhbjsvuoPe
  (resurfaced 6× · 32 likes · 2020-09-23 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1308894941834338304)
- Was wandering further and decided I needed to eat something - felt a vibe about this place, and said hello - told them it’s my first time in the States + last day in SF and asked them to give me what *they* like to eat. Lovely folks who plan to travel soon too. It’s delicious ofc
  (resurfaced 6× · 32 likes · 2019-05-08 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1125920283909476352)
- 33. simplicity https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/how-steve-jobs-love-of-simplicity-fueled-a-design-revolution-23868877/
  (resurfaced 6× · 31 likes · 2021-11-18 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1461227716695396353)
- Do you know how smol we are. you can walk from one end of the country to the other in less than 12 hours
  (resurfaced 6× · 30 likes · 2018-06-13 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1006762596177973248)
- the world may never have known of bob marley if not for chris  island records was started with $10,000 of chris's parents' money  that's it  that's how little it takes sometimes, and yet  who are the unfunded chris blackwells right now
  (resurfaced 6× · 29 likes · 2021-02-15 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1361330483292856324)
- 140char twitter: pithy aphorisms  Early stage 280chars + threads: elaborate nuanceposting  the already-here-unevenly-distributed future as I see it: aphorisms, but with nuance attached.  All nuance leads to aphorism, in a way that is generative and evocative, not diminishing
  (resurfaced 6× · 29 likes · 2019-01-29 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090394942818504705)
- @nosilverv @Matthew_Sweet @sonyasupposedly The Imaginary Sonya in Visa’s Brain: what I do with my own magic rectangle to my own body is my own business thanks!! Your disapproval will only make me wanna do it more!!! Best regards!!!!
  (resurfaced 6× · 28 likes · 2020-02-11 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1227100451977322496)
- THE QUALITY WITHOUT A NAME: to define it we must begin by understanding that every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there  patterns can be alive or dead (infinite or finite?)  living patterns set us free, dead ones keep us locked
  (resurfaced 6× · 28 likes · 2019-06-22 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142444279249297419)
- NO RESPECT
  (resurfaced 6× · 28 likes · 2018-09-10 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1038961067743793153)
- To be clear, I don’t think there needs to be any grand conspiracy theory to maintain this. Although it’s not hard to imagine how it likely started from leaders who wanted compliance. “Glorious leader, our people are killing themselves more than usual. Should we introspect?”
  (resurfaced 6× · 28 likes · 2018-05-09 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/994027359970852865)
- I've been having a lot of fun on Pinterest lately, so much quality content and it's so refreshing. very talented people, and aesthetics that can still be surprising. great free-association engine
  (resurfaced 6× · 27 likes · 2019-07-22 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153269660113965056)
- Last thought of the night: “Don’t be tacky (unless you know why you’re doing it)” is a surprisingly powerful heuristic for me. Idk if anybody else will relate to it. It’s an aesthetic-grounded approach to peopling, related to “people are forgiving of most things if you’re classy”
  (resurfaced 6× · 27 likes · 2019-03-02 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1101892734653161472)
- my favorite scene from Titanic has nothing to do with Jack or Rose – it's this. A musician decides to play music for the last moments of his life, and his fellow musicians join him. All I want in life is to play music with kindred beings, en route to death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RcVzevWX4U
  (resurfaced 6× · 25 likes · 2018-08-27 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1034019440122183680)
- 4,500,000,000+ people loosely lumped together as “people of sunrise land” by some Greek boi
  (resurfaced 6× · 25 likes · 2018-07-13 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1017705342854021120)
- Bought myself some swag from an older gentleman who’s travelled around the world. I really appreciate the kind, thoughtful conversations I’ve had with total strangers and I feel blessed to carry bits of them with me
  (resurfaced 6× · 24 likes · 2019-05-04 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1124775466580135936)
- @cosimia_ the Babelfish problem
  (resurfaced 6× · 22 likes · 2019-05-16 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1128976364940304385)
- When I was about 20, I read Keay Davidson’s biography of Carl Sagan and I remember being extremely moved. I’ve forgotten practically all of the details, and it’s been such a long while that I’m pretty excited to read it again
  (resurfaced 6× · 21 likes · 2018-11-28 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1067765852500447232)
- @RealtimeAI Twitter friends in SF
  (resurfaced 6× · 20 likes · 2019-04-28 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1122323575455621120)
- My cover photo is reminder to myself that I have a unique POV on the intersection of Indian history, technology, cyberpunk, anime, etc. I'm researching a fictional universe that's a sort of Desi Wakanda/Cyberpunk/Game-of-Thrones that'll probably take me ~20+ years to write
  (resurfaced 6× · 20 likes · 2018-08-22 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1032197766749990912)
- The Factory was Andy Warhol's NYC studio, which had three locations between 1962 and 1984. It "became a well-known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons."
  (resurfaced 6× · 19 likes · 2021-01-21 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1352252140593451015)
- he died of quinsy – first i'm hearing of this, it's peritonsillar abcess... basically a bad mouth infection. yikes. for all his wealth, he didn't have access to antibiotics. these days you don't even need hospital admission for this. you just need Alexander Fleming, born 1881
  (resurfaced 6× · 18 likes · 2021-01-07 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1347153946893160449)
- For eg, let’s say we talk about music. The exhilarating thing about learning music is things like, discovering that 5 different songs, each with a different set of chords, all have the same chord *progression*. Ie they’re all *essentially* the same song
  (resurfaced 6× · 16 likes · 2018-12-01 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068929960570576897)
- Lying awake in bed in a hotel in Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu - I’m planning to write a travel essay on my blog, but in the meantime I’ll do a quick thread of pics and thoughts so far?
  (resurfaced 6× · 16 likes · 2018-12-03 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1069694595552837632)
- @nancywyuen Sanjay's Super Team [2015]
  (resurfaced 6× · 16 likes · 2018-03-26 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/978145096959799296)
- I’m not saying it’s your fault, but I’m not saying it’s not not your fault 😂  focus your attention and words on what you want to see more of
  (resurfaced 6× · 15 likes · 2020-10-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1313421846046416901)
- The first question, of course, is what are chillies even? how many kinds of chillies are there? what is the definition of a chilli? let's dig into the etymology of the related words  ok so  chili – aztec word capsicum – french botanist word pepper – maybe sanskrit/persian
  (resurfaced 6× · 10 likes · 2019-02-11 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1095024665511133184)
- "How does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? [...] by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented."
  (resurfaced 6× · 8 likes · 2018-03-06 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/970985977433894912)
- Not giving a fuck is a subtle art, once you talk about it you have failed at it. (I, for one, am obviously very liberal with my fuck-giving)
  (resurfaced 6× · 8 likes · 2011-01-09 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/24092302666375168)
- @vgr I just finished reading The Gervais Principle (and am watching the series now). Thanks for nothing you bastard! ;-)
  (resurfaced 6× · 7 likes · 2013-09-08 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/376612493914673152)
- TV thread
  (resurfaced 6× · 7 likes · 2018-11-24 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1066245079281491969)
- the difference between bad and worse reveals good
  (resurfaced 6× · 0 likes · 2023-08-18 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1692438067897074014)
- Request for Netflix show: ethnic aunties travelling and cooking together. An Indian aunty goes to Mexico and meets the local aunties there. And compare cooking recipes, and complain about their children. Repeat with aunties worldwide
  (resurfaced 5× · 11,750 likes · 2019-06-12 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1138731915207254016)
- I do love being 30. My favourite age yet. I have money. I have time. I have friends. I have health. I have everything I ever wanted. Adults take me seriously. Kids look up to me. Women of all ages flirt with me. My parents are still healthy. It’s perfect. I am very blessed
  (resurfaced 5× · 3,373 likes · 2021-03-08 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1368717018933862403)
- @deelalz
  (resurfaced 5× · 2,149 likes · 2018-09-01 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1035951724198916096)
- even during Baghdad’s golden age, thinkerbros grumbled that the public preferred food bloggers: “If you write about fish and vegetables, you garner much merit in the public’s eyes, but if you expound truly scientific subjects, they find it irksome and boring.” – Abd al-Quddus
  (resurfaced 5× · 1,703 likes · 2023-10-15 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1713556463879344214)
- wife: thanks for dealing w the roach  me: heh, wwyd without me  wife: get another husband  me: ... I meant if I was at the office  wife: oh
  (resurfaced 5× · 1,540 likes · 2017-10-14 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/919247412551491584)
- there are people who go to festivals etc just to feed and care for other people  there’s this cosplay lady who goes to cosplay cons just to do free repairs for other people’s costumes  as long as people like this exist in the world, I’m on their team
  (resurfaced 5× · 1,480 likes · 2023-05-30 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1663618336603930624)
- wrote about an anecdote that I often bring up in conversations with people who are struggling with trying to change their behaviors: https://t.co/Uk7c78VspW
  (resurfaced 5× · 1,182 likes · 2023-05-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1661044741763657728)
- 💊
  (resurfaced 5× · 1,085 likes · 2023-01-18 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1615657007117406212)
- eg: you might think you need an evening to write an essay, but then the evening comes and you fail to write it  and then a friend asks you to explain it to them and you write it in 5-10 minutes  what was missing was the friend  this is how/why scenes are ridiculously productive
  (resurfaced 5× · 734 likes · 2022-05-20 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1527658765058646021)
- I think the idea that "narcissists are in love with themselves" is a a misleading, inaccurate concept  I think narcissists are obsessed with enforcing validation of a static image of themselves. this is a fearful state of mind that leaves little to no room for actual love at all
  (resurfaced 5× · 612 likes · 2022-01-18 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1483467678115581958)
- for people wondering about the origin of “psychofauna”, it was originally a contraction of “psychic megafauna”. I encountered the word “egragore” multiple times and found it abstract and hard to remember, so I came up with something more intuitive and evocative for myself https://x.com/visakanv/status/1428673107628154882
  (resurfaced 5× · 552 likes · 2024-01-05 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1743218209212563915)
- Circling back to the original tweet- not to single it out, but it’s illustrative: the critical life lesson here is that you can be “unbelievably idiotic” and still win big. Do you realize this? Do you feel it in your bones? Because lots of people don’t realize this
  (resurfaced 5× · 515 likes · 2021-04-14 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1382130322335096835)
- even if you never "live up to your potential", I'm glad you're here and I'm happy to share this existence with you
  (resurfaced 5× · 507 likes · 2022-01-07 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1479299462866825218)
- in my experience static rest doesn’t help much when dealing with muscular knottedness, you gotta get into the knot somehow or do something dynamic  same is also true for emotional knottedness, which can look and feel like tiredness. but rest somehow doesn’t bring relief
  (resurfaced 5× · 454 likes · 2022-11-28 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1597343208228331521)
- “I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And who's in charge?'” ― Elizabeth Gilbert
  (resurfaced 5× · 378 likes · 2022-01-02 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1477627152455532548)
- currently thinking about:  -threading -hyperlinking -information architecture -project management -einstein's messy table -pg's "holding a program in one's head" -^similar quote from steve jobs -vgr's 'crucible effect' -da vinci's messy notebooks -worrydream's seeing spaces
  (resurfaced 5× · 371 likes · 2018-12-18 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074969031596068864)
- If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid. This is genius
  (resurfaced 5× · 345 likes · 2017-10-30 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/924856413712797696)
- 1. Develop your taste  2. Produce a large volume of work, non-judgementally, with the intent of having fun and pursuing your curiosity rather than trying to be smart  3. Edit 2 based on 1  4. Congrats, now people think you’re smart  5. Don’t let 4 get to your head!! Repeat 1-2-3
  (resurfaced 5× · 340 likes · 2019-01-24 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088354634429677570)
- I beat this drum periodically to find the others  sad thing is that there aren't actually very many others  few people have any real creative vision, any real ambition  I'm not trying to be mean, it's just true  reason to stay optimistic nevertheless: we only need a few people
  (resurfaced 5× · 337 likes · 2019-07-23 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153712143683878913)
- take 2:
  (resurfaced 5× · 328 likes · 2022-04-25 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1518576473174462466)
- An interesting corollary to this is that almost every master who is recognised, is recognised because she *wanted* to be recognised, and adjusted her presentation accordingly https://x.com/visabrain/status/1201484804048355328
  (resurfaced 5× · 296 likes · 2019-12-02 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1201485713084047362)
- A thing I've been curious abt is, what I personally think of as "the old style of Hindu iconography".  If you look up Hindu gods now, there's a very distinctive aesthetic. Eg, here's a pretty iconic depiction of Krishna revealing his cosmic infinitude to Arjuna before the battle
  (resurfaced 5× · 276 likes · 2019-09-09 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1170938709350334464)
- Y’all wanna hear the Red Bull story? I once spent like a week in 2013 reading about it, but that was before I became a Twitter fiend
  (resurfaced 5× · 276 likes · 2019-02-11 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094923050162675712)
- 58. Cruelty leaks.  When you mock and insult others- even if they seem to deserve it- you become, to yourself, a person who mocks and insults others.  This happens a lot with smart people who shame others for “being dumb”. They then live in chronic fear of being dumb themselves
  (resurfaced 5× · 275 likes · 2020-11-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1331023948444622848)
- governments are simply the largest cartels; I'm not even trying to be edgy it's just true. if the dominant cartel is unable to function as an effective monopoly, there will be competitors who provide most if not all of the same services https://x.com/JovanJester/status/1254274505247252480
  (resurfaced 5× · 264 likes · 2020-04-26 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1254480730068934656)
- if someone claims to be the second coming of steve jobs, the first question I ask is, how do they talk to their families about household appliances?  people focus too much on the "great" part of "insanely great"  obsession runs all the way through  https://www.wired.com/1996/02/jobs-2/
  (resurfaced 5× · 256 likes · 2019-12-09 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1203919590318698497)
- the 100 videos I made since jan 1 2020
  (resurfaced 5× · 253 likes · 2021-01-15 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1350110785129771010)
- You hear a lot about “first kid in the family to make it to college” and less about “first kid to get their head above the dark waters of the family & community’s collective trauma” and “first kid in the family to actually be capable of unconditional love”
  (resurfaced 5× · 250 likes · 2019-03-30 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1111893369993588737)
- lookin' up models of fatigue spirals, exhaustion funnels, etc
  (resurfaced 5× · 248 likes · 2021-06-11 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1403401480405622793)
- a better way is possible
  (resurfaced 5× · 245 likes · 2023-05-02 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1653392465137901568)
- got another guy asking for dating advice recently, and a funny thing that stuck with him was sth from my marketing/branding playbook: I asked him to think about the sort of archetype he wants to embody, to imagine how his date would gush about him to her friends in the groupchat
  (resurfaced 5× · 245 likes · 2021-06-08 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1402280555895427075)
- what I believe the therapist did here is accept the utterance (I’m scared I’m stupid) without accepting the implicit premise (being stupid is bad). instead of saying “no you’re not stupid” (reinforces “stupid is bad”), their approach is “you can be stupid and safe/loved/accepted” https://x.com/elykreimendahl/status/1483898238432337921
  (resurfaced 5× · 237 likes · 2022-01-20 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1484053980699590656)
- “I like to eat food” → “in search of the best stir-fried kailan (in oyster sauce) on the east coast”  “I like watching movies” → “currently working my way through B-grade 90s slasher flicks for educational purposes”
  (resurfaced 5× · 236 likes · 2020-06-09 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1270233647208034306)
- my wife was telling me something interesting about an all-women FB group she was in  women very often *want* to have sex with men, but end up cancelling because they get creepy vibes, feel threatened or get some other red flag or warning signal that tells them not to go ahead
  (resurfaced 5× · 230 likes · 2018-09-23 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1043814399276802048)
- some simple things that I mean by 'casual optimism'  - things can get better - if things don't get better, you can get better - if you don't get better, you can find a way to laugh - there are good people in the world, you just have to find them - it's worth doing things you love
  (resurfaced 5× · 226 likes · 2019-11-22 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1197924887316201474)
- see the theory of constraints is, only improvements at the bottleneck will make a difference. and if you're putting more burden before and/or after the bottleneck, you actually make the whole thing worse, if it's a complex system https://fortelabs.com/blog/theory-of-constraints-102-local-optima/
  (resurfaced 5× · 223 likes · 2021-09-29 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1443314008467992578)
- 37. Stop reciting theory and just hit your target
  (resurfaced 5× · 212 likes · 2022-08-03 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1554835116312051715)
- sharing with permission from the DMs because I feel it might be helpful to other people  IME, distractions, rehearsals, procrastination, etc are not a waste of time – they're safety rituals
  (resurfaced 5× · 211 likes · 2022-01-17 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1483024586459721729)
- My ex-boss, when prompted to write anything he liked, wrote an internal blogpost that was basically “life is about enduring failure after failure without letting it destroy you.” I thought it was bleak then, but as the years pass, I realize that it’s deeply life-affirming https://x.com/nathanburkeecon/status/1166781397480222722
  (resurfaced 5× · 211 likes · 2019-09-02 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1168535691245916160)
- also released in 2002 was Eminem's Sing For The Moment, which has totally different vibes, and is still one of the densest, high-octane, honest things ever written about fame – in the ballpark of Shakespeare IMO
  (resurfaced 5× · 200 likes · 2021-05-28 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1398314279716069378)
- For advice to work for everybody all the time, it would have to include so many caveats and exceptions that it would vastly exceed the giver’s bandwidth of expression as well as the receiver’s bandwidth of acquisition
  (resurfaced 5× · 198 likes · 2019-01-29 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090128602220261382)
- Fleming, presenting his findings to 50 of the most outstanding workers in medical research: I present to you the greatest advance in medical science in human history. any questions?  the research establishment: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ nah.
  (resurfaced 5× · 196 likes · 2021-01-09 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1347901338873516032)
- today is still a great time to start a blog, a youtube channel, buy bitcoin... we are still in the early days
  (resurfaced 5× · 195 likes · 2020-08-30 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1299910404005441536)
- 22. joy is freedom from the shackles of narrow utilitarianism
  (resurfaced 5× · 193 likes · 2020-11-23 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1330996960640126977)
- just found some old slides from 2016 that I made for an intern to teach him how I edit copy
  (resurfaced 5× · 191 likes · 2018-06-12 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1006536538090557440)
- newer friends on here may not know how much we all owe a debt to weird sun twitter  I'm not sure which was the oldest weird sun, and which was the first tweet, but it's a history that's worth periodically retelling https://x.com/InstanceOfClass/status/268904187394404352
  (resurfaced 5× · 189 likes · 2021-03-04 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1367499831569223680)
- but we can't fix our friends. we can't fix our family. we can't fix our children. they are not our property to fix.  we can only be present with them. few people have spent much time ever being truly present. it's rejuvenating, transformative  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH4PdMUPwNs
  (resurfaced 5× · 187 likes · 2022-01-28 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1487062512096874501)
- When I go on podcasts, a common thing that hosts tend to point out is “you’re a really unusual guy with an unusual point of view / way of being”. It’s always slightly funny to talk about, because if you’re me then being me is the most normal thing imaginable. I am usually me
  (resurfaced 5× · 185 likes · 2020-06-16 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1273024781667807232)
- all my haters are my collaborators
  (resurfaced 5× · 184 likes · 2022-02-03 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1489278242884255746)
- Obama still blows my mind, too. A non-Hawaiian in Hawaii. A non-Indonesian in Indonesia. A Christian with a Muslim name. A half-Black dude in white society. A half-White guy in black society. No in-group. No table at the cafeteria. No way to blend in, no archetype to follow.
  (resurfaced 5× · 183 likes · 2017-12-17 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/942448978884419585)
- everything I've done so far VS what I see in my mind
  (resurfaced 5× · 182 likes · 2021-11-17 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1461027038626680835)
- I think we're still passing on intergenerational trauma from past wars and suffering on to kids in 2018
  (resurfaced 5× · 177 likes · 2018-11-12 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061972391742517249)
- 2022 tweet  (2021👇🏾) https://x.com/visakanv/status/1344675081511845891
  (resurfaced 5× · 174 likes · 2021-12-31 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1476953517654896642)
- here's a thing that I believe to be true, and has worked pretty consistently well in my experience  if you want to talk someone down from being an asshole,  don't say "stop being an asshole you fucking asshole"  instead, show them how to be a nourishing kindperson  works better
  (resurfaced 5× · 174 likes · 2019-01-19 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1086702072957829120)
- Someone recently asked me for note-taking advice via DM, and I’m still thinking about what I told them because I think I accidentally stumbled upon a simple formulation that makes a lot of sense to me
  (resurfaced 5× · 172 likes · 2019-09-17 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1174067824412618752)
- My #1 “productivity tip” for fellow weirdos and aliens with ADHD or ADHD-ish minds is - don’t suppress your mind, support it  At the start of every work session, write down what you intend to do  At the end, when you have deviated wildly, don’t despair - write down what happened https://x.com/visakanv/status/1076189213744291840
  (resurfaced 5× · 171 likes · 2019-02-07 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093608466977964032)
- Me every time I pay for something with Visa: how tf do they know my name
  (resurfaced 5× · 167 likes · 2021-01-30 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1355473219843616768)
- self-sense people-sense media-sense culture-sense  long ago the 4 nations lived in harmony… but everything changed when the media tech innovated
  (resurfaced 5× · 166 likes · 2023-03-13 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1635342516064239619)
- a decade ago, for my 20th birthday, my friends (who were as broke as I was) pooled together their $$ and bought me a starbucks gift card with ~S$200, to encourage me to write. on retrospect it was one of the loveliest things that people did for me, and I try to pay it forward
  (resurfaced 5× · 166 likes · 2020-07-20 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1285064025135386624)
- most businesses fail because IME most (more than half of) businesses are started by people who don't do any due diligence, ie using your life savings to start a restaurant without ever having worked in one, or even read about the specifics of the struggles involved
  (resurfaced 5× · 162 likes · 2020-08-16 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1294904883749875712)
- I have a stronger version of that hypothesis  I suspect that people learn to be mean to themselves as a preemptive defence against the ostracism of others  In this way we become our own prison wardens, inside our own minds & bodies  Jailbreak requires the courage to be disliked
  (resurfaced 5× · 162 likes · 2019-03-25 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1110244371624935424)
- I have thousands of followers who are straight men in their 20s and 30s  I also have like, a handful of actual grandmas and aunties and wise elder lady nerds  Tbh I wish I could host a party just for the second group, it would be extremely lit 🔥
  (resurfaced 5× · 160 likes · 2019-09-04 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1169094697672855552)
- idle thought: the screenshot might be the most interesting and underexamined element of digital life. I take dozens of screenshots a day (at minimum). I don't think about them super explicitly, but they are a critical part of how I function. I would feel handicapped without them
  (resurfaced 5× · 157 likes · 2019-06-02 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1135178648686698499)
- Adler: the strongest person in our culture is the baby. The baby rules over the adults with his weakness. And it is because of this weakness that nobody can control him
  (resurfaced 5× · 157 likes · 2018-09-06 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1037749846818471937)
- Hypothesis: If you think of Kanye as a “status deregulator”, he makes a lot more sense. He’s willing to be wrong, to be insulted, mocked, etc in order to achieve his long-term goal of being relatively free from the constraints of other people’s status rules
  (resurfaced 5× · 155 likes · 2020-06-25 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1276101591674703873)
- 2 things the rock does to manage his psychology:  1. remember what it was like when he started with nothing  2. ask himself “how bad of a motherfucker do you think you are”  there’s some interesting nuance here too if you know what to look for
  (resurfaced 5× · 154 likes · 2021-08-31 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1432508370292916226)
- Surprising corollary: you might think you’ll procrastinate less if you get to do more of what you love. You might be wrong
  (resurfaced 5× · 145 likes · 2019-12-30 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1211464842512498689)
- A thing can become “objectively” more valuable by changing the lens through you look at it, by rearranging the other things around it that are used as reference  Perception is a hell of a drug
  (resurfaced 5× · 145 likes · 2018-10-05 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048058839755513856)
- 43. the babelfish problem
  (resurfaced 5× · 141 likes · 2022-11-13 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1591640612662808576)
- periodic reminder that I have a youtube channel and i'd love it if you subscribed! also the comments section is a great place to hang out: https://www.youtube.com/visakanv
  (resurfaced 5× · 139 likes · 2023-08-30 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1696955054933291227)
- amazon rainforest tweet
  (resurfaced 5× · 139 likes · 2019-08-22 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1164334508587401216)
- this guy teaching himself to walk again  they said he couldn't do it  they were wrong  it was possible  never underestimate what you can do when you believe in yourself, when we believe in each other  never give up
  (resurfaced 5× · 137 likes · 2019-01-12 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084024604836868096)
- On optimism: "You can't be optimistic about the future until you have survived the crucible of change."  Incredibly powerful sentence. The future is scary to those who have not survived change. Once you know you can survive it, change is exciting, change is interesting
  (resurfaced 5× · 136 likes · 2019-07-30 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1156111944794820609)
- sometimes I've felt like, am I the only guy who watched the movies? like ya'll didn't feel the artists and writers reaching out to you across the screen, sharing their dream with you, telling you that you can dream too?  "it's just a movie dude" no it's not
  (resurfaced 5× · 134 likes · 2021-05-31 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1399347822516871176)
- I think what bums out a lot of people who force themselves to get good at playing some games is discovering that then you only get validation, approval etc (and also envy, hate) as a consequence of your gaming skill rather than who you are as a person
  (resurfaced 5× · 133 likes · 2018-11-10 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061174341709193217)
- all the most powerful heuristics are like power tools – they're easy to misuse and hurt yourself (and others) with if you don't know what you're doing
  (resurfaced 5× · 132 likes · 2018-11-08 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1060468903665487872)
- ☀️
  (resurfaced 5× · 128 likes · 2021-01-13 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1349326775361306630)
- I would like to propose that the most important part of the definition of a "project" is, it should be something that cannot be easily accomplished by a single individual in a single sitting  which is to say, a project is something that requires *collaboration* across states
  (resurfaced 5× · 127 likes · 2021-09-27 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1442406541869469699)
- @VecnanKrait yea
  (resurfaced 5× · 126 likes · 2020-11-27 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1332461574179618817)
- I've actually had several opportunities to Be A Leader but it's always been a thing of last resort for me. Like you should pick someone with more authority and less self-doubt and... wait, that guy did WHAT?? Oh jeez. Where are the adults?? There are no goddamn adults. Oh dear.
  (resurfaced 5× · 126 likes · 2018-04-04 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/981649182745227265)
- eg this 1996 Wired interview is one of the most interesting. you can see a sort of depressing nihilism here. he does not yet know for certain that he's going to RETVRN OF THE KING and set into motion the most valuable company of all time. this is his Hakuna Matata phase
  (resurfaced 5× · 122 likes · 2021-10-13 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1448315671637479428)
- it took me about 6 years (or ~70+ months) to get my first 1,000 twitter followers, now it takes about a month
  (resurfaced 5× · 122 likes · 2020-09-03 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1301454906528653314)
- -everything that you don't understand appears to be a chaotic mess  -the more deeply you understand a complex thing, the more beautiful becomes  -everything complex is made up of relationships (of several classes)  -to understand anything is to perceive relationships, patterns
  (resurfaced 5× · 122 likes · 2018-12-18 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074977410511060992)
- Alrighty let’s learn about rich Florentine bankers from the 1400s
  (resurfaced 5× · 119 likes · 2019-04-20 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1119553260556177409)
- "Being is weird."
  (resurfaced 5× · 119 likes · 2018-10-01 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1046686012133400576)
- Thread of my Twitter friends who deserve a bigger audience:
  (resurfaced 5× · 118 likes · 2019-12-12 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1205004409450586113)
- I was telling some Chinese friends at dinner - they found this hilarious, but I was dead serious - there's no way Singaporean Chinese women would've picked up yoga straight from the source: hairy, old, dark Indian men. They needed white women to make it cool and palatable first.
  (resurfaced 5× · 118 likes · 2018-02-08 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/961688923620630528)
- I've been growing my hair out for a few months and I'm just endlessly fascinated with it. I've kept it short for most of my life so it's really interesting to discover that it has all this texture - curves, waves, weight, personality. Feels like some sort of symbolic metaphor
  (resurfaced 5× · 117 likes · 2018-03-29 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/979422308904288256)
- Borges was clued in too."The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us... into something which can last in man’s memory." Artists are in the business of remembrance. They tend to the connective tissue that holds us together
  (resurfaced 5× · 116 likes · 2022-04-17 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1515780715027533825)
- A reminder from my last 1-1 with my boss – the difference between being successful and unsuccessful is less about avoiding failure and more about dealing with failure well
  (resurfaced 5× · 116 likes · 2018-03-30 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/979717721557381121)
- classes of shackles:  - limiting beliefs & assumptions - meatbag status (health) - outdated habits & coping mechanisms - immediate environment - peer group - financial situation - information diet - social reality  they're all connected, which is why they're hard to break
  (resurfaced 5× · 113 likes · 2018-11-13 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1062329140773183490)
- The Epic of Gilgamesh survived to this day largely because of King Ashurbanipal, who considered his library (over 30,000 clay tablets) to be his greatest achievement  "none of my predecessors having any comprehension of such matters" damn Ash u had some sass huh. merited, I guess
  (resurfaced 5× · 112 likes · 2021-03-06 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1368213414208704512)
- Stuff Matters, by @markmiodownik, published 2013. I first read this around 2016 or so and really enjoyed it - and I’ve been meaning to do a second read to really dig into Mark’s fantastic storytelling style. The meandering, multi-POV style is perfect for doing threads about
  (resurfaced 5× · 112 likes · 2019-03-02 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1101762095186497541)
- 🥰❤️ truly delightful I’m smiling ear to ear  A few hundred more beloved haters like this and I will probably be able to retire financially
  (resurfaced 5× · 110 likes · 2022-02-10 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1491661229110095872)
- it’s very important to me that I continue to be a dumbass on main
  (resurfaced 5× · 110 likes · 2020-06-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1269630316244692993)
- (I want to take a moment to ponder how Akio Morita must have gravely disappointed his family by abandoning their 14th-gen Sake business– & how him abdicating his responsibility to his family ended up being a way for him to serve his entire nation, and really, the whole world. 🧐)
  (resurfaced 5× · 109 likes · 2019-04-06 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114563932121784320)
- 58. "i just need to push harder" is sometimes the wrong approach
  (resurfaced 5× · 108 likes · 2024-02-20 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1759803263082262629)
- In the 1950s, a few short years after the most powerful weapon in the history of humanity obliterated & maimed lives by the hundreds of thousands, a little boy was born in a rural Japanese town. He would spend his time exploring the countryside, going on wondrous adventures
  (resurfaced 5× · 108 likes · 2021-01-27 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1354394993981448195)
- this is resonating with me:  a lung is whole only so long as it is breathing oxygen from the air outside the organism  a person is whole only so long as he is a member of some human group  maybe the problem with my personal mindweb is that it's too isolated/cloistered 🤔
  (resurfaced 5× · 104 likes · 2019-06-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142451848688754689)
- a list of things people are doing
  (resurfaced 5× · 104 likes · 2020-08-15 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1294508505483735040)
- I read Bourdain’s Nasty Bits a few months ago and loved it - and re-reading it after his death is heart-wrenching. He had such a sensitive soul
  (resurfaced 5× · 104 likes · 2018-07-01 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1013257129585664001)
- Gonna tweet out the whole section on project management from @introspectvv since I haven’t written the corresponding essay yet
  (resurfaced 5× · 103 likes · 2023-03-03 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1631766328292827136)
- ugh he's so good in so many ways, what a genius, what a natural, what a teacher. "we teach you pitch when we should be teaching you context", oh my god   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHdo1qWNWI4
  (resurfaced 5× · 103 likes · 2020-01-29 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1222434653463699456)
- "I didn't know freedom meant people doing stuff that sucks."
  (resurfaced 5× · 103 likes · 2018-09-20 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1042769944096628738)
- Woke up to some interesting messages in a group chat with my wife & one of our closest friends we’ve known for ~15 years. Let’s call him C. C is a really sweet, kind, helpful guy, who had a minor revelation last night that he’s still reeling from. (Mine happened a few years ago)
  (resurfaced 5× · 102 likes · 2019-02-28 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1100988269657899009)
- as a married dude with lots of female friends, I sometimes find myself in a position of wanting to leave supportive comments without coming across as lecherous  phrases I use, feel free to take 'em:  - feeling this!! - killer vibes - A+ look - respect - fresh AF - too powerful
  (resurfaced 5× · 102 likes · 2019-02-14 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1095866896535105536)
- You can’t argue with a virus, you can’t reason with it, insult it, negotiate with it, make a deal with it, distract it, confuse it. It is entirely indifferent to us  This may be confusing for people whose default approach to dealing with problems is to find someone to argue with https://x.com/visakanv/status/1035076711249920000
  (resurfaced 5× · 101 likes · 2020-03-12 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1238015790198050816)
- I have a huge, sprawling junkyard mess of Workflowy notes, Evernote cards, Google keep cards, Notes, blogposts, etc etc ad infinitum. Buried in there are entire books worth of interesting+useful information. But it suffers from bad or non-existent threading, constrained by memory
  (resurfaced 5× · 100 likes · 2018-04-18 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/986555798942707712)
- leadership = articulating vision + building consensus  a great team becomes self-policing re: team quality  interesting how great managers often tend to be great contributors who didn't want to be managers and didn't want to be managed  https://x.com/twetchapp/status/1204782389429506049
  (resurfaced 5× · 99 likes · 2020-01-26 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1221367295659765760)
- at this point my reply game is so powerful I truly feel like an overpowered RPG character walking around regular people, trying not to accidentally hurt anyone
  (resurfaced 5× · 98 likes · 2020-09-12 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1304831862028644353)
- “I don’t think you’re capable of holding an opinion that make people dislike you” - I was literally born with people disliking me, watch this
  (resurfaced 5× · 98 likes · 2020-06-21 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1274528242339246080)
- Anybody can propose anything at any time.
  (resurfaced 5× · 97 likes · 2021-07-31 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1421364954255355905)
- @Jake_Vig you might like Koichi Toyoma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df7jOd6HcIY
  (resurfaced 5× · 97 likes · 2018-03-25 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/977780545617674240)
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)  parents were booksellers, he was literally born at home above his father's bookshop  "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history" – oxford dictionary of national biography
  (resurfaced 5× · 96 likes · 2021-12-25 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1474850980676075522)
- "Emigration always seemed to go from the civilized to the tribal, and it left Western thinkers flummoxed about how to explain such an apparent rejection of their society." Ben Franklin observed this phenomena in the 1750s. "They become disgusted with our manner of life..."
  (resurfaced 5× · 96 likes · 2018-04-23 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988363141917458437)
- it’s been funny and interesting for me to witness people interpret “unlearning coercion” in much broader terms than I had in mind when I first started using it.  IMO, if your self-coercion doesn’t feel like a hand around your throat, you probably don’t need to worry about it
  (resurfaced 5× · 95 likes · 2020-11-04 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1323892392756342789)
- Relative to most countries in the world, Singapore is very small. You can walk from one end of the island to the other within a day. We make up 0.07% of the global population. Here's SG placed next to Japan, in Lake Michigan, in the UK, in Dallas, TX... WE ARE SMOL. 5.6m people
  (resurfaced 5× · 95 likes · 2018-08-08 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1027228890350022656)
- Something I read that really blew this open for me was @vgr's description of some dialogue on The Office. Reading this a few years ago made me realize how incredibly textured and subtle social reality actually is, and how much I was missing IN PLAIN SIGHT https://ribbonfarm.com/2009/11/11/the-gervais-principle-ii-posturetalk-powertalk-babytalk-and-gametalk/
  (resurfaced 5× · 94 likes · 2017-12-09 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/939558533632221184)
- another way of framing all of this is… live your life like you’re in a heroic anime/jrpg. Make friends. Help people on their side quests. Earn their trust and loyalty. Triumph together with the power of friendship for the benefit of all. Help the old lady find her frying pan
  (resurfaced 5× · 93 likes · 2022-04-25 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1518486126650036230)
- intermediate players quit because they accumulate all of this complicated, conflicting advice about what they should or should not do, should or should not care about, how they should position themselves, brand themselves, etc  and all of that obscured their love of the game
  (resurfaced 5× · 91 likes · 2023-03-22 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1638364088907489281)
- great small accounts (<1k) apr'22:  @zencephalon @thetealetter @MSlavin @marm0t @rahshank @s0ulDirect0r @DrStrib @dancinghorse16 @aphercotropist @bubbleteaPhD @brutalstirfry @admegaputeri @Cubecumbered @themyelo @razorsmile @askjibran @temeton_blue @zrkrlc @tamalefencer https://x.com/visakanv/status/1491045807209926656
  (resurfaced 5× · 90 likes · 2022-04-27 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1519290548414484485)
- grab a nearby book, flip to a random page, take a pic and post it in the replies. (post the cover too)  here’s a random excerpt from The Funeral Oration of Pericles, which seems remarkably contemporary
  (resurfaced 5× · 90 likes · 2020-12-12 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1337793210756726786)
- thinking about how Jung could afford to do his elaborate nerdposting because he married a wealthy heiress. maybe more of y’all need to do this https://x.com/visakanv/status/1315577808341463040
  (resurfaced 5× · 90 likes · 2020-11-30 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1333364017608310789)
- guy: I want sex  us: ok!! we are here to help. just put in a little effor-  guy: nvm
  (resurfaced 5× · 90 likes · 2019-02-17 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1096935780549718017)
- Trying to persuade my wife to tweet more, and found myself saying - and I believe this is true - to have a good time, you don’t tweet “for” other people, you tweet for yourself, in the presence of other people
  (resurfaced 5× · 90 likes · 2019-02-05 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1092831189713309696)
- Imagine a life where you're never sad and you're never wrong  what a hollow, vacant life that would be  yet some people actually optimize for this – substitute sadness for anger, and avoid being wrong by never trying  I look forward to being sadder and wronger than ever before
  (resurfaced 5× · 90 likes · 2018-06-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1010466326316347393)
- 52. woman leaves cryptic message in notes app for future self to decipher
  (resurfaced 5× · 89 likes · 2023-11-01 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1719718624620110265)
- Rewatching HIMYM Season 1’s finale and this shit has NOT aged well. Ted is so selfish and solipsistic and needy in his approach to dating; I wonder how many needy dudes he inspired?
  (resurfaced 5× · 89 likes · 2018-07-11 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1017038219207012353)
- "In addition to all the destruction and loss of life, war also inspires ancient human virtues of courage, loyalty and selflessness that can be utterly intoxicating to the people who experience them."
  (resurfaced 5× · 88 likes · 2018-04-24 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988605782307495936)
- this is a screenshot of my creative process
  (resurfaced 5× · 86 likes · 2023-07-05 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1676527367853047808)
- Walt Disney's business envelope when he was 20 years old
  (resurfaced 5× · 86 likes · 2020-07-05 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1279801213429493761)
- I feel like nobody ever sold meditation to me the way it (IMO( ought to have been pitched  The body is a sort of bustling metropolis, and to me meditation (which I approach as breathwork, really) is like, learning to make sense of it. As a native rather than as a tourist
  (resurfaced 5× · 84 likes · 2020-03-01 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1234234531466465280)
- a recurring point I find myself making in private conversations is that I believe that representation might possibly be the #1 most powerful force for social change. it's the tip of the spear. if you want to help a marginalized person or group, create media that centers them https://x.com/cameronwilson/status/1183959612577345536
  (resurfaced 5× · 82 likes · 2019-11-08 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1192700184871849984)
- In my experience talking with dozens of artists, entrepreneurs, streamers, etc, I’ve found Borges to be correct: a poet never rests. He is working even when he is dreaming. It is *continuous* work. That’s how we choose to live. Practically all of us walked away from simpler jobs https://x.com/inlibrov/status/1272260925085691905
  (resurfaced 5× · 81 likes · 2021-06-10 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1403127976137351172)
- newton would copy stuff over and over. sarah dry, who wrote a book about this, said that the dudes who inherited newton's papers might've been disappointed that he spent so much time making copies  fools!!  everything is a remix! all learning begins with imitation!
  (resurfaced 5× · 81 likes · 2020-06-06 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1269186570944344066)
- @default_friend @alexeyguzey (fake story but illustrative)  guy asks Mozart, how do I write a symphony?  Mozart: you are too young to write a symphony  Guy: what?! but you were writing symphonies when you were 10 years of age, and I am 21!!  Mozart: true... but I didn’t have to ask anybody how to do it
  (resurfaced 5× · 81 likes · 2020-02-09 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1226566512783183872)
- Starting an anti-productivity cult founded on the principles of nuance and merriment
  (resurfaced 5× · 81 likes · 2018-05-25 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/999842004858109952)
- Martin Luther: I am a miserable sinner in deep spiritual despair  Martin Luther's mentor, Johan: focus your time and energy on what you want to see more of  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1434946245957615620
  (resurfaced 5× · 78 likes · 2021-09-10 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1436393464468369408)
- Re: inflation, I’ve told this story a few times – when I was about 10yo I learned in school about hyperinflation in WW2 Singapore and it freaked me out horribly. It shocked me that nobody else seemed to care- not the teachers, not the students. Money is sentiment and can go mad
  (resurfaced 5× · 77 likes · 2021-12-10 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1469180177951330306)
- Happy #Deepavali!
  (resurfaced 5× · 77 likes · 2020-11-14 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1327496382580629506)
- @barisanhantu @taintedavenue @sharanvkaur the trick to reading gladwell is to completely disregard all of his conclusions, and to simply use his writing as a starting point for further exploration of whatever it is that interests you
  (resurfaced 5× · 75 likes · 2020-09-23 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1308808324024905729)
- “But the superior product must win!” Why? “Because it’s the superior product!” To who? “To me! And the 10 people I’ve talked to!” Ok but your competitor has talked to 10,000 people and they like his product well enough. And he’s hiring your product guy oops better luck next time
  (resurfaced 5× · 74 likes · 2021-04-23 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1385626106804400128)
- 2020 tweet
  (resurfaced 5× · 73 likes · 2020-01-01 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1212301700347752449)
- (So much of bad advice is dramatic mythmaking meant to valorize the advice-giver at the expense of the needs of the person receiving it)
  (resurfaced 5× · 73 likes · 2019-01-21 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087287444448268288)
- "For the first thing a writer should be is—excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health."
  (resurfaced 5× · 73 likes · 2018-11-15 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1063017221138505728)
- Btw Matt Yglesias is a coward who consistently tweets terrible takes & then deletes his tweets afterwards. Every time I see him appear on my feed I am embarrassed for him. I've been procrastinating on this tweet, because it's not a nice thing to say about someone... but it's true
  (resurfaced 5× · 72 likes · 2019-02-02 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1091516139799105536)
- pictured: optimists who believe in the utility of communication
  (resurfaced 5× · 71 likes · 2022-03-21 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1506040207572840449)
- @mfmorgado @ulrichspeck consider the 'Some Asshole' initiative:
  (resurfaced 5× · 70 likes · 2016-12-23 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/812319130736992256)
- gonna compile a blogpost real quick of all the tweets I have where I talk about "solve for distribution", because it's a very simple + powerful idea in my head but probably gets blank stares without context. and explaining the context over and over again gets kinda tedious
  (resurfaced 5× · 69 likes · 2021-07-09 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1413552063846387716)
- one of the core problems of most scenes is that it starts with people who seek interestingness and it ends up overcrowded by people who play the social game. it rhymes quite a bit with the iron law of bureaucracy.
  (resurfaced 5× · 69 likes · 2020-05-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1264061506401923074)
- me, minding my own business:  flowers of San Francisco: oh hey,,
  (resurfaced 5× · 68 likes · 2019-05-08 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1125924357081931776)
- @balajis ominous Asimov quote I was struck by yesterday (h/t @nicknotned)  the rotten tree trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had
  (resurfaced 5× · 67 likes · 2021-08-16 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1427136528715698179)
- I’m stewing on an essay titled something like “plaintext literacy” which has a dozen different versions of this. ppl get screwed a substantial amount because of media illiteracy imo
  (resurfaced 5× · 65 likes · 2022-12-08 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1600654934428393474)
- we haven't even tapped into 0.1% of the power and potential of hypertext
  (resurfaced 5× · 65 likes · 2019-07-15 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1150683085886771201)
- humanity is run by volunteers
  (resurfaced 5× · 64 likes · 2022-03-06 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1500353461036060676)
- 29. the worst sin is bad aesthetics
  (resurfaced 5× · 62 likes · 2019-06-20 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141550971681562624)
- @eigenrobot smolbrain: i like memes  normiebrain: i'm concerned about the memes  bigbrain: the memes are taking over my mind  galaxybrain: it is through memes that minds came to exist at all
  (resurfaced 5× · 62 likes · 2018-06-04 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1003475746847784960)
- photos by steve mccurry
  (resurfaced 5× · 61 likes · 2023-03-27 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1640419986635362305)
- TIL that the first well-known public telegraph, ie the first proto-tweet, was "What hath God wrought!" sent by Samuel Morse, from Washington to Baltimore on May 24, 1844
  (resurfaced 5× · 60 likes · 2022-05-03 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1521525624417841152)
- parable of the horses continues to be relevant https://sive.rs/horses
  (resurfaced 5× · 60 likes · 2021-01-02 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1345500223196553220)
- tweets are containerized thoughts
  (resurfaced 5× · 60 likes · 2020-05-13 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1260543771592155136)
- 😂😂😂  Russian agent: mr jack, I have opportunity for you  Jack: ok but first do you see these mosquito bites  agent: vhat are you talking abou-  Jack: 117 bites in 10 minutes  agent: I don’t see what-  Jack: life is about enduring pain  Russian: ja I’m starting to see that now https://x.com/vgr/status/1075251306942451712
  (resurfaced 5× · 60 likes · 2018-12-19 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1075254790362324992)
- fantastic meme found moderately deep in the replies  I think this applies even inward/internally  there's something about "faces" here, like feeling the need to put a brave face on, being unable to face one's own sobbing mess
  (resurfaced 5× · 59 likes · 2022-01-28 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1487199461293973507)
- The last paragraph of Campbell’s The Hero With A Thousand Faces:  the modern hero who dares to heed the call… cannot, indeed must not, wait for his community to cast of its slough of pride, fear, avarice, sanctified misunderstanding  live, as though the day were here
  (resurfaced 5× · 59 likes · 2021-08-05 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1423411417990926337)
- Counter-intuitive but true: attacking narcissists for being narcissistic benefits narcissists and costs everyone else
  (resurfaced 5× · 59 likes · 2019-11-12 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1194159431853805568)
- Jackie doesn't cut corners. Jackie has taste. Be like Jackie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ
  (resurfaced 5× · 59 likes · 2019-04-07 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1115006378995671041)
- headin in
  (resurfaced 5× · 58 likes · 2020-10-20 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1318348830127968256)
- @vgr Abstruse Goose 283
  (resurfaced 5× · 58 likes · 2019-10-24 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1187281657683832833)
- Imagine a cool, collected bouncer, saying “you need to leave” in a neutral but firm voice. Imagine a roomful of people all coordinating that response in reaction to someone who’s absolutely losing their shit. That’s basically the skillset that we need to collectively develop
  (resurfaced 5× · 57 likes · 2018-07-08 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015895941440651266)
- SF here I come!
  (resurfaced 5× · 54 likes · 2019-04-24 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1120846186594783232)
- 2 parts to the Red Bull story, the Thai part and the Austrian part, and both bits are interesting. The more I learned abt Dietrich Mateschitz, the Austrian founder, the more I found him to be incredibly cool. Smart, savvy, a true branding master. Cooler & wealthier than R.Branson
  (resurfaced 5× · 53 likes · 2019-02-11 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094924506747924481)
- I didn't "have a cigarette problem", I was using cigarettes to medicate my "visa/school mismatch" problem, which had catalysts including a "parental pressure" problem, "societal pressure" problem  if I were diagnosed they'd just have put me on meds rather than address all of that
  (resurfaced 5× · 53 likes · 2019-01-16 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085416274862268419)
- @m_ashcroft this ad by charles atlas is still one of the GOATs  the next $200,000 worth of copy update will be to add some detail about re: "chump" – you want to articulate what your clients typically struggle with, address their objections/uncertainties, etc. capture the emotional state esp
  (resurfaced 5× · 52 likes · 2022-01-14 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1482066901585260545)
- I triggered someone’s anti-socialist defenses when I used the phrase “corporate masters” and then confused them into silence by simply agreeing with everything they said about how capitalism is the best system and how liberals corrupt the youth with ideas of socialism
  (resurfaced 5× · 52 likes · 2018-08-23 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1032710690669096960)
- one day I will write a good tweet
  (resurfaced 5× · 51 likes · 2021-11-17 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1461028343533359105)
- @noreallyimfine @LambdaSchool Never downplay your work
  (resurfaced 5× · 51 likes · 2019-08-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1158720823160537089)
- Sometimes you might see me tweet something and wonder “why is he tweeting that, he’s inviting ridicule”. I thought long and hard about it and decided it’s generally worth crawling through 100 assholes to reach 1 good person. This gives me a feeling of lightness & calm confidence
  (resurfaced 5× · 51 likes · 2018-09-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1043928746040778752)
- oh it was cheryl strayed. "I already gave them the best thing I have to give them" https://tim.blog/2018/06/22/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts-cheryl-strayed/
  (resurfaced 5× · 51 likes · 2018-10-17 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1052495483447300096)
- 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://x.com/visakanv/status/1427257501616001024
  (resurfaced 5× · 50 likes · 2021-10-04 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1444938290986057730)
- quick segue to some of Stockholm's subway stations, which are beautiful in the same way
  (resurfaced 5× · 50 likes · 2020-07-13 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1282618438263771137)
- Why extract the gold, stamp your face on it, circulate it among your subjects, then demand they give it back to you...?  It makes perfect sense once you realize that money and markets do NOT emerge spontaneously.  Distributing gold is how you *bring markets into being*.
  (resurfaced 5× · 50 likes · 2018-11-22 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065659106835349505)
- TIL that Keynes actually was open to alternative perspectives, and even spent years studying the Mesopotamian cuneiform banking records himself.  Respect for Keynes +10
  (resurfaced 5× · 49 likes · 2018-11-22 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065672051569045504)
- done! https://visakanv.substack.com/p/when-the-vision-isnt-manifesting
  (resurfaced 5× · 48 likes · 2023-08-30 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1697007203696431393)
- Interestingly though, (partially?) because we are social creatures using a communal language pool, personal sense-making can also benefit others. Which is a lot of the fun of Twitter
  (resurfaced 5× · 48 likes · 2018-11-06 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1059631834718334976)
- “Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it is their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.”
  (resurfaced 5× · 47 likes · 2021-09-12 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1437139705657651203)
- Kim Kardashian called Taylor Swift a snake. Taylor decided to own it. Transmuted https://x.com/extrasaity/status/764629172773879808
  (resurfaced 5× · 47 likes · 2021-05-09 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1391415578720538626)
- heart lasers and perfectly serene face with zero muscular tension. the face of serenity is an interesting motif across religions - almost a little sleepy-eyed- the Buddha has it too
  (resurfaced 5× · 47 likes · 2020-06-03 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1268079083872632832)
- anyway this was about Dua Lipa - she’s already moderately big now, roughly around “you belong with me” era Taylor or “SOS” era Rihanna - at age 23. She’s thoughtful, sensitive, smart, in-tune: she’s going to be much, much bigger if she keeps up what she’s doing
  (resurfaced 5× · 47 likes · 2019-01-10 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1083241183399165953)
- to reiterate: in 1999, a group of 8 older boys walked into a singaporean secondary school, with the (ignorant) blessings of the school administration, physically beat the students, and then left! apparently without ever facing any consequences.  life before social media was wild
  (resurfaced 5× · 47 likes · 2019-03-22 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1108947786324545536)
- 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://x.com/visakanv/status/998900404225101825
  (resurfaced 5× · 47 likes · 2018-08-07 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1026862789879455745)
- my perspective on this is very much informed by @worrydream's riffs on "seeing spaces" and "learnable programming"
  (resurfaced 5× · 46 likes · 2018-12-31 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1079691227765731330)
- My femme aesthetic, ie Girl Visa
  (resurfaced 5× · 46 likes · 2020-01-05 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1213727790916235271)
- over a million people watched/listened to a broken aircon because of this title
  (resurfaced 5× · 45 likes · 2021-02-17 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1361993791951921157)
- I feel like this is a contemporary form of an age-old tension. Kids used to go to the mall, which parents (legitimately) worried was a degenerate activity. But the kids do it bc they need to develop social skills and status amongst their peers. And those are very important skills
  (resurfaced 5× · 45 likes · 2019-07-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1152113956032401408)
- a thing I think about a lot is the power of replicable branding.  good examples that come to mind:  - juventus football club - airbnb - chicago (yeah, the city) - mcdonalds  Even illiterate children could replicate these  Interesting/strange that some brands do this & many don't
  (resurfaced 5× · 45 likes · 2018-03-08 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/971691286632607744)
- getting started  https://roamresearch.com/#/app/visakanv-public/page/DdfBkaSC5
  (resurfaced 5× · 44 likes · 2020-06-04 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1268487357281386496)
- I think the missing step/link is this:  the dominant feature of poverty mindset is *fear*  So if you want to make a dent in it, you need to find a way to face your fear  To do *that* you need to find or create a controlled environment where you can face it in small portions first
  (resurfaced 5× · 43 likes · 2019-01-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087286392734986240)
- I often see people use this meme as a thought-terminating rejoinder. They get to have the smug satisfaction of saying “not all planes!” at the expense of developing a more nuanced understanding of how to mitigate risk and optimize for survival  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1294903763761676289
  (resurfaced 5× · 42 likes · 2023-09-05 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1698909892332159321)
- “Feeling beautiful is being self-confident, and modelling doesn’t have anything to do with self-confidence.” - Paulina Porizkova
  (resurfaced 5× · 42 likes · 2022-06-02 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1532238174058975232)
- I've always also had a fascination for anti-American propaganda – not because I have anything against the USA, but because it's so unsettling to see different media (since most of the world ends up watching Hollywood movies – my favorite TV show is The West Wing, etc)
  (resurfaced 5× · 42 likes · 2018-01-20 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/954588695461470208)
- My mind is on the verge of figuring out the next level of threading and it is wild  Hint: all roads lead to Rome
  (resurfaced 5× · 41 likes · 2019-01-29 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090384312409612289)
- The incredible thing about anime - that western cartoons in the 90s didn’t do - was that it really digs deep into tragic backstories. You really see the suffering and cruelty that villains were subjected to, that inform their beliefs & philosophy. This was so real to me as a kid
  (resurfaced 5× · 41 likes · 2019-02-03 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1091985609189515264)
- @gypsy_panther @vgr
  (resurfaced 5× · 40 likes · 2019-01-30 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090443486761865216)
- It’s hard for me to understand how people can live like this. I’m atypical in some way on this front, I seem to have a greater need for coherence and resonance across the various spheres of my life than others. I find it very difficult & painful to partition, to do bullshit work
  (resurfaced 5× · 40 likes · 2019-10-14 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1183637911150854144)
- TIL that Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal (1987) was directly inspired by Fred Astaire's Girl Hunt Ballet (1953)
  (resurfaced 5× · 39 likes · 2020-08-31 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1300446509108924416)
- TIL Peter Thiel would be right at home in HYDRA:  "Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."  "HYDRA believes that humanity cannot be trusted with its own freedom."  https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian/
  (resurfaced 5× · 39 likes · 2018-10-24 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1054906804403003392)
- Rewatching Wreck-It Ralph, one of my favorite movies of all time.  "This isn't what I wanted."  "Well what did you want, Ralph?"  "I don't know... I was just tired of living alone in the garbage!"  "Well now you can live alone in the penthouse."
  (resurfaced 5× · 39 likes · 2018-03-27 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/978632944259448833)
- The Romans also used iron razor blades – Mark describes these as “objects that epitomized their civilized approach to life”, which “allowed them to retreat clean-shaven”, distinguished from the savage hordes who drove them out 😂  I like this detail a lot; it’s really evocative
  (resurfaced 5× · 38 likes · 2019-03-02 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1101826403727634432)
- @vgr how does this still have only 2 RTs, it's one of the best things you've ever written IMO
  (resurfaced 5× · 38 likes · 2018-10-12 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1050650135263240192)
- 1913, WW1 is fast approaching. Harry Brearley’s job is to try and make better gun barrels. He tinkered around with all sorts of alloys, but made no progress.  One day he noticed a bright glimmer in a pile of rusting specimens. He realized he had accidentally made STAINLESS STEEL
  (resurfaced 5× · 38 likes · 2019-03-02 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1101843921968062470)
- millionaire vs billionaire
  (resurfaced 5× · 37 likes · 2020-07-29 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1288291071936458754)
- @shl That’s it I’m starting a gumroad ebook now
  (resurfaced 5× · 37 likes · 2019-07-18 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1151933282470133760)
- Movies that did not win Oscars:  12 Angry Men [1957] Psycho [1961] The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [1966] The Shining [1980] The Terminator [1984] The Shawshank Redemption [1994] Memento [1997] Contact [1997] Mean Girls [2004] How To Train Your Dragon [2010] The Martian [2015]
  (resurfaced 5× · 37 likes · 2019-02-25 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1099963060209373184)
- Life will NOT get me down- I'm better than that, and I will transcend this. It's when I'm face down in mud that I embrace the earth in awe.
  (resurfaced 5× · 37 likes · 2010-10-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/28470345000)
- if you haven't read @scottmccloud's Understanding Comics, I highly recommend it
  (resurfaced 5× · 36 likes · 2019-02-13 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1095762818563923968)
- Back in Berkeley to rest before a big dinner and wow, there is a lot going on here  Tag yourself, I’m “if you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun”
  (resurfaced 5× · 36 likes · 2019-04-30 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1123356284416217088)
- the trick to remembering things is to piggyback the data onto the emotional caravans in your bodymind’s trade network https://x.com/duderichy/status/1464480571422175233
  (resurfaced 5× · 35 likes · 2021-11-27 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1464532463963627524)
- Just realized I could remix Steve’s quote about design and make it about ambition.  In most people’s vocabularies, ambition means prestige. It’s accolades. It’s cars and money. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of ambition.
  (resurfaced 5× · 35 likes · 2020-10-03 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1312331494128410624)
- @Matt_Baierl I think it's this! https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/okcupid/themathematicsofbeauty.html
  (resurfaced 5× · 35 likes · 2020-06-08 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1269982910062329857)
- having multiple twitter identities is transhuman
  (resurfaced 5× · 35 likes · 2019-02-25 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1100004575648505856)
- Dinesh found me when I was a bratty, disheveled blogger ranting about the government. He saw something in me, and brought me aboard his team of smart, kind, high-functioning geniuses working to build a great place to work. It was like joining the X-Men
  (resurfaced 5× · 35 likes · 2018-06-29 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1012504517647036416)
- Jane Jacobs again: you can't institutionalize or formalize the organic and informal responsibility that citizens have for each other  (my brain adds: "and fuck mercenaries!" – Machiavelli)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities
  (resurfaced 5× · 34 likes · 2021-02-20 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1363177707131920384)
- 60. Komala Vilas with @fortelabs, @TheLaurenValdez and @cryptolin: video as a medium, web domains, twitter verification, good vs bad disagreements, Awareness, trauma, travel, sci-fi, families, married life, cultural differences, being fully human online, bottlenecks, ambition
  (resurfaced 5× · 34 likes · 2020-02-04 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1224725985058123784)
- Khruangbin's The Recital That Never Happened reminds me of palm ave float club (sensory deprivation tank place), where I first heard it, and it's just got this really serene, chill vibe. just listening to the song always mellows me out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tap7L_tRqrI
  (resurfaced 5× · 34 likes · 2018-12-01 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068907116524531712)
- Love this portrayal of a Vyasa as a dark-skinned sage. This is who I’m gonna be when I grow up
  (resurfaced 5× · 34 likes · 2018-10-30 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1057174540663439360)
- Thinking today about what it would look like to plan and take actions that would maximize life satisfaction in the long run, within the context of a likely lifespan. If I could hang out with a group of 90-year-old Visas, what would we talk about?
  (resurfaced 5× · 34 likes · 2017-12-09 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/939470055875559425)
- Which is why I put in so much effort into making friends, into being kind, into building a rigorous social graph of people who care about me. To me it’s abt survival. I don’t have a social safety net. Have you read history? People get displaced and cast out, just like that
  (resurfaced 5× · 33 likes · 2019-09-20 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1174935204625936384)
- 32. The Fence Paradox https://x.com/dellannaluca/status/1110738862085558272?s=21
  (resurfaced 5× · 33 likes · 2019-03-27 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1110799562560528384)
- this 2019, I am choosing to be more Visacan, and less Visacannot
  (resurfaced 5× · 33 likes · 2019-01-15 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085141702363426816)
- There is the sanitized bubble of reality that you're born into and then there's this vast, treacherous, uncharted wilderness outside of it
  (resurfaced 5× · 33 likes · 2016-12-17 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/810000872595976192)
- > He was one of three soldiers who failed the test at the Windsor base.  > The identities of the other guardsmen have not been revealed.  sigh https://x.com/ShivaniDave/status/1044538899169718272
  (resurfaced 5× · 33 likes · 2018-09-25 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044539603007356928)
- 😎
  (resurfaced 5× · 32 likes · 2019-12-01 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1201006353373753344)
- @eigenrobot you've read toxoplasma of rage right  I find myself increasingly thinking to myself "is this Vegan Outreach or is this PETA", or "what's the Vegan Outreach version of this"  https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/
  (resurfaced 5× · 32 likes · 2019-12-30 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1211506567054426112)
- I face a quadrilemma every weekend: Do I catch up on work? Do I relax and unwind? Work on my personal writing? Or spend time w family?
  (resurfaced 5× · 32 likes · 2017-06-11 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/873693722084429826)
- Dropped by the Jewel at Changi Airport and it is indeed rather Jewelicious
  (resurfaced 5× · 31 likes · 2019-07-01 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1145631467831095297)
- I have one of those massive thoughts that’s hard to pare down and I’m a bit too sleepy and tired so I’ll allude to it and maybe tomorrow-Visa will piece it together  - escaping the tyranny of mainstream aesthetics  - exercising the relatively new option of refusing to be ashamed
  (resurfaced 5× · 31 likes · 2019-01-05 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1081570394325188609)
- this is now a thread about iconic visuals  first some, supporting evidence that eilish actually got this done  this is not an easy feat!! a lot of more successful artists (i'm thinking maybe even rihanna and beyonce?? or mariah carey, etc?) don't have such iconic images
  (resurfaced 5× · 30 likes · 2020-03-11 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1237828301428645889)
- took me 13 videos to start thinking about a better lighting setup 😅
  (resurfaced 5× · 30 likes · 2020-02-09 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1226382871339778048)
- checking out the Maasai this morning
  (resurfaced 5× · 30 likes · 2019-10-23 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1186847723158302721)
- 40. This is my fav Iron Man scene from the entire MCU and it means a lot to me. The suit is not just Tony's weaponized armor; it's also a prosthesis. I used to use the 'dragging thru snow' shot as a cover photo, as a metaphor for my r/ship with my mind – both blessing & burden
  (resurfaced 5× · 30 likes · 2019-01-22 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087706402879991808)
- Mersenne was one of Galileo's most ardent supporters and he insisted that Galileo publish his work outside Italy  Mersenne himself did some math – Mersenne prime numbers (Mn = 2^n − 1) are named after him – but his correspondence & distribution was his real contribution
  (resurfaced 5× · 29 likes · 2022-01-09 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1480172090741252096)
- all direction is misdirection
  (resurfaced 5× · 29 likes · 2019-05-18 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1129685549827198976)
- “We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion." - Lewis Thomas, 1974
  (resurfaced 5× · 28 likes · 2021-04-18 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1383639076608233474)
- this is actually a very useful set of references  i'm not trying to be the michael jordan or the peter thiel of nerds, I'm trying to be the quincy jones of nerds. I don't need to be the "best". but when you list out all the best nerds, I'm there supporting and collaborating
  (resurfaced 5× · 28 likes · 2020-05-17 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1261874382546190336)
- @shmennyshmowry Changes from time to time but rn:  "And I still don't ask you, what is the matter? Is this a matter of worse or of better? you take the heart failure, I'll take the cancer I've long stopped wondering why you don't answer [...] You say I would have told you If you'd only asked me"
  (resurfaced 5× · 28 likes · 2019-06-05 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1136208753236238336)
- Where I am now, worrying about censorship is laughably trivial. Censorship is not the bottleneck that keeps me from achieving my desired social goals. It’s my ability to charm, confront and persuade people who disagree with me, whose worldviews are threatened by mine
  (resurfaced 5× · 28 likes · 2018-06-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1010379577728774146)
- Alrighty I've been meaning to do this for years... here's a thread about my daily commute. I'll post in real time so you can also get a sense of the travel time! I haven't left home yet but here's the big picture overview
  (resurfaced 5× · 28 likes · 2017-12-01 · Transportation & Urban Life · https://x.com/visakanv/status/936412803287494656)
- It reminds me of the scene in Spider-Verse where Peter B is trying to teach Miles how to swing.  “That’s too many things!”  “Then stop listening to me!”
  (resurfaced 5× · 27 likes · 2019-07-11 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1149245242308083712)
- My musical knowledge and ability is this sort of scrappy junkyard mess. Extremely incoherent, extremely haphazard, inelegant, clunky. And yet. And that whole experience in turn I guess has informed my approach to learning... anything
  (resurfaced 5× · 27 likes · 2018-11-30 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068611347259154433)
- phrases with interesting legacies:  car bug app dial film blog post track robot cloud patch phone fire up rewind leeway electric magnet science hang up interface computer bootstrap uppercase dashboard stereotype bandwagon "we're rolling" devil's advocate learning the ropes
  (resurfaced 5× · 26 likes · 2018-06-24 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1010793300414959616)
- @jasonroy_miller Everything Is A Remix does a fantastic job of showing how movies copy, adapt and modify their predecessors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc&t=8s
  (resurfaced 5× · 25 likes · 2018-02-24 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/967488710085304321)
- Meatspace thread
  (resurfaced 5× · 25 likes · 2018-05-21 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998419033811599366)
- "No one will remember if we are good men or bad..."  "... only that two stood against many."  #Sense8
  (resurfaced 5× · 25 likes · 2017-12-25 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/945245861235134464)
- btw to be precise this seems to only be true for the final 5% of the book, which feels like intricate jewelry work. I need to be freshly showered, clean room, no distractions. The first 50% of the book is junkyard mining, best done covered in soot with AC/DC in the background
  (resurfaced 5× · 24 likes · 2021-03-20 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1373148277210640392)
- And you can’t tax friendship
  (resurfaced 5× · 24 likes · 2020-03-19 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1240534067474391041)
- “A stranger visiting Singapore can’t fail to be strict by the signs everywhere exhibited of the settlement being in a high state of prosperity and progressive improvement.” - Major J F A McNair, 1842  (29 years before LKY’s grandfather Lee Hoon Leong was born)
  (resurfaced 5× · 24 likes · 2019-10-09 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1181834418387685377)
- I've been searching for it, and I can't find it, so I'm re-creating it:  the only thing you need to know about horseshoe theory is  *whatever* the topic you're talking about...  at both extreme ends...  lie anime avatars
  (resurfaced 5× · 24 likes · 2018-12-31 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1079811885292171264)
- @sonyasupposedly sonya i'm still thinking about this 😂 what are we doing if not hanging out on Ye Modern Docks and reciting poetry, sermons and shitposts to assemble a killer crew for some yet-to-be-announced expedition
  (resurfaced 5× · 22 likes · 2019-12-02 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1201411107576938499)
- Idle shower thought for an essay I’m probably too lazy to write  I consider myself naive (honestly)  I consider myself a technocrat / fan of tech (I’m from 🇸🇬, it’s kind of in the water)  I consider myself an optimist  And yet, I find naive techno-optimism to be so,, frustrating
  (resurfaced 5× · 22 likes · 2019-03-02 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1101883683353485313)
- @longhandnotes be kind git gud have fun
  (resurfaced 5× · 22 likes · 2019-02-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1098554006828244993)
- I’ve also been fascinated by this phenomenon where Red Hat Boys have become disillusioned with Red Hat and have decided that Pink Hat is the answer  Hint: It’s not the color of the hat  It’s hats
  (resurfaced 5× · 22 likes · 2019-03-19 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1107971856819064833)
- I think this is also directly correlated to why I journal (and tweet) so much. It's really quite a bit like Memento. Okay, so what am I doing? What am I feeling? I live some distance away from my body, my thoughts and feelings are in another room. I need clues to sort it all out
  (resurfaced 5× · 22 likes · 2019-04-07 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1115016569812217856)
- Travel threads
  (resurfaced 5× · 21 likes · 2019-04-25 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1121305898079506437)
- The transmission of the meme of Buddha from India to China (and worldwide!) is itself something that's probably endlessly fascinating and I'm sure there are some interesting books on the subject (Korean painting in 4th pic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_transmission_of_Buddhism
  (resurfaced 5× · 21 likes · 2018-10-14 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1051419655330443265)
- done! the cool thing about doing this is that it has revealed its structure to me – I didn't plan out how all of this was going to be sorted, but "origin story / context", "tactics", "challenges", "end goal", "what I think I know" feels correct to me.  now, the content page
  (resurfaced 5× · 20 likes · 2020-05-12 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1260174038040641537)
- 008: gonna do a couple of book reviews while I continue to work on my 2nd video essay. Here's a book that changed my life – Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hECvB2AtnxY
  (resurfaced 5× · 20 likes · 2020-01-23 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1220382828069715968)
- The Lateen Sail - the favorite sail of the Age of Discovery, mainly because it allows a boat to tack "against the wind.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateen
  (resurfaced 5× · 20 likes · 2019-10-06 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1180737303951446021)
- here are a bunch of my twitter threads, WIP https://www.notion.so/visakanv/Threads-1a6ed25cf06e49e388a303903d597b73
  (resurfaced 5× · 20 likes · 2019-03-28 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1111189138244427777)
- 102. there are going to be a lot more inter-cultural clashes and conflicts like this in the coming days and we’re going to want to get better at dealing with them. I think it starts with appreciating that people on all sides want respect and dignity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=304f5juVkII&feature=youtu.be
  (resurfaced 5× · 19 likes · 2021-01-17 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1350843584304406531)
- “Freud’s outlook grew dark as Europe tore itself to bits in one war, then rearmed for a worse one; and darker as the cancer attacked his body.” This is what I love about biographies – big picture perspectives on the broad, hard-to-see-in-real-time forces that shape people’s lives
  (resurfaced 5× · 19 likes · 2018-11-28 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1067772077241884673)
- this is getting fun  Hayley Williams and Rihanna are both Aaliyah fans, who was a Michael Jackson fan  Hayley used to play in a cover band that did Chaka Khan and Stevie Wonder  Chaka Khan is a Joni Mitchell fangirl
  (resurfaced 5× · 19 likes · 2019-07-19 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1152137839347290113)
- Interesting example of “when women write male characters”
  (resurfaced 5× · 19 likes · 2019-06-19 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141275750516965381)
- 1. Nature is cruel and violent, red in tooth and claw, full of things like disgusting parasites. Even adorable house cats are violent murderers who kill for fun. Welcome to existence. it’s grotesque and horrifying. I am so sorry, but it is
  (resurfaced 5× · 19 likes · 2019-01-07 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1082411127978377216)
- Every so often I wonder something like – what is the most orthogonal vector I could proceed in, relative to all the other vectors of all of my utterances? Ie, how can I most dramatically break from my entire body of work so far
  (resurfaced 5× · 19 likes · 2019-01-19 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1086629394422980614)
- 1939: Aviation would make long distance travel routine. Hence national and international cultural barriers would dissolve, hence, different societies would better understand each other; hence, farewell to war!” 😂😭
  (resurfaced 5× · 19 likes · 2018-11-28 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1067775836135161856)
- A realization I had when talking with friends from different parts of the world:  When you examine a foreign culture, you're going to be most startled or drawn to whatever is most different about it. SG caning, US guns, etc.  It may NOT be what its members consider significant!
  (resurfaced 5× · 19 likes · 2017-12-25 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/945336582369767424)
- memorandibles
  (resurfaced 5× · 18 likes · 2018-09-12 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1039954221318123520)
- Yo @twitter im in ur house eating ur food
  (resurfaced 5× · 18 likes · 2019-04-30 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1123324512332705792)
- @gypsy_panther @browserdotsys @k1ug3 @bobpoekert aside, while we're talking about "self-made", I quite like Arnold Schwarzenegger's forward to Tools of Titans
  (resurfaced 5× · 18 likes · 2019-01-25 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088882118829125632)
- @KavIsFunny this fight scene lmao
  (resurfaced 5× · 18 likes · 2019-01-31 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1091023485751648256)
- Morse needed $30k in funding from Congress to construct the telegraph line, and one congressman apparently wanted half the sum for "experiments in mesmerism". 1890s was a wild time
  (resurfaced 5× · 17 likes · 2022-05-03 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1521528067834871808)
- @round Poison Ivy in Batman and Robin was a Mood
  (resurfaced 5× · 17 likes · 2019-10-12 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1183095025367863296)
- As a musician/artist, Pink is close to the heart of my moodboard. I can't think of any male rockstar in 2018 who has this sort of killer vibe, this much mojo
  (resurfaced 5× · 17 likes · 2018-06-27 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1011827520340029440)
- quotes from *some* of Jimi Hendrix's illustrious fans
  (resurfaced 5× · 16 likes · 2019-07-19 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1152310117863325698)
- I would watch an entire movie starring just Emilia Clarke's and Michael Fassbender's eyebrows
  (resurfaced 5× · 16 likes · 2019-05-29 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1133597341208854534)
- 37. more new rings, S$3 each
  (resurfaced 5× · 15 likes · 2019-11-10 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1193454097946427392)
- I like Shakespeare and Eminem for the same reasons: words, rhymes, pop culture references, deep-rooted emotions, sick burns, crude sex jokes
  (resurfaced 5× · 15 likes · 2017-02-07 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/828878925279289344)
- For many monkeys, the stress of being a low-status member of the group has a debilitating effect on the immune and endocrine systems. The brain releases opiates in response to stress, which block a cascade of hormonal events - leading to infertility (egg is not released)
  (resurfaced 5× · 15 likes · 2018-01-24 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/956113972658282497)
- #nowreading The Communist Manifesto: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf
  (resurfaced 5× · 15 likes · 2018-03-06 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/970957217867317254)
- guys like this would kiss each other onstage and then get off stage and have sex with hot lady groupies  I think I always appreciated/understood something about this too as a musician myself, and it is something very counter-intuitive to mainstream masculinity
  (resurfaced 5× · 14 likes · 2019-02-26 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1100284738030325761)
- Let's tweet a little about software marketing. For me, it began by joining a team that already made software that made money
  (resurfaced 5× · 14 likes · 2017-09-07 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/905824570598244352)
- okay so here's a delightful chain  get stressed -> cortisol rises -> cells become insulin resistant (which means... your blood sugar gets converted into fat)  yeah... I think breathwork is reversing or mitigating this process for me  https://shop.choicesmarkets.com/sm/pickup/rsid/20006/the-stress-weight-connection-cortisol-and-your-metabolism
  (resurfaced 5× · 12 likes · 2020-02-20 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1230415626029527040)
- @TheAnnaGat @patio11 @webdevMason @sense8 I could cry, we are all really a thing. Clearly our spacecraft splintered over low earth orbit and distributed us planet-wide
  (resurfaced 5× · 12 likes · 2019-03-23 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1109555702949797888)
- You could hire a group of people to dress up as Ronald McDonalds and Colonel Sanders and have a gang war in the streets
  (resurfaced 5× · 12 likes · 2018-10-07 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048871904533078016)
- @michellehuang42 "that is the only time a man can be brave" – ned stark
  (resurfaced 5× · 11 likes · 2021-04-08 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1379979159338815491)
- Seriously, poor Robin
  (resurfaced 5× · 11 likes · 2018-07-11 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1017048048373919744)
- In 1953, rationing ended and TV started to pick up. Bowie's dad, like thousands of others, bought a new set so the family could watch the coronation of the glamorous young Queen Elizabeth II. Bowie was 6 at the time
  (resurfaced 5× · 11 likes · 2019-06-19 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141329871689285633)
- Free advice for the next 20 mins while I get breakfast, AMA
  (resurfaced 5× · 11 likes · 2018-09-02 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1036134661225730048)
- A friend had a garage full of junk. If he cleaned out his garage, he'd have to admit that his house was too big for him+wife sans grown kids. Then he'd have to move. In moving he'd realize his marriage had died years ago but he was too scared to leave. So no cleaning the garage!
  (resurfaced 5× · 10 likes · 2018-04-25 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/989107050536824832)
- L was at my office birthday party, jun 2018  R is in jan 2019  my posture is more upright, I look less flabby, and even feel like my shoulders and chest are more muscular  I have NOT been working out  I think it's entirely just cortisol levels  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1230416999588581376
  (resurfaced 5× · 9 likes · 2021-02-04 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1357269731343032322)
- It's time for the semi-finals: Day 3 of the Alphabet World Cup!  Surprisingly, V beat E – by the narrowest margin in any matchup yet  The semifinals shall take place via two 1v1v1 matchups  To try to be fair, I'll give both sets a spread of margins – A vs R vs S, and W vs X vs V https://x.com/visakanv/status/1244165508921880576
  (resurfaced 5× · 8 likes · 2020-03-30 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1244596600988520455)
- @devonzuegel "it's better to be smart than kind" -> being kind makes you smarter https://t.co/8qCNhLmbQ1
  (resurfaced 5× · 7 likes · 2018-04-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/982159444082503682)
- It's odd to me that content isn't yet optimized for Tinder-style cards. It's nicer to swipe cards aside than scroll through an endless feed
  (resurfaced 5× · 7 likes · 2015-10-03 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/650353458650877952)
- 10. One of my group chats
  (resurfaced 5× · 6 likes · 2019-01-23 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088095607464505344)
- @sonyaellenmann @samgraver @Tipsycaek yea I am just expressing my disgust at the nature of reality
  (resurfaced 5× · 6 likes · 2019-02-20 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1098146630052663296)
- @sonyaellenmann Hate clicks are clicks :-(
  (resurfaced 5× · 6 likes · 2018-11-23 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1066048755395219456)
- We begin with Mr. Alfred Dunhill [1872–1959]. He was born in Hornsey, London, and his father ran a saddlery in Euston Road (picture unrelated).  Seems like the critical part of the story is, Alfred witnessed the rise of the automobile, and modified his dad's biz to meet it
  (resurfaced 5× · 5 likes · 2019-04-07 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114854520092127233)
- Enuma Elish, Babylon: primordial waters, angry mother goddess, big bad creator dad. Crazy kids kill dad. Mom makes monsters.Marduk defeated sea Monster Tiamat, took her, divided her like a shellfish to create the world. Parental sacrifice, anger/tension between family members
  (resurfaced 5× · 5 likes · 2018-04-15 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/985391551906918401)
- @jtaylorhodge @KevinSimler No central anything - after a while I’ve just gotten better at thinking and writing with search queries in mind. Thread of tweets about my wife obviously threaded with “wife”. See a cool map? “from:visakanv maps”. And so on
  (resurfaced 5× · 2 likes · 2018-09-03 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1036419523933392896)
- @karlnieb @fortelabs
  (resurfaced 5× · 1 likes · 2019-02-07 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093538042327883776)
- The flexible nature of Twitter makes it difficult for any singular definition of “the game” to become canonical. Conflict between players with different interpretations of Twitter is a key feature of Twitter itself. Indeed, one of the most popular games is “hey, fuck that guy”.
  (resurfaced 5× · 0 likes · 2019-02-10 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094689527615021056)
- love this: awkward shy rejection-sensitive pimply asian guy asked 100 girls out on a date. 19 said yes! 10 were lesbian. concludes that he got over his fear of rejection in a single day
  (resurfaced 4× · 53,186 likes · 2023-08-07 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1688458085302763520)
- casual reminder that you should enjoy at least some of your life *now*, not be deferring all joy in the hope of enjoyment some day in the future
  (resurfaced 4× · 1,319 likes · 2021-10-11 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1447381737944739842)
- example of cultural differences: here is a comment on a Singaporean moving out of their parents’ home at 32
  (resurfaced 4× · 1,193 likes · 2021-04-18 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1383657300192227337)
- The Witcher might seem like it’s about fantasy and magic and swordfighting but really it’s about the struggles of being a freelancer
  (resurfaced 4× · 942 likes · 2019-12-26 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1210219953099440134)
- if you say you're ambitious, but you don't have a body of work you can point at, you should STFU and build the body of work first. even if it's a bunch of notes and drafts and crappy prototypes or whatever. code your apps, write your plays and poems. I will die on this hill.
  (resurfaced 4× · 939 likes · 2021-10-21 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1451147667732525063)
- one of my favorite memes this decade was Creamsicle, from 2012 – it started by riffing off of someone's "i'm not like other girls" post (not sure if meant to be ironic) and then tumblr said "make love not war" and shipped them together
  (resurfaced 4× · 931 likes · 2019-12-17 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1206954525732397058)
- chronically, hastily, anxiously initiating projects of change turns out to be a more effective way of enforcing stasis than gently facing and accepting the full truth of one’s situation (which often leads to change quite naturally)
  (resurfaced 4× · 892 likes · 2023-11-29 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1729735576461418684)
- chaos-surfing well requires understanding a buncha things  1. how things appear to me are not necessarily how they are  2. what people say is not necessarily what they mean  3. what is said/shown is not necessarily all there is  4. what is true for me may not be true for you
  (resurfaced 4× · 851 likes · 2024-05-24 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1794014526851223788)
- When people say “Indian food” or “Chinese food”, they’re typically talking about a narrow band of whatever’s been imported to their region and presented to them as such. 3 billion people eat a lot more than two types of food. Even these maps are hideously oversimplified
  (resurfaced 4× · 847 likes · 2019-11-24 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1198450618177744896)
- I learned that you rarely build anything worthwhile that way. The “best” case scenario: you win over other disagreeable people. A few years of this & it becomes the world you live in – surrounded by other belligerent assholes who don’t know or care how to play nice. A cursed life
  (resurfaced 4× · 683 likes · 2018-09-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1039427070915297280)
- funny how zuck comes across as more human and likeable in mandarin than in english
  (resurfaced 4× · 681 likes · 2021-03-30 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1376755500436520961)
- @__drewface (audio is weird bc I’ve sped it up 1.4x)  Miles Davis was great at challenging and supporting young creative talents to perform at the edge of their abilities, and beyond  Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, ~1:15:00
  (resurfaced 4× · 667 likes · 2022-05-18 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1526956922020081665)
- me: isn't it wild that we could make a bunch of humans to hang out with  wife: that's the most compelling reason for having kids that I've ever heard
  (resurfaced 4× · 589 likes · 2018-10-29 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1056888203477577728)
- people who care about truth are always shocked to discover over and over again that most people don't care
  (resurfaced 4× · 564 likes · 2020-11-18 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1329135447260336128)
- conspiracy theories are always so negative. my conspiracy theory is that there are tens of millions of people i haven't met yet who are out to help me
  (resurfaced 4× · 539 likes · 2022-12-08 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1600686635980496897)
- 25. stop and smell the flowers
  (resurfaced 4× · 519 likes · 2022-04-03 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1510430245727313923)
- How to DM your heroes when they follow you  1. specific proof-of-work: “I’ve been a fan of your work and writing since the livejournal days”  2. share sth specific about yourself, their influence on you: “your work shaped the way I now do X”  3. ask easy-to-answer specific Q
  (resurfaced 4× · 507 likes · 2021-11-02 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1455410645352914948)
- I was a lot more belligerent and disagreeable when I was younger, in part because I simplistically thought playing other people’s games was a sheep-like way to live. Why should I support other people’s dumb games? Why not mock them instead? It’s easy, and intoxicating
  (resurfaced 4× · 493 likes · 2018-09-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1039426670053142528)
- 
  (resurfaced 4× · 471 likes · 2020-11-06 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1324795280185790464)
- TIL about Justo Gallego Martínez, 96 years old, who has spent almost 60 years building a cathedral by himself on the outskirts of Madrid. He has no formal plans, works 10 hours a day, 6 days a week. And he has such a lovely spirit. I would dearly like to visit this cathedral
  (resurfaced 4× · 423 likes · 2021-10-01 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1443916814426071042)
- engineer-shaman who walks people through resolving their childhood shit by saying “let’s investigate your early training data”
  (resurfaced 4× · 418 likes · 2022-05-26 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1529750665177616384)
- wishing them all love and success
  (resurfaced 4× · 415 likes · 2023-01-18 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1615668932651909120)
- most advice is tactical but most persistent problems are deep-conceptual, deep-relational  blackout blinds and eye masks etc won't help you very much with your bad sleep if your real issue is that deep down in your heart of hearts you feel like you don't deserve to rest
  (resurfaced 4× · 408 likes · 2022-06-03 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1532716669054816257)
- I commissioned @goblinodds to draw a D&D version of me and I think they absolutely nailed it 😍
  (resurfaced 4× · 408 likes · 2021-10-22 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1451594605661548546)
- 
  (resurfaced 4× · 399 likes · 2022-02-01 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1488611451690713088)
- Filters have almost never filtered for talent, they’ve almost always filtered for professionalism, ie the ability to maintain an image of civility. Talent often has the essence of barbarism about it https://x.com/xctlot/status/1354647503635968007
  (resurfaced 4× · 386 likes · 2021-01-29 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1355017568138919936)
- common nerd failure modes:  - over-fixating on question-driven inquiry - over-accumulating data - overfixating on projections implied by data - indecisiveness - difficulty imagining and valuing non-nerd modes of being - difficulty appreciating implicitness, subtext, allusions
  (resurfaced 4× · 367 likes · 2022-05-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1527179796588810240)
- some people will interpret you living your best life as a provocation directed at them personally
  (resurfaced 4× · 350 likes · 2022-01-04 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1478180909199216640)
- I love these pictures of Jessie Graff, a stunt woman with big powerful muscles. You can see in the first pic she’s not super comfortable with standing around posing like a model, but ask her to move and suddenly it’s poetry. And her dress is *designed* to accommodate her movement
  (resurfaced 4× · 340 likes · 2021-07-09 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1413325583929413636)
- if you’re at a point where going about your daily life is the equivalent of having someone screaming in your face, things have gotten pretty dire. it’s salvageable but it will take time. you need to rehabilitate your relationship with yourself. You start by putting the gun down
  (resurfaced 4× · 338 likes · 2021-06-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1405251334559784961)
- Be a nerd about what you love, publicly, in an inviting and nourishing way, over a long period of time. Make friends in the process who love and support what you do. It really works, I promise!
  (resurfaced 4× · 327 likes · 2019-02-09 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094381614186979330)
- so check this out, in ancient Greece there were these women who were really smart and really hot, and this lady Phryne was on trial for impiety – legend has it that she was so hot that when she bared her tits the gentlemen of the jury had no choice but to acquit  cc @Aella_Girl
  (resurfaced 4× · 304 likes · 2021-02-19 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1362691138092589057)
- 2. Low-ranking members of high-status groups will tolerate and do anything to stay in the group. This is why the Plastics endure abuse from Regina, and (partially) why middle-class voters vote against their own interests / choose to be prejudiced rather than build coalitions
  (resurfaced 4× · 294 likes · 2018-02-28 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/968917465366319104)
- I wrote an essay about this once, you might enjoy it: https://t.co/OrYxUwBy7L
  (resurfaced 4× · 288 likes · 2018-02-28 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/968919735080386560)
- 1 like = 1 weird, uncomfortable or off-brand thought
  (resurfaced 4× · 287 likes · 2018-05-10 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/994494432975048704)
- it's quite common for people who succeed at something to kinda handwave over the part that they didn't have trouble with, that everyone else struggles with.  today i want to talk about Alan Watts' “What Would You Like To Do If Money Were No Object?”
  (resurfaced 4× · 285 likes · 2022-06-28 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1541694099719618560)
- how do they say... no cap
  (resurfaced 4× · 282 likes · 2022-01-31 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1488094772317212672)
- one day when covid is done, many of us will coordinate a trip to Japan. It’ll happen, I can feel it. Even the lesser weebs amongst us desire this
  (resurfaced 4× · 279 likes · 2021-08-18 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1427985521406451712)
- I want to solve big problems. most of the people whom I've seen attempt to solve big problems seem to have failed. common assumption here is: this is because big problems are hard. I'm not a fan of that frame. my belief is that most attempts fail because of lack of preparation
  (resurfaced 4× · 279 likes · 2020-03-05 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1235460946002247680)
- "Any businessman and executive could live anywhere on earth and still do his business through a device like this. And this is a wonderful thing, it means we won't have to be stuck in cities. We can live out in the country or wherever we please..." – Arthur C. Clarke in 1974
  (resurfaced 4× · 278 likes · 2022-05-06 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1522580710875594752)
- @liminal_warmth top 10 things i've had to unlearn, in 2 minutes. lmao this is almost a rap video
  (resurfaced 4× · 273 likes · 2019-06-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1136680901348167681)
- Reminder to tomorrow-Visa to make a thread about how this video changed my life (approach to mistakes and failure, and the expectations and feelings around them) https://x.com/visakanv/status/979718744896188417
  (resurfaced 4× · 270 likes · 2019-01-18 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1086360632788545536)
- some casual reminders on how to avoid being main character'd, if you wish to avoid it  1. avoid putting your contentious thought in the first tweet  2. separate the contentious thought itself across two tweets  IMO this will reduce the severity by about 80%
  (resurfaced 4× · 266 likes · 2021-07-16 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1416088451212972036)
- I want to do a thread about Srinivasa Ramanujan, the mathematician. He lived a short but brilliant life of 32 years. He was born in 1887 in Erode, and he lived and died in Kumbakonam – not too far from where my grandparents were from
  (resurfaced 4× · 266 likes · 2019-08-10 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1160172730081107968)
- just found out that a couple who met via a Facebook group I started 13 years ago just got married recently… 😍🥲 introducing lovely people to each other is the gift that keeps on giving
  (resurfaced 4× · 261 likes · 2023-11-15 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1724859057226588356)
- Gentlemen I can’t believe I have to say this but  When I say “do 100 things”  I do NOT mean “message the same woman 100 times if she’s not replying”
  (resurfaced 4× · 261 likes · 2020-01-02 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1212528045304582145)
- 50. the circle of life
  (resurfaced 4× · 258 likes · 2023-08-30 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1696853045634888021)
- visa's favorite tweets of all time, 2022 re-issue https://x.com/markpopham/status/984390329666293767
  (resurfaced 4× · 257 likes · 2022-01-05 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1478694242969001987)
- saw a tweet about some guy who apparently uses witchcraft to curse people who download his ebook without paying  I personally bless my pirates. I love you all, you broke-ass motherfuckers. help me tell your friends. subscribe to my youtube channel, leave some comments. let's go
  (resurfaced 4× · 256 likes · 2021-02-24 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1364469812139728899)
- I feel like the most important thing we need to learn as kids, after things like "language" and "people skills" – which we kinda pick up naturally anyway – is "project management"
  (resurfaced 4× · 251 likes · 2018-10-31 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1057601229394591745)
- whenever my wife and I have an argument, we go have ice cream afterwards
  (resurfaced 4× · 246 likes · 2019-09-26 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1177165319531454464)
- I feel this way about a lot of things. Even teaching math in schools... it makes sense to teach the history of math. The drama, the tension, *dramatic pause* the tea https://x.com/cryptokatia/status/1153380204267679744
  (resurfaced 4× · 246 likes · 2019-07-23 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153566543755612160)
- the thing I loved and miss most about tumblr is how casually literary it was. It was full of book nerds who just referenced literature, not to impress anybody but because it was their frame of reference. It made me wanna be more well-read so I too could have a richer inner life https://x.com/glitzandshadows/status/1161092348954206209
  (resurfaced 4× · 244 likes · 2019-08-15 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1161967958874185728)
- @xsphi saved this from a YouTube short a while ago, I think it demonstrates the sort of harm reduction Joe does that goes underappreciated
  (resurfaced 4× · 243 likes · 2022-07-01 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1542918766106816512)
- with each passing year I get more and more convinced that people are practically born with most of their personalities pre-installed. we can edit, modify, reconstitute, etc to varying degrees, but certain core attributes seem to run all the way through   https://x.com/drinksmcgee/status/1194349921534529537
  (resurfaced 4× · 242 likes · 2019-11-13 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1194666165361995776)
- silly joke hypothesis: goodreads, like civilisation, is nowhere as good as it could be. perhaps for the same reasons. so perhaps if we figure out how to improve goodreads (correcting the incentives, etc) we will inadvertently improve civilisation in tandem
  (resurfaced 4× · 240 likes · 2022-08-09 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1556856355679395840)
- “Arnold. You’re a very impressive bodybuilder. But what’s this talk about movies? Your accent is terrible! Nobody will understand- oh, ok. You’re a film star. Well done. Wait, you want to be WHAT?”
  (resurfaced 4× · 232 likes · 2020-07-11 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1281781231777009664)
- funny riff that came out during my last salon: some people have bad project management and they misdiagnose it as moral failure  this is like a lvl 1 hero thinking he’s a bad person because the first item on his todo list is “slay dragon” and he hasn’t done it yet
  (resurfaced 4× · 231 likes · 2021-05-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1396398710381154305)
- how girls & guys talk about sex  girl: my man was quiet but his dick was LOUD in the sheets amen jesus  guy: i took her to pound town. i pounded her hard. with my hard dick. bang bang bang like a *looks at notes* M134D gatling gun. she moaned and came. hard. multiple times. I won
  (resurfaced 4× · 226 likes · 2018-08-02 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1024991077986521089)
- actually at 30 I don’t really care anymore. “Do X by Y” is a scam, just do what you want and what you think is best at any given moment. Maybe accomplishment speedrunning is a 20s thing
  (resurfaced 4× · 225 likes · 2020-12-24 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1342050461310808066)
- https://x.com/juliagalef/status/597131910045769728
  (resurfaced 4× · 223 likes · 2020-07-31 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1289173462116753408)
- the thing about "just ask a girl if you can kiss her" is there's a *universe* of difference between a subtext of "i'd really enjoy kissing you, and/but i'd also really enjoy myself regardless, no worries" and "please kiss me? oh god please say yes???", and that makes all the diff
  (resurfaced 4× · 221 likes · 2022-04-28 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1519826739018764288)
- This memo from Donald Rumsfeld in April 2001 is quite a read (h/t @leashless)
  (resurfaced 4× · 221 likes · 2020-10-19 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1317996631342542849)
- a lot of twitter is people posting dramatically in a way that’s emotionally correct for them, but it translates poorly into plaintext where it’s technically incorrect and taken apart by pedants. this conflict is like the combustion engine that runs the place
  (resurfaced 4× · 220 likes · 2022-05-16 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1526123469712199680)
- @wilks_isaac same energy
  (resurfaced 4× · 220 likes · 2019-11-23 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1198201116200030210)
- @webdevMason I gotchu fam
  (resurfaced 4× · 220 likes · 2019-07-22 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153185976786640897)
- The key feature of (public) Twitter is that any player can interact with any other player. Any player can reply to any other player’s tweets, or retweet it, or quote-tweet it. This bypasses traditional limitations of both “real life” as well as older web mediums like “blogs”.
  (resurfaced 4× · 219 likes · 2019-02-10 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094694093509128192)
- thinking again about Contrapoints’ elegant articulation of one of the torture traps of fame: audiences demand both perfection and authenticity, which obviously cannot coexist
  (resurfaced 4× · 217 likes · 2021-01-23 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1352896167244255232)
- the other thing that annoys me tho is concern trolling, like some guy gives a writing tip about improving readability, and some tedious bore shows up with “well what if Dante or Goethe took your advice, huh?!” bro Dante and Goethe would not have been led astray by a random tweet
  (resurfaced 4× · 213 likes · 2022-02-12 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1492366125396480002)
- 42. but can you take compliments?
  (resurfaced 4× · 209 likes · 2022-10-13 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1580457604186181632)
- make 100 youtube videos
  (resurfaced 4× · 207 likes · 2020-01-10 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1215514860122886144)
- part of how we get to a golden age is we have to be rigorous with ourselves and each other about what we really mean  it's cruel to say you love your partner and then treat them with indifference. it would be kinder to admit you don't love them. same is true of your ambitions
  (resurfaced 4× · 206 likes · 2021-10-21 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1451149843510935555)
- kevin kelly scenius post, 2008  - status games within the scene - high social intercourse - individual triumphs shared by the scene - tolerance of transgression
  (resurfaced 4× · 204 likes · 2021-02-15 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1361222333009063937)
- So here's what's crazy!! If you want to get a 450 ton train go from point A to point B, safely, reliably– you need a delivery system that's not truly "secured"! the infrastructure is reliable because it allows so much wiggle room. the system is secure because no single point is!!
  (resurfaced 4× · 204 likes · 2018-10-06 · Transportation & Urban Life · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048503903652700160)
- “I am the wound and the knife! I am the slap and the cheek! I am the limbs and the rack, And the victim and the executioner! I am the vampire of my own heart.” — Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867)
  (resurfaced 4× · 200 likes · 2021-12-30 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1476540483581067277)
- @pirarobizarro oooh, rediscovered one of my all-time favorites
  (resurfaced 4× · 197 likes · 2019-10-14 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1183764274667122688)
- the minotaur of desire is a powerful creature, coded as dangerous, hostile, shameful, etc. and it gets locked up in a labyrinth of reason. then having jailed our hearts, we ask ourselves why we feel so cold, despondent, bored, listless  kids love Elsa bc she demonstrates this
  (resurfaced 4× · 195 likes · 2023-05-28 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1662888564055752704)
- Took me years to learn this, and you can actually decide to do it in an instant https://x.com/visakanv/status/1158720823160537089
  (resurfaced 4× · 195 likes · 2019-08-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1158720988567109632)
- 28. sometimes it's ok to bother people
  (resurfaced 4× · 194 likes · 2022-04-08 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1512481708377272321)
- An interesting about fan culture to me is how fans self-select and self-reinforce their identities, perpetuating a gulf between themselves and their idols. I have never related to this. I have always wanted to be peers with the people I admire. Statistically, most people don’t
  (resurfaced 4× · 194 likes · 2019-08-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1163439134171521024)
- sometimes when one door closes in life, another one opens
  (resurfaced 4× · 193 likes · 2022-01-16 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1482665900998545409)
- many such cases
  (resurfaced 4× · 191 likes · 2023-09-03 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1698339378580586653)
- me: are you even listening to me?? I’ve told you this like,, 10 times  wife: *perfectly straight face* tell me 90 more times  me:  me:  me: hoist by my own petard smh
  (resurfaced 4× · 191 likes · 2019-12-04 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1202213363251417088)
- At the heart of all of this I think are ideas about responsibility and blame.  The shackle I'm trying to shake of is this:  I have often preferred to be subjected to an underwhelming, unsatisfactory outcome than to be personally responsible for the quality of the outcome
  (resurfaced 4× · 183 likes · 2018-04-04 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/981662141508759552)
- 
  (resurfaced 4× · 182 likes · 2019-09-23 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1176116655883087872)
- sovereignty
  (resurfaced 4× · 181 likes · 2021-06-02 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1400054800113229825)
- @eigenrobot many intelligent people are *advanced* bad at thinking
  (resurfaced 4× · 181 likes · 2021-09-27 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1442438477690277891)
- thought i'd make a visakanv bingo card  anything missing?
  (resurfaced 4× · 180 likes · 2022-05-22 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1528410609112346624)
- 38.
  (resurfaced 4× · 179 likes · 2022-09-07 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1567432507288866816)
- Dylan: I want to join Little Richard  Hendrix: I want to do what Little Richard does  Bowie: When I heard Little Richard, it set my world on fire  Little Richard: Everybody I heard was meh. I wanted something different but I couldn't find it. I found it was me
  (resurfaced 4× · 178 likes · 2019-07-18 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1151912010054959105)
- This is basically also my twitter philosophy. I’m not here to change people’s minds or achieve some grand goal or to fight for or against anything in particular. I’m here to make friends and have a good time https://x.com/alanwattsdaily/status/1070385498865262593?s=21
  (resurfaced 4× · 178 likes · 2019-01-01 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1080208392453447680)
- Dreary weather has put me in a somewhat despondent mood and so I’m rewatching LOTR, which is a salve. Right from the start, the soundtrack of the Shire has my heart swelling ❤️
  (resurfaced 4× · 177 likes · 2020-12-04 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1334813272621473792)
- cleaning out my photos and found some pics from Deepavali last year  how did I marry this beautiful creature  extremely hashtag blessed
  (resurfaced 4× · 176 likes · 2019-01-25 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088857391137927168)
- 29. imagination deficits rule everything around me
  (resurfaced 4× · 175 likes · 2020-11-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1330998738937020417)
- found this via @charlieglickman's FB:  it's cute and silly, and/but it's also something lots of us do all the time!!  we are contrained by some frame, some way of thinking/seeing/being, and we struggle to reach our goals bc we don't realize that the frame we're in is limiting us
  (resurfaced 4× · 175 likes · 2020-06-07 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1269443714876751872)
- Google makes a "year in review" every year. I eagerly watch it every year. They have never once even come close to matching the raw power of the video they made in 2012. This stupid, beautiful species, I love you so much
  (resurfaced 4× · 175 likes · 2019-01-12 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084022490660139009)
- clarification: “do 100 thing” is secondary to the primary objective, which is “do whatever the fuck you want”
  (resurfaced 4× · 171 likes · 2021-11-05 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1456444437177896961)
- TIL that @morganhousel wrote 3,382 articles for fool dot com before I had ever heard of him and thought "wow who's this really good writer who came outta nowhere"  https://t.co/ULm6UU3z7P
  (resurfaced 4× · 170 likes · 2019-03-27 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1110933630728069121)
- the most interesting quotes from steve jobs are when he was at NeXT, because psychologically and materially, in terms of Apple's success, he was in the belly of the whale at the time
  (resurfaced 4× · 167 likes · 2021-10-13 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1448315054424657921)
- alright mfs and hoebags it seems there are people who think of belief as a binary (0/1) thing. allow me to introduce u to the concept of TRANSLUCENT BELIEFS.  a translucent material is something that allows some light through, but not all. it’s neither opaque nor transparent
  (resurfaced 4× · 165 likes · 2021-11-10 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1458371829832110081)
- As a polytribal weirdheart I have a foot in each camp.  Sometimes Team Try Anyway has blinders on, gets moralistic, humorless, combative, angry  Sometimes Team Fuck It All is insightful, perceptive, funny  My life’s work: assembling Team Best Of Both Worlds
  (resurfaced 4× · 165 likes · 2018-06-07 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1004557160955572224)
- Where and how do you begin to tell the story of the PS4 controller? I feel like it should start with the story of Sony.  In 1998, Steve Jobs said “The whole strategy for Apple now is, if you will, to be the Sony of the computer business.”  https://t.co/UVcSbeV8nU https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094972018729017350
  (resurfaced 4× · 164 likes · 2019-04-06 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114493962440429568)
- Language itself is actually an infinite game of persuasion. it’s fashion and politics- we try on new words and try to make them happen; and whether they catch on or not depends on whether other people agree with our assessment that some configuration is particularly fetch https://x.com/visakanv/status/862904419658027008
  (resurfaced 4× · 164 likes · 2018-07-12 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1017306122615644161)
- @primalpoly cave paintings in Sulawesi, Indonesia  they're about 40,000 years old
  (resurfaced 4× · 163 likes · 2022-03-20 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1505641628366929924)
- This is less “your father is secretly a government spy” and more “most of what you think you know about your father is likely coloured by the father-child relationship + most people who tell you things about him mostly filter their thoughts with your relationship in mind”
  (resurfaced 4× · 161 likes · 2018-12-15 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074016987666235392)
- there's a kind of literacy that doesn't get talked about much, and it's something like running a "how will this be misinterpreted negatively" filter over your writing while you do it. has to be a more succinct way of putting this. antagonist literacy? defensive literacy? 🤔
  (resurfaced 4× · 158 likes · 2022-03-21 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1505983080086999040)
- One of my favorite pics, of all the ones that I’ve ever taken, was of a couple of strangers lying here and taking it all in
  (resurfaced 4× · 158 likes · 2018-07-25 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1022086906287288321)
- Infants in hunter-gatherer societies carried by mothers as much as 90% of the time (similar to other primates)  In 1970s America, skin-to-skin contact with mother was as low as 16% - might be considered child abuse by some societies.  Similar issue: isolating sleeping children
  (resurfaced 4× · 157 likes · 2018-04-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988374557860884480)
- and as brian eno pointed out, once a limitation is transcended, it will be romanticized. you see kids on tiktoks and fancams etc doing this right now with artificially grainy fancams meant to look like VCR footage
  (resurfaced 4× · 153 likes · 2021-04-29 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1387819072763568131)
- This has been my favorite genre for some time. Has anybody named it yet? It’s a sort of business software bizzaro, Kafka-as-a-service, subscription-based hellscape https://x.com/justabloodygame/status/1019606957462835200
  (resurfaced 4× · 151 likes · 2018-07-18 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1019647140786606080)
- “NPC rides his bike into the mayor”  “my three brain cells during an exam”
  (resurfaced 4× · 149 likes · 2021-06-05 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1401229053781184515)
- 4 fundamental truths overlooked by the brain-disease model of mental health:  1: People can heal each other 2: Language can alter perspective (art!) 3. We can physically influence the regulation our own physiology 4. Environments can be modified to be nurturing and healthy
  (resurfaced 4× · 149 likes · 2018-04-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/981481221573111811)
- lady: don’t kiss a girl and like it!  girls:
  (resurfaced 4× · 147 likes · 2022-03-06 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1500428026525339652)
- @alexeyguzey If you’re reading this, my belief is that you are likely under-imagining what you can become capable of. Imagination deficits rule everything around me
  (resurfaced 4× · 146 likes · 2020-01-01 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1212416942184648705)
- "It's not enough to learn a lot; one also has to manage what one learns." – Marvin Minsky
  (resurfaced 4× · 145 likes · 2022-12-11 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1601997144743108608)
- I know what it’s like to look & feel undesirable, and for people to call me ugly to my face, too. Some recent followers assume that I must have always been naturally attractive, confident, charismatic, full of sunshine. That’s false; I recreated myself in the depth of despair https://x.com/visakanv/status/1239097501421993984
  (resurfaced 4× · 144 likes · 2020-03-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1239396735656456192)
- I have decided to celebrate by posting cringe. feel free to tag yourself
  (resurfaced 4× · 141 likes · 2021-08-02 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1422308134220034054)
- you don't have to make yourself smaller just to appease the feelings of cowards. they will never be satisfied with you no matter what you do, because they are perpetual dissatisfaction engines
  (resurfaced 4× · 140 likes · 2021-04-18 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1383700478098251779)
- still funny and soooo cathartic
  (resurfaced 4× · 138 likes · 2022-05-18 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1527019352826183681)
- Dudes be posting pics like this and complain when they get no matches on tinder
  (resurfaced 4× · 136 likes · 2020-03-10 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1237203963570565121)
- My “Do 100 Thing” online course is for sale: just buy Hades and complete it. That’s it that’s the course
  (resurfaced 4× · 131 likes · 2021-10-13 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1448229624350085127)
- You can meet effectively anybody in the world if you have internet access and you’re willing to spend 10 years working on it
  (resurfaced 4× · 131 likes · 2019-06-03 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1135468040009596928)
- Life  1. Find out how you been fucked up (genetically, familial...ly, societally, environmentally, behaviorally) and fix that  2. Figure out what you love about people and actively, earnestly make friends with people who embody it  3. Pursue interestingness, excitement, curiosity
  (resurfaced 4× · 130 likes · 2019-01-19 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1086502995099930626)
- I was curious about the context of the Edgar Allen Poe quote, "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." Turns out it's from a letter to a friend (reply guy?) named George Washington Eveleth, in 1848
  (resurfaced 4× · 129 likes · 2020-05-05 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1257504695943262208)
- Got some custom Nikes made! 💜 ♋️👩🏾‍🎤🍇
  (resurfaced 4× · 128 likes · 2021-07-30 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1421049051739394050)
- you might WANT to be an NPC, and even try to be one – but in that case, then you wouldn't look down on other people for being NPC-esque.  which I think brings me to the tentative conclusion that it's really NPCs who hate on other NPCs. it's self-hatred expressed outwards
  (resurfaced 4× · 126 likes · 2018-10-31 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1057556211804061696)
- [pounds table] learning, *true* learning, is the most radical punk-ass shit. School wants you to be a pocket lighter - a small, predictable flame that does what it’s told & doesn’t ask too many questions. I want y’all to be f***in’ firestorms. Ignite the eons with your curiosity
  (resurfaced 4× · 125 likes · 2019-07-23 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153591830958575617)
- I was 29 years old when it really hit me that the hokey pokey is indeed what it’s all about
  (resurfaced 4× · 123 likes · 2020-06-14 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1272081915860807681)
- [clears throat] GENNERMAN!!! What nonsense news is this?? Why you never fuck your wife?? You spend big money throw wedding, fly plane go honeymoon, then never fuck??Artillery faulty is it? Bobo shooter? Or watching anime?? Can you STAND UP for Singapore anot?? Wah piang eh. https://x.com/visakanv/status/1213805045885485056
  (resurfaced 4× · 123 likes · 2020-01-05 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1213809643660529664)
- The scary thing to me as a teenager m was the prospect of working a bullshit job in a bullshit organization, cranking widgets that nobody actually cares about, nobody actually wants outside of the bizzaro context of the organization itself
  (resurfaced 4× · 120 likes · 2018-11-22 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065504305526923264)
- learning something about myself: there's a class of thing I don't like, not because I don't like the spirit thing, but because I don't like the traditional structure of the thing. this explains my aversion to: classrooms, therapists, editors, book clubs, online courses...
  (resurfaced 4× · 119 likes · 2022-12-19 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1604903914532282368)
- finally put some new batteries in my little amp, and remembered that I have a microphone now, and remembered furthermore that I used to play in a band... some people were actually into this
  (resurfaced 4× · 118 likes · 2020-03-26 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1243045055306194946)
- We are all born creative and it is socialized out of us.
  (resurfaced 4× · 117 likes · 2019-02-21 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1098498725758922752)
- from Ray Bradbury's Zen In The Art Of Writing:  "If you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. [...] you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself."  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1063017221138505728
  (resurfaced 4× · 117 likes · 2019-01-13 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084561403279634432)
- “I do miss something from the war. But I also believe that the world we are living in—and the peace that we have—is very fucked up if somebody is missing war. And many people do.” –Nidzara Ahmetasevic, survivor of the siege of Sarajevo
  (resurfaced 4× · 116 likes · 2018-04-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988438528903139328)
- There is a deep itch in my brain that’s only scratched by reading hundreds of pages of good fiction. As a child I was in this state constantly, as an adult I find I tend to get really into it about once a year
  (resurfaced 4× · 115 likes · 2020-02-22 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1231315004369989635)
- Nitpickers get very confused when you just say yes to them  guy: your tweet is Bad and Wrong  me: yes and yes  guy: you should delete it  me: yup  guy: you haven’t deleted it!!! you’re an attention whore full of shit  me: you really understand me :-)  guy: sick  me: yup
  (resurfaced 4× · 115 likes · 2019-03-26 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1110450978711433217)
- Incidentally, I am pretty obsessed with 22nd century Singapore. I think we have a real shot of becoming one of the most interesting, exciting cities in the world. I’m talking Golden Age shit, like 1000s Baghdad, 1400s Florence, 1860s Vienna. But we have to work to make it happen https://x.com/andre_spicer/status/1219171006633381889
  (resurfaced 4× · 114 likes · 2020-01-20 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1219218839277228032)
- I used to watch a couple of motivational videos by MateusZ every single morning in 2014–2015 when I was depressed and feeling really knocked down by life. This one is from Unbroken, heavily featuring Les Brown. I've heard this 100s of times, it's tattooed into my brain
  (resurfaced 4× · 114 likes · 2019-01-12 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084028904648585216)
- bought a buncha tshirts!
  (resurfaced 4× · 113 likes · 2021-07-14 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1415353294164168704)
- I think one of the most difficult truths I have to admit to myself is – that despite all my writing and journaling, most of my introspection still mostly circles around my blind spots, which involve deep-rooted fear, anxiety trauma, ugh fields. And I've gotten very good at this
  (resurfaced 4× · 113 likes · 2019-05-12 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1127415356853612544)
- since this is now basically a steve jobs thread, I want to contrast the "wow he sat in an empty room, so zen" picture with a few others
  (resurfaced 4× · 112 likes · 2018-12-18 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074955390780006404)
- sometimes I take screenshots of twitter arguments I've had, so I can revisit them months later and see if I was mistaken about something  both of these dudes independently got themselves suspended between then and now 🤔  "then i die" lmao dramatic anime child
  (resurfaced 4× · 111 likes · 2018-09-20 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1042785259413102593)
- Hokusai:  - starts painting at 6 - wood-carver apprentice at 14 - understudies Shunshō at 18 - publishes first prints at 19 - starts taking students at ~40  He died at 88, but he had planned to keep working to 110  https://x.com/moodvintage/status/1203346691950292993?s=21 https://x.com/moodvintage/status/1203346691950292993
  (resurfaced 4× · 110 likes · 2019-12-13 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1205345312065241088)
- 12. Some nitpicking is useful, but a lot of it is trash. As a general rule I am distrustful of anybody who nitpicks others liberally without having a body of work that others might nitpick in turn. An order of magnitude more so if anonymous
  (resurfaced 4× · 110 likes · 2018-05-10 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/994552907046371328)
- Particularly been thinking about this in terms of emotional health.  As a general rule, everyone jumps at the opportunity to perform a small, specific task that will improve a friend's a day  But nobody wants to be given the general responsibility of another person's well-being
  (resurfaced 4× · 109 likes · 2017-11-28 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/935377674066804736)
- @vgr personally I think every tweeter has an obligation to step away from the village square, go out and hunt down something interesting, then drag back the data-and-insight carcass for the rest of us to feast on
  (resurfaced 4× · 109 likes · 2018-03-22 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/976684274383376384)
- Something Dinesh said earlier that’s still rattling my skull: if there’s anything that I think is simple or obvious and other people don’t seem to be getting it, it’s almost certainly because I’m projecting. Super obvious on retrospect and yet I never quite framed it that way https://x.com/visakanv/status/1148172566994903040
  (resurfaced 4× · 108 likes · 2019-07-08 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1148301796311355392)
- 💪🏾 https://x.com/djmicrobeads/status/1135475674809085952
  (resurfaced 4× · 108 likes · 2019-06-03 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1135476241597788160)
- “I missed being that close to people, I missed being loved in that way. In Bosnia, we don’t trust each other anymore; we became really bad people. We didn’t learn the lesson of the war, which is how important it is to share everything you have with human beings close to you.”
  (resurfaced 4× · 108 likes · 2018-04-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988438530845171712)
- Odd realisation: I have on occasion been mocked by dudes... for being interested in women  Like, having a sincere curiosity about women’s lives is actually frowned upon by some dudes  You’re supposed to wanna fuck women but not actually get to know them; because that’s... gay...?
  (resurfaced 4× · 107 likes · 2018-08-26 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1033604067447070727)
- I started by helping my wife cut vegetables. Then I made eggs. Then chicken, and spaghetti, and salmon. I have some “cook’s intuition” now, and can experiment and improvise. Cooking and feeding people is fun! And intimate! And sexy! But I was scared as fuck for 25 years
  (resurfaced 4× · 106 likes · 2018-08-27 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1034172440610451456)
- naive techno-optimism is part of a multi-century tradition https://x.com/visakanv/status/948797803504984064
  (resurfaced 4× · 106 likes · 2018-09-20 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1042767805127389184)
- Sometimes I sit back and think about the vast amount of work I’ve put into the public domain, and how little of it is recognized, and how much more work still I have to put in to get it recognized, and how, when that’s done, and it blows up, people will say I got lucky
  (resurfaced 4× · 104 likes · 2020-01-28 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1222284985425465344)
- It’s interesting to reflect on this now - why was I so averse to this? Seriously, I was constantly nauseous in junior college because I felt like everyone around me was hallucinating and I was given a placebo or something. Everyone marching in lockstep to a beat I couldn’t hear
  (resurfaced 4× · 104 likes · 2018-11-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065504742783123462)
- a thread of @stromae, a skinny-tall fashion icon for dark men
  (resurfaced 4× · 103 likes · 2020-10-03 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1312458843054469121)
- This is actually a FANTASTIC description of a VERY natural human behavior – "fiddle with it and see what happens". Programmers do this. Musicians do this. All of our tools should be optimized to allow us to do this better, because it's the most natural way to make sense of things https://x.com/rebuttery/status/1079297184766390272
  (resurfaced 4× · 103 likes · 2018-12-31 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1079689685595607040)
- I basically want to become a singaporean-indian cyberpunk remix of alan watts, elliott hulse, the rock, david ogilvy, liz gilbert, cheryl strayed, terry crews, george carlin, orwell, steve vai, mr. rogers, idris elba, carl sagan and pink, with a cool/badass lesbian aesthetic
  (resurfaced 4× · 103 likes · 2018-06-27 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1011843095929880576)
- In a way, a lot of what I've been trying to do with my personal knowledge management, notetaking, etc is to assemble an interesting, coherent, useful thread of thread of threads, of everything I care about. A personal web of data, w interesting trails& paths I can share w others
  (resurfaced 4× · 103 likes · 2018-04-18 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/986555128298680327)
- I learned about Borges extremely late (first heard of him about 2-3 years ago?), and I'm still procrastinating on reading him  which is funny because what little I have read of him suggests that he might be more like me than anybody else I've ever read
  (resurfaced 4× · 102 likes · 2020-01-04 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1213490111662280705)
- 63. When parents chastize one kid for joining a gang and praise another for joining the police or military, they’re really just revealing a preference for the bigger gang (which also makes perfect sense)
  (resurfaced 4× · 101 likes · 2018-12-27 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1078404103577821185)
- I like contributing to newly-forming desire paths
  (resurfaced 4× · 100 likes · 2020-08-25 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1298294018443366405)
- Interestingly this implies that if someone is popular, they are almost *by definition* far from the frontier where the future is being made https://x.com/visakanv/status/1241630272287690752
  (resurfaced 4× · 100 likes · 2020-03-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1241631781704491009)
- 4. Fear of responsibility is a catastrophic bottleneck. Since all progress in a system can only happen at the tightest bottleneck, you’ll never be able to be more productive or successful than you DARE to be. Todo apps & lifehacks can’t save you here https://x.com/visakanv/status/981942125456637954?s=21
  (resurfaced 4× · 98 likes · 2018-09-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1043937727371071488)
- The magic of art is the mysterious phenomenon of transcending bandwidth limitations in communication. A poet somehow manages to use a few words to convey the whole universe. She can do this because she has developed a deep understanding of herself, you, and the space between
  (resurfaced 4× · 97 likes · 2019-01-29 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090129872167432192)
- Reduced role of community seems related to increased role of authority  Ancestral-type societies punished "failure to share", "freeloading" and "bullying", starting with ridicule and shunning, all the way up to "assassination of the culprit by the entire group"  No bystanders
  (resurfaced 4× · 96 likes · 2018-04-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988375772451684352)
- Day two in Berkeley, California. Here’s a short vid of some street flowers I found really beautiful yesterday.
  (resurfaced 4× · 95 likes · 2019-04-25 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1121378724698394626)
- Cop in my head: so! How are we doing today! How are we *feeling*!  Terrified civilians: Everything is great officer!! Nothing to see here, just normal brain cells having a normal time. Thank you for your service!! Serve & protect!!! Hoo-ah!  Cop: alrighty then  Feelings:
  (resurfaced 4× · 94 likes · 2019-07-21 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1152840990001991685)
- fascinating  https://www.anatomytrains.com/fascia/tensegrity/
  (resurfaced 4× · 93 likes · 2022-04-15 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1514908653043605504)
- 30. joke about the outcomes you want
  (resurfaced 4× · 91 likes · 2022-05-13 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1524994357421518848)
- Eugène Galien-Laloue. I really love these. It's like Humans Of Paris 1850s. I love how the painting style feels like something designed to paint nature, and how the artificial lights (were these electric lights?) stand out. Could you do cyberpunk paintings in this style?
  (resurfaced 4× · 91 likes · 2017-11-21 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/932882714746695680)
- when I was a teenager, I discovered that sterile Singapore actually had a delightful local music scene – sweaty, earnest, vulnerable, intimate. I knew immediately that I wanted to be a part of it, so I learned to play (terribly), and sought out bandmates to play with
  (resurfaced 4× · 90 likes · 2020-01-06 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1214195552591568897)
- “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
  (resurfaced 4× · 90 likes · 2020-05-22 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1263871208853893121)
- guy: you’re a moron  me: yup  guy: your life is garbage  me: indeed  guy: nobody cares about you  me: ^ a very liberating fact if you think about it  guy: you just enjoy the smell of your own bullshit  me: yup  guy: you’re a coward  me: thoroughly  guy: shameless  me: proudly!
  (resurfaced 4× · 90 likes · 2019-03-26 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1110453905433911296)
- In contrast, in singapore, where I'm from, the schelling points are gopurams of glass and steel. that tower is *literally* called CAPITAL TOWER. if I wrote this into my dystopian sci-fi hindu cyberpunk novel, my editor would smack me for being too literal with the imagery
  (resurfaced 4× · 88 likes · 2019-09-08 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1170617437793865728)
- I “got into” political blogging because I was really mad about a flagrantly misleading bit of statistics in the national newspaper. I wrote in about it, and they completely neutered my criticism. So I got madder, and took to the Internet. The rage-mob gave sweet, sweet approval
  (resurfaced 4× · 88 likes · 2019-01-26 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1089029463696859136)
- There's this "build your city" or "build your skill tree" dynamic in a lot of fun video games that I've never quite seen beautifully explored in a non-gaming context  In Heroes 3, you start out with a simple city (left) then you upgrade it bit by bit (right). very satisfying
  (resurfaced 4× · 88 likes · 2019-01-13 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084472363477946370)
- I'm curious to know the specifics about Oprah Winfrey's journey to becoming Oprah. I think most people know that she had a hard early childhood, and that she's a great interviewer. But what else? What were the moves? Let's find out  (As always, pls share your favorite facts!)
  (resurfaced 4× · 87 likes · 2019-11-16 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1195696013295546368)
- I tracked down the artist who made the picture (it's a still from a GIF) that I'm using as my avatar. Excited to be a patron  https://www.instagram.com/dualvoidanima/
  (resurfaced 4× · 87 likes · 2020-03-17 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1239885478876176384)
- Moana has it (the call isn't out there at all, it's inside me), Frozen has it (you are the one you've been waiting for all of your life)  it's you  you are already the monarch of your life but you have to see it and accept it
  (resurfaced 4× · 86 likes · 2022-03-26 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1507512889309298692)
- You ever ragequit a dream because it was fucking boring? I was having a pleasant time hanging with old friends when one guy suddenly got obsessed with wanting to photocopy a book. “Visa where can I photocopy this... how many copies...” like an HOUR of that. I quit, I’m awake now
  (resurfaced 4× · 86 likes · 2020-05-03 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1257066109791956992)
- Kanye knows
  (resurfaced 4× · 86 likes · 2019-02-20 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1098191653284634625)
- ayyy!!! https://x.com/malcolm_ocean/status/1234246298565566471?s=21&t=XbmbS1sk9r8Y3LRRI3fIig
  (resurfaced 4× · 85 likes · 2022-09-03 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1566015760735997952)
- do you ever think about how your closest friend, the person who knows you best in the world by heart, might not be born for another 600 years? I think about it a lot
  (resurfaced 4× · 84 likes · 2020-04-14 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1250174287635288064)
- In every child is the seed of a sovereign individual, with their own hopes and dreams and desires and identities. If you really appreciate this, you can have wonderful relationships with them, even learn a lot from them. If you don’t, you’re both gonna have a bad time
  (resurfaced 4× · 84 likes · 2019-03-06 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1103243568607424517)
- Step 1: stop thinking in steps  Step 2: well, fuck
  (resurfaced 4× · 84 likes · 2018-10-01 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1046728974888390656)
- "The serious artist is the only person able to encounter technology with impunity, just because he is an expert aware of the changes in sense perception."
  (resurfaced 4× · 83 likes · 2023-05-30 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1663500238752210944)
- "how to make friends" in one tweet: read the implicit proposals in people's utterances accurately, and respond in a constructive/supportive way that demonstrates a shared understanding of their proposal.  if they reciprocate, you have planted the seed of friendship
  (resurfaced 4× · 83 likes · 2021-03-09 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1369379755817058307)
- 42. San Francisco should hire a team of Singaporeans to run the city for a year or two
  (resurfaced 4× · 82 likes · 2019-08-18 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1163080115590352896)
- 4. a first person shooter video game in a 1950s neon noir setting  OH MY FUCKING GOD  OH MY GOD  OH MY GOD
  (resurfaced 4× · 81 likes · 2022-03-25 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1507477635915743236)
- the full evolution of /r/place, an important piece of internet (and really, human) history
  (resurfaced 4× · 81 likes · 2020-11-18 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1329097956633366529)
- Mood
  (resurfaced 4× · 81 likes · 2017-11-16 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/931188445162205185)
- Every symbol has a rich history, full of meaning and connotations. We pattern-matching creatures even if we can't articulate it
  (resurfaced 4× · 80 likes · 2017-09-25 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/912152648295399424)
- But as the garbageman’s son, I couldn’t relate to the self-indulgence of the ruling class, and as an isolated child, I couldn’t bear to shun anybody else. So I would straddle multiple worlds, lead a polytribal existence, learn to charm my way everywhere, but belong nowhere.
  (resurfaced 4× · 79 likes · 2019-03-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1107826549133180928)
- TIL that Michel de Montaigne was born in Château de Montaigne, Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne, and he died in Château de Montaigne, Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne.  Damn... this guy was rich, huh
  (resurfaced 4× · 78 likes · 2021-01-07 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1347149274409099266)
- people whose work I study and learn from, a thread
  (resurfaced 4× · 78 likes · 2018-11-29 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068069893872865282)
- She never learned “you shouldn’t be too serious” or “you shouldn’t be too childish” so she’s both all at once. It’s unsettling to see an 17/18 year old with such natural confidence in her aesthetic & self-expression. She seems to lack the “constantly calibrate to others” module
  (resurfaced 4× · 77 likes · 2019-12-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1208651325300363264)
- One of the funniest, most life-affirming experiences I had with my wife was bad anniversary sex. We had steak dinner on a boat, watched a movie, then went home, gazed lovingly & longingly into each other’s eyes, and both proceeded to utterly bomb (badly) in bed. It was hilarious https://x.com/priya_ebooks/status/1113766402731544576
  (resurfaced 4× · 77 likes · 2019-04-04 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1113809461276078080)
- The crushed stones are called ballast. They hold the wooden cross ties in place, which are what hold the rails in place.
  (resurfaced 4× · 77 likes · 2018-10-06 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048488869509787649)
- me_irl
  (resurfaced 4× · 77 likes · 2019-03-29 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1111644481986519041)
- relevant oglaf
  (resurfaced 4× · 76 likes · 2021-01-05 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1346330225219538944)
- Hey real talk:  The memes have been trash for like 6 months.  What’s going on?  “Don’t say it” = trash.  “Ladies, if he’s...” = trash.  For context, all of these (as well as the American Chopper one) were from March this year
  (resurfaced 4× · 76 likes · 2018-11-26 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1066960513056178176)
- I haven’t had my coffee yet so I can’t explain the step-by-step process  But see if you can connect the dots  The more intertwined a web of threads, the more strongly a viral event will cause cascades and aftershocks  Past a certain point the web-thread will be near-ubiquitous
  (resurfaced 4× · 75 likes · 2019-06-04 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1135768741239820289)
- by the old gods and the new
  (resurfaced 4× · 74 likes · 2018-02-10 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/962407123593306112)
- Religion: don't be dicks Philosophers: don't be dicks Artists: don't be dicks Scientists: don't be dicks Humanity: *rampant dickery*
  (resurfaced 4× · 74 likes · 2015-10-10 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/652798259950301184)
- it's interesting to observe how 2D fighting games started out ugly, got really beautiful over time, but then had to "self-disrupt" and become ugly in 3D before climbing a new gradient of beautiful
  (resurfaced 4× · 72 likes · 2020-05-14 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1260819108636983297)
- And of course this is true for people too, surely much more so
  (resurfaced 4× · 72 likes · 2019-08-12 · Spirituality & Esoterica · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1160745047656022017)
- I criticize America so often I feel compelled to criticize my own country (Singapore) to demonstrate that I don’t actually hate any particular grouping or set, but rather human ignorance and stupidity in all its forms.  Let’s see, where to begin...
  (resurfaced 4× · 72 likes · 2018-07-08 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015854468091371521)
- when everybody zigs, zag
  (resurfaced 4× · 71 likes · 2018-09-22 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1043424094585114624)
- If do you wanna offend me, insult my wife. I’ll fuck you up. I’ll follow you for 50 years. I’ll find out where you live. I’ll make friends with your friends. I’ll become best buds with your mom. I’ll infiltrate your life & you shall never have a moment’s peace until you apologise
  (resurfaced 4× · 71 likes · 2018-10-01 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1046655208363716608)
- Thread of beautiful things https://x.com/visakanv/status/936121164035796992
  (resurfaced 4× · 71 likes · 2018-05-15 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/996327002473775104)
- Kid in my DMs: Visa, can I ask you for your thoughts on socialism  me: what’s that  kid: you don’t know what socialism is?? but you’re so smart  me: i really don’t!  kid: um, it’s about, abolishing capitalism  me: what’s capitalism?  kid: you’re kidding me  me: I’m really not
  (resurfaced 4× · 70 likes · 2019-02-25 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1100067747856183296)
- narrator: he did not manage it effectively https://x.com/visakanv/status/17917789943631873
  (resurfaced 4× · 70 likes · 2018-08-04 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1025732960501129216)
- if you have a truly revolutionary idea you'd want to be careful to state it in a rather oblique way so that it doesn't get flooded or crushed before its time has come
  (resurfaced 4× · 69 likes · 2021-08-14 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1426368788971196416)
- Leadership in practice is really about taking responsibility for a context and an outcome, and of taking care of people. Often it means empowering others and getting out of their way. I like how Benjamin Zander puts it, as a conductor:
  (resurfaced 4× · 68 likes · 2018-10-05 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048035161756000256)
- Numa Numa
  (resurfaced 4× · 68 likes · 2019-01-21 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087399751476117505)
- Has anybody done a blogpost or thread about Japanese animes & games where the villains have a certain... Christian aesthetic? 4 games come to mind: Breath of Fire 2, Bayonetta, Final Fantasy XIII, and Devil May Cry. I feel like there’s a “the Church is secretly evil” vibe
  (resurfaced 4× · 68 likes · 2019-04-14 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1117422201974575104)
- I used to think I was into very loud, fast, angry, heavy music because it was the most intense I could get – but Joss Stone taught me the most intense highs are contrasted by the lows  the band holding the tension through the soft section is the sexiest thing I've ever seen/felt
  (resurfaced 4× · 68 likes · 2019-01-12 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084042182640623617)
- this video has been on my todo list for 2 years lol finally dusted it off and watched it, here are my notes. a lot of stuff the people around here talk about, my favorite bit was at 24:30 where prof. potts goes into a very eloquent riff about how scenes/commons reduce uncertainty
  (resurfaced 4× · 67 likes · 2023-06-20 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1671166253678084099)
- mana is real and it is stored in the balls https://x.com/BradSchoenfeld/status/1231549235096670211
  (resurfaced 4× · 67 likes · 2020-02-24 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1231928650498359296)
- this actually summarizes a lot of the spirit of this in a nicely small space
  (resurfaced 4× · 66 likes · 2019-07-27 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1154924363105198082)
- getting started
  (resurfaced 4× · 66 likes · 2019-02-13 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1095703693083594752)
- I’ve always found the Ikigai venn diagram a little suspicious. I think it’s because, in my experience so far, I’ve been better off with a salad mix of all of the different bits than by trying to force the middle to hold (which has yet to truly materialise for me)
  (resurfaced 4× · 65 likes · 2019-11-19 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1196653338151882753)
- Philippians 4:8  finally my bros, focus on the good stuff that you wanna see more of  (h/t @nelag)
  (resurfaced 4× · 64 likes · 2022-03-03 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1499275370444451841)
- I could use more monitors
  (resurfaced 4× · 64 likes · 2022-01-06 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1479073838042288129)
- “Ideas come all kinds of ways. I get my best ideas in taxicabs, like sitting in traffic, drooling. I’m allowing my subconscious to take over so that I can free associate. You have to be in a state of play to design. If you’re not in a state of play, you can’t make anything.”
  (resurfaced 4× · 64 likes · 2020-03-11 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1237638863067049985)
- "Acting is living truthfully under imaginary circumstances. An acting teacher told me that." - Gary Oldman
  (resurfaced 4× · 64 likes · 2011-12-23 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/150112238882144256)
- Rising stars, catch 'em early:  @auderdy @boop @nwilliams030 @default_friend @aaronzlewis @conaw @p_millerd @iiiitsandrea @sloanesays @made_in_cosmos @QiaochuYuan @liminal_warmth @diviacaroline @orpheaskk @marionnjoya @spacecrone @tracyktownsend @clarkformaths
  (resurfaced 4× · 64 likes · 2020-01-24 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1220727112073654272)
- some people are always surprised to hear about the amount of rage, grief, despair and desolation that went into the construction of my friendly Mr. Rogers persona  “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” - Abe Lincoln
  (resurfaced 4× · 63 likes · 2020-01-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1213400126552543232)
- I’m always intrigued by the implicit social rules that few talk about but most people understand. eg it can be fun and affirming for women to comment sexy things on each other’s Instagram photos, but it would be mostly tasteless & creepy for a dude to do the same unless he’s gay
  (resurfaced 4× · 63 likes · 2018-12-14 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1073645215397761025)
- Hahaha just found an old photo of a photocopy of an old news article about my dad in the 1980s
  (resurfaced 4× · 63 likes · 2019-01-13 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084459282391719936)
- people get very excited about introducing all sorts of complexity and methodology and tools and frameworks  but really it's just, do things and talk to people  Here's me drawing owls  if I wanted to be a professional illustrator I'd just have to keep at this, draw 100 owls
  (resurfaced 4× · 62 likes · 2021-10-04 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1445002709375979523)
- while plotting out my youtube strategy, I find myself thinking that I intend to embody a position that's sort of a mashup of both contrapoints and jordan peterson. this will either turn out quite interesting, or I will be pelted with rocks by everybody from all sides. fun
  (resurfaced 4× · 62 likes · 2020-01-31 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1223324838741168128)
- True joy IMO is liberation from the shackle of narrow utilitarianism. And there's something scary about it! It requires a leap of faith. There is no safe way to be vulnerable (h/t Brene Brown). If you're thinking "how do I be happier without risking anything"... you're trapped
  (resurfaced 4× · 62 likes · 2019-07-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1147456244002635777)
- schiller, an encourager of goethe
  (resurfaced 4× · 61 likes · 2022-02-06 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1490286754552680449)
- reality is always thirsty for a good delusion to manifest
  (resurfaced 4× · 61 likes · 2022-05-18 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1526861037575606272)
- Of all of the women in Westeros, she struck me as the one with the most *finesse*. She was not naive, or bitter, or angry, or vengeful, or envious, or petty. She had a pretty good sense of the world, and navigated it with a smile, a kind word, a laugh. Making time to help others
  (resurfaced 4× · 61 likes · 2018-11-30 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068516936336560128)
- If we do it really, really well, I would actually bet that Twitter could ascend into legendary status relative to all the other social networks. 50 years from now this part of Twitter could be looked back on as THE place to be, across the whole Internet https://x.com/visakanv/status/1372099809440595968
  (resurfaced 4× · 60 likes · 2021-03-24 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1374609866229084161)
- ooh G connected some great dots here  - 3. gratitude feels physically amazing in the body - 2. you can't be grateful for something you don't notice - 1. how you direct your attention in the world affects what you notice  1 → 2 → 3: directing your attention leads to embodied joy
  (resurfaced 4× · 60 likes · 2021-05-03 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1389247953336819712)
- not kidding about horny and depressed, he had an alt for sadposting
  (resurfaced 4× · 60 likes · 2019-10-30 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1189398169278304256)
- Turning up the voltage might be a dangerous thing to do. It’s unsettling. It’s chaotic. Getting “unblocked” in some ways can overwhelm you with feelings - anger, sadness, despair. Lots of literature alludes to this sort of thing. “Unblocking your chakras”, “harnessing your chi”
  (resurfaced 4× · 60 likes · 2019-08-05 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1158243096456396800)
- i've found myself using extra commas in my texts sometimes  like how we use "lol" as a modifier to soften things  I like how you can kinda use extra commas to imply a certain deliberate sloppiness  for example:  john,,, u need to stop
  (resurfaced 4× · 60 likes · 2019-01-22 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087760411355533312)
- Was talking with my wife about this yesterday. You can spend years arguing with idiots or you can spend years making friends. The idiots aren’t going to be there for you when you need someone https://x.com/visakanv/status/1054714673281556480
  (resurfaced 4× · 60 likes · 2019-01-17 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085707614854438913)
- I've never quite been satisfied with the overuse of the phrase "cultural appropriation" in all sorts of contexts, or "cultural appreciation" as the (only?) alternative way of thinking about it – and I've been thinking that both fit within a larger framework of "cultural cosplay"
  (resurfaced 4× · 60 likes · 2018-10-09 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1049710097570574336)
- if you're a guy and you haven't tried taking a few dozen selfies from different angles with different expressions etc you're missing out on one of the simplest, cheapest, most powerful ways to improve your relationship with your own image
  (resurfaced 4× · 59 likes · 2021-04-18 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1383786325673799682)
- Deadpool cosplayers are the best
  (resurfaced 4× · 59 likes · 2018-09-25 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044474283018215425)
- @JohnCGreer It’s a narrative designed to give a heroic aura to the ruling party at the expense of Singaporeans’ understanding of their own history, antifragility, etc etc. Like someone telling their spouse “you were nothing until you married me” and them (and everyone else) believing it
  (resurfaced 4× · 59 likes · 2018-08-23 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1032679982957359104)
- @niceupdog @the_jieb Creamsicle ship 4eva
  (resurfaced 4× · 59 likes · 2017-11-06 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/927399339227353088)
- 27. “Where have all the real men gone??”  to prison, jessica
  (resurfaced 4× · 58 likes · 2019-06-20 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141549652845555712)
- Somehow only just realized I could actually use my twitter to introduce people to Singaporean music!!! Being a part of the SG music scene in the late 2000s was a *huge* part of my identity – I'm writing a novel about it. Yes – I'm one of those "music saved my life" guys
  (resurfaced 4× · 58 likes · 2019-01-23 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088116127098494976)
- Thought I woke up with: the frustrating thing about dealing with other people’s projections and assumptions about you... is worrying if they’re right, and/or on to something
  (resurfaced 4× · 58 likes · 2018-10-07 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048772750007971840)
- underfollowed accounts (<1k), april 2021:  @zstorok @eroticacid @metakuna @tallsnail @kytalli @yasmeenbrain @harleyraygray @thetracebrady @joshualelon @a_fellow_of @nerdposterino @infra_naut @nikitanomo @dominikanow @AshleighJN @LingTolls @CXGonzalez_ @mqngo @TKPullinger
  (resurfaced 4× · 57 likes · 2021-04-14 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1382358460591792131)
- “I never asked to be born” sounds like something a grumpy teenager would say but it’s so true  The gift of life is extremely unsolicited - and the social stigma around suicide, by extension, is profoundly rude  You had no choice but to opt in, and opting out is very frowned upon
  (resurfaced 4× · 57 likes · 2018-05-09 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/994015402744152064)
- "My students are quite a rambunctious lot– and I think they OUGHT to be, otherwise I think there’s little future for Singapore. The young MUST be idealistic, [...] believe that the world should be more just, there should be more moral rectitude in the behavior of their leaders."
  (resurfaced 4× · 56 likes · 2019-08-02 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1157261188197056512)
- (wink)
  (resurfaced 4× · 56 likes · 2021-02-18 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1362371539945938947)
- me: i don't understand this, what are the incentives at play here  anon: you cannot understand because you're looking for incentives, so transactional  me: hm  anon: *proceeds to explain the phenomena in terms of incentives*  me: ah
  (resurfaced 4× · 56 likes · 2019-04-07 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114902159156436992)
- Do your cats ever just sit in your doorways and stare at you ominously like an eldritchian messenger from another realm
  (resurfaced 4× · 56 likes · 2019-03-16 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106803783747526656)
- What's a phrase that, when someone says it, has you writing them off as clueless (or no longer useful to you in the context you're operating in)?  1 of mine is "no parent ever really wants to hurt their child". When I hear this, I'm like, okay, I guess we live in different worlds
  (resurfaced 4× · 56 likes · 2018-03-26 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/978175977770512385)
- Bradbury opens with "sometimes I am stunned at my capacity as a 9yo, to understand my entrapment and escape it." He describes how he was criticized by schoolmates for reading comics, but then decided they were idiots &dove right back in. "I love that 9yo, whoever in hell he was."
  (resurfaced 4× · 55 likes · 2018-11-15 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1063013803271450625)
- @Austen There’s a tweet that goes something like - if every infant had to go to mandatory walking school, within a generation we’d assume that it’s not possible to learn how to walk otherwise
  (resurfaced 4× · 55 likes · 2019-05-22 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1131071584225992704)
- Too late  Y’all never learn, which is why narcissist PR keeps getting stronger
  (resurfaced 4× · 55 likes · 2018-09-09 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1038928504451026945)
- one of the funniest tropes to me in cargo cult science reporting is "doing X daily increases the size of brain region associated with cognitive function"  literally everything you do modifies your brain; you can achieve this result by slapping yourself in the face daily
  (resurfaced 4× · 55 likes · 2018-12-27 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1078307947766210561)
- “Asia” is itself a Western concept (Greek, to be precise) and honestly I don’t think anybody should be using it 🧐 https://x.com/fta_scj/status/1000959630376222720
  (resurfaced 4× · 55 likes · 2018-06-06 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1004328315790872576)
- looking at 20 years of blogposts and writing about scenes and scenius, and I think, funnily, everybody who's written about this is so eager to emphasize the the group over the role of the individual, that they seem to gloss over the role that "scene managers" play
  (resurfaced 4× · 54 likes · 2021-02-24 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1364508716192526339)
- Just got this monster of a double-sided book in the mail from @JimmyRis and it is fucking amazing. This is the mind of Ted Nelson???  I am transfixed
  (resurfaced 4× · 54 likes · 2020-11-24 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1331191074098855938)
- when everyone then starts taking you a little too seriously, shitposting is also an act of public service
  (resurfaced 4× · 54 likes · 2019-05-12 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1127690679801376770)
- If you watch videos of interviews, you’ll notice that sometimes when an interviewer asks a good question, the interviewee lights up. “Wow, nobody ever asked me that before. I’ve never thought of that. Huh. Let’s see...”  A good question can actually be a gift you give someone
  (resurfaced 4× · 53 likes · 2018-11-25 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1066614188691214336)
- 46. I am easily in my own top 5 favourite twitter accounts
  (resurfaced 4× · 53 likes · 2018-12-27 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1078383625639321601)
- what if “just draw the fucking owl” is good advice, actually? https://x.com/visakanv/status/1357419455882489856
  (resurfaced 4× · 52 likes · 2021-08-25 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1430615002394677250)
- "You want to get artists from different nations, races, religions, creeds to find common ground in our shared humanity? In an age of escalating conflict and despair? In this economy? This media environment? In these incentive structures? It's impossible!"  "No. It's necessary."
  (resurfaced 4× · 52 likes · 2021-03-19 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1372888385405157382)
- The greatest thing Christopher Nolan has ever done is inspire Hans Zimmer, and I am extremely looking forward to the movie that will eventually be made about their friendship  (this exchange btw is a GREAT example of how to collaborate with busy and talented friends)
  (resurfaced 4× · 52 likes · 2018-11-28 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1067828933331058689)
- #nowreading 50 things that shaped the modern economy, Tim Harford
  (resurfaced 4× · 52 likes · 2018-03-02 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/969412449114865665)
- will periodically QT this tweet with a country, state, city, region, etc so that friends from that region can find each other. will thread those QTs below. feel free to reply with suggestions, may prioritize those
  (resurfaced 4× · 51 likes · 2022-01-15 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1482339167824904193)
- 2 simplistic stories:  a) sex is corrosive: if you have sex before installing the catalytic converter of marriage it will erode your soul and fill you with shame  b) sex is inert: it’s just pleasure. do all the sex you can, you’ll never regret it. if you hesitate, you’re team A
  (resurfaced 4× · 51 likes · 2019-09-17 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1173822694480998400)
- I relate to this a lot, actually  wish I had someone like clark's mom  I try to be that person for young nerds
  (resurfaced 4× · 51 likes · 2020-05-05 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1257496036571967497)
- When I was about 10 and I'd hit the libraries every week, I was fascinated by mythologies. Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Nordic...  It seemed self-evident to me, from as early as I could remember, that all religions were different fandoms with elaborate fanfictions and lore
  (resurfaced 4× · 51 likes · 2018-01-08 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/950182649854754816)
- have you tried drawing the fucking owl?
  (resurfaced 4× · 50 likes · 2021-02-04 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1357419455882489856)
- some of my fav twitter follows with <1000 followers, in no particular order:  @schlagetown @punkarelly @quietonlooker @banana_fiend @neats29 @lynoure @EmmaJP9_ @hunterbergsma @fvathynevgl @captain_mrs @solarsystern @LauracSc_ @codeic @adwaits16 @mulholio @apps_RG  be kind!
  (resurfaced 4× · 50 likes · 2020-07-29 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1288449582871932929)
- @FriendDefault Honestly, a razor blade shiv (this is from the intro to Stuff Matters, a book about material science)
  (resurfaced 4× · 50 likes · 2019-03-01 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1101484280323231746)
- context
  (resurfaced 4× · 50 likes · 2018-09-13 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1040251226355453952)
- “The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although in almost all men obstructed and as yet unborn.”
  (resurfaced 4× · 49 likes · 2021-09-12 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1437140105592856576)
- Some people will think, wtf, I have to do the thing 3,000 times? That’s impossible! Nobody can do that!  Others will think, wait, that’s all I have to do? Just do it again until I get good? That’s easy! Anybody can do it!  What do you think?
  (resurfaced 4× · 49 likes · 2019-11-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1198143965301633030)
- was talking with my wife recently about how different our experiences were growing up  some people need to speak up more, some people need to shut up and listen  some people need to pay attention to their partner's needs more, some people need to pay more attention to their own
  (resurfaced 4× · 49 likes · 2018-10-22 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1054393805556731904)
- So many of us are sleepwalking through life - it's not just that thinking is hard (which it is), but that it's even harder when you're tired
  (resurfaced 4× · 49 likes · 2017-05-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/866490888519770114)
- 25. https://x.com/mwotton/status/1587726492955734016
  (resurfaced 4× · 48 likes · 2022-11-02 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1587728090444070912)
- visa-17: I have answers for everything!  world: u naive fool, all u have is FAILURE  visa-18: hm. true. I guess I have to make corrections to everything! Thx!  world: what?? no, ur supposed to quit,  visa-28: I still love this! I love u 😍  world: *sigh* i SUpPoSE we have to stan
  (resurfaced 4× · 48 likes · 2019-12-25 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1209870898020306944)
- TIL about Gertrude and Ursula Falke, daughters of the German poet Gustav Falke. They opened a dance school together in 1916. They were "expressionist dancers" who embodied a "ghostly life" with a "morbid, languid decorativeness". Big Tumblr energy
  (resurfaced 4× · 48 likes · 2019-12-10 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1204308612811612160)
- I had an interesting experience yesterday that made me realise that I have a sort of functioning immune system that lots of people IRL (including my parents, lol) don’t have. My wife asked casually, why are palms and soles lighter than skin everywhere else? So I started Googling https://x.com/danlistensto/status/1059588072466247682
  (resurfaced 4× · 48 likes · 2018-11-06 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1059600270072532992)
- like, how fucking metal and brutal is that. men cum and women die. i'm sorry, it's the truth
  (resurfaced 4× · 48 likes · 2018-08-07 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1026801743940575233)
- 1953 predecessor of Introspect, by Rollo May
  (resurfaced 4× · 47 likes · 2022-01-27 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1486613771296522243)
- musicians don’t need dating apps
  (resurfaced 4× · 47 likes · 2021-11-04 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1456246507414306819)
- this is also true for birds! city birds are jumpier, savvier, fatter, more stressed, louder, meaner, faster...
  (resurfaced 4× · 47 likes · 2021-04-15 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1382641086120693761)
- In chapter 1, Andy trains us to think more clearly about the basics of producing anything.  Making anything is a game of processes, and every choice you can make has pros and cons.  This seems obvious, yet people seldom really question or analyze their inherited configurations
  (resurfaced 4× · 47 likes · 2019-07-30 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1156115609932795904)
- 1. Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
  (resurfaced 4× · 47 likes · 2019-03-09 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1104336177828491265)
- Confusing yourself to confuse your enemies
  (resurfaced 4× · 47 likes · 2018-10-01 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1046729107180945408)
- “beauty is a knife I’ve been holding by the blade” - Nessa Barrett, born 2002
  (resurfaced 4× · 46 likes · 2023-02-16 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1626100105559564288)
- 4. a fun summary of the many iterations of my drafts is: i've been finding out that to address your boredom you have to address your desires, and to address your desires you have to investigate your self-concept, and to investigate your self-concept is to annihilate yourself
  (resurfaced 4× · 46 likes · 2021-02-13 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1360484554738311169)
- I’ve found myself returning to the word “contempt” a lot this year. The word “hate” has gotten diluted (“i hate my husband lol” can be a statement of affection, for example). But *contempt* is something vicious. Contempt is the #1 predictor of divorce https://www.gottman.com/blog/this-one-thing-is-the-biggest-predictor-of-divorce/
  (resurfaced 4× · 46 likes · 2018-07-08 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015883567010725888)
- The truth about the origins of monarchy must be kept from children at all costs
  (resurfaced 4× · 46 likes · 2018-12-15 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1073903528215642112)
- Boys will always desire status, power, and yes, sex. They will consistently, predictably make LIFE-THREATENING decisions in pursuit of this. Men (and women) looking to rehabilitate masculinity will have to acknowledge this rather than handwave it away.
  (resurfaced 4× · 46 likes · 2018-02-03 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/959784677354627072)
- someone's copying your stuff? marketing opportunity  someone's accusing you of copying their stuff? marketing opportunity  wife left you? marketing opportunity  killed by an ice cream truck? marketing opportunity
  (resurfaced 4× · 45 likes · 2021-04-30 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1388072572881829889)
- 014: FRIENDS!  - the paradox of loneliness + hyper-connectedness - why "will you be my friend" is a bad question - pedestalizing is dehumanising - social media is optimised for content consumption, not connection - standardized tests atomize people  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhtvLR1kmJ0
  (resurfaced 4× · 45 likes · 2020-02-09 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1226403856516386817)
- Obviously, I was naive. The scene was narcissistic, full of hurt and anger. It was sincere, but its custodians were brash, and did not have the wisdom to tend to its fragile heart. Nobody taught us to be tender. We inflicted vicious wounds on each other, on our closest friends
  (resurfaced 4× · 45 likes · 2018-03-21 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/976289877082849283)
- What are your favorite partnerships, collaborations, rivalries, friendships etc in history? Eg Lennon/McCartney, Axl/Slash, Jobs/Wozniak, Miles/Coltrane...
  (resurfaced 4× · 45 likes · 2017-11-20 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/932516422697259008)
- a decade before he discovered penicillin, which would be hailed as "the single greatest victory ever achieved over disease", Fleming figured out that you ought to clean your fucking wounds. As always, some guy being right about things is insufficient to persuade the establishment
  (resurfaced 4× · 44 likes · 2021-01-09 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1347892836205662212)
- quote-tweeting cringe should be a graver faux pas than posting cringe in the first place
  (resurfaced 4× · 44 likes · 2020-01-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1214448203266834432)
- 11. TIL militias and rebel groups (including ISIS) love Toyota pickup trucks for being reliable in war zones  “It’s the vehicular equivalent of the AK-47. [...] It kicks the hell out of the Humvee.” – former US Army Ranger  https://t.co/LduMXfxba7
  (resurfaced 4× · 44 likes · 2018-11-25 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1066684020451229696)
- big mood  "for a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live"  "I made home"  "home as a decision, a project, rather than a country"  https://x.com/fannychoir/status/1044597285231955968
  (resurfaced 4× · 44 likes · 2018-09-25 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044729451580256257)
- Erik being sent back to his father’s apartment in Oakland was a particularly inspired move; him crying with his dad was an important scene. his reaction though - deciding to burn all the herb - is the classic weakness of scared tyrant boys who think feelings are to be feared
  (resurfaced 4× · 44 likes · 2018-08-15 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1029763037694230528)
- After trauma the world becomes sharply divided between those who know and those who don't - people who have not shared the traumatic experience can't be trusted, because they can't understand it. Sadly this often includes spouses, children, colleagues, friends
  (resurfaced 4× · 44 likes · 2018-04-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/981367757710086144)
- Akira Kurosawa
  (resurfaced 4× · 43 likes · 2019-07-28 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1155416428117254144)
- current mood: the “point” of life is obviously to achieve aesthetic resonance so agonizingly exquisite that your soul orgasm transcends the terrestrial plane
  (resurfaced 4× · 43 likes · 2020-02-01 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1223520168522813440)
- So bored of this endlessly repetitive conversation that never goes anywhere, repeated probably millions of times over and over and over again. I wish the whole thing was mapped out, and we could just call out bullet points like chess moves. Qe4, etc. Would save a bunch of time
  (resurfaced 4× · 43 likes · 2017-12-14 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/941204839156953088)
- been thinking about this a lot, in the context of cultural cosplay and diaspora identity  there is so much nuance and sensitivity in this conversation that is missing. it's not as simple as "appropriation" or "appreciation". it's really very complex.  i'd like to talk about it
  (resurfaced 4× · 43 likes · 2018-09-24 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044095716308598785)
- I’m always amazed at how produce from all over the planet ends up in my local supermarket. It’s a true marvel of global supply chains  Ecuador Egypt Australia South Africa
  (resurfaced 4× · 42 likes · 2019-08-21 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1164102990073982976)
- stronger still: writing an ebook, will do an ii salon about it  (artwork by dualvoidanima, an artist i'm a very proud patron of - same artist who made my profile pic)
  (resurfaced 4× · 42 likes · 2020-08-23 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1297490227217408002)
- some of these overlap in some ways, but nvm just hit me with everything, we're in landgrab mode
  (resurfaced 4× · 42 likes · 2020-01-14 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1216968537111089152)
- Making real progress here!!!! this is more progress than I had dared to hope I would have. You can begin to see the "shape" of the blog. The pink bubbles are "anchor posts", ie those will be the cornerstone/foundational posts that everything else hangs off of
  (resurfaced 4× · 42 likes · 2019-09-03 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1168916361306877954)
- Whenever I’m shopping around for a new god to worship, my most important criteria is that she must have a great sense of humor
  (resurfaced 4× · 42 likes · 2018-10-05 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048061532725080064)
- This is what food blogging was like in 2003
  (resurfaced 4× · 42 likes · 2017-09-25 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/912201708985397248)
- there is no way to talk about night sentinel shamanic sleep patterns without sounding absolutely insufferable
  (resurfaced 4× · 41 likes · 2021-08-22 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1429573855689920519)
- Abramović would *kill* on TikTok if she were a teenage girl today
  (resurfaced 4× · 41 likes · 2019-08-28 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1166813372106465281)
- A thing that I enjoy about biographies and other books that talk about decades worth of time are these broad strokes that give you a sense of longer... wavelengths? Books invite you to consider longer periods of time in a way that a barrage of breaking news headlines don’t
  (resurfaced 4× · 41 likes · 2019-11-13 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1194552137377705984)
- Non-musicians and non-pianists: did you know that you can have a lot of fun noodling around on the black keys? It’s the pentatonic scale! I was like in my mid-20s when I learned this, and I don’t know why nobody showed me this
  (resurfaced 4× · 41 likes · 2019-05-03 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1124353665462980609)
- Finite players play within boundaries, infinite players play with boundaries.
  (resurfaced 4× · 41 likes · 2018-07-04 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1014464412105625601)
- I am just the custodian of this brain, OK. I'm not in charge here
  (resurfaced 4× · 41 likes · 2019-01-16 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085362005551177728)
- The people that we call geniuses are really just people who indulge their interests, tastes and curiosities longer and harder than most people do. Propping up this false image of geniuses as Magical Beings does *everyone* a disservice
  (resurfaced 4× · 41 likes · 2018-09-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1043945932625080320)
- this system of doing things is almost insultingly simple
  (resurfaced 4× · 41 likes · 2019-01-13 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084535009099169792)
- As a Singaporean kid, I was haunted when we were taught the story of post-WW2 hyperinflation and then the total collapse of all $. Everyone around me seemed to gloss over it, but I was like- wait... guys... money is fake, fictitious, a house of cards  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_government-issued_dollar_in_Malaya_and_Borneo
  (resurfaced 4× · 40 likes · 2021-03-25 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1375094522049261574)
- eg it seems like Zizek became popular because he was writing op-eds for a youth magazine, isn't that an interesting fact to know? especially if you want to pursue a Zizek-type career?
  (resurfaced 4× · 40 likes · 2021-03-16 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1371902741111435264)
- wife: whatcha up to  me: uh
  (resurfaced 4× · 40 likes · 2019-07-19 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1152320361578450944)
- Thinking about the Bowie documentary again - there was a bit where an interviewer asked, “does it get to you, the criticism?” And I felt like he expected a “nah haters,” but Bowie said something like, “Yes, very much. I’m a very sensitive person, it hurts me very deeply.” https://x.com/visakanv/status/1126606866505539584
  (resurfaced 4× · 40 likes · 2019-05-29 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1133856986733244416)
- This is a great example of the sort of lazy sales and marketing people do when they think they are being #hustlers.  It’s like going around pushing at 1,000 doors marked “pull” then patting yourself on the back.  All you did was annoy everybody https://x.com/moniza_hossain/status/1090124515458215937
  (resurfaced 4× · 40 likes · 2019-01-29 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090136908443742208)
- The Argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen. Snagged this baby for S$8 at a used bookstore. Pages are yellowing but feels like nobody’s ever actually thumbed through this copy (spine is stiff)
  (resurfaced 4× · 40 likes · 2018-10-16 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1052163268280647680)
- All over the world humans live under the governance of nation-states, which have instruments of violence and social control. Speaking up about this is challenging, for many reasons - I particularly despise the implication that a person’s identity must be tied to their State
  (resurfaced 4× · 40 likes · 2018-05-28 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1000943726443745280)
- adam sandler looks like vin diesel
  (resurfaced 4× · 39 likes · 2019-01-09 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1082865785133907968)
- I’m detecting some Apollo vibes in the air  more harsh than gentle  disagreeable  blistering  earnest  intense  here comes the sun
  (resurfaced 4× · 39 likes · 2021-06-04 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1400924488166830082)
- Funny conversation with @sharanvkaur: it’s hilarious and amazing how little we listen to each other. Like we each sought out one of the smartest people we could each find, married them, and then ignore like 80% of what they say 😂❤️
  (resurfaced 4× · 39 likes · 2019-07-06 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1147469698818117633)
- When I started out as a musician, I had some persistent issues  1. I played too fast 2. Used too many notes 3. Would easily go out of tune 4. Poor sense of rhythm 5. Was bad at listening to others and supporting them well  Surprise!! These were all also problems outside of music
  (resurfaced 4× · 39 likes · 2018-12-08 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1071349983297789952)
- thinking about this again
  (resurfaced 4× · 39 likes · 2019-03-16 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106935743211950082)
- Alan Watts’ volunteer radio broadcasts are probably a substantial part of how he solved for distribution. He was basically a podcaster in the 50s
  (resurfaced 4× · 38 likes · 2021-03-18 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1372638304068243458)
- I’m feeling really overwhelmed by sensory stimulation. The world is just so much. So many lights and colors and sounds it’s all so exhausting. Look at the bubbles on this cup of teh tarik. What the fuck
  (resurfaced 4× · 38 likes · 2022-03-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1506598719927435264)
- “This is the true joy of life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one... being a force of nature instead of complaining... the only tragedy in life is being used by personally minded men for purposes that you recognize to be base.” - George B. Shaw
  (resurfaced 4× · 38 likes · 2020-11-04 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1323921818059706368)
- i'm stunned lol I knew it was wild but I didn't know it was this wild
  (resurfaced 4× · 38 likes · 2020-05-26 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1265200403479552000)
- ⚡️ was cheap in post-WW2 🇯🇵, since supply exceeded demand now the war machine was offline. Did this incentivize the R&D of electronics?🤔  While working on 📻 repairs, Masaru also made a failed rice cooker – it either overcooked or undercooked the rice, and never went to market.
  (resurfaced 4× · 38 likes · 2019-04-06 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114551147472101376)
- My goal in 2019 is to used spaced repetition and habit engineering to become the best shitposter I can possibly be
  (resurfaced 4× · 38 likes · 2018-12-28 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1078745428701532160)
- i liked that shit so much i put it in my book 20 years later 🥲
  (resurfaced 4× · 37 likes · 2022-11-24 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1595694008155901952)
- Lmao, high-schooler Spielberg literally snuck into Universal Studios, had a family friend get him a one-day pass, which he then basically exploited for months 😂  This is 💯 hustler mindset, *and* it’s also privilege. Hard to imagine a black kid getting to do this in 1964
  (resurfaced 4× · 37 likes · 2019-11-16 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1195604611609980929)
- Hayley Williams is a truly remarkable human being for coming up with Petals For Armor after 15+ years of car-crash contact with public life. To actively work to be vulnerable is to volunteer to get your ass beaten for love. Idk what I’d do without her showing me how to do it
  (resurfaced 4× · 37 likes · 2020-06-27 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1276988796202975233)
- Do you see the game here? If you have power, you can maintain a veneer of civility while using your power (or even the implied threat of it!) to contain your victims in a difficult scenario - push them (legally, civilly) until they slip up. Then politely unleash hell on their ass
  (resurfaced 4× · 37 likes · 2018-07-12 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1017485739121000448)
- Trying to make fetch happen is an attempt at political leadership
  (resurfaced 4× · 37 likes · 2018-11-14 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1062652801237508097)
- these are two MEANINGFULLY different ways of presenting the same information
  (resurfaced 4× · 36 likes · 2020-11-08 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1325457363474640896)
- a kind of crazy thing is that children tend to be better-than-decent at this until we beat it out of them https://x.com/visakanv/status/942580787282526208
  (resurfaced 4× · 36 likes · 2018-09-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1043363214585618432)
- Of all the games I’ve played, Firaxis’ games come the closest to emulating what it’s like to actually run a business - multiple things competing for your attention, sometimes unexpected fires you have to fight, having to prop up multiple things to progress on your goal(s)
  (resurfaced 4× · 35 likes · 2018-08-28 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1034550432415150080)
- Was looking for a pic of a band competition my band won once, and ended up in a rabbithole of old pics  I think what’s cool to look back on is the progression. Every band first plays just for themselves, then at crappy gigs nobody attends, then on bigger and bigger stages
  (resurfaced 4× · 35 likes · 2019-10-24 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1187431772360863744)
- Sooner or later most survivors come up with some sort of "cover story" to explain their symptoms and behavior, but this "rarely captures the inner truth of the experience."
  (resurfaced 4× · 35 likes · 2018-04-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/981493226937790464)
- If I wrote a trashy pop-sci/psych book, it would be called OPTICS: the intersection of marketing, persuasion, spectacle, allusions, fashion, aesthetics, crisis management, social engineering, the Instagramification of reality  Ha. Sounds fun actually
  (resurfaced 4× · 34 likes · 2019-07-06 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1147436528588578817)
- "Huxley was fascinated by the fact that 'the same person is simultaneously a mass of antoms, a physiology, a mind, an object with ashape that can be painted, a cog in the economic machine, a voter, a lover etc', and one of his key aims... was to offer this multi-faceted view..."
  (resurfaced 4× · 33 likes · 2021-11-30 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1465619889767419904)
- hell yea https://x.com/p_millerd/status/1377225083354116109
  (resurfaced 4× · 33 likes · 2021-03-31 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1377228940448702464)
- Representation matters. I know some intellectual folks have galaxy-brain takes about how you shouldn't limit the way you see yourself, but this isn't about how you see yourself – this is about how other people see other people.
  (resurfaced 4× · 33 likes · 2019-11-08 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1192701675565277186)
- 60. Bo Burnham's Make Happy  the truth is my biggest problem's you I want to please you but I want to stay true to myself I want to give you the night out that you deserve but I want to say what I think and not care what you think about it  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYy0o-J0x20
  (resurfaced 4× · 33 likes · 2019-02-21 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1098530507262808065)
- Business owner life: they belittle you when you’re small, and they attack you when you’re big. You will never be good enough in the eyes of the comments section, so you might as well do whatever makes you happy
  (resurfaced 4× · 33 likes · 2019-01-28 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1089994899171172353)
- One of my recently coined personal mantras is “encourage weirdos, discourage assholes”  Only just thinking about how a lot of mainstream society is kind of opposite - encourage assholes, discourage weirdos  Oversimplification, obviously, but I find it interesting and useful https://x.com/1000wordvomits/status/1060464950282461184
  (resurfaced 4× · 33 likes · 2019-01-10 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1083202946785923073)
- Picking up where I left off on Leading, by/with Alex Ferguson. I'm not a football fan, nor a Man Utd fan, but I can respect how impressive Man Utd was under Fergie's leadership. The team performed worse both before he joined and after he left, so he clearly knows his shit
  (resurfaced 4× · 33 likes · 2018-01-23 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/955815428076417024)
- One of my newly-articulated goals in life + itch-to-scratch is to contribute to the Afropunk equivalent of brown Indian fashion https://x.com/visakanv/status/921397898385899520
  (resurfaced 4× · 33 likes · 2017-11-16 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/931204447581212673)
- it's interesting how much ancient mythology has been repurposed by corporate entities  versace uses the medusa starbucks uses the siren nike is the goddess of victory maserati uses the trident of neptune (based on a hometown statue)
  (resurfaced 4× · 32 likes · 2019-05-24 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1131826277894172672)
- I didn't anticipate that this quaint nerdspace would become a bustling megalopolis of laxative teas, baby photos, cat videos, literal nazis and all the social tomfoolery many of us first came here to avoid  but we can still just head to a less crowded part of town, right?
  (resurfaced 4× · 32 likes · 2018-12-13 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1073129098115833856)
- I could probably write a book about this, but actually any smart person should be able to chase down the implications themselves  It’s interesting that there isn’t a single word that solves 4 the way there are words that solve 1, 2 and 3  There might be an opportunity here 🤔🤔
  (resurfaced 4× · 32 likes · 2018-07-07 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015542000416800768)
- US inventor Frank Shuman, who started the Sun Power Company, built a functional solar power station in 1912. Unfortunately for him, the outbreak of WWI + the discovery of cheap oil in the 1930s discouraged the advancement of solar energy until the ~1970s  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Shuman
  (resurfaced 4× · 31 likes · 2019-06-30 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1145336459517235200)
- This is now a Dinesh thread. 😂 He doesn’t post on Twitter too much but working with him changed my life in several important ways. (He would insist that I make that statement more precise. Important how?) https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114805136855945218?s=21
  (resurfaced 4× · 31 likes · 2019-07-08 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1148303448984547337)
- Several of you mentioned David Bowie and you are all 100% correct IMO. If any of this looks “off” now, I think it’s mainly because the looks were put together for their time. If you want to embody Bowie, you have to reconstruct it from first principles. But he totally got it
  (resurfaced 4× · 31 likes · 2019-01-18 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1086316884331421696)
- Sometimes when writers are starting out, they agonize too much about whether their work is good  Simple trick: just be so prolific that you can’t recognise your own writing. Then you’ll be able to identify what’s good the same way you identify good writing anywhere else
  (resurfaced 4× · 31 likes · 2018-11-19 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1064332738910535680)
- “Inelegant clutter” is also quite a semi-subjective thing - words are made up of other words, ideas of other ideas, models of other models. What is elegant to one person might be inscrutable to another
  (resurfaced 4× · 31 likes · 2018-11-06 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1059630815087276032)
- I think bitcoin will cross US$100,000, though it might take 10-20 years
  (resurfaced 4× · 30 likes · 2021-11-21 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1462402294448726018)
- so true bestie
  (resurfaced 4× · 30 likes · 2021-08-02 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1422235397812224006)
- so – total noob here, but it seems plausible that  if you're stressed/anxious -> take slow shallow breaths -> your psoas will get tight  which will probably lead to...
  (resurfaced 4× · 30 likes · 2020-01-26 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1221464991921885185)
- Edwin Land [1909–1991], founder of Polaroid  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_H._Land
  (resurfaced 4× · 30 likes · 2019-10-30 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1189478684463267841)
- In 1940, French composer Oliver Messiaen was captured by the Germans and imprisoned in Stalag VIII-A - a concentration camp. There, in horrific conditions, he met 3 fellow musicians - and he wrote and performed Quartet For The End Of Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Xelrht_AU&feature=youtu.be
  (resurfaced 4× · 30 likes · 2018-05-24 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/999462584934809600)
- A cool thing about being 28 is having witnessed about 3-4 major waves of fashion sweep through the entire population. It’s very interesting to reflect on the fact that everything fashionable now would’ve been extremely unfashionable 10-15 years ago
  (resurfaced 4× · 30 likes · 2018-10-24 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1055106714515558401)
- "Lighter than air, stronger than whiskey, cheaper than dust." - Poetic 1875 sales pitch for barbed wire, by inventor John Warne Gates
  (resurfaced 4× · 30 likes · 2018-03-02 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/969429211189452801)
- whenever one of my tweets gets 300+ RTs, I *always* find that parts of it are phrased poorly  so I start phrasing my tweets as carefully as possible...  ... and then most of them get, idk, 5 RTs tops  so I get sloppy and think "eh, nobody reads this, who cares"  300+ RTs again
  (resurfaced 4× · 30 likes · 2018-12-02 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1069237375560110081)
- 20/ Self-regulation is a way of breaking free from all that, transcending it. It's a radical, political act. (It's also just another game.)
  (resurfaced 4× · 30 likes · 2016-04-26 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/724983443768012800)
- Sobering realisation: I have been unemployed for 2 days and I’ve already experienced an expansion in emotional range. It’s like my subconscious has been repressing itself for years, hoping it would help me function more efficiently
  (resurfaced 4× · 30 likes · 2018-07-01 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1013258325218037762)
- I've had several conversations with frustrated men who say things like, "How can I talk about feminism w/o women accusing me of being a fake male white-knight feminist who's out to score points?"  See, this is a lemon problem. It's NOT ABOUT YOU. It's about the CONTEXT you are in
  (resurfaced 4× · 30 likes · 2017-12-09 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/939553689739526144)
- nice norms u got there, it would be a shame if someone were to transgress them
  (resurfaced 4× · 29 likes · 2021-04-06 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1379316696054333440)
- “So what IS your position on tech vs media, Visa? You have friends in both camps, you must be very conflicted”  I’m very glad you asked  My verdict is:  [drumroll]  You’re all jabronis
  (resurfaced 4× · 29 likes · 2020-07-02 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1278528750687121408)
- thread of friend meetups
  (resurfaced 4× · 29 likes · 2020-01-17 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1218166567076167680)
- The honest answer is that I’m a bit pathological about this. I have a rather compulsive need to surround myself with people I trust and admire. I think I’m overcompensating for feeling like a social outcast and misfit growing up https://x.com/huanwin/status/1048023228663443462?s=21
  (resurfaced 4× · 29 likes · 2018-10-05 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048024566478516225)
- Lots of people in the replies completely missing the point of this. The Office is a great show and it merits rewatching because it was a great product of its time. Rebooting it would require re-examining everything from first principles so that it’s a product of the current time https://x.com/complex/status/1050510697917018113
  (resurfaced 4× · 29 likes · 2018-10-12 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1050626680207765504)
- One of the coping mechanisms I have as a weirdo misfit is having conversations with my past and future selves, via writing. I'm very amused and impressed with past Depressed Visa(s) for taking selfies and posting them on IG – he knew I would look back and reflect on them https://x.com/visakanv/status/1011854211535929344
  (resurfaced 4× · 29 likes · 2018-07-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1021091196121243649)
- It's remarkable that human beings *ten thousand years ago* used canoes, oars and celestial navigation to travel 5,000 miles from East Asia to the Pacific islands (Fiji, Tahiti, etc). It would be remarkable even a couple of hundred years ago
  (resurfaced 4× · 29 likes · 2018-04-14 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/985040073316909057)
- I realize it might be worth taking some time to articulate what I've learned about how to run and manage a community effectively, particularly for those of you who are newer and don't know my style. It's a lot more painstaking and involves a lot more work than most people realize https://x.com/visakanv/status/996274556124807169
  (resurfaced 4× · 29 likes · 2018-05-17 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/996988578277179392)
- @ExHubbyExpress talk to everyone you can about the problem that you’re trying to solve, solicit their opinions, find the niches/communities of people who care more, practice articulating their concerns, develop an accurate and sharp model of their problems https://t.co/8E5Z4JMXmG
  (resurfaced 4× · 28 likes · 2023-08-12 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1690405140300455936)
- aww she has this whole community thing going on!!! I am inspired by this 24 year old  this is the game, folks  make stuff and involve people  https://t.co/4AbpeRKEzI
  (resurfaced 4× · 28 likes · 2020-06-12 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1271363950379032576)
- "If there is a future wave of wellness on this planet, of harmony, of peace, of mutual understanding, I don't expect it will come from a government, a military force or a corporation. [...] I expect it will come from the artists, because that's what we do." – Karl Paulnack
  (resurfaced 4× · 28 likes · 2019-03-06 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1103265559242661891)
- actually I guess just look up chrisjen avasarala all day every day. solution found. good job everybody
  (resurfaced 4× · 28 likes · 2018-10-19 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1053282976631386112)
- I'm reminded of this ridiculous yet very revealing chat exchange between a SG guy and a girl he barely knew.  "can I bed you once?" "Can at least let me do abit? Please"  Consider the worldview this guy has, and where he got it. He's not an exception! https://t.co/J9N3LKa41p
  (resurfaced 4× · 28 likes · 2018-02-03 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/959768535885991936)
- it follows then it would seem that most of Politics Twitter probably continues to underestimate how strong of a candidate Biden is. I wouldn't vote for him, this is not an endorsement etc. Just. Biden is the only person I imagine my mom would recognize (from across the planet)
  (resurfaced 4× · 27 likes · 2020-03-03 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1234672111219691520)
- so I take a break from heavy reading about how I need to face my fears and let go of assumptions... to do some light reading about how to build things... and here too I have to face my fears & let go of assumptions??? fucking hell 😂😭  this book is "the courage to make stuff"
  (resurfaced 4× · 27 likes · 2019-06-22 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142449151377989633)
- Luck CAN change everything, but it's not a strategy. Maximizing your opportunities to get lucky is.
  (resurfaced 4× · 27 likes · 2015-02-28 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/571590335802970112)
- @sonyasupposedly @alt_kia @liminal_warmth @MenanderSoter @eigenrobot @simpolism @nmgrm @fire__exit @The_Lagrangian @Meaningness @Aella_Girl @utotranslucence @selentelechia @erin_nerung @nosilverv @Malcolm_Ocean @danlistensto hear ye, here ye, I henceforth decide to claim the label... lolrat
  (resurfaced 4× · 27 likes · 2020-03-16 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1239654794123300864)
- 022: COMMUNITY! featuring @bobbyscar  - resisting being dominated by The Algorithm - why my investment banker friends are miserable - my magical trip to san francisco - reconsidering my aversion to "extraction", which bottlenecks my contributions  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H7fhqgFd6o
  (resurfaced 4× · 27 likes · 2020-02-21 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1230905021920772096)
- Music isn’t actually my primary interest - the thing I’m probably most into is the art of words. But/and I’ve always had a distaste for the idea of forcing yourself to learn esoteric vocabulary - it’s so much more interesting imo to better understand the words you already use
  (resurfaced 4× · 27 likes · 2018-11-30 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068615243817865216)
- Media & storytelling has always been my “religion”. I’d argue that it’s always been everyone’s. People carve up the territory in their minds via maps that I reject. Bollywood, WWE, the World Cup, the Kardashians, Twitter, The Illiad, Shakespeare, all part of the same whole
  (resurfaced 4× · 27 likes · 2018-12-18 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074917524234366976)
- lmaooo this birthday cake my friends made for me in 2010
  (resurfaced 4× · 27 likes · 2018-09-25 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044639839532896256)
- @SamuelHulick @illbzo1 I've watched it 10+ times and recommended it more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FpigqfcvlM&feature=youtu.be so entertaining
  (resurfaced 4× · 27 likes · 2017-02-10 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/829914243688390656)
- @Tipsycaek @sonyaellenmann storytime: I've posted to Instagram 971 times so far. 2 of them are 'depression selfies'. Did I enjoy being sad? Was I happy in these pictures, or at some meta level? fuck no, I was miserable as shit & wanted to die. But on retrospect I love that I took these
  (resurfaced 4× · 27 likes · 2018-06-27 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1011854211535929344)
- Spielberg at 22. What a fascinating image. His body language shows sincere deference to an elder and an industry veteran, his eyes seem to say “I’m paying very close attention and taking this very seriously”. Old man soul in a young man’s body
  (resurfaced 4× · 26 likes · 2019-11-19 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1196602480668205056)
- At Tanjong Pagar with @patio11: being geeky public-facing bloggers, navigating different cultures, the nature of human networks (building your own), orthogonal+circuitous career trajectories, pipelines and incentives, the complications of marrying someone from a different culture
  (resurfaced 4× · 26 likes · 2018-11-20 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1064776700335075328)
- I am a reply guy
  (resurfaced 4× · 26 likes · 2019-02-22 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1099007436680122368)
- It’s been a while - if you haven’t watched Sense8, I highly recommend it. It’s a slow burn for the first 2-3 episodes, but then it develops into some of the best television ever made. The Wachowskis are some of the only writers I can think of who are possibly *too* ambitious
  (resurfaced 4× · 26 likes · 2018-12-31 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1079632062301200384)
- E.g. the Sultan and his vizier quibble over what "the law" says about what the Princess has to do re: marriage. But who wrote this law? Where did it come from? What is the history of legislature in Agrabah? 🤔
  (resurfaced 4× · 26 likes · 2018-04-28 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/990122043625517056)
- consciousness and awareness is reduced to a trickle, which is then codified in language.  “Most people, most of the time only know what comes through the reducing valve and is CONSECRATED (🤯) as genuinely real by the local language”
  (resurfaced 4× · 25 likes · 2021-11-30 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1465624716840894465)
- I want to live in New York for a year or so.
  (resurfaced 4× · 25 likes · 2012-11-03 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/264630374884327424)
- @paulg Few do this. My theory is that fanboys *want* the disparity in status between themselves and their idol. It’s a feature, not a bug. They don’t want to be peers; that requires effort, introspection, being considerate. They want gods to worship. https://x.com/visakanv/status/1163439134171521024?s=21 https://x.com/visakanv/status/1163439134171521024
  (resurfaced 4× · 25 likes · 2020-01-11 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1216021263006650368)
- There are ~3 kinds of @visakanv content  - nerdposting to learn, track & explore interesting things (includes metaposting like this)  - kindposting to make friends + establish the culture (includes telling personal stories)  - shitposting for fun + avoid taking self too seriously
  (resurfaced 4× · 25 likes · 2019-03-13 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1105882890846404608)
- A visual image that has stayed with me for a long time is this (real!) shot of glass-and-steel gopuram of Capital Tower ominously hanging over Mariamman Temple. This + Sam Madhu's illustrations + Saira Hunjan's tattoos are a big mood I'm trying to assemble and articulate
  (resurfaced 4× · 25 likes · 2018-08-22 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1032199892230266881)
- Are there any actor/actress pairs in Hollywood who have been maintaining such amazing chemistry and tension for *decades* like this? SRK and Kajol have been almost-kissing for 20+ years (this scene is from Dilwale, 2015)
  (resurfaced 4× · 25 likes · 2018-12-17 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074656410753851397)
- bill wurtz' history of japan is still one of the best educational materials every created https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5LY4Mz15o
  (resurfaced 4× · 25 likes · 2018-08-07 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1026903681893986304)
- Hendrix had 2 really iconic moments – one was setting his guitar on fire at Monterey Pop Festival, 1967 – you can see how much it captured people's imagination at the time
  (resurfaced 4× · 24 likes · 2021-04-10 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1380825482216701953)
- This is Wu Chi-kai, one of the last remaining neon sign makers in Hong Kong. Apparently there were only about 30 signmakers even at the peak of HK's neon frenzy. He's getting business from folks who are nostalgic and retro-seeking these days  https://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/this-man-is-one-of-the-last-few-neon-sign-makers-in-hong-kong/story-UWMRegzphp6ETfRlR6s43J.html
  (resurfaced 4× · 24 likes · 2020-05-23 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1264161761172746240)
- higher cortisol -> lower testosterone -> decreased muscle mass  so... it seems plausible to me that  deep breathing -> lower cortisol -> increased testosterone -> higher muscle mass  I didn't even have to work out 🤔 I just had to breathe 🤔  https://www.medicinenet.com/stress/article.htm
  (resurfaced 4× · 24 likes · 2020-02-20 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1230416999588581376)
- @ProperOpinion roughly similar energy as  “No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.” – Alan Watts
  (resurfaced 4× · 24 likes · 2019-06-13 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139224772082933760)
- @devonzuegel “The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible” - David Ogilvy. I truly believe this; “this is silly” is a sign to go full throttle ahead
  (resurfaced 4× · 24 likes · 2018-08-11 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1028338449621770240)
- Thread of tweets that got me a sudden increase in followers  1. https://x.com/visakanv/status/968911492174168064
  (resurfaced 4× · 24 likes · 2019-05-28 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1133232137409163286)
- @backus born in 1990, absolutely fully online, no guilt whatsoever. I wish I could be more online. I would shove an ethernet cable up my ass if it made me more online
  (resurfaced 4× · 24 likes · 2019-01-11 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1083572655289069568)
- I like to think I’m a fairly smart, curious person who’s pretty decent at learning new concepts and ideas. But the word “neoliberalism” turns me off. The word “liberal” itself slightly annoys me to begin with, and neoliberalism to me is just compounded confusion and messiness
  (resurfaced 4× · 24 likes · 2018-11-15 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1062972882081394688)
- idle thought: if you can master the art of dealing with bullies who have you outmatched, outgunned, etc etc, you can pretty much handle anything  truly, viciously evil schoolyard bullies are a great metaphor for making sense of the near-ugliest of human social realities
  (resurfaced 4× · 24 likes · 2018-11-13 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1062413479959646208)
- According to Plutarch, Pericles' lover Aspasia's house in Athens was an intellectual centre, attracting nerds like Socrates  she had been alleged to have been a hetaira, a sort of highly-educated geisha-esque elite courtesan type? complicated, scholars argue about it
  (resurfaced 4× · 23 likes · 2021-02-19 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1362690303057031171)
- “I quickly see the limitations of whatever I say or whatever judgement I make about anything.” - Sontag https://x.com/avahuangg/status/1157362267077242880
  (resurfaced 4× · 23 likes · 2019-08-03 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1157548552878301184)
- DG: mainstream “economics” assumes a division between different spheres of human behavior that, for people like the Gunwinngu and the Nambikwara, simply don’t exist.  These divisions are made possible by very specific institutional arrangements: lawyers, prisons, police...
  (resurfaced 4× · 23 likes · 2018-11-22 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065632979790135296)
- me, going to bed: you’ve been tweeting a lot about race and nationality and touchy stuff lately, maybe tomorrow tweet soft and lighthearted things?  my brain, first thing in the morning: isn’t it interesting how there’s a direct pipeline from black culture to white profit centers
  (resurfaced 4× · 23 likes · 2018-07-21 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1020479168214196224)
- By “simultaneously undersocialized and oversocialized” I mean too much inheritance and not enough experimentation. Too much doing as you’re told and not enough figuring out what you want. Navigating with archaic graph models instead of making your own https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139830278417813504?s=21
  (resurfaced 4× · 22 likes · 2019-06-16 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1140086380472631297)
- @Aella_Girl ok then we get to 1999 and there's The Mummy. oh my god. ok this was my moment. Patricia Velasquez as Anck-Su-Namun. What is she wearing?? is she wearing PAINT?!?! oh my god
  (resurfaced 4× · 22 likes · 2020-12-26 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1342948062897917952)
- behold my youtube comments section  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H7fhqgFd6o https://x.com/visakanv/status/1226578845358182401
  (resurfaced 4× · 22 likes · 2020-02-25 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1232213481102794752)
- you could sponsor ANY documentary you could think of  - a day in the life of a boring person, with extremely cinematic shots and music ("what to have for lunch?")  - a serious, "investigating financial crime" style documentary about the barter economies of schoolchildren
  (resurfaced 4× · 22 likes · 2018-10-07 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048875645818654720)
- Gonna work on a “personal history of my world” today and very excited tbh. Gonna start by filling out a spreadsheet
  (resurfaced 4× · 22 likes · 2018-07-24 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1021626775330160640)
- these are fraternal twins, wow. Lucy and Maria Aylmer
  (resurfaced 4× · 22 likes · 2017-12-29 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/946672778417016832)
- 3,500 of you showed up on my Twitter feed after that boring dystopia tweetstorm. Many of you are absolutely lovely and I am grateful for your company. Some of you are assholes. This is not cool - especially when you harass and annoy other people on my TL
  (resurfaced 4× · 22 likes · 2018-05-08 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/993864337264599042)
- Spending my time off doing some word-geeking. Decided to look up the words "metaphor", "decide", "problem", "solve".
  (resurfaced 4× · 22 likes · 2016-01-06 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/684615256555954176)
- just discovered twitter and... doesn't have anybody to follow
  (resurfaced 4× · 21 likes · 2008-10-21 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/968815817)
- I've come to take for granted that I've gotten pretty good at this – but the truth of the matter seems to be that getting to this stage seems to require passing through the belly of the whale, the dark night of the soul, the collapse of inherited meanings. It *is* dangerous stuff
  (resurfaced 4× · 21 likes · 2019-07-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1147455372640133121)
- first you find aesthetic freedom by playing with frames  then you find freedom from frames when your aesthetics play with you
  (resurfaced 4× · 21 likes · 2019-09-08 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1170570645312176129)
- The Three Gods of RationalBro Twitter:  Elon, Naval and Taleb  Even Weibo is aware of this
  (resurfaced 4× · 21 likes · 2019-01-16 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085359644040585218)
- It took me a pretty long time to start believing women about harassment, abuse, rape. I remember thinking it surely couldn't be a big deal
  (resurfaced 4× · 21 likes · 2017-10-16 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/919904445114195969)
- Caves thread
  (resurfaced 4× · 20 likes · 2021-01-27 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1354534719224860676)
- Pretty cool to see a sari in a Bata ad. Lots of Singaporeans don't realize that Bata is Czech-origin
  (resurfaced 4× · 20 likes · 2018-09-19 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1042484760688259072)
- The people on the streets felt like ghosts, phantoms, half in this world and half out of it. There was a guy playing a saxophone in the middle of some construction scaffolding, and it echoed through the streets, strewn with trash  Reminded me of FF6’s Zozo, come to think of it
  (resurfaced 4× · 20 likes · 2019-06-24 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1143053981926604800)
- @theheathenjohn @worldsbestat @sonyaellenmann @chc40 What I tell my nephews: flirting is basically this - give moderately strong signals of interest with plausible deniability (for you) and outs)for her), and then be attentive for returned signs of interest and riff off of that. If she plays with you, you can ask her out
  (resurfaced 4× · 20 likes · 2018-06-04 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1003441679867658240)
- “The universe consists of neutrinos. They pass through us, and our world, as if it weren’t here. Their mass is a far greater physical presence than ours.”  "What does that mean?"  “It means... that we are the ghosts in someone else’s universe.”
  (resurfaced 4× · 20 likes · 2018-02-25 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/967712740302188544)
- I'm rewatching Winter Soldier and it's really still the best MCU movie, I think. Black Panther is amazing for all the reasons, but Winter Soldier goes deep into the spine of several issues that BP didn't have time for. Hopefully BP2 gives us more!
  (resurfaced 4× · 20 likes · 2018-03-03 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/970023625884557312)
- “We often hate each other, but it’s the kind of hatred that’s like flint and steel—the sparks that come out make it worth the while.”  — Penn Jillette on his longtime partner in magic, Teller
  (resurfaced 4× · 19 likes · 2017-11-20 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/932522722420232192)
- 34. Dany arrives [S07e06]
  (resurfaced 4× · 19 likes · 2019-01-21 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087346122308255749)
- 5. But here’s a troubling fact: it only takes a handful of malnourished soldiers to utterly pwn a crowd of well-nourished civilians. I’ve talked about this in other terms: it takes very few assholes to ruin everything for everyone https://x.com/visakanv/status/969418906837311490?s=21
  (resurfaced 4× · 19 likes · 2019-01-07 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1082420583382507521)
- @fortelabs the following Bertrand Russell and Richard Feynman quotes adequately describe my worldview, in which your question is a cute and silly parlor game  I will question any belief for $5, including "everything is questionable". sure why not
  (resurfaced 4× · 19 likes · 2018-01-03 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/948421416528920576)
- Imagine if Tony Stark or T'Challa (or Ivan Vanko! Or T'Jadaka!) was from Rio, or Karachi, or Nairobi, or Palestine. How rich and interesting that would be
  (resurfaced 4× · 19 likes · 2018-03-18 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/975221278222135296)
- San Francisco is an American city... named by Spanish guys... from a Catholic sect founded by an Italian guy... whose name means “Frenchman”.  (Is it fair to call Saint Francis an Italian, even? Was Italy a thing back then? I’m guessing not)
  (resurfaced 4× · 18 likes · 2019-05-31 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1134357068838662144)
- Sorry I just have to backtrack for a bit to include this:  "Chilli is bad for the spiritual health of young people as it makes them horny" – Jesuit priest Father Jose de Acosta (1950)
  (resurfaced 4× · 18 likes · 2019-02-11 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1095041978587205632)
- I realise a thing I have that’s slightly different from a lot of my other wooey-gooey friends who are into spirituality and whatnot is that I go deep on words. To me words are the deepest magic. Everyone is welcome to disagree. We all have different specializations, this is mine
  (resurfaced 4× · 18 likes · 2019-11-25 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1199113863188209664)
- Eg I talk to my past selves, openly. I segment selves by years for convenience https://x.com/visakanv/status/1086333252523053057?s=21
  (resurfaced 4× · 18 likes · 2019-01-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087568624921935872)
- Let's simplify: Suppose culture A gets 100 points to allocate to whatever it likes.  It allocates 95 points to X, and 5 points to Y.  if Y is weird and different to other cultures, then Y becomes the defining characteristic of that culture, globally! Even though it's 95% about X
  (resurfaced 4× · 18 likes · 2017-12-25 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/945336971185885185)
- I don't do drugs, I am drugs  https://x.com/rampency/status/1385463041211256837
  (resurfaced 4× · 17 likes · 2021-04-23 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1385472434803859463)
- @QiaochuYuan Having my morning coffee and there’s already cum on my timeline
  (resurfaced 4× · 17 likes · 2019-12-25 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1209705219593928705)
- I’m on my second playthrough of God of War and I’m enjoying it a lot. I realise I had really rushed through my first playthrough, ignoring side-quests. I liked it then too, but I’m finding that there’s so much I missed. The writing and voice-acting is unreasonably good
  (resurfaced 4× · 17 likes · 2019-02-10 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094488843804266497)
- The smallest unit of creativity to me seems to be “X + Y”. Alien was pitched as “Jaws in Space”. This could have ended up stupidly derivative and lame, but it turned out to be a rich generative concept that spawned an entire perspective. How? Why?
  (resurfaced 4× · 17 likes · 2018-07-09 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1016227475297144832)
- "all four of these worlds will come true, at the same time, but not equally. which ones will dominate? which will recede? what's within your power is where to put your own convictions and energies."
  (resurfaced 4× · 17 likes · 2018-12-23 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1076759887596515330)
- “It’s why I am a writer - I don’t say ‘decided’ to be, or ‘became’. It was not an act of will [...]. To avoid the narrow mesh of Mrs. Winterson’s story I had to be able to tell my own. Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.”
  (resurfaced 4× · 17 likes · 2018-07-25 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1022021427950706689)
- In 2011, I posted a bunch of t-shirt ideas on Facebook - mocked them up in MS Paint. People started asking if they could buy them. This grew into @jibabom, through which me and my partner Desmond have sold thousands of t-shirts and gotten all sorts of interesting opportunities
  (resurfaced 4× · 16 likes · 2020-01-01 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1212339601559261185)
- 50. Visa (and Sharan!) ✈️ NYC🗽 April/May 2020
  (resurfaced 4× · 16 likes · 2019-11-09 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1193223924747665408)
- "It's tough enough to choose a Netflix show to watch over dinner, how do you choose an entire model of reality?"  "Why aren't we all flooding the streets, asking one another, "What do you know? How is doubt to be managed?"
  (resurfaced 4× · 16 likes · 2018-05-30 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1001653472826089472)
- Rediscovered an old bookmark that's particularly relevant now – why China doesn't have a good soccer team, explained from a statistics-grounded POV. I enjoyed this https://putanumonit.com/2015/11/10/003-soccer1/ #visareads
  (resurfaced 4× · 16 likes · 2018-06-25 · Sports · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1011214170186891264)
- ⚘
  (resurfaced 4× · 15 likes · 2023-08-20 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1693204400112812224)
- Anecdotally: Post-War Japan, after having atomic bombs dropped on them, rapidly modernized – making leapfrog developments in infrastructure and hardware. In the 80s they seemed like they could be the next global superpower (comments from /r/cyberpunk)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_economic_miracle
  (resurfaced 4× · 15 likes · 2018-05-25 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1000052519551168512)
- 
  (resurfaced 4× · 15 likes · 2019-02-08 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093815457872674817)
- PS4 games, arbitrarily ranked, by me, by my own weird standards  10. Infamous: Second Son + First Light 9. XCOM 2 8. GTA V 7. God Of War 6. Detroit: Become Human 5. Doom (2016) 4. Uncharted 4 / Lost Legacy 3. Spiderman 2. The Last Of Us 1. Horizon Zero Dawn
  (resurfaced 4× · 15 likes · 2018-11-11 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061635539734949888)
- In 1025, Rajendra Chola I from Tamil Nadu launched a naval attack against 14 key port cities in SE Asia - breaking Srivijaya’s 300-year-old monopoly of maritime trade in the Straits of Malacca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chola_invasion_of_Srivijaya
  (resurfaced 4× · 14 likes · 2019-09-27 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1177512505825845248)
- @maltybegray @RichDecibels @cognazor @Malcolm_Ocean @MenanderSoter @fdilke @Aryeh___ @JasnaTod @made_in_cosmos @maybegray @m_ashcroft @nibrasibn @SarahAMcManus @ssica3003 @tasshinfogleman @QiaochuYuan nobody:  sara: I’ll fuck me up
  (resurfaced 4× · 14 likes · 2020-06-03 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1268187375848402944)
- Akira's director Katsuhiro Otomo's answer to "what book had the greatest impact on you": HG Wells' War Of The Worlds (1887) – which was about a Martian invasion on Victorian England, and often considered to be a commentary on British Imperialism  https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/story-behind-film-akira/
  (resurfaced 4× · 14 likes · 2018-05-25 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1000069467609546752)
- @ssica3003 @unravelofstack i can't help but think sometimes that people like being topped/dominated by their hate
  (resurfaced 4× · 14 likes · 2019-06-13 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139227580244955136)
- I still remember when an interesting thread about finance on HN a few years ago got derailed because two people started attacking each other personally  Personal attacks are juicy but they follow the same boring cycles every time, nobody learns
  (resurfaced 4× · 14 likes · 2018-03-20 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/975928154073133058)
- music scene days (2006-2010)
  (resurfaced 4× · 14 likes · 2018-07-13 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1017619480212471808)
- > SG is an especially wealthy nation, with a per capita income of about $90,000, well above that of the U.S. But how is this prosperity maintained  we are smol  > why has Singapore commanded so much admiration from liberals and conservatives alike?  they admire bits, not all
  (resurfaced 4× · 14 likes · 2018-06-13 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1006759863735734272)
- I've had a silly productivity app idea in my head for a long time – it would be called Suicide Pact, and its unique feature is that it's multiplayer-only. It would be very morbid-themed. When the folks in your group chat have done their task, you feel peer pressure to do yours
  (resurfaced 4× · 14 likes · 2017-12-26 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/945580313048096768)
- @liminal_warmth @Conaw @thepericulum tangent: there's a p great scene in the Keeping Up With The Joneses (hot spy couple moves into the local suburb) where the suburban housewives are pissy and catty at Gal Gadot's character for being hot, and you actually feel sorry for her
  (resurfaced 4× · 13 likes · 2021-07-27 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1420052293597089792)
- @WAWilsonIV Alain de Botton:
  (resurfaced 4× · 13 likes · 2018-02-26 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/968175871268810752)
- Coming soon to theatres near you: Brooding White Guy, staring Mark Wahlberg and his beloved co-star Mr. Gun
  (resurfaced 4× · 13 likes · 2018-12-27 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1078239151839883264)
- @sevensixfive thanks for sharing! I’ve published hundreds of essays over the years, this one is the most popular in recent times: https://visakanv.substack.com/p/are-you-serious
  (resurfaced 4× · 12 likes · 2023-11-22 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1727161105573924907)
- @itunpredictable bezoz smort
  (resurfaced 4× · 12 likes · 2019-07-30 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1156267356802318337)
- @xoxo_meme_queen @SmithaMilli Sri Mariamman Temple in front, Capital Tower looming over it, a gopuram of glass and steel. By the old gods and the new
  (resurfaced 4× · 12 likes · 2019-03-28 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1111228765634387968)
- "Practical demonstrations of Shuman's solar tech in the pre-WW1 years would win the enthusiastic support of Lord Kitchener in Egypt, Sir Reginald Wingate in Sudan, and earn Shuman an invitation from the German Reichstag to accept $200,000 in venture capital – millions today."
  (resurfaced 4× · 11 likes · 2019-06-30 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1145362696583278597)
- On rewatch I find myself thinking that this is a movie about status. Violence and power is a critical part of it. But it’s also a classic hero’s journey story about a guy desiring strength, power, status... seeking it from the wrong source(s), and then transcending the whole game
  (resurfaced 4× · 11 likes · 2019-06-22 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142393520725975042)
- @nosilverv you’re focused on what is, I’m focused on what can be. come to the light
  (resurfaced 4× · 11 likes · 2020-01-30 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1222860807660158976)
- “If Trump is nominated, then everything we think we know about presidential nominations is wrong,” Larry Sabato, head of the center for politics at the University of Virginia  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/22/donald-trump-wont-win-republican-presidential-nomination
  (resurfaced 4× · 11 likes · 2019-09-11 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1171749563683627009)
- @backus @kevinakwok @SarahTaber_bww @greenwoodae @chorpharn @RealSexyCyborg [earnestly] this is cyber appreciation
  (resurfaced 4× · 11 likes · 2018-12-18 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1075114697240698880)
- There's something interesting and beautiful how some songs (Amazing Grace, Hallelujah) acquire more meaning over time as you witness them being used in different contexts, for different purposes. They pick up new associations, and those associations get cross-pollinated
  (resurfaced 4× · 11 likes · 2017-11-27 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/934938904586723329)
- GTD in a glance
  (resurfaced 4× · 10 likes · 2018-09-08 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1038343762773037057)
- @EricJorgenson I’ve only ever actually bought one online course - by @fortelabs - and I did it because I was thoroughly convinced that he was at the cutting edge + cared deeply about what I wanted to get better at (personal knowledge management). I was convinced I would level up, and I did
  (resurfaced 4× · 10 likes · 2019-03-26 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1110610045169860608)
- Learning ‘bout Jamaica today.  - South of Cuba, west of Haiti - Land area 15x the size of Singapore - Pop: 2.9m  Columbus arrived in 1494; bringing disease that killed many. Spanish rule  England wrested it from the Spanish in 1655  In 1660, pop was 4,500 white, 1,500 black 🤔
  (resurfaced 4× · 10 likes · 2018-07-05 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1014793891596271616)
- .@APompliano @BrentBeshore .@APompliano @BrentBeshore it's all about prestige. Relevant @paulg essay: https://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
  (resurfaced 4× · 9 likes · 2017-02-07 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/828945534878523394)
- I am a useful, functioning human being and of this fact I am proud not ashamed. I am not a burden or an obligation or cost.
  (resurfaced 4× · 9 likes · 2015-01-22 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/558113303210508289)
- I haven't eaten anything in over 30 hours and I actually feel great. What a strange, fascinating experience
  (resurfaced 4× · 9 likes · 2017-10-24 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/922642163535568896)
- 🌊
  (resurfaced 4× · 8 likes · 2019-05-07 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1125835345713516544)
- Other people’s assumptions, The Thread https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048772750007971840
  (resurfaced 4× · 8 likes · 2018-10-15 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1051639792935399426)
- An interesting exercise is to identify the most significant things that happened in a random year. Pick a year, say 1635 or 1982. What are the most important things that happened that year? Who was born? Who died?
  (resurfaced 4× · 8 likes · 2018-06-17 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1008204307303264257)
- I was 16 when Zidane headbutted Matarazzi, and I didn’t care about it all that much then. But it’s actually such a fascinating story. “The referees always punish the reaction, never the provocation.” Now contemplating the playbook of retaliation to abuse https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=oB6YIVgGXso
  (resurfaced 4× · 8 likes · 2018-07-23 · Sports · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1021324496152584192)
- "Today, as I write these lines, the European and American proletariat mobilized for the first time, as one army, under one flag, for one immediate aim: the standard 8 hour working day to be established by legal enactment." - Engels, 1890
  (resurfaced 4× · 8 likes · 2018-03-06 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/970964687021006848)
- When I meet my daily target I'll tweet a bit about what I'm writing? It's a novel about Singapore's music scene in the mid-2000s
  (resurfaced 4× · 7 likes · 2017-11-01 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/925559503793221632)
- @djmicrobeads how do I know what I'm optimizing for? what do I want? how do I know I'm not lying to myself about what I want? is the truth about what I want something that is even discernable? what if I want multiple things that cannot coexist? how transcend sadness of limitations of reality?
  (resurfaced 4× · 7 likes · 2017-12-20 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/943621736888639488)
- "It’s possible to travel all around the world and never leave AirSpace, and some people don’t." #visareads https://x.com/jgriffiths/status/762460681333460992
  (resurfaced 4× · 7 likes · 2016-08-08 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/762493789034323969)
- @nikita_jainnn gah I accidentally deleted that notion page but someone made a copy. most of those links are now in my public roam: https://www.notion.so/the-best-of-visakanv-s-twitter-threads-2b113a23564644aa8f698cad9c286fd3
  (resurfaced 4× · 6 likes · 2020-11-07 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1325171940638613511)
- @oliviercantin Emerson, I think from a while before Lincoln was POTUS (mid-1800s)
  (resurfaced 4× · 5 likes · 2021-07-21 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1417828246561779715)
- @DarkLordAndy I enjoyed those “digital room” aesthetics – there was a game that came with the Encarta cd... Mindmaze
  (resurfaced 4× · 5 likes · 2018-07-21 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1020606782735962112)
- Finished Season 1 yesterday. Overall I find the show has a “veneer” to it; it feels a little bit like a theatre production(?). But it does have heart, particularly re: Geralt & Yennefer’s respective struggles as alien weirdos who are dealing with having been manipulated by others
  (resurfaced 4× · 5 likes · 2020-03-11 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1237601480288268289)
- Bollywood thread of threads  1. https://x.com/visakanv/status/1071395062913806336
  (resurfaced 4× · 5 likes · 2018-12-24 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1077129973398269952)
- 2020 book thread
  (resurfaced 4× · 4 likes · 2020-01-02 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1212702114754883585)
- @mandalaeyes joy is freedom from the shackle of utilitarianism
  (resurfaced 4× · 4 likes · 2019-07-01 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1145577135811092480)
- @RainyDuke I pieced it together over time  polytribal is from an obituary of Gabrielle Roth, a dancer/therapist person  I've always liked "weird", and I think maybe the phrase "weirdo at heart" got compressed into weirdheart  I still like the phrase and it has a lot of resonance for me
  (resurfaced 4× · 3 likes · 2019-01-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087379752573259777)
- @epicciuto @vgr Naughty Boy
  (resurfaced 4× · 2 likes · 2018-12-28 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1078734745511485440)
- #powpowpow
  (resurfaced 4× · 1 likes · 2018-09-15 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1040908628302032896)
- Who are you following? Why?  What are you tweeting? Why?  What experiences would you like to have? Why?  Who would you like to play with? How? Why?
  (resurfaced 4× · 0 likes · 2019-02-10 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094705240614481920)
- Should you try to talk kindly & constructively with bigoted people who dismissively disagree with you? If they deny your humanity/rights?
  (resurfaced 4× · 0 likes · 2017-05-09 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/861807321395060737)
- excellent minute of a comedian getting a hot girl to do a side by side comparison of hot girl mannerisms
  (resurfaced 3× · 13,421 likes · 2024-02-16 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1758376831584244083)
- Friends, I have found,,, a salmon vending machine
  (resurfaced 3× · 6,275 likes · 2019-02-25 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1100031820085641217)
- @enrondripgod technically all flowering trees are cum trees
  (resurfaced 3× · 3,689 likes · 2021-02-02 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1356394293238222854)
- There’s an interesting story here to be told about how the men think they’re talking to each other but maybe it’s actually the women who are controlling the conversation
  (resurfaced 3× · 3,144 likes · 2018-12-02 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1069112426283421696)
- "haters are fans too" – ea-nasir
  (resurfaced 3× · 1,125 likes · 2021-03-15 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1371331566253707265)
- i'm still thinking of a phrase from john mayer in interview with zane lowe where he improvised a song in real time. he said he could do it basically whenever, but he doesn't always, because "it takes a stupid bravery" to do it. i think that's my 2024 intent: to be stupidly brave
  (resurfaced 3× · 1,112 likes · 2023-12-30 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1741058281517490357)
- An exercise I would guide my younger creative self through:  1. Make a list of your favorite works  2. List out everything bad, janky, poorly done etc about them  3. Notice how this does not diminish your love for the works  4. realize that this will be true of your work too
  (resurfaced 3× · 997 likes · 2022-02-23 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1496318350221361153)
- I bought it!!! I bought the original painting!!!!!!!!  !!!!!!!
  (resurfaced 3× · 996 likes · 2022-04-28 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1519542282982068225)
- me: *reading a book, realizes something*  me: *turns to wife* do you know what's wrong with me-  wife: [nonchalantly, without missing a beat] yeah I know
  (resurfaced 3× · 974 likes · 2018-01-11 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/951394583241416705)
- “insightful visuals” thread  1. Improvement vs perceived improvement https://x.com/funugly/status/1066620613442162688?s=21
  (resurfaced 3× · 933 likes · 2018-11-25 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1066821839412879360)
- just realized you can watch Netflix in Japanese, which makes it feel like an anime
  (resurfaced 3× · 851 likes · 2022-01-10 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1480532424526233603)
- "The problem most people have with marriages that fail is that they go in thinking, "This person will make me happy." The fuck they will."  "You aren't signing on for happiness. You are signing on for sharing human life, and a human life is a complete chaotic crazy mess."
  (resurfaced 3× · 806 likes · 2018-08-11 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1028209119407140864)
- my life, a partial overview  ages 3-7: > kind of a misfit child, friendly and cheerful but alienated > radicalized by books to believe that life can be a glorious adventure of learning and delight  ages 7-19 > be crushingly frustrated by school > become suicidally depressed >…
  (resurfaced 3× · 725 likes · 2023-08-10 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1689584070966272000)
- being embarrassed about being stuck always prolongs the stuckedness
  (resurfaced 3× · 704 likes · 2022-01-08 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1479631037718138882)
- meditation app that goes “it’s so over” every time you exhale and “we’re so back” every time you inhale
  (resurfaced 3× · 675 likes · 2023-01-04 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1610632356733521921)
- Many different lines of enquiry have led me to this same conviction:  The best guiding question in life is, “Who do you want to share this life with?”  *Everything else* can be determined from this question. Your ethics, beliefs, actions, habits...  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1004559829384376320?s=21
  (resurfaced 3× · 641 likes · 2018-09-11 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1039428937229598720)
- 1. SMBC 1741
  (resurfaced 3× · 599 likes · 2020-11-30 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1333331595076403200)
- if you think from first principles about the billions of people who haven't come online yet, basically every major internet company is still undervalued. these things just take longer to play out than most people have the patience for
  (resurfaced 3× · 598 likes · 2020-08-30 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1299910113130549248)
- do not wait act  “but I don’t know what to do” then do 100 random things examine how you feel after each thing at the end of it you will know what to do  your uniqueness reveals itself through your actions, your choices  not by waiting. waiting is not unique.  do not wait act
  (resurfaced 3× · 536 likes · 2022-02-02 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1488930240185307139)
- When someone expresses a thought like “I’m worthless”, the default response seems to be something like “no you’re not!”, but I think it’s actually better to ask “is that bad?”
  (resurfaced 3× · 522 likes · 2022-04-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1510854414780682242)
- 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://x.com/waif0000/status/1130374688792809473
  (resurfaced 3× · 495 likes · 2019-05-20 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1130418167061237760)
- do you ever think about how diverse @HitachiGlobal's products are
  (resurfaced 3× · 494 likes · 2019-06-17 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1140569801623912448)
- it’s actually possible to live like this but it takes about a decade of plotting and scheming and solving for distribution and knocking over small dominos  what you’ll have to do is do 100 quests for free/fun, document it, and personally share the story with ~10,000 people https://x.com/thanksthoth/status/1675482390838525954
  (resurfaced 3× · 490 likes · 2023-07-03 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1675742089605451778)
- This is the script of no script, the formula of no formula, you just pay really close attention to the other person in a curious, non-judgmental way without the burden of expectations, and look for anything surprising or interesting - and ask about that in a supportive way
  (resurfaced 3× · 490 likes · 2019-05-26 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1132522773186719745)
- Recording my voice a lot definitely makes me start to micro-adjust my voice to be more pleasing  I suppose taking lots of selfies has a similar effect  As does writing a lot  Do 1,000 reps (of anything) and review them as you go; you’ll be a different person at the end of it
  (resurfaced 3× · 474 likes · 2019-06-09 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1137767362361356289)
- Twitter is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, primarily text-based with limited multimedia support. It combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction, and online chat.
  (resurfaced 3× · 455 likes · 2019-02-10 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094686272155602944)
- [neil tyson voice] when she says "choke me daddy", what she technically means is "strangle me". since you're not really choking unless your airway is obstructed by a foreign body. strangulation is when you compress the carotid artery. also, strictly speaking, you're not her fath-
  (resurfaced 3× · 444 likes · 2019-12-11 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1204761120638029825)
- there are lots of reasons to hate Zuck but this is now my #1
  (resurfaced 3× · 432 likes · 2021-01-03 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1345570356988321792)
- VIII. 2 months in, i sometimes still cant believe my son is real. i look at his face and i see both myself and my wife. in his smiles i see the most profound beatific bliss. when he cries i feel gratitude for the opportunity to be the caring, nourishing presence i wish i had had
  (resurfaced 3× · 415 likes · 2023-12-16 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1736168064377606551)
- One of my “it’s counter-intuitive but explains a lot” ideas is that not many people *actually* care very much about having lots of sex. A much stronger drive IMO is the drive for connection, status, belonging. You don’t want the sex nearly as much as what you think the sex means
  (resurfaced 3× · 408 likes · 2019-01-26 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1089026313963237376)
- 34. Boredom is a bug of the mind. Very specifically, a tired mind in a cluttered space with unclear purpose and unrealistic expectations.  I’ve thought about this a *lot*, I choose all of those words very carefully
  (resurfaced 3× · 403 likes · 2020-11-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1331002744077836289)
- while reading Alan Watts and thinking about my own stuff, it suddenly occurred in me that once you learn to delight in your mistakes – to find the pleasure in being wrong – you will experience incredible, abundant joy far greater than anything typically advertised as possible
  (resurfaced 3× · 402 likes · 2021-11-25 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1463954518337482753)
- ok I ask this as a layperson with love and curiosity and eagerness to learn, pls no snark  if crypto-web3-nft-daos-defi etc is electricity, what is the lightbulb?  what is the thing I can do with it, that I cannot do without it, that is intuitively superior to older solutions?
  (resurfaced 3× · 395 likes · 2021-11-06 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1456851433207201799)
- 22. objective distribution
  (resurfaced 3× · 394 likes · 2022-03-30 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1509069431221104644)
- gonna start a tradition with all the boys where we rewatch The Lord of the Rings every year during the Holiday Taint. (The Festive Perineum, between Christmas and New Year's.) its you, you are all the boys. I think this will seriously help make the world a better place
  (resurfaced 3× · 377 likes · 2021-12-11 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1469752562202996737)
- whenever I try to put together some kind of “master resource” it almost always ends up being overwrought and tedious  when I 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
  (resurfaced 3× · 377 likes · 2023-04-10 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1645335699741343745)
- 1. get slightly twitter-famous 2. ask earnest questions from a place of genuine curiosity 3. celebrate everyone who responds thoughtfully 4. block abrasive assholes 5. congrats, you now have a powerful social intelligence engine!  take mine for a spin: ask my friends anything👇🏾
  (resurfaced 3× · 372 likes · 2019-11-17 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1196044731811160066)
- someone told me that this tweet relieved them of a DECADE OF ANXIETY 🥲 I kinda gotta sit down about it, wew https://x.com/visakanv/status/1513380238641664001
  (resurfaced 3× · 352 likes · 2023-09-06 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1699263600219808172)
- a wise older guy once said, "i learned in my 20s that me putting off something scary *always* led to things getting worse. so I cultivated the habit of throwing myself immediately into whatever scary bullshit came my way. it's my day-to-day horror meditation. AHHH!!!!"
  (resurfaced 3× · 352 likes · 2020-12-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1340986718023868417)
- having a baby is like gazing upon the higgs-boson of social reality
  (resurfaced 3× · 350 likes · 2023-11-26 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1728875776752459838)
- cute old video of a brazillian tourist in bulgaria patting the belly of some guy when taking a selfie, before finding out that he's the president  pretty funny to watch all the body and facial language of his bodyguards and aides etc
  (resurfaced 3× · 342 likes · 2021-05-01 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1388472634996789250)
- "what happened to my favorite thoughtful public intellectual who seems to have turned into a psychotic superfreak?" in my view it's roughly the same thing every time, they made a devil's bargain, knowingly or unknowingly, and they got consumed by the demons they summoned
  (resurfaced 3× · 337 likes · 2022-08-19 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1560514970046980098)
- we were both 14. we'd go to the library to study. i'm left-handed, she's right-handed, we'd hold hands while we did our homework. sometimes we'd semi-cuddle and read books, and eventually we kissed in a quiet corner. the first kiss left me in a happy daze for hours. I married her https://x.com/queasy_f_bby/status/1220479609885659136
  (resurfaced 3× · 329 likes · 2020-01-23 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1220482579138105344)
- this is how i approach basically everything, and i'm always kinda surprised when people seem surprised that it works
  (resurfaced 3× · 324 likes · 2022-01-22 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1484881198040371201)
- my range of socially acceptable behaviors expand significantly when i’m with my wife. i can openly be cute and silly with children, or generally loiter around anywhere, and not be interpreted as a threat or a creep… if my wife is next to me
  (resurfaced 3× · 314 likes · 2022-05-18 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1527013784510144513)
- the trick to enjoying twitter, youtube and clubhouse is all the same: disregard what the famous people are doing, and focus on finding and chilling with your fellow nerds
  (resurfaced 3× · 297 likes · 2021-02-05 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1357573059469713412)
- 41. tragic backstory
  (resurfaced 3× · 293 likes · 2022-10-06 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1577992600274903041)
- yelling at people is a horrible strategy for behaviour modification. this is true internally as well. it typically comes from a place of desperation and neediness and it almost always makes things worse rather than better
  (resurfaced 3× · 293 likes · 2021-06-16 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1405250503332614147)
- 18. Nothing is edgier than being earnest
  (resurfaced 3× · 293 likes · 2020-11-23 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1330996249793679360)
- the hardest thing to get anyone to see is how they see things
  (resurfaced 3× · 290 likes · 2023-07-26 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1684243737164267521)
- everybody has the right to charge whatever they want for whatever services they want to provide. if you are a completely inexperienced child and you want to charge $1,000/hr for advice on how to make "phbtbttbtt" sounds, you are free to do that
  (resurfaced 3× · 289 likes · 2021-04-18 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1383698754482556932)
- journaling → self-knowledge → power → freedom → joy
  (resurfaced 3× · 288 likes · 2021-11-27 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1464617313672388608)
- did something that feels very indulgent – i bought myself a second macbook. The Metaphor Machine (the monster mac that my friends bought me for christmas) is hooked up to 3 monitors in my study, and I got an Air so its just... easy and light for me to type on from my living room
  (resurfaced 3× · 285 likes · 2023-08-31 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1697280629136896336)
- its weird what changes your life sometimes. in 2018 i watched some guy (mrllamaSC) do diablo 2 speedruns and it changed my life. it wasn't a super dramatic change overnight, but it shifted something in me about what it means to do things
  (resurfaced 3× · 285 likes · 2022-12-04 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1599453317884968961)
- trust is rebuilt with small baby steps. you have to ask yourself very small, achievable things. ask yourself for a glass of water. go do that. drink. see? you just rebuilt a tiny bit of trust in yourself. that’s a win. that’s proof that you CAN be trusted. baby steps. baby steps. https://x.com/visakanv/status/1293265193825312768
  (resurfaced 3× · 284 likes · 2021-06-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1405258375806349312)
- the wicked witch in snow white was driven to murderous villainy when her wall-sized smartphone told her that she wasn't the fairest maiden in the village anymore
  (resurfaced 3× · 282 likes · 2023-07-16 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1680649341684547586)
- the word "yeet" is so powerful because it's grounded in ancient etymology
  (resurfaced 3× · 279 likes · 2021-09-27 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1442407590705590274)
- something kinda clicked for me: once in a rare while I get a reply or QT that seems "off" in a distinct way... and I never had a model for it that made sense to me until now:  I think some people feel that random tweets etc on the internet are directed to them personally
  (resurfaced 3× · 274 likes · 2021-08-03 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1422575352845455363)
- I'm serious I tried that one out myself  video games are addictive because the gradient is painstakingly made for you  project management when you make the gradient for yourself, that's how you learn and accomplish anything substantial  design your own game and make it fun
  (resurfaced 3× · 274 likes · 2020-06-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1272800211237105664)
- These are some of my favorite pictures of the Pyramids of Giza
  (resurfaced 3× · 273 likes · 2018-11-28 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1067779730374459392)
- wife: did you vote in my poll about national service, was it net positive or negative for you  me: yea it was good for me  wife: why?  me: because I am a bad motherfucker and I find a way to turn every experience into a net positive for me
  (resurfaced 3× · 271 likes · 2021-05-31 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1399335899368804356)
- 21. anarchist garbage man
  (resurfaced 3× · 265 likes · 2022-03-09 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1501493422670041091)
- 19. a quick thing
  (resurfaced 3× · 262 likes · 2022-02-20 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1495476023063896066)
- a *fascinating* thing that americans do – and I don't think I've seen europeans do this – is they come up with these elaborate fanfics abt their public figures, mashing them up with cinema, honoring them in comics&TV. "X welcomes Y to heaven", "X is literally Captain America" etc
  (resurfaced 3× · 258 likes · 2020-11-08 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1325508393570758657)
- mfs be like "I had an amazing time talking to my old friend johnny from school" and then never talk to johnny again, and instead argue about politics and/or obscure philosophical thought experiments with strangers who are needlessly mean to them
  (resurfaced 3× · 253 likes · 2021-07-30 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1420958079634444290)
- 17. Sufficiently caveated advice is indistinguishable from chaos
  (resurfaced 3× · 253 likes · 2020-11-23 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1330996149591834624)
- thinking can help, but only to the degree that it gets you to act  thinking can also lead you to think that you need to do more thinking  in this regard you can totally have a thinking addiction, and once you look out for it you start noticing problem thinkers everywhere
  (resurfaced 3× · 252 likes · 2020-02-02 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1223824795256545280)
- It’s this!!! This is why Twitter rules https://x.com/studyprocess/status/1075295530421501953?s=21
  (resurfaced 3× · 250 likes · 2018-12-19 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1075295870940135425)
- "I'm too tired to exercise" is the most cruel prank the mind plays on the body. I have this realization every time I finally decide "fuck it I'm going to exercise even though I'm tired" and discover that I am mysteriously more energized afterwards
  (resurfaced 3× · 250 likes · 2018-08-01 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1024522412165976064)
- thinking about how sometimes the only thing that really matters is the right vibe. you can have dark humor that's nourishing and supportive. you can have cheery positivity that's cruel and oppressive. the thing itself is so often secondary to the context, the delivery, the frame
  (resurfaced 3× · 249 likes · 2020-05-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1257227993669267456)
- a small misunderstanding about what is or is not possible can lead to unfathomable misery and despair
  (resurfaced 3× · 248 likes · 2022-07-27 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1552332938636800000)
- when people invite me to speak at some conference or venue where everyone is gathered to discuss The Thing, I often say,  4. what you have here is wonderful, and everyone outside of here should get a chance to experience it, and… I wish you a very merry Fuck Off From The Thing
  (resurfaced 3× · 245 likes · 2023-03-08 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1633334952036122624)
- relationships become boring because they get reduced into shell-scripts, patterns and routines – because people avoid the difficult work of communicating hard, painful things to one another. At this point some people, desperate for stimulation, do crazy shit like cheat
  (resurfaced 3× · 244 likes · 2018-05-23 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/999145328837255168)
- “Rapidly we approach the final phase of the extensions of man—the technological simulation of consciousness, when the creative process of knowing will be collectively and corporately extended to the whole of human society…” - Marshall McLuhan, 1964
  (resurfaced 3× · 243 likes · 2023-04-24 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1650306693618860032)
- me, lifting weights two days in a row: I am no longer interested in feeble thought! give me the pump! give me the gains! to hell with words! lift things up and put them down! eat! sleep! triumph!
  (resurfaced 3× · 239 likes · 2020-11-02 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1323176873187135488)
- the island of Java has more people on it than all of Russia
  (resurfaced 3× · 236 likes · 2022-01-28 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1486968628893208576)
- Sometimes dudes ask me why I talk about sexism so much. Here’s a selfish reason. My wife is smarter than me in many ways. As a couple, we are more than a sum of our parts. But over the years I’ve seen her get harassed and treated differently than me despite doing similar things
  (resurfaced 3× · 232 likes · 2018-07-09 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1016198519340687360)
- my personal favorite: difference between drug dealer and pharma CEO is shareholders
  (resurfaced 3× · 229 likes · 2020-04-26 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1254484171122081792)
- there’s an important theme of death and rebirth that’s alluded to even in a bunch of children’s movies. (Lion King, Aladdin, Frozen…) Like some of y’all do need to fucken die and be reborn psychologically, know it subconsciously, flinch from it, & make it everyone else’s problem
  (resurfaced 3× · 228 likes · 2022-05-02 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1520990316836184065)
- current mood: i'm tired of how there's just so much everything everywhere
  (resurfaced 3× · 228 likes · 2020-12-26 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1342870786944602118)
- cc: 60-80% of my female friends
  (resurfaced 3× · 227 likes · 2021-06-10 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1402911417276108800)
- Nominative determinism strikes again! https://x.com/Julie_Weed/status/1011334108994105344
  (resurfaced 3× · 227 likes · 2018-06-26 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1011515392525660160)
- Here’s the magic of Do 100 Thing: the first 20 might look like crap, and you might think you’ll never get better if you do 1000, and then number 30 turns out better than you thought possible (h/t @shrinetothevine)
  (resurfaced 3× · 226 likes · 2021-10-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1447389798096728067)
- woke up, glimpsed something before my brain fully loaded, suddenly shocked with the reminder/re-realisation that all learning is a matter of defining and solving problems, soliciting and integrating feedback, it’s that simple, Fuck
  (resurfaced 3× · 225 likes · 2021-06-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1405022193713500162)
- 19. 2007 photo of an iceberg in the Weddel Sea (in Antartica, south of Argentina), by Canadian photographer David Burdeny
  (resurfaced 3× · 223 likes · 2018-10-25 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1055538485577232384)
- I loved Alan Watts for many years (still do, tho I haven’t listened in a while) and the most challenging of his riffs that I struggled to understand was  “The reason you want to be better, is the reason why you aren’t.”  It seemed bleak as fuck to me, and he said it with a laugh
  (resurfaced 3× · 222 likes · 2021-07-26 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1419807158930075649)
- there is a very radical, powerful state of mind, state of being, that people throughout history have recurringly tried to talk about, but it's v hard to get the point across because people who don't want to hear about it will look for problems with the imperfect utterance
  (resurfaced 3× · 221 likes · 2022-03-26 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1507509994128015364)
- probably my most radical thought, which I am not yet comfortable expressing in an unreserved way bc I must be getting it wrong, is that almost all persistent problems persist because they are misframed
  (resurfaced 3× · 219 likes · 2021-10-05 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1445262775874318336)
- @regancodes @MalwareTechBlog 100%  when you refuse to boot the toxic people, in a sense you are allowing the toxic people to boot the non-toxic people
  (resurfaced 3× · 219 likes · 2020-01-06 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1214084198073430016)
- this stuff is so second nature to me that it kinda feels weird to answer the question explicitly, but I suppose it might be worth it for people who haven't thought about it much  I would start by doing a bunch of googling around the interest to see what you can find/learn https://x.com/bit_jesus/status/1368438012594454530
  (resurfaced 3× · 218 likes · 2021-03-07 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1368464321659904002)
- I kinda love reading all the clarifications people feel obliged to put in the replies to their viral tweets. “To be clear, when I said Megaman X makes my cooty cat mreow, I did not mean to imply that Zero is NOT sexy. Non-traditional gender expression is 1000% valid. Abolish ICE”
  (resurfaced 3× · 218 likes · 2019-12-31 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1211981151193067522)
- i actually love spending time on pinterest  once you've spent some time training it on your interests, it can be a really relaxing, pleasing, stimulating experience to just look at things  lemme do like 10 tweets of contrasting pics from stuff that comes up in my scrollin
  (resurfaced 3× · 216 likes · 2023-03-20 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1637678675507249155)
- Clear recurring photography trope here, via @rtraister and replies (h/t @staringispolite) https://x.com/rtraister/status/1088651391323828225?s=21
  (resurfaced 3× · 216 likes · 2019-02-14 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1095848928195407872)
- “No but maybe if I yell harder, hold myself hostage, plead harder, beat myself to within an inch of my life, the strategy that has never worked in my life will suddenly work! I must self-flagellate harder!”  No. It does not work. You cannot win this fight. Put the gun down.
  (resurfaced 3× · 214 likes · 2021-06-16 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1405255760922038273)
- children are geniuses and artists before we beat it out of them
  (resurfaced 3× · 213 likes · 2019-02-01 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1091287804619812864)
- So in a way journaling for yourself is a radical act! It’s an act of self-ownership, self-education. It’s about setting your own curriculum, defining your own worldview, deciding for yourself what is important. I don’t think this should be outsourced to others, but that’s my POV
  (resurfaced 3× · 213 likes · 2019-01-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087436197410959361)
- I think about this picture from time to time, it's the whiteboard of the story of God Of War [2018]. I like how it gives you a sense of how a story is put together – messy, experimental, etc. Would be so cool to see a timelapse video of *just the whiteboard*
  (resurfaced 3× · 212 likes · 2019-09-18 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1174208276688490497)
- My todo list be like:  1. Build global network of powerful SuperNerds  2. Start a Golden Age  3. Eat samosas
  (resurfaced 3× · 211 likes · 2020-04-28 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1255255857723576325)
- the greatest timed shot in the history of television
  (resurfaced 3× · 211 likes · 2019-08-25 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1165436788422234113)
- The skillset that gets you INTO a relationship is very different from the skillset you need to sustain one
  (resurfaced 3× · 211 likes · 2019-03-05 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1102809983513579522)
- It is my experience that, if you create a "safe space" for a minority group, sparing them the stress of having to explain themselves to clueless outsiders, the level of criticism, argument, discourse, etc inside the group INCREASES. People challenge and spar with each other https://x.com/visakanv/status/957461334005710848
  (resurfaced 3× · 210 likes · 2018-05-15 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/996274556124807169)
- Every so often I do a Google news search for “deeply concerned” to catch up on whatever everyone’s deeply concerned about
  (resurfaced 3× · 205 likes · 2021-01-17 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1350637935415095296)
- they know of loneliness, of despair, of betrayal, of kinship... and when we encounter each other in the wild we recognize each other’s scars, those who have broken their chains and escaped into the unknown
  (resurfaced 3× · 205 likes · 2020-09-06 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1302738741144944640)
- great small accounts (<1k) nov’23  @jackfriks @stefaesthesia @triciapickren @Inkolore_ @divya_venn @moissanist @willbamberg @wipwasabhi @Benscuriosity @35gcs @alineblooms @Midwitmagnet @tangrenin @defenderofbasic @pointed_max @dharma_pen @lazymaplekoi @kittybearbro
  (resurfaced 3× · 203 likes · 2023-11-01 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1719741065559965989)
- accidentally stumbled upon this whole face/body/energy aesthetic typology system via an image search that brought me to the subreddit /r/kibbe. it's particularly interesting bc people actually share their own looks
  (resurfaced 3× · 200 likes · 2021-03-11 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1369934943560683522)
- 2021 tweet  (2020👇🏾) https://x.com/visakanv/status/1212301700347752449
  (resurfaced 3× · 200 likes · 2020-12-31 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1344675081511845891)
- on tangential note, this makes me realize that the cultural climate is such that I never publicly hear these days about how men improve their female partner's lives.  in the spirit of celebrating what I'd like to see: women friends, how have your men made your lives better? https://x.com/saraschaefer1/status/1213862856912846848
  (resurfaced 3× · 197 likes · 2020-01-06 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1214161739404718080)
- I wonder sometimes if maybe therapy would get a higher adoption rate amongst men if it were rebranded as performance coaching or something aspirational and tough https://x.com/ejtwister/status/1139191362576932864
  (resurfaced 3× · 197 likes · 2019-06-14 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139400315399098368)
- Kpop stans are masters of this and I respect it. You insult them and they reply “so true bestie, anyway stream <favorite artist>”. And it is with that sort of relentless unbotheredness that they punch above their weight as a collective. Keep the end goal in mind
  (resurfaced 3× · 196 likes · 2021-10-29 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1453965069105000451)
- Things that are unsexy:  - nitpicking - “debating” - condescension - contempt - “you can have this precious penis if you pass these following tests and jump through the following hoops” - neediness - solipsism - insecurity - lack of imagination - inability to read subtext
  (resurfaced 3× · 196 likes · 2018-10-12 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1050797413030481920)
- late night shower thought: a big part of dropping a large amount of anxiety was accepting that I can’t “save” or “fix” everybody. confronting this was extremely depressing, for a while life felt bleak and terrible. the way out was to learn to focus on doing what I can actually do
  (resurfaced 3× · 195 likes · 2022-05-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1521948486836445184)
- if you do not prepare for success, it is in your best interest that you do not succeed. Success is transformative, which is always painful in ways that are not immediately obvious. This is part of why ppl procrastinate. There is a wisdom in your body that knows you’re not ready
  (resurfaced 3× · 191 likes · 2021-10-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1447407934288187397)
- trying to learn about chinese memes
  (resurfaced 3× · 190 likes · 2020-10-03 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1312382342653243393)
- [half-joking] I blame Descartes for everything fucked up in the world
  (resurfaced 3× · 188 likes · 2022-05-07 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1522807733778477058)
- Thread of oddball ideas for a funnier world:  1. pay porn stars to make perfectly SFW corporate stock photos
  (resurfaced 3× · 188 likes · 2018-05-14 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/995942023306797061)
- 4th monitor update: I pretty much have settled into a routine of permanently using one vert for my Notes and another for my Roam and I love it so much  usually have calendar on my screen where Spotify currently is
  (resurfaced 3× · 187 likes · 2022-11-20 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1594348297887485952)
- I lay down on the sofa looking like the guy on the left, and then this image came to mind, and now I'm wide awake and looking like the guy on the right  fuckin wild
  (resurfaced 3× · 186 likes · 2021-10-05 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1445346595227111433)
- “It’s the meta-data.”
  (resurfaced 3× · 186 likes · 2018-12-18 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1075011377574621185)
- @vinveliveera “Aah like you’re going to the doctor” 👨🏾‍🍳💋
  (resurfaced 3× · 185 likes · 2023-11-19 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1726294225057357863)
- me, having trouble sleeping: hey shall we try letting go of our thoughts, doing some deep breathing and relaxing  my brain: we refuse to comply with such fascist totalitarianism  me: pls
  (resurfaced 3× · 185 likes · 2019-12-24 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1209579883036209152)
- from time to time I’ve noticed a funny and fascinating phenomenon where a person who says they can’t do X will accidentally sorta do it when distracted from the notion that they can’t do X. Sort of a, “you can run on water/air if you don’t look at your feet” type of situation
  (resurfaced 3× · 184 likes · 2023-01-17 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1615316409562578944)
- 25. there are 2 thoughts that convince me not to ragequit and delete my account  a. the red washing down the bathtub can't change the color of the sea – ie nobody will remember or care. there are more creative, fun ways to express your disdain  b. I haven't seen tomorrow's memes
  (resurfaced 3× · 184 likes · 2018-05-11 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/994823460995125249)
- many QTs take the form of, “they shouldn’t have that problem. their parents should love them. you shouldn’t have to persuade your loved ones to love you.” I agree! Ideally everyone should be born into a nourishing supportive environment. But many are not. What should they do?
  (resurfaced 3× · 182 likes · 2023-08-21 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1693506437954355491)
- listening is easy, integration is hard
  (resurfaced 3× · 176 likes · 2022-09-19 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1571819229967708161)
- 😂^  here’s an anecdote that FASCINATES me: Pressfield describes being broke & miserable, & how he spent 2hrs writing (which he immediately trashed!), and how that creative act gave him the energy to do dishes he’d put off for 10 days!!! This sort of thing is underappreciated IMO
  (resurfaced 3× · 176 likes · 2021-08-20 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1428748500599115776)
- 1 like = 1 half-joke https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141532437710639104
  (resurfaced 3× · 176 likes · 2019-06-20 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141536140081504256)
- to be human is to collaborate  the ability to collaborate is humanizing  the inability to collaborate is dehumanizing  every conversation is a collaboration https://x.com/visakanv/status/1252069495385911297
  (resurfaced 3× · 174 likes · 2022-12-11 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1601843188859564033)
- it's so boring that there's this whole monolith of readers who all cluster around the same dozen books that everyone reads. go read a memoir about a japanese fisherman. read about the history of the circus. spend a day walking around a library & pick up whatever looks fun to you
  (resurfaced 3× · 174 likes · 2022-06-04 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1532912273848926208)
- Sylvia Plath + Allie Brosh both had the wish that everything could be done at once, then never again. The idea of repetition = exhausting
  (resurfaced 3× · 174 likes · 2017-10-02 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/914836008062959616)
- One of the most staggering variances in the world is the variance in intellectual honesty  Some people are intensely rigorous about being clear about what they know, think they know, what they say and what they mean  And to some people the very idea seems entirely alien to them
  (resurfaced 3× · 173 likes · 2019-01-27 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1089642944598990848)
- the more I read about golden ages the more I'm stunned that we're not obsessing about it all the time  during India's Gupta golden age, they invented zero  during Baghdad's, they translated Aristotle  the Dutch golden age gave us Descartes  "capitalism" is maybe half the picture
  (resurfaced 3× · 166 likes · 2020-05-21 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1263435922227355648)
- while writing today's essay i noticed myself casually using the phrase "my notebooks are full of false starts". the moment i wrote it down it hit me that this is a terrible metaphor carelessly ported over from sports to art, and i've been subtly suffering for it for years lol
  (resurfaced 3× · 165 likes · 2023-06-11 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1668034528533958656)
- wife: hey do men ever call you sweetheart on the internet  me: nope  wife: ironic, considering you are actually the one with the sweet heart  me: true
  (resurfaced 3× · 162 likes · 2018-07-09 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1016262393779744768)
- current new pfp thx to @HamishDoodles
  (resurfaced 3× · 160 likes · 2023-03-22 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1638611632568913920)
- common friend failure modes:  - flinching aversion to conflict - neediness for reassurance - intolerance of solitude - overeagerness to reconcile and harmonize - underestimating possibility of bad-faith actors - flimsy boundaries - people-pleasing - naive “can’t we all get along”
  (resurfaced 3× · 160 likes · 2022-05-19 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1527181247218188289)
- Does anybody else ever walk around a mall and think about how weird all this stuff is? Imagine if someone asked, is this your church? are those your gods?
  (resurfaced 3× · 160 likes · 2019-05-12 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1127459537076670465)
- a thread of my best one-liners
  (resurfaced 3× · 159 likes · 2019-06-04 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1135799079265492992)
- keeping an eye out for women's art is the quickest way to expand your mind. these are so great https://x.com/Dazed/status/1044145664173662210
  (resurfaced 3× · 159 likes · 2018-09-24 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1044153696676831232)
- finally found a way to point at wikipedia's unfortunate weakness: the wikipedia page on shitposting is absolutely terrible. it's a bluecheck's understanding of shitposting  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitposting
  (resurfaced 3× · 158 likes · 2021-07-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1412790485911961603)
- tbh we are living thru a transition where people are embarrassing themselves at unprecedented scale and I feel like we should have compassion for how unprepared most ppl are to deal with the current media environment
  (resurfaced 3× · 157 likes · 2022-03-24 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1506963257751343111)
- Everything in your life is a sort of elaborate memory board. spiders use their webs as a form of external cognition. We use *everything*. All our objects are telling us stories. Some of us realize we can inspect and edit those stories https://x.com/suchaone/status/911984480574943232?s=21
  (resurfaced 3× · 157 likes · 2019-08-12 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1160753341091086337)
- The village tavern is full of merry drunks who claim to be adventurers. Some might be telling the truth, but that’s unlikely, because of the Lemon problem. The best place to meet fellow adventurers is beyond the village gates, on the road, where the merry drunks don’t dare tread
  (resurfaced 3× · 156 likes · 2019-06-15 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139774598663159810)
- Some people will even brag about their misfortune. If you try to help them they’ll refuse the helping hand by angrily saying “you don’t understand how I feel”. Most people learn to treat these people carefully, specially. They become special. Weakness can be powerful
  (resurfaced 3× · 155 likes · 2018-09-06 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1037749844809375744)
- a fairly common mistake charismatic-offline people make on Twitter is tweeting rhetorical questions and then getting annoyed when people answer earnestly
  (resurfaced 3× · 154 likes · 2022-04-01 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1509995241138388992)
- Being sensitive and kind has made me *significantly* smarter, because it’s given me access to information and perspectives that people actively avoid sharing publicly. I know so much shit that I can’t quite talk about (because I don’t have permission to say it)
  (resurfaced 3× · 154 likes · 2018-07-23 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1021305700025159681)
- we built robots  and we gave them names  and we gave them brains made out of silicon  and we pretended they were people  and we told them, "hey, you wanna go exploring?"  and of course they did  because we had made them in our own image
  (resurfaced 3× · 154 likes · 2019-02-13 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1095785685863157760)
- lesbian pinterest is so cosy and intimate
  (resurfaced 3× · 153 likes · 2022-03-20 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1505585548869910541)
- Ememem! (ig:ememem.flacking) https://x.com/splitendedpoem/status/1461774118857097224
  (resurfaced 3× · 153 likes · 2021-11-21 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1462352897375555584)
- (Wanna hear why? Because books are soul food, libraries are magic. I’ve gotten so much value from this global, atemporal parliament of hallucinations, & I desperately want to contribute before I die. If one kid reads a book I wrote & is inspired to do the same, it was worth it)
  (resurfaced 3× · 152 likes · 2018-07-07 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015483380094267392)
- while some people call tiktok silly or frivolous, it's quite possible that kids from around the world are actually developing a sort of universal sign language that will allow them to communicate across language barriers. potential implications staggering https://x.com/LaymansLinguist/status/1255698600560070656
  (resurfaced 3× · 151 likes · 2020-05-01 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1256197115803365380)
- lmfao  singaporean humor is underappreciated imo
  (resurfaced 3× · 149 likes · 2020-01-05 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1213746766811549696)
- what's not so immediately obvious is that simply existing as a human being in a society is an ongoing creative act
  (resurfaced 3× · 146 likes · 2023-02-20 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1627647998670036992)
- @nickcammarata found one of your boys on tiktok
  (resurfaced 3× · 146 likes · 2022-02-28 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1498324314243821572)
- to be kind of darkly poetic about it I think much of what is beautiful about giving people the gift of time and attention is that it's limited. by death. and in a sense while an AI bot might be able to give you unlimited attention, it can't quite give you limited attention
  (resurfaced 3× · 146 likes · 2021-09-01 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1433048025786580995)
- 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
  (resurfaced 3× · 146 likes · 2019-06-03 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1135619614925180928)
- why were 90's cartoons intro themes so damn good?
  (resurfaced 3× · 146 likes · 2019-05-20 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1130503455733215233)
- One of the utilities of having pets that non-pet owners might not realise is that you can use them as conversational proxies  Eg,  me: *does something stupid*  wife: [to our cat] you seeing this shit???
  (resurfaced 3× · 146 likes · 2019-02-15 · Pets & Animals · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1096303711406542848)
- this might now be a Hades meme account
  (resurfaced 3× · 145 likes · 2020-10-13 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1316035203626725379)
- a thing that upsets me deeply is that when someone works hard to demonstrate that something is systemically broken, and the system is like "woohoo! congrats! you are the one & only exception to the rule! good job! nobody else can do what you do! we will celebrate u as an outlier"
  (resurfaced 3× · 144 likes · 2022-06-20 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1538945534265765888)
- 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
  (resurfaced 3× · 144 likes · 2022-03-29 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1508719927641128962)
- oh hell yeah  the biggest power move is to disregard what is pointless and to focus on what you think is right  and this is far more "rude" than fighting/arguing with people
  (resurfaced 3× · 143 likes · 2021-03-11 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1370133706510200837)
- fellas u just need to treat your gf like you're both assassins trying to give each other an honorable death
  (resurfaced 3× · 143 likes · 2021-02-11 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1359944880953327617)
- @marionnjoya One of my favorite Oglaf strips:
  (resurfaced 3× · 142 likes · 2020-02-23 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1231612083487137793)
- they don't think it be like it is, but it do
  (resurfaced 3× · 142 likes · 2019-11-05 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1191675997755600896)
- may you grow obsolete with grace
  (resurfaced 3× · 141 likes · 2023-01-19 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1615933849439211521)
- When I look back on my life, there are a bunch of things that seem suboptimal, but I don't regret: playing video games, daydreaming. That was good, actually. I'd happily do it again.  #1 thing I *would* change: I'd have been much more intentional re: the people I associated with
  (resurfaced 3× · 141 likes · 2019-04-13 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1117058312241958912)
- me: hello friends, in this video i'm to talk about marketing  me 10m in: so you see that's the real problem of capitalism, the plausible deniability  me 20m in: i disagree with the idea that philosophy is abstract; all practical problems get philosophical if you dig deeply enough
  (resurfaced 3× · 139 likes · 2020-07-24 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1286717014233374720)
- watching some short films made by students – teenage filmmakers these days are 10x better than my friends were at that age. I'm guessing it's because of phones, youtube, instagram, snapchat, tiktok, etc  you know this means that there's a golden age of cinema 20-30 years away
  (resurfaced 3× · 139 likes · 2020-02-05 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1225004354962280448)
- If there’s something you’ve been wanting to change about your life (eg: “fix my sleep”), and you’ve spent maybe 10+ years making failed attempts at it despite having done the reading, etc - the problem is probably upstream. Ie it’s not actually the sleep, it’s something else
  (resurfaced 3× · 139 likes · 2019-02-01 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1091337209603489793)
- “My friends laugh at me and insult my work”  Fuck them. Find new friends
  (resurfaced 3× · 136 likes · 2019-01-24 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088358479125831680)
- I have had extremely heated disagreements lead into nourishing friendships once we get around to appreciating each other's backstories and contexts  and I have had relatively mild-seeming disagreements ruin relationships because someone simply refused to discuss their experiences
  (resurfaced 3× · 135 likes · 2019-02-19 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1097772623478513664)
- If I wanted to be an opportunistic grifter, I’m confident I could be in the ballpark of ~250,000 followers by summoning outrage & mocking incompetence. But I have loftier goals than that. I want to build a crucible of 1,000 ambitious, kind, thoughtful nerds and nourish the world
  (resurfaced 3× · 134 likes · 2019-11-06 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1192140714785660928)
- Kotoku Wamura – mocked for worrying about tsunami, validated 25yrs after death  Harry Markopolis, knew what Madoff was doing. Wrote book titled "No One Would Listen"  Barry Marshall, ridiculed for his accurate belief that peptic ulcers caused by bacteria   https://t.co/SB6hxxy8tN
  (resurfaced 3× · 133 likes · 2018-09-29 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1046174703692345344)
- “My stuff has gotten predictable and formulaic and I hate it”  Good! Discard it all! It’s all tracings in the sand anyway. Find a new game! Watch different movies, travel somewhere different. Find new things and make new things. You have my permission to start all over again
  (resurfaced 3× · 131 likes · 2019-01-24 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088358335517097984)
- I can’t speak for everyone, but “grow the fuck up” is kinda rough. I didn’t *want* to be a picky eater. I was just *scared* by food at a subconscious level. Feeling of physical disgust. Would be kinder to invite your friend to help prep food in a non-judgemental environment
  (resurfaced 3× · 130 likes · 2018-08-27 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1034170592885321729)
- Ask dumb questions earnestly and chase down all the implications even if it feels stupid.  Disregard the impulse to *appear* smart by writing in clichéd tropes that signal status and authority.  Everything we retroactively consider genius started out this way
  (resurfaced 3× · 128 likes · 2019-01-24 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088352435863580674)
- Some might think it's a harmless attack towards despicable men – sure – but that's like calling despicable women ugly. The attack *doesn't* stay confined to the target; the connotations and implications spread across the entire population. Everyone knows what you mean
  (resurfaced 3× · 128 likes · 2019-01-12 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084157546573623297)
- What do we want?  The best version of ourselves!  When do we want it?  On a timeline that’s optimistic (but not so much that it’s unrealistic), challenging (but not so much that it’s unmanageable), flexible (to account for new info) but not flaky (to avoid bullshitting self)...
  (resurfaced 3× · 128 likes · 2018-11-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1063293537771446272)
- sincere compliments make people more powerful
  (resurfaced 3× · 127 likes · 2019-08-03 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1157716543372836870)
- So wholesome
  (resurfaced 3× · 127 likes · 2019-01-03 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1080821129617403906)
- Ed Sheeran before he got good
  (resurfaced 3× · 125 likes · 2022-06-29 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1542041976085700613)
- 13. A lot of criticism is trash that’s written to show off how smart the critic is. The best reviews, even negative ones, are written by people who obviously have a love for music, theatre, movies, etc. You can feel it. Trash critics are negative externalities + should be ignored
  (resurfaced 3× · 125 likes · 2018-05-10 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/994553611978862592)
- happy anniversary to the greatest 2x2 slide of all time
  (resurfaced 3× · 124 likes · 2022-01-09 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1480181235242602497)
- while researching the book i'm working on, i've noticed that there's an overabundance of tactical suggestions to problem-solving but a notable absence of suggestions to reframe and reconceptualize the problem entirely
  (resurfaced 3× · 124 likes · 2021-12-10 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1469237132891852802)
- billy’s progress has been delightful to witness https://x.com/billyisyoung/status/1347991119200743428
  (resurfaced 3× · 124 likes · 2021-08-08 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1424198937615880202)
- something that is cringe in one status economy can be extremely based in another status economy
  (resurfaced 3× · 123 likes · 2021-04-07 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1379752580775960576)
- the wack thing about making a living out of anything is that a lot of it boils down to the delivery mechanism or distribution of the thing that you’re doing  loosely a lot of what a job is, is you’re counting on your employer to do the delivery for you, as a proxy for the market
  (resurfaced 3× · 123 likes · 2021-05-08 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1390828461875372033)
- Every blogger is a contributing volunteer historian. Every blog that gets deleted is a minor tragedy. Having participated in + observed some of these spaces for about 15 years, I’m continually startled at how fragile much of the enterprise can be
  (resurfaced 3× · 123 likes · 2020-11-04 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1323942895640932353)
- The prospect of it always seemed hideously bleak to me. The prize for doing well in school, it seemed, was that you get to win one of the higher paying jobs in one of the more prestigious organisations, meaning you get to crank high-prestige widgets instead of low-status widgets
  (resurfaced 3× · 123 likes · 2018-11-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065508170091585536)
- sad again today about the 1258 siege of Baghdad. folklore laments that after the rivers ran red with the blood of its scientists and philosophers, it ran black with the ink of its books
  (resurfaced 3× · 122 likes · 2023-06-20 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1671061053097254912)
- 1. Reply to this with your favorite book thread that you’ve done (ie a thread about a book)  2. check out each other’s book threads and make friends
  (resurfaced 3× · 122 likes · 2020-06-01 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1267315020272029696)
- I have 2 rules of RPG video game writing  1. At the end, the hero should get to look the villain in the eyes and kick them in the dick  2. the player should get to really appreciate how the world has changed after their play  I’m surprised how often major releases mess this up
  (resurfaced 3× · 121 likes · 2019-09-22 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1175880323717951488)
- finite players rarely believe that infinite players exist and often presume that they are all frauds  when you dig into it, they’ll often admit that sure, some infinite player existed in the past- some visionary or founder or saint etc - but that such people don’t exist any more
  (resurfaced 3× · 119 likes · 2021-03-04 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1367378391360364547)
- What would be ideal, I think, is if all information could be represented as "cards", and all cards could be easily threaded. Every book, every blogpost, every video, even songs, etc - all could be represented as "threaded cards". Some cards more valuable than others
  (resurfaced 3× · 119 likes · 2018-04-18 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/986554599212331008)
- (In 1977, Masaru wrote a book titled "Kindergarten is too late!". Ideas include, & I paraphrase: "fathers should be as involved as mothers", "talk to your kids a lot", "children should communicate [and quarrel!] with other children", "ignite your child's interest", "music good")
  (resurfaced 3× · 118 likes · 2019-04-06 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114499588537208832)
- Portugal was the MySpace of colonialism
  (resurfaced 3× · 117 likes · 2021-11-07 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1457336057754652679)
- 40. we’ll all be normal!
  (resurfaced 3× · 116 likes · 2022-09-17 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1571040010408960000)
- Trying to help my wife get better at FPS games and I found myself explaining: as a first person shooter, you’re really... a camerawoman. You need to get your subject in the center of your frame, get a good angle,,, and then shoot the fucker in the face
  (resurfaced 3× · 116 likes · 2019-02-13 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1095629985170083840)
- The best questions you can ask someone is in that space where you’re paying close attention to them - to their face, their expressions, their body language, and you notice that they’re holding back in some way. They might not even realize themselves that they’re doing that!
  (resurfaced 3× · 114 likes · 2019-05-17 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1129218510394019840)
- whatever you think about him or his work, there's no denying that Seinfeld is a prolific mf. Here he is surrounded by his body of work (jokes he's written)
  (resurfaced 3× · 113 likes · 2021-11-30 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1465713762753675265)
- me: lol I just had a funny thought... u wanna go to Malaysia for dinner  @sharanvkaur: yes  ... folks we are going to Malaysia for dinner
  (resurfaced 3× · 113 likes · 2019-06-15 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139860842479005696)
- Sorry aristotle I swear this is a coincidence
  (resurfaced 3× · 112 likes · 2021-03-01 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1366208819274018816)
- “@Schwarzenegger is the greatest people-meeter I have ever witnessed.” - @fluffyguy, on Arnold’s royal touch
  (resurfaced 3× · 111 likes · 2022-10-21 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1583555384609935360)
- thinking about early 2000s booth babes
  (resurfaced 3× · 111 likes · 2020-11-28 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1332773091085324290)
- Common criticisms of Singapore include:  - sterile (true-ish) - boring / "soulless" (ugh) - politically apathetic - nanny state, repressive - $$-obsessed  There is truth in all of this... but it's not like we *want* to be this way. We're a work in progress. We want to be better
  (resurfaced 3× · 111 likes · 2018-08-08 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1027265488164814848)
- if you can’t think of how to make something better, start with “how can I make it worse”. often some form of the opposite of that would make it better
  (resurfaced 3× · 110 likes · 2023-08-18 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1692439082876739871)
- Just finished Alice Miller’s Drama of the Gifted Child in a single sitting (it’s pretty short!) – excellent in several ways, and excitingly for me, has several perfect parallels with things I’ve written more tentatively in my own book. notes and summary to come
  (resurfaced 3× · 109 likes · 2021-11-23 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1463230064108077056)
- ~90-95% of what you need to learn about flirting and sex, you can learn from studying Cornel and Rithika dancing Bachata:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-JofUEsbD0
  (resurfaced 3× · 109 likes · 2019-07-01 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1145752580003209216)
- 360 noscope banger https://x.com/TheVictoriaWaye/status/1294095044971048960
  (resurfaced 3× · 108 likes · 2021-12-12 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1470178675479834625)
- 2. Why are you afraid of being responsible if you know you can do better?  "Well because then it's my fault and there's no one else to blame but me"  Yes! Why is that a bad thing?  "Uh..."  Ooh, look, I'm inarticulate here. This is probably where we run into some childhood trauma
  (resurfaced 3× · 108 likes · 2018-04-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/981665366781734913)
- I think it should be mandatory for everybody born in a former British colony to watch videos of how the British Parliament operates https://x.com/TelePolitics/status/1180064941203755009
  (resurfaced 3× · 107 likes · 2019-10-06 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1180847560988086274)
- 35. public libraries are one of the tiny handful of things human civilisation got right
  (resurfaced 3× · 106 likes · 2019-06-20 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141558112253403136)
- every tweet that is on my web of threads is also somewhere in my brain  every time one of you favorites one of those tweets, and I see it, it feels like that part of my brain lights up, too  it feels "percolate-y", like little lights branching out and spreading around
  (resurfaced 3× · 106 likes · 2019-02-02 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1091509269621497856)
- On How to Get Clients: I think it’s remarkable that Ogilvy made a list of the five clients he wanted most. You seldom hear people talk like this. My own friends working in ad agencies today admit that they get mediocre clients to pay the bills. Ogilvy wasn’t interested in that
  (resurfaced 3× · 106 likes · 2018-11-11 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061707285271990273)
- wearing cheap "soldier glasses" (basically a pair you wouldn't mind damaging or losing) made me feel... cheap myself. like I didn't own anything of value, anything worth taking good care of. If you watch Queer Eye (I only really watched the first season) I think they convey this
  (resurfaced 3× · 105 likes · 2020-10-04 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1312853584157970439)
- Let's talk about this. "Men are trash" is less "men are literally rotting food waste" and more "men as a demographic are frequently cruel, uncharitable, solipsistic". Doesn't mean you can't love a man, or that individual men can't be good people https://x.com/jaboukie/status/998578529192304640
  (resurfaced 3× · 105 likes · 2018-05-22 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998766872622333952)
- all I am trying to do is to be like Matt
  (resurfaced 3× · 104 likes · 2021-06-17 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1405549322997964801)
- 28. I think ultimately people spend time debating the issue of pineapples on pizzas because it's a distraction for discussing actual issues that they should personally be dealing with. It's like playing games on your phone to avoid your todo list which is scary and unpleasant
  (resurfaced 3× · 104 likes · 2018-05-11 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/994917340406992897)
- This is my Patreon! If you’ve enjoyed my writing and you’d like to encourage + motivate me to go pro *sooner*, you can support my work here 🤓😍  more book threads, more essays, more everything: https://www.patreon.com/visakanv
  (resurfaced 3× · 104 likes · 2018-11-26 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1066973858689777664)
- 0 Replies 0 Likes 0 RTs  and yet this guy kept at it  🔥💪🏾❤️
  (resurfaced 3× · 103 likes · 2020-05-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1258004409608310784)
- Stumbled upon Nurse Instagram
  (resurfaced 3× · 103 likes · 2019-01-17 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085695562744123394)
- Southeast Asia, where “mother” is represented as “the woman who beats your ass”
  (resurfaced 3× · 102 likes · 2021-10-19 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1450442470655881217)
- It started as a joke but with each passing year I feel it with more intensity and conviction: fairy tales are a crime against humanity.  “Happily ever after” is a drug with pretty severe withdrawal symptoms
  (resurfaced 3× · 102 likes · 2019-04-11 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1116195219332952065)
- "Play to learn, play to fulfill your own potential"  "High performers are people who simply learn faster"  "We learn faster when we pay attention and see the world for what it truly is"  "Learning is retarded in conditions of high anxiety and low acceptance"
  (resurfaced 3× · 101 likes · 2017-12-17 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/942290654301847552)
- India
  (resurfaced 3× · 100 likes · 2019-02-09 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1094182037097918465)
- thinking about this display I think from one of Singapore’s National Day Parades in the 70s
  (resurfaced 3× · 99 likes · 2022-08-26 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1563120390682976257)
- Just discovered @abhiart's work. beautiful!! feels fresh and contemporary. really excited for this generation of artists
  (resurfaced 3× · 99 likes · 2020-01-05 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1213775283255304192)
- One of my goals in life – which is really achievable if you think about it – is to develop a strong reputation for sharing really good content. You don't even need to be a great writer for this. You just need to be a nerd who likes to read, and be honest abt what you like
  (resurfaced 3× · 99 likes · 2018-06-25 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1011215038269382656)
- after years and years of thinking about it, observing it, analyzing it, questioning it, I've come to think of culture as a sort of "aether". it exists primarily in people's minds, of course, and it manifests in behavior patterns, architecture, rituals, all sorts of things...
  (resurfaced 3× · 98 likes · 2022-03-19 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1505181874427404290)
- Iroquois warriors were surely traumatized by war too - but they didn't have to contain it within themselves. When your entire society goes through wartime trauma, it's a collective experience, and therefore an easier one.
  (resurfaced 3× · 98 likes · 2018-04-24 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988605790876450816)
- I'm going to say something a little odd and self-contradictory, but I want to try saying it.  One of the most powerful insights I've been experimenting with in the past decade is:  When you have an insight, you often shouldn't talk about it – you should often enact it instead.
  (resurfaced 3× · 98 likes · 2017-12-09 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/939548632046387206)
- me: [proudly] I've won twitter!  wife: huh?  me: someone on twitter said I win. i win twitter. for the year.  wife: what does that mean  me: i guess it means they think i'm smart? or cool?  wife: hahahahahahahahahahahaha  *visakan's ego has left the conversation*
  (resurfaced 3× · 98 likes · 2018-12-27 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1078325477926817793)
- To stand tall and look at society square in the eye, and say with confidence, with love, without anger or bitterness: you were wrong.
  (resurfaced 3× · 96 likes · 2018-11-04 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1058973292734738432)
- I've been thinking a lot about webs recently.  webs of knowledge webs of behaviors, habits webs of cause-and-effect relationships webs of Twitter threads webs of identity webs of interpersonal relationships webs of associations
  (resurfaced 3× · 96 likes · 2019-10-06 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1180795695978045442)
- Put it this way: our weird hangups about narcissism perpetuate a self-fulfilling prophecy where arrogant egotists are often overrepresented, and thoughtful, doubtful folks are often underrepresented. And then we go “aha, see, only narcissists run for office” (for eg)
  (resurfaced 3× · 96 likes · 2019-03-31 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1112465558807543808)
- the bandwidth of feeling is larger than the bandwidth of knowledge, which is larger than the bandwidth of speech. we know more than we can say, and we feel more than we know.  natural talent works in the domain of feeling. even in sports, or science. the talented player feels
  (resurfaced 3× · 95 likes · 2022-09-20 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1572098253088509952)
- a personal intuition on Explore vs Exploit dynamics: other people can give you useful insight and feedback on Exploit, but nobody can truly help with you Explore
  (resurfaced 3× · 95 likes · 2022-12-17 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1604039040906690560)
- your issue isn't that you lack a dating app, your issue is more likely...  1. you don't conduct yourself in a way that makes people want to be around you  2. you don't know how to flirt appropriately  3. you don't enjoy your own company  4. you don't know what you're looking for
  (resurfaced 3× · 95 likes · 2020-03-05 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1235458406640529408)
- what should people be serious about?  - relationships. who do you want around your deathbed?  - health. don't have to be obsessive, but surely you wanna be nimble & mobile as you age  - minimize regret. don't die wishing you lived differently  - being independent / useful
  (resurfaced 3× · 95 likes · 2019-02-07 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093553092799356928)
- Startup Life vs Corporate Life
  (resurfaced 3× · 95 likes · 2018-05-26 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1000366535217565697)
- when you stop anxiously trying to explain the tao, you find that the tao is perfectly capable of explaining itself, through you
  (resurfaced 3× · 94 likes · 2021-12-12 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1470010921850269696)
- On April 19th, I made bread  – II.7 (gladiator barracks); 8792
  (resurfaced 3× · 94 likes · 2018-12-11 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1072436150252515328)
- The Stanford Prison Experiment was recently thrown into questioning for bad methodology, but hearing things like this often reminds me of a not-well-remembered story in Singapore in 1999 – the Jin Tai Secondary School Total Defence Day Incident https://x.com/ISTAmembers/status/1108461641400807424
  (resurfaced 3× · 94 likes · 2019-03-22 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1108915974202245120)
- secondhand rewatching Titanic and just clocking for future reference how interesting it is that the choice was made to  1. put the main story within a frame story from the present (the research/archeology crew + Rose)  2. spend 21 whole minutes on that before we get to 1912!
  (resurfaced 3× · 92 likes · 2023-06-20 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1671133663981977600)
- "You are important to me. Your needs are important to me. You don’t exist as some mere commodity-resource to be thrown into a meat grinder so that utility comes out the other end. You matter as a human being. What would you enjoy?"  https://visakanv.substack.com/p/i-dont-wanna
  (resurfaced 3× · 92 likes · 2022-09-22 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1573050761902432256)
- “it takes half a second to become conscious of something, though that is not how we perceive it”  when you touch a hot stove, for eg, the illusion is broken
  (resurfaced 3× · 91 likes · 2022-12-31 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1609196635241996289)
- "When a child asks “Is Santa real?”, the best thing you could say in response is not a dismissive “Yes" or “No”, but an inviting “What do you think?” – in a way that suggests you’re about to let them in on an important secret. Because you are." https://visakanv.substack.com/p/santa-is-real
  (resurfaced 3× · 91 likes · 2022-12-26 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1607172463682793472)
- TIL the flag of Virginia is so metal. Off with the crown. Titty out. Spear AND sword, dual-wielding warrior queen
  (resurfaced 3× · 91 likes · 2020-06-04 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1268529105722503179)
- Aldus Huxley – The Doors of Perception (1954)
  (resurfaced 3× · 90 likes · 2021-11-30 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1465618677600960517)
- More intuitively:  People think depression is like being upset with the hand you’ve been dealt, rather than feeling like you don’t want to play at all, almost regardless of the hand you have  Multiple Nobel winners have committed suicide over the years, correlated w depression
  (resurfaced 3× · 90 likes · 2018-11-10 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061170335536443392)
- 31. "The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come and Disney has a monopoly on the storyteller business. You know what? I am tired of that bullshit, I am going to be the next storyteller."
  (resurfaced 3× · 89 likes · 2021-10-13 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1448313514150400004)
- 4. Imagination deficits rule everything around me
  (resurfaced 3× · 89 likes · 2019-06-20 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141537354693238784)
- It seems like when people get wealthier their minds get gentrified too, with the boring suits showing up to legibilize everything, driving away most of the cool, interesting, gritty sub-selves. Rhythm and humor both often seem to get evicted pretty early on
  (resurfaced 3× · 88 likes · 2020-01-15 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1217528493770018817)
- A bittersweet feeling: seeing two ex-friends and/or lovers who’ve blocked each other both independently reacting in identical ways to some event
  (resurfaced 3× · 88 likes · 2018-05-10 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/994374170778652673)
- been procrastinating for a while now on assembling a doc of notes of things that came up in my consult sessions with my marketing clients... figure i might as well do a twitter thread about it, maybe, just to get moving on it
  (resurfaced 3× · 87 likes · 2023-06-07 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1666499119630938113)
- found a screenshot of my quora bio from 2012  I have always been the same mf
  (resurfaced 3× · 87 likes · 2021-11-25 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1463758204089733121)
- “Visa that’s an awfully specific scenario.”  Yea I was thinking about these guys. 😂 When you’re playing with fire, do a little testing before you test it on yourself, and always have a plan for how you’ll put it out
  (resurfaced 3× · 87 likes · 2021-10-02 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1444100788066783236)
- Rewatching Kung Fu Hustle [2004], one of the best movies ever made
  (resurfaced 3× · 87 likes · 2019-06-22 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142369888423436288)
- Excited to get started on this! The Inner Game of Work
  (resurfaced 3× · 87 likes · 2017-12-16 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/942059541499281408)
- "when young photographers approach him for advice, he wants to ask them for theirs instead" ❤️‍🔥 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jul/26/photographer-ferdinando-scianna-interview-sicily-magnum
  (resurfaced 3× · 86 likes · 2023-08-23 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1694218339625906648)
- Said the Duke of Gloucester to Edward Gibbon upon the publication of his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: “Another damned fat book, eh, Mr. Gibbon? Scribble, scribble, scribble, eh, Mr. Gibbon?” 😂😭💀
  (resurfaced 3× · 85 likes · 2023-04-24 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1650312731789254659)
- it’s really terrifying and beautiful when you connect the dots and see how a string of QTs and replies is a map of people’s dysfunctions and fears. Twitter is a collaborative freeform MMO text-theater that reaches right into people’s guts and the writhing collective unconscious
  (resurfaced 3× · 84 likes · 2020-12-27 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1343100717695844355)
- This person, Teoalida, is an incredible example of a modern autodidact renaissance man, existing quietly. As long as people like Teoalida exist, I cannot in good conscience claim that label for myself. You think I'm prolific? I'm like a little baby compared to Teoalida https://x.com/sharanvkaur/status/1364918899704164353
  (resurfaced 3× · 83 likes · 2021-02-25 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1364920304259112964)
- Mission accomplished 💪🏾🔥
  (resurfaced 3× · 83 likes · 2021-01-05 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1346524628353572864)
- Personally, I call this “thinking”. Not a lot of people seem to do it 😅  We introduce phrases like “design thinking” and “systems thinking” to soften the blow, which is that people simply and literally don’t think
  (resurfaced 3× · 83 likes · 2019-11-25 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1198843843627470853)
- Build a 600-year-empire and get remembered as furniture
  (resurfaced 3× · 83 likes · 2018-12-11 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1072363081098059778)
- "Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians..." – Keynes  Keynes on Newton thread, let's go https://x.com/visakanv/status/1269188063168618496
  (resurfaced 3× · 82 likes · 2020-06-06 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1269196810754514944)
- Eg 57,123 of @sharanvkaur being a genius  - we wanted ice cream - both our hands are very full - the last time she asked for an ice cream cone in a sundae cup, the staff was confused and that was A Tedious Ordeal - so she asked for a cup of water, took a sip and emptied it out
  (resurfaced 3× · 82 likes · 2019-06-07 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1137029470093602817)
- the challenge of life is how do you be needy and anxious but like in a sexy way
  (resurfaced 3× · 81 likes · 2022-06-13 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1536238622382252032)
- "mani is so slow, so unfit, his ball handling is so mediocre, his shots are so average. the only thing he has going for him is that he mysteriously somehow always manages to be at the right place at the right time to score goals"
  (resurfaced 3× · 80 likes · 2023-01-15 · Sports · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1614659495673876482)
- You can swap in any of the 7 sins into this Aristotle quote and you end up with a very comprehensive sense of lightness  Anybody can be horny, anybody can be lazy, anybody can be greedy, anybody can be vain, that is easy...
  (resurfaced 3× · 80 likes · 2021-01-27 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1354347445988122624)
- a thing that I was very, very late to do, that I wish I did all the way back when I was maybe about 15? is to collect all of the good and nice things people say about you, all of your accomplishments, everything that you're proud of, and assemble them into a folder or notebook
  (resurfaced 3× · 80 likes · 2019-09-21 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1175290402103910401)
- Basically I think lots of people treat Twitter like Call of Duty while I treat it like SimCity. Why spend time fighting with assholes when you can build nourishing relationships with friends? Assholes won’t buy you a beer and show you around their city https://x.com/visakanv/status/1104610799543152640?s=21
  (resurfaced 3× · 80 likes · 2019-03-15 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1106506117276798978)
- FYI this is what “Western food” in Singapore is like. It’s not “legit” or “authentic” or whatever, but it’s delicious 😂
  (resurfaced 3× · 80 likes · 2019-11-24 · Food & Dining · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1198560008021004289)
- "I am an AIDS survivor. Now that AIDS is no longer a death sentence, I must admit I miss the days of extreme brotherhood - deep emotions and understandings above anything I have felt since the plague years."
  (resurfaced 3× · 80 likes · 2018-04-24 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988610128688562176)
- New habit I’m trying to build: when I pick up my phone in the morning, before I check out any of my notifications, I’m gonna tweet whatever was on my mind prior to that. I find it mildly tragic whenever thoughts are lost because of notification/timeline distraction
  (resurfaced 3× · 80 likes · 2018-10-09 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1049516227083698177)
- @james_clear Subsequently: optimal relationships include both caring and challenging. One without the other is often toxic. Also, people often use one to justify the absence of the other (if you cared about me you wouldn't challenge me, etc)
  (resurfaced 3× · 80 likes · 2018-02-28 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/968911492174168064)
- Here Kenneth Jeyaratnam is demonstrating the learning of an important + painful lesson: lots of people will cheer you on because they want to see you fight the power, but only a small % of them will *help* you fight the power  it is *very* easy to get deluded abt righteous anger
  (resurfaced 3× · 79 likes · 2019-06-13 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1139115983539326976)
- "ADHD is the human brain in conflict with a legal system that tries to coerce it into something it has not accepted or agreed upon. As Leon Eisenberg said, ADHD is a fictitious disease, and it's morally, ethically and scientifically wrong to pretend otherwise."  🤔
  (resurfaced 3× · 79 likes · 2019-01-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087751991223144448)
- Xi Jinping 'bout to drop the hottest political ideology of the century
  (resurfaced 3× · 79 likes · 2017-11-04 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/926663936480485376)
- Junger asked Ahmetasevic if people had ultimately been happier during the war. “We were *the happiest*,” she said. Then she added: “And we laughed more.”
  (resurfaced 3× · 79 likes · 2018-04-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/988438532887736322)
- the most unrealistic part of the hero's journey is when he is received warmly upon returning with the elixir  I suppose the hero's journey is really PR for heroes, who in practice often return to homes that barely recognize them  https://x.com/visakanv/status/988610118664110080
  (resurfaced 3× · 78 likes · 2019-02-15 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1096328162345050113)
- Sometimes I think of twitter as like one of those robot gladiator shows, but instead of killer bots, it’s our respective traumas duking it out. Whose trauma will emerge triumphant from the gauntlet of trials? Tune in this week, on Fuck You And Your Whole Childhood
  (resurfaced 3× · 78 likes · 2020-07-22 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1285943857872437249)
- A phrase I’ve used in several private conversations:  We are merely in season 2 of the global sourceland vs diaspora culture wars  It’s going to get A Lot More Intense in the coming decades
  (resurfaced 3× · 78 likes · 2019-03-01 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1101424887200047104)
- the first painting by /u/Shitty_Watercolor, his painting of Obama about 6 months later, and 2 other remixes of popular paintings – all of this was in 2012. 6 months gains are real! but there are very few ppl like /u/Shitty_Watercolor working these experiments so diligently
  (resurfaced 3× · 77 likes · 2022-11-27 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1596764047130886145)
- Finally - I think some long-suffering couples solve the “stepping on each other’s toes” problem by basically avoiding each other, and keeping to a highly-choreographed routine. To me this sounds like hell, but for some people maybe it’s heaven? Do what works for you, I guess
  (resurfaced 3× · 77 likes · 2018-12-24 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1077220671871053829)
- me: ah, what a beautiful day. i love my wife so much and I am so grateful for how we have thoughtful conversations and even handle our disagreements with nuance and grace. quarantine life has actually been pleasant  my brain: yo visa send her this meme for no reason it'll be fun
  (resurfaced 3× · 77 likes · 2020-08-21 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1296738647480311809)
- I had inadvertently become my own version of a “pick me” guy in the political blogosphere scene. I craved the views, the shares, the comment wars... it somehow meant that I was *relevant*. Even if people were hating on me, it must’ve been because I was *on* to something
  (resurfaced 3× · 77 likes · 2019-01-26 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1089032412871290880)
- @QiaochuYuan right so the artist's name is robert crumb and his clown sex was a muscle mommy gf. he was very clear about this. he was also very self-aware about how his own skinny neurotic energy looked in comparison
  (resurfaced 3× · 76 likes · 2023-05-05 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1654394362934226947)
- @JamieCombs why or how people get trapped by dogma? it's easy, comforting, familiar. most people call it "socializing"
  (resurfaced 3× · 76 likes · 2023-05-21 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1660338020359507970)
- my simplified model of self-harm is that it’s a preemptive defense against harm-via-others  my approach to reducing self-harm then involves (1) introducing a sense of safety-amongst-others, and (2) interrogating and dismantling the threat model https://x.com/richdecibels/status/1608358117825482752
  (resurfaced 3× · 76 likes · 2022-12-29 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1608395368324280320)
- If you possess talents and abilities that you want to use in service of others, you will quite probably find yourself in the confusing position of having to advocate for yourself. Maybe run for office, maybe seek a leadership role. Take on more responsibility, influence outcomes
  (resurfaced 3× · 76 likes · 2019-03-31 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1112462988802310144)
- very few celebs are as cool as they seem bc their coolness is a team effort – and even when it's not, what we often see is them at their absolute best moments. am recalling a quote from a writer saying "idk why people expect me to be as smart in interviews as I am in my books"
  (resurfaced 3× · 76 likes · 2018-10-17 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1052492294178234370)
- ELI5: If there is no cellphone signal, how does the "emergency calls only" mode work?  > The tower goes "OH FUCK! SHIT! I'll connect you".
  (resurfaced 3× · 76 likes · 2017-12-27 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/945891427279519744)
- In 2006, I used to wait for my girlfriend after school at the aquarium at Wisma Atria. I'd be listening to Radiohead, on my Sony Discman, watching the fishes swim in circles in time to Let Down. It was a very strong mood... could do a SG short film set entirely to OK Computer
  (resurfaced 3× · 76 likes · 2018-02-07 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/961119023764262913)
- Ok Andor is good, 3rd ep and I am invested. Some parallels with Arcane. Expanse-y Arcane. Very promising
  (resurfaced 3× · 75 likes · 2022-10-28 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1586029093924921349)
- feeling like my long overdue trip to new york city has this odyssean quality to it
  (resurfaced 3× · 75 likes · 2020-11-19 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1329474107478458370)
- some people think it's arrogant to do and say stuff in public because who the fuck do you think you are?  I think doing and saying stuff in public is an expression of humility, bc how else am I supposed to find out the ways in which I'm wrong? what, on my own, inside my head?
  (resurfaced 3× · 75 likes · 2021-01-22 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1352616143551307777)
- Assholes make up about 1% of most groups, cause about 75% of the damage, and ruin everybody's experience. And we let them, because we still haven't learned to do better. https://snap.stanford.edu/conflict/
  (resurfaced 3× · 75 likes · 2018-11-21 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065121709110390784)
- @priya_ebooks it is art
  (resurfaced 3× · 75 likes · 2019-02-12 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1095393815022645248)
- A common source of misunderstanding is as follows: a person experiences an increase in resolution of their own model of something that’s relevant to them. They then make a claim based on that model that extends beyond it. It might seem accurate to them!
  (resurfaced 3× · 75 likes · 2018-05-22 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998900409740681216)
- I never really thought very much about Southeast Asian identity growing up – my life has just always been syncretic: everything everywhere all at once, coexisting, code-switching. But as I learn more about the world, I realize how precious this is https://x.com/visakanv/status/950178328459149312
  (resurfaced 3× · 74 likes · 2021-01-24 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1353280270913290246)
- "to avoid inconvenience to businessmen and travellers", Singapore has now spent 37 years waking up 30 minutes earlier than 'natural'. we are all so tired
  (resurfaced 3× · 74 likes · 2018-09-29 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1046049210729156608)
- Many men are constantly roleplaying, trying to be manly enough to escape abuse. Part of this roleplay entails abusing others. (Think of gang initiations, where newbies are expected/coerced to rob, hurt, kill, etc. Seems extreme, but this is the model of manhood for many men)
  (resurfaced 3× · 74 likes · 2018-02-14 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/963607224726646784)
- Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was born to a wealthy family, raised in Oakland CA. Both her parents died by the time she was 17. At Radcliffe College, she was a student of William James, who called her brilliant and encouraged her to go to med school. She got bored and flunked out
  (resurfaced 3× · 73 likes · 2021-02-25 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1364896825447096323)
- There are several things Ogilvy does that seem counter-intuitive business-wise in the short run, but are clearly genius in the long run (reminding me of Fergie and LKY again). He recommends other agencies over his own, and turns down large clients and TELLS them they’re too big
  (resurfaced 3× · 73 likes · 2018-11-11 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061713955754659840)
- one of the guys from my secondary school was a classical music nerd. everyone else was getting into pop-punk and emo then, but he was like "fuck ya'll, orchestra 4eva". was scrolling through facebook once and found that he's conducting orchestras now  *whispers* do your thing
  (resurfaced 3× · 72 likes · 2019-08-27 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1166237285639061504)
- my ex-boss once described my brain as "it's like you can't walk, but you can fly"  would you say that's an illness? 🤔
  (resurfaced 3× · 72 likes · 2019-01-22 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087739204270866432)
- @ckhonson My secret, Captain, is that for me, my ass is already kicked  and when the ass-kicking comes, I say, "Of course."
  (resurfaced 3× · 72 likes · 2018-09-22 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1043368194285559808)
- There are countless examples of traumatized people who repeatedly seek out stressful and dangerous circumstances. It appears that endorphins & serotonin levels have something to do with this, but it's not clear. (Seems like being abused is "better" than the FEAR of being abused)
  (resurfaced 3× · 72 likes · 2018-04-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/981473986327359488)
- started my first skim read of Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections – a fun anecdote is that he was a young boy when Krakatoa erupted in 1883; one of his childhood memories was of his father bringing him to see the effects it had had on the sunsets all the way in Switzerland
  (resurfaced 3× · 71 likes · 2022-04-21 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1517022039999057922)
- 9. "I don't like honors."
  (resurfaced 3× · 71 likes · 2020-06-14 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1272134352353128449)
- the disparity in cross-platform reach is insane  I got a comment on a youtube video from @AliAbdaal, and I thought, ah, this guy has half my twitter following, and he's a youtuber, nice  then I drop by his youtube channel...553,000 subscribers, 28,300,000+ views on his vids 😳🤯
  (resurfaced 3× · 71 likes · 2020-02-08 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1226134127566438401)
- These few sentences from @carlzimmer (another *phenomenal* writer) permanently flipped a switch in my brain re: how to think about writing https://t.co/DLsaaXubrE
  (resurfaced 3× · 71 likes · 2019-06-21 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1142152096680050690)
- Some moral thoughts: To be a good person in the world, your "love" has to be able to win out over your "fear". This sounds vague but it actually involves tonnes of nitty gritty project management. If you want be virtuous, you're morally obliged to dismantle a lot of your fears
  (resurfaced 3× · 71 likes · 2018-01-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/949549682539114496)
- haters are fans too
  (resurfaced 3× · 70 likes · 2019-11-27 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1199797177775575040)
- great small accounts (<1k) jun’22  @inadverted @owlsarepurple @animalologist @wayfaring_tim @gracemercur @trycypress @vivekt17 @emilyecc_19 @explorergooey @ramonalonsojr @danallison @_brentbaum @okaysee @micahppls @morphenius @cecile_mcm @admegaputeri @christintweets @sokindling https://x.com/visakanv/status/1519290548414484485
  (resurfaced 3× · 69 likes · 2022-06-16 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1537499054703140864)
- badger badger badger badger
  (resurfaced 3× · 69 likes · 2019-01-21 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087398034206425088)
- Is there a term for when your behaviour/rhetoric is over-determined by (your anticipation of) the responses of your perceived opponents? 🤔  my instinct says “reactionary”, but turns out that that word is already loaded to mean something quite specific
  (resurfaced 3× · 69 likes · 2019-10-04 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1180182684082925568)
- in practice nihilism is often “i am upset/offended/hurt by preexisting systems of meaning”, which is an understandable transitional state but a terrible place to make a home for yourself
  (resurfaced 3× · 68 likes · 2023-07-19 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1681783414897405952)
- so like morpheus saying "stop trying to hit me and hit me", ip man saying "stop reciting theory and hit your target", luke closing his eyes to Use The Force, batman making the climb without the rope, it's all about closing the tabs that free up the RAM you need to surf the wave
  (resurfaced 3× · 68 likes · 2021-12-12 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1470009183797846020)
- Funny anecdote from sony dot net:  "Whenever Ibuka visited Tachikawa, the whole family would make such a big fuss, saying, "Masaru is here," and they would hide their clocks and other such items so as to prevent Ibuka from tinkering with them." 😂😂
  (resurfaced 3× · 68 likes · 2019-04-06 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114551480793485312)
- My friend @priya_ebooks & I were giving some random guy in our mentions some free impromptu coaching on how to be a better communicator  Us: - be sensitive! - pay attention! - consider how she’s feeling, her POV - think about what she wants!  Him: “nvm,, I’m not expressive guy”
  (resurfaced 3× · 67 likes · 2019-02-17 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1096935168512712705)
- shower thought earlier: I realized that one of the central tensions in my book is that there's a part of me that wants to present a clean, orderly set of tips and tricks, and it's in conflict with the part of me that wants to convey how introspection is absolute chaos
  (resurfaced 3× · 66 likes · 2021-09-06 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1434838704216965120)
- [sagely guru voice] if you need to pee you should go and pee
  (resurfaced 3× · 66 likes · 2021-08-30 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1432475797726449664)
- I have at least a couple of friends who failed math in school but became experts at wrangling numbers because of video games https://x.com/thesaitishere/status/1290627420861730818
  (resurfaced 3× · 66 likes · 2020-08-07 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1291679064621641733)
- Anyway. If your teenager is staring at a screen for troubling lengths of time, I bet there's probably something else going on other than just "the evil screen is seductive portal to hell". They might be trying to get away from something; that something might even be you.
  (resurfaced 3× · 66 likes · 2019-01-16 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085421837268541441)
- Journalling aids jailbreaking your mind from the prison of your subvocalizations and the homeostasis of everyday life https://x.com/visakanv/status/1102824854300966913?s=21
  (resurfaced 3× · 66 likes · 2019-03-05 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1102835802973757441)
- I don’t want to wade too deep into this, but I wanna say that 2011 was a different world. Gay marriage was still not fully legal in the US until 2015, and even in 2014 I didn’t think it would happen for 10-20 years. I don’t think I understood “internalized racism” until ~2016
  (resurfaced 3× · 65 likes · 2020-08-03 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1290189288378732546)
- Still thinking about this S$400 parrot light... I kinda really want it
  (resurfaced 3× · 65 likes · 2021-02-08 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1358881307464376322)
- I love this bit: when talking about a failed partnership, he says “I take comfort from the fact that he went on to great things at other agencies, unencumbered by an insufferable partner.” Such a class act, damn
  (resurfaced 3× · 65 likes · 2018-11-11 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1061709406990004224)
- I hate capitalism and my preferred system is capitalism  This take confuses a lot of people https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1110117983035101184
  (resurfaced 3× · 65 likes · 2019-03-25 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1110257887505375232)
- I’m a little tired of my own sermons at this point (😅) but one last thing I want to say is this:  a lot of seemingly intractable complications become relatively trivial if you commit yourself to playing a much longer game than everyone else
  (resurfaced 3× · 65 likes · 2019-01-20 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087001494920916992)
- I lose some 🌟 every time I cut my hair  feels like I’m cosplaying as a regular human  last pic is an angle I’ve never tried, approximating kombucha girl
  (resurfaced 3× · 64 likes · 2020-10-19 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1318039843327201280)
- Billie is surreal in (large, imo) part because she never went to school. What you are seeing is a free-range human spirit https://x.com/visakanv/status/1091287428948623360?s=21
  (resurfaced 3× · 64 likes · 2019-12-22 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1208648603050201090)
- "You've got to forget the memorizing of formulas, and to try to learn to understand the interrelationships of nature. That's very much more difficult at the beginning, but it's the only successful way."  https://t.co/l3mcASaHlD
  (resurfaced 3× · 64 likes · 2019-09-23 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1176071414656331776)
- missing bangkok. beautiful city. there's a lot of world I haven't seen, and yet this is a city I want to return to
  (resurfaced 3× · 63 likes · 2021-12-11 · Travel & Place · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1469730216784236545)
- @maybegray  https://www.oglaf.com/caw/
  (resurfaced 3× · 63 likes · 2020-12-15 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1338720896479981569)
- I would actually love to talk about somebody else other than myself, but that would be even weirder, wouldn't it? lol. I can't speak on behalf of someone else. What I'm actually obsessed about is *everything* and *everyone*. I share my experience so that I can hear from others
  (resurfaced 3× · 63 likes · 2019-07-17 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1151474126411821057)
- It’s a twitter nerd party!! 😂😍❤️🎉  @webdevMason @sonyaellenmann @TheAnnaGat @mrgunn @brantchoate @TRULY_RELAXED @ctbeiser @generativist
  (resurfaced 3× · 63 likes · 2019-04-27 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1122257297269387264)
- I still think about this Forum letter someone wrote to @STcom 3 years ago... and the comments section that followed
  (resurfaced 3× · 63 likes · 2019-07-26 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1154673431087992832)
- when I said "procrastinating for years", turns out I could've put a number on it: 8 years
  (resurfaced 3× · 63 likes · 2019-03-07 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1103649664019001344)
- L: my twitter corpus in 2020, something like 60,000 tweets maybe  R: 2022, 209,000 tweets  (this is via @ollyrobot's tweetGraph visualizer: https://obrowne.eu/tweetGraph.html)
  (resurfaced 3× · 62 likes · 2022-09-21 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1572551170421583876)
- @dineshraju above quote was from an hour-long conversation we just had, uploaded here! pls add questions, comments, notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZO4xO45rCY
  (resurfaced 3× · 62 likes · 2022-07-09 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1545823315377278976)
- I was compelled to watch Die Hard because of this 2010 blogpost Nakatomi Space, which describes it as “one of the best architectural films of the last 25 years” https://www.bldgblog.com/2010/01/nakatomi-space/
  (resurfaced 3× · 62 likes · 2018-12-01 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068819921402916864)
- I love to be the one to discover and introduce to everybody a good tweeter with <100 followers https://x.com/strangestloop/status/1328774750643040259
  (resurfaced 3× · 61 likes · 2020-11-27 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1332437788503859200)
- Then came 1979, and the Sony Walkman changed music forever. Some argue it changed the world – that it "kickstarted Generation Me", that it changed our relationship with music as well as with technology. It was lambasted as "socially alienating" and "destructive of relationships"
  (resurfaced 3× · 61 likes · 2019-04-06 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1114583320770138112)
- I read a story a long time ago about the son of a Chinese billionaire who said that he was incredibly lonely & depressed, and I think about that a lot. I believe him. I believe it's true that he is sadder than lots of poor people, despite having a 100,000x better life materially
  (resurfaced 3× · 61 likes · 2019-02-08 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1093808090040791040)
- There’s no nice way to say it: some people are assholes. The mature thing to do is to focus on the behavior, not the person. But regardless, asshole behavior is real, and it’s a problem - a huge problem, actually, because assholism has a way of hijacking and derailing good things
  (resurfaced 3× · 61 likes · 2018-07-12 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1017475294993661952)
- I commissioned @solarsystern to sketch me as a fictional character for my moodboard and I am absolutely delighted, this is so lovely!! I feel very blessed 🥰❤️
  (resurfaced 3× · 60 likes · 2021-05-08 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1390865477853872129)
- We already live in a world that obsessively cargo-cults smarts and strength. We admire the smart, we admire the strong. But there is a huge sensitivity gap. Sensitivity is still derided as weakness. From my POV it’s super-clear that this is a massive hole in our collective boat
  (resurfaced 3× · 60 likes · 2018-07-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1021317068073811968)
- I once spent days looking for this Steve Jobs quote, because I haven't really seen anybody else describe it better. The hard thing is "fitting them all together in new and different ways". The hard thing is *figuring out the iphone*. Everything else is just details
  (resurfaced 3× · 59 likes · 2021-07-05 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1412142715324665860)
- Suleiman the Magnificent  - born in Turkey, 1494 - led the Ottoman Empire into its Golden Age - loved poetry - horny and depressed  described by a Venetian envoy: “by nature melancholy, much addicted to women, liberal, proud, hasty, and yet sometimes very gentle.”
  (resurfaced 3× · 59 likes · 2019-10-30 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1189396739020611584)
- I think there’s a common temptation to dismiss fiction as frivolous, unserious, divorced from reality. I think this is unfortunately misguided; I think imagination is not an idle luxury or a trifling plaything but rather a fundamental expression of our humanity
  (resurfaced 3× · 59 likes · 2020-02-22 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1231317603487899648)
- Naturally Tan book thread  Strong opening  relate 💯 to knowing/learning more about the world than people expect you to know. “Weirdly worldly wise” is a big childhood mood. “I was an obnoxious nightmare” too
  (resurfaced 3× · 59 likes · 2019-12-20 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1208004417426821121)
- Ernestine Shepherd, she should be 84 years old this year. She was born in 1936, same as John McCain, Madden, YSL, Margaret Hamilton, Wilt Chamberlain, E Humperdinck and Obama’s dad. The year the Hoover dam was built, Chesterton, Kipling and Pavlov die, Jesse Owens wins the 100m
  (resurfaced 3× · 59 likes · 2019-01-25 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088651313343152128)
- just realized that breakups can technically be described as a sort of goodwill bankruptcy https://x.com/visakanv/status/1077200738898522113
  (resurfaced 3× · 59 likes · 2019-01-24 · Romance, Parenting & Family · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088397588947030016)
- this has been haunting me for months… nobody in the comments is picking up on it
  (resurfaced 3× · 58 likes · 2022-06-28 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1541701656479379456)
- Our tendency to overlook this is peculiar – consider how much of our contemporary moral and religious language originates from these conflicts. “Reckoning” and “redemption” are taken directly from ancient finance. Also “guilt”, “freedom”, “forgiveness”, even “sin”.
  (resurfaced 3× · 58 likes · 2018-11-22 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065553412366860288)
- And here’s a modern take on a reliable ol’ ditty from the repertoire of Unimpressed Brown Dad
  (resurfaced 3× · 58 likes · 2018-12-03 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1069690769227665409)
- And maybe the hippies overdid it with the mysticism? Idk, westerners seem to overdo everything. 😅 Everything has to be A Thing, and of course if you make a thing A Thing then it’ll start to break down at the seams. Like, relax and drink your tea, it’s not really that big a deal
  (resurfaced 3× · 57 likes · 2019-12-28 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1210940763275579392)
- Neon in 1990s Hong Kong (Nathan Road looking south, Kowloon, photo courtesy of Keith Macgregor)  https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2018/jul/25/hong-kong-neon-lighting-threat-chinese-regulations
  (resurfaced 3× · 57 likes · 2020-05-23 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1264159583351607306)
- I’ve been reflecting lately on a thought experiment: imagine a truly great salesperson that you personally love. Not pushy at all. They know their stuff inside out. They’re eager to understand your situation and to help you figure out the exact thing that addresses your needs https://x.com/documental_/status/1242137532675919873
  (resurfaced 3× · 57 likes · 2020-03-24 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1242419039080607744)
- Ray Bradbury: "Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything."  Bertrand Russell: "In the union of love I have seen... the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined."
  (resurfaced 3× · 56 likes · 2021-04-29 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1387846394216476675)
- I watched a vid recently that argued compellingly that the united states didn't become THE United States until it had a kick-ass postal service. I feel like I've read similar-ish things about older empires. The ability to route information effectively and meaningfully is power
  (resurfaced 3× · 56 likes · 2020-05-10 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1259369154160627712)
- 6. I forgot about this! min_faves:number to filter most favorited tweets https://x.com/nathanborror/status/1191337792640471040?s=21
  (resurfaced 3× · 56 likes · 2019-11-04 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1191341825996414977)
- 
  (resurfaced 3× · 55 likes · 2022-01-12 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1481180425343373312)
- protocols in this house
  (resurfaced 3× · 55 likes · 2020-09-01 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1300808872639131649)
- Like... for eg, there’s a relationship between music (patterns in time) and visual art (patterns in space) and they have the same principles - contrast, rhythm, etc. Once you realise they’re the same thing, learning one thing means learning the corresponding thing simultaneously
  (resurfaced 3× · 55 likes · 2018-11-30 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1068614571433197569)
- When traumatized patients are in an fMRI and listening to a traumatic story: the amygdala lights up (cascade of stress hormones), as expected. The Broca's area (speech center) goes dark - usually observed when people have strokes. Trauma can cause people to freeze and go mute
  (resurfaced 3× · 55 likes · 2018-04-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/981488341278326784)
- then they mock you on Hacker News https://x.com/libovness/status/736225328125906944
  (resurfaced 3× · 55 likes · 2016-08-25 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/768739769131999232)
- Lol I made an unintentional typo and it’s a chance to demonstrate what I mean.  If you have tweeted something untrue, and it’s being spread, you can delete it - but screenshot first and explain why
  (resurfaced 3× · 54 likes · 2019-02-02 · Media & Journalism · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1091523638321238016)
- @simpolism Self-loathing is a form of narcissism
  (resurfaced 3× · 54 likes · 2020-02-18 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1229852197032099840)
- there's an answer!!! YOUR PSOAS (primary hip flexor) IS CONNECTED TO THE DIAPHRAGM
  (resurfaced 3× · 54 likes · 2020-01-26 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1221462967411077120)
- that little bit... inspires dreams  we saw the earth  not as the mapmaker would have you identify it  the countries are not color–coded with boundaries  we went to the moon, and we discovered the earth.  "how does that influence culture? I got a list!"
  (resurfaced 3× · 54 likes · 2019-01-12 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084017919116242945)
- Doing a twitter search for Marie Kondo is pretty illuminating. People have strong feelings about their stuff. I think it’s good to be able to realise that her method is an invitation, not an order. If you want to keep your junk, you can!!
  (resurfaced 3× · 54 likes · 2019-01-04 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1081032401923407874)
- As I get older and hear more about women's experiences, it gets clearer and clearer to me that movies and TV are dominated by male POV
  (resurfaced 3× · 54 likes · 2017-08-11 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/896089241930706944)
- btw, here are some of the things that my friends were telling me I was cocky and arrogant about:  1. that I was going to marry my first girlfriend (I did) 2. that I was going to build an international audience (I did)
  (resurfaced 3× · 53 likes · 2021-01-06 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1346821065733853184)
- “narcissism”, “incel”, “fomo”, “imposter syndrome”… the issue is interestingly always somewhere other than where it’s pointing at, which is why all of these issues persist. they are *by design* meant to trap people in the wrong frame. the solution is in another castle
  (resurfaced 3× · 53 likes · 2021-08-29 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1431868003046461444)
- Sea peoples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples
  (resurfaced 3× · 53 likes · 2021-03-25 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1374921293254991872)
- as a species we are moderately dishonest about lots of things, often for understandable reasons  I've been thinking that curiosity might be one of the most powerful things to try to be more honest about  I don't even think people "should be more curious", that's a trap
  (resurfaced 3× · 53 likes · 2020-04-30 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1255755436696850432)
- “Oh but most people aren’t interesting, they’re just mindlessly scrolling and RT-ing dumb stuff etc”  Ok, what % of people are interesting? Say 1%? 0.1%? Let’s be harsh- 0.01%.  Applied to 5,000,000 DAU that’s 500 people. 500 amazing, fascinating people  Gotta catch ‘em all
  (resurfaced 3× · 53 likes · 2019-12-10 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1204495952867774464)
- “The whole strategy for Apple now is, if you will, to be the Sony of the computer business.” – Steve Jobs, 1998 https://t.co/UVcSbeV8nU
  (resurfaced 3× · 53 likes · 2018-12-18 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1075011619824889856)
- 66. tea with @anthilemoon – 🥖 & 🍳, being a “public figure”, growing up online, curiosity, formulaic threads, stream-of-consciousness poasting, fashion, “trust fall” travel, the courage to be disliked, world dumplings, gifts, friends who wouldn’t get along, cultural differences
  (resurfaced 3× · 52 likes · 2021-10-03 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1444604773013987330)
- fanfic: the world requires Rihanna’s music to fight off the tendrils of dark chaos magic. With each day that passes without a new Rihanna song, we plunge deeper and deeper into the abyss
  (resurfaced 3× · 52 likes · 2020-09-28 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1310448771285708801)
- Sometimes I don’t go to bed because it feels like a kind of death and I don’t want to die
  (resurfaced 3× · 52 likes · 2018-07-05 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1014920040880095233)
- I recently replaced my monitor, and I’m getting some nice feelings out of putting some cool paintings as my wallpapers. (Setting them to cycle through). What are your favorite paintings, or photos?
  (resurfaced 3× · 52 likes · 2019-10-03 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1179762578139959296)
- me: i should hustle more  *follows hustle guy*  hustle guy: HUSTLE BITCH!!! HUSTLE EVERY DAY! HUSTLE LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER!!! HUSTLE TILL YOUR LUNGS GIVE OUT  *unfollows hustle guy*  me: i should hustle more
  (resurfaced 3× · 51 likes · 2019-01-22 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087717703031369728)
- the fact that newton sat around making many personal copies of other people's work should not be disappointing, it should be EXCITING  he was human too like the rest of us!!
  (resurfaced 3× · 51 likes · 2020-06-06 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1269187240002859010)
- I take solace in the fact that a much esteemed Fellow Dude on the public speaker circuit had the same problem. Local audiences, man, jeez. Tough crowd. Can’t please ‘em.  (Matthews 13)
  (resurfaced 3× · 51 likes · 2020-06-07 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1269424463675715586)
- original source for the above quote, from Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance hosted by Walter Cronkite (jump to 41:50)  "If we hadn't had made blue boxes, there would have been no Apple."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=908p8Xhwr1A
  (resurfaced 3× · 51 likes · 2019-08-01 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1156876670197878784)
- @TellYourSonThis @dommyseesyou coward
  (resurfaced 3× · 51 likes · 2020-04-04 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1246520367364988928)
- "We were the two slowest, fattest kids in the class. I liked him because he was funny and smart, and you could count on him." Ben, on Jerry
  (resurfaced 3× · 51 likes · 2017-11-20 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/932605561064927233)
- @dolphinstreet this is how he chilled  his aesthetic was his way of being; it ran all the way through
  (resurfaced 3× · 51 likes · 2019-07-17 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1151568182219440129)
- @luerverte the past is never dead, it's not even past. why am I an indian guy in Singapore? Why did I have to serve in the military? why is it illegal for me to do drugs? why do I speak english? why are there 5 days in a workweek? to be alive is to be in the middle of many histories
  (resurfaced 3× · 51 likes · 2019-01-31 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090998046773501952)
- In fact, I picked up cigarette smoking as a way of self-medicating my undiagnosed anxiety. Several of my friends tried it, but it didn't stick for everyone – it stuck for those of us for whom it was solving a real problem. People seldom seem to realize this about drug problems
  (resurfaced 3× · 51 likes · 2019-01-16 · Health, Fitness & Body · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1085415302744207361)
- @djmicrobeads
  (resurfaced 3× · 51 likes · 2018-12-13 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1073145490743554049)
- I’m finally approaching the end of Avatar (the legend of Aang) on Netflix and it’s really such an interesting, nuanced show. It’s so smart and fun and full of heart
  (resurfaced 3× · 51 likes · 2018-10-21 · Film & TV · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1053906526035824640)
- Here’s an interesting comparison - high ranking military officials, by themselves, and in the presence of the Minister of Defence. Watch the hands
  (resurfaced 3× · 51 likes · 2018-06-29 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1012523699583373312)
- So I’m sitting at a coffeeshop with my wife and I glanced over at her screen and
  (resurfaced 3× · 51 likes · 2018-09-01 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1035776817263595521)
- when I am close to perfect clarity I realize that theory and models are all tracing in the sand, and the only mere thing that matters is to embody love and grace in the deepest and fullest sense I possibly can. It is the only move that truly matters https://x.com/ineffabelle/status/1343100491065077760
  (resurfaced 3× · 50 likes · 2020-12-27 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1343103260727492608)
- thank you @GretchenAMcC  https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/176449632902/book-update-6-memory-and-copyedits-ive-been
  (resurfaced 3× · 50 likes · 2020-12-06 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1335441108860452865)
- other people's DMs: I heard you were talking shit about me  my DMs: I heard you were saying nice things about me
  (resurfaced 3× · 50 likes · 2020-07-24 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1286573058103238657)
- In 2011 when Singaporeans were still kind of ashamed of Singlish, I started making and selling Singlish tshirts  Now Disney has gotten in on the game 😂  Game over
  (resurfaced 3× · 50 likes · 2019-07-25 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1154327590108192769)
- for weeks now my mind has been gripped by the surprisingly limited number of powerful symbols in global circulation, and how few people really, deliberately work to contribute to this. Not talking about graphic design; talking about full-stack worldbuilding
  (resurfaced 3× · 50 likes · 2019-07-12 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1149662008498769924)
- but just. there are millions!!! of people online. surely SOME of them will want to be my friend. if I am earnest, and kind, and thoughtful, and friendly, and funny, and interesting. surely. 0.1% of people would want to be my friend
  (resurfaced 3× · 50 likes · 2019-08-18 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1163179394556297217)
- trying my best to have a good time with normal people
  (resurfaced 3× · 50 likes · 2019-02-23 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1099343525336932352)
- Watching @fluffyguy’s latest special on Netflix and there’s this really moving bit where he does his old jokes and the crowd joins in. What a beautiful moment between a creator and his faithful audience
  (resurfaced 3× · 50 likes · 2019-02-01 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1091268523819593728)
- a playground analogy: we have to learn to play with other kids we don't know, and have a good time without punching anybody's teeth out. like, a bit of hurt is understandable. a bruised knee here, a bump there. nbd. but don't be kicking a kid in the stomach and call it playtime
  (resurfaced 3× · 50 likes · 2018-10-09 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1049719575275700225)
- Reading the SSC culture war thread post got me thinking about this again  - assholes are real - ragemobs are real  At a super loose, high level, my outsider’s POV is: I think Scott’s vulnerability was that he was too kind, too open, too tolerant  It’s immensely complicated, ofc, https://x.com/visakanv/status/810000872595976192
  (resurfaced 3× · 49 likes · 2019-02-22 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1099065155311128576)
- Word nerding: I'm not sure I know what empathy means. Dictionary says "ability to understand and share the feelings of another". The etymology suggests the word is barely a hundred years old. I think I'm fine just never using it. It feels like a clunky and convoluted concept
  (resurfaced 3× · 49 likes · 2020-07-02 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1278552183546376194)
- Railroads! Railroads were the first real reason that anybody had to demand that different cities and towns had to use the same clocks to keep track of their time. And fascinatingly, people were very upset about this idea when it was first introduced https://x.com/eric_ruleman/status/1046046034214957060
  (resurfaced 3× · 49 likes · 2018-09-29 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1046046968361955328)
- "Do you remember sleeping in the back of your parent's car at night? I tried to draw these sensations in an animated comic." Our Toyota Was Fantastic, by bouletcorp. You REALLY gotta click through the link and see the animation. Really takes me back https://t.co/16kD6MgLcV
  (resurfaced 3× · 49 likes · 2018-05-19 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/997740551444221952)
- @patriotact Hasan is a good-looking guy to begin with. He's working with solid fundamentals. But he didn't start out as "sexy romantic lead". You can tell he started out as a bit of an awkward nerd, hence comedy. If you pay attention, you'll notice he makes fun of his own appearance a lot
  (resurfaced 3× · 49 likes · 2019-11-26 · Pop Culture & Entertainment · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1199243436836081665)
- "RUN FAST, STAND STILL.  In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the ONLY style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping."
  (resurfaced 3× · 49 likes · 2018-11-15 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1063019668888154113)
- Ok but so what? Why should anybody care about right angled triangles?  Expand your minds, kids. It’s not just “about triangles”. It’s about ratios & lengths. Trigonometry allows you to *know the unknown*. Unknown heights, unknown lengths. Because the universe just be like that
  (resurfaced 3× · 49 likes · 2019-07-23 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1153581902822903813)
- I’m already seeing a substantial increase in people quote-tweeting each other’s old tweets in response to other people’s tweets. This is exhilarating. IMO the value of each individual tweet and the threads these tweets are in are increasing dramatically as a result
  (resurfaced 3× · 49 likes · 2019-05-27 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1133069899171999744)
- Someone on twitter once pointed out that the less-attractive friends get the more hyperbolic comments (BEAT ME UP AND SLIT MY THROAT QUEEN) on Instagram and now I’m really starting to see it
  (resurfaced 3× · 49 likes · 2019-03-21 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1108569726387544064)
- Ernest Rutherford, who split the atom, was aided by a bunch of nerd friends – Geiger, Bragg, Wittgenstein, Bohr  notice that plaques tend to focus on the individual  but it so often takes a team of nerds  https://x.com/visakanv/status/1263437029632733186
  (resurfaced 3× · 48 likes · 2020-05-21 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1263438968873299968)
- (first time looking up the details of his life)  Looks like Krishnamurti not only said (I’m assuming + paraphrasing) “fuck you guys and fuck this shit”, looks like he went on further to say “fuck all cloistered groups of any kind everywhere forever” 😂 https://x.com/leaacta/status/1448967589397291010
  (resurfaced 3× · 48 likes · 2021-10-15 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1448968606700609539)
- Debussy heard Javanese gamelan at the fair, and it blew his mind  also hanging out at the fair: Tesla, Edison, Van Gogh, Henry James, Buffalo Bill... Barnum's circus was there, too
  (resurfaced 3× · 48 likes · 2020-04-16 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1250608091596337155)
- "If you did not write every day, the poisons [of the world] would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy, or both.  You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
  (resurfaced 3× · 48 likes · 2018-11-15 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1063014995145814016)
- Here’s the optimal response to people being contemptuous to you. It’s HARD, it’s PAINFUL, it’s A LOT TO ASK, but it’s optimal:  Cold, calm indifference. Dump his ass, cleanly, calmly. No explanation necessary. This is the nuclear option & requires nerves of steel, exhibited here:
  (resurfaced 3× · 48 likes · 2018-07-08 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1015893378569912320)
- Coffee with @jamesclear + John - speaking engagements, Twitter as a medium, storytelling, being curious nerds, making friends, the limitations and strengths of different mediums and formats, exploring footnotes and obscure PDFs, making decisions when there are infinite options
  (resurfaced 3× · 48 likes · 2019-03-10 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1104682358546919425)
- 22. *stares wistfully out the window* If only philosophers were a little bit sexier
  (resurfaced 3× · 48 likes · 2019-06-20 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141545307286601728)
- 4. “How do you know what to search for?”  I don’t always! Maybe something slightly unorthodox about my twitter use is that I spend a lot of time searching “from:visakanv <random string>”, so I kinda have hundreds of old tweets floating around in my short-term memory
  (resurfaced 3× · 48 likes · 2019-04-14 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1117350964464214017)
- A Good King...  - doesn't whine - listens compassionately - doesn't take it personally when his people are angry, even at him - isn't emasculated by simplistic criticism, he knows his worth - uses his strength to create a nourishing space where others can flourish
  (resurfaced 3× · 48 likes · 2018-05-22 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/998771817694220293)
- @QiaochuYuan @krzhang @nosilverv @selentelechia @literalbanana singaporean: *has literally any problem*  TCM uncle: ah, you very heaty. drink this cooling drink. stop eating all the heaty food
  (resurfaced 3× · 47 likes · 2020-11-25 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1331517513193013249)
- some of my old tweets with 5-10 RTs will one day have 1,000+ RTs and sell 1000+ ebooks in the process making me tens of thousands of dollars. This isn’t even a comment about the quality of my tweets or ebooks, it’s a comment about network effects
  (resurfaced 3× · 47 likes · 2020-12-30 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1344257479027294208)
- one of these images is a heroic celebration of america  the other is a cringe-inducing, insulting parody of america
  (resurfaced 3× · 47 likes · 2021-02-22 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1363974562719756288)
- "freedom" & "love" have the same roots, etymologically. and i'm increasingly thinking that this is the single most important concept in my entire mindgraph. true freedom, true love, true absence of coercion. clear of obstructions, unrestrained in movement https://x.com/GRIFTGURU/status/1292740767962632194
  (resurfaced 3× · 47 likes · 2020-08-21 · Philosophy · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1296882947333615616)
- Which makes me realize another dichotomy - again I am somehow often both the most chill and most anxious person in the room. Chill because nothing ultimately matters, anxious because everything could get really horrible really fast. Suffering still hurts in the simulation
  (resurfaced 3× · 47 likes · 2019-09-20 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1174936863477354497)
- gonna ad-lib for 20+ mins about masculinity  "early-stage straight brown male contrapoints at 104 patrons and 577 subscribers" energy  if I had $$ the aesthetic would spill out of me into the room  it'll happen  https://www.youtube.com/visakanv
  (resurfaced 3× · 47 likes · 2020-02-13 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1227878378935468032)
- Here is every book from the replies that has been fav'd by at least one other person  cool to see the power law showing up here as well – top 2 books (Godel Escher Bach [72] and Dune [42]) have more favs than the total number of replies [119], and only 5 out of 100+ have >30 favs
  (resurfaced 3× · 47 likes · 2019-03-20 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1108301612156518402)
- Someone in a groupchat once asked if anybody had any background in information theory. I said I was familiar, and then improvised my way through the conversation with absolutely no background in it whatsover. "If I remember correctly" = I googled it 10 seconds ago, lmao
  (resurfaced 3× · 47 likes · 2018-03-28 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/978884369233346562)
- "Sometimes earnestness means being okay with things being less-than-perfect, and saying that’s alright, let’s go with that for now, and let’s do better next time. [...] It’s a question to live out, not something to be answered with any finality."  https://visakanv.substack.com/p/nothing-is-edgier-than-earnestness
  (resurfaced 3× · 46 likes · 2022-11-22 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1595149316066529282)
- ok I'll now point at the thing that got me thinking about this  so there's a group of people who tried to do a thing where you get "highly moldable young people" to "self-transform into Elon Musks"  and I want to make the case that this is IMPOSSIBLE  https://t.co/hSwjqbT2GY
  (resurfaced 3× · 46 likes · 2021-10-15 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1448982194467196935)
- here's a fun one for me: when I first talked about being sold on bitcoin, I didn't think about getting rich at all. I was just sold on the idea of internet nerds having our own currency that's not directly dependent on state authority https://x.com/sterlingcrispin/status/1379320789439115266
  (resurfaced 3× · 46 likes · 2021-04-06 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1379458388409479170)
- 55. I love Faig Ahmed's carpets – trippy, glitchy, clever, fun https://faigahmed.com/
  (resurfaced 3× · 46 likes · 2018-11-20 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1064903201445433344)
- "Yab-yum is a common symbol in Buddhist art [...] the primordial union of wisdom and compassion [...] a male deity in union with his female consort."  there is an eroticism in some of this older material that gets stripped away in later reproductions  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yab-Yum
  (resurfaced 3× · 46 likes · 2019-09-09 · Religion · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1171008850855464960)
- good marketing takes the confusing and turns it into the obvious  once this happens, people think “well, that’s so obvious, it can’t possibly be worth anything”  better marketers could’ve advanced human flight by 4 years. The tech was there and nobody cared https://x.com/visakanv/status/1578743566104662023
  (resurfaced 3× · 45 likes · 2023-08-04 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1687487257098555392)
- @Aella_Girl In Singapore in 1967, hundreds of dudes panicked and ran to hospitals holding their penises, worried that the pork they had eaten was causing them to retract (and... kill them?) https://t.co/CUuO3IlYm7
  (resurfaced 3× · 45 likes · 2020-06-17 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1273195734691491840)
- done  @VVlifts is now @vinveliVEERA  vinveli = space veera = hero (veeram = courage, daring, guts, etc)  so like, starman, cosmonaut, space voyager, etc  VEERA will be my Lady Gaga / Grimes / Eminem esque stage name
  (resurfaced 3× · 45 likes · 2021-12-13 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1470470274470477824)
- People have known decisively that the conventional barter-and-coin story is bullshit for over a century  Why was I still taught this nonsense in school in 2007? Boo!
  (resurfaced 3× · 45 likes · 2018-11-22 · Education & Learning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1065642406765256704)
- In my experience, lots of people (most?) want quiet, not justice for others. Here’s a depressingly common scenario: something bad is happening, and nobody notices... until someone draws attention to it. The fastest, easiest way to solve the scenario is to get rid of the *person*.
  (resurfaced 3× · 45 likes · 2018-07-12 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1017478213226786816)
- I think about this a lot
  (resurfaced 3× · 45 likes · 2018-07-16 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1018756029960470528)
- potato sweats and late realisations https://x.com/visakanv/status/1505087102215614468
  (resurfaced 3× · 44 likes · 2022-03-25 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1507337739703750658)
- 29. they’re the same picture
  (resurfaced 3× · 44 likes · 2022-04-11 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1513474005239443458)
- There’s a riff from tumblr (a marker of tumblr speech? a tumblr accent?) that goes something like  “impudent fools. derelict wenches. how dare you even conceive of conspiring against me-“  I recognized it in a tweet and the person mentioned they lifted it from tumblr in the next
  (resurfaced 3× · 44 likes · 2020-06-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1269429042362462208)
- I screwed a lot of girls here.  – VII.12.18-20 (the Lupinare); 2175:
  (resurfaced 3× · 44 likes · 2018-12-11 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1072436172570456064)
- @Coscorrodrift you are people
  (resurfaced 3× · 43 likes · 2022-07-02 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1543170242960326657)
- for everyone asking for the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBx3yAA6ytE&feature=youtu.be
  (resurfaced 3× · 43 likes · 2023-06-17 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1670018181933715459)
- 51. the writing process https://x.com/sarahdoingthing/status/877018612447313920
  (resurfaced 3× · 43 likes · 2020-01-18 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1218432981745963009)
- considering the outsized role of tiktok in season 3 of the global culture war, twitter's killing of vine retroactively begins to look almost like an act of treason 😂🤔
  (resurfaced 3× · 43 likes · 2019-08-27 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1166321769277313027)
- 16. If u think im a dumbass and u sitting on twitter reading my shit, u the bigger dumbass. Haha we all lose lol
  (resurfaced 3× · 43 likes · 2019-06-20 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1141543210793103365)
- what would you tell your child, when she asks about the ruins?  "they must have been a great people, my love, to have built such great artifacts."  "then why are they gone?"  "I do not know."  "was it something bad?"  "perhaps. I do not know."  "that's scary!"  "it is."
  (resurfaced 3× · 43 likes · 2018-11-20 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1064899852750938112)
- anyway! our first gig was a great success! we booked a small-ish venue, called several other mid-tier bands that we liked and admired, charged a fair price, publicized it. I believe about 100 people turned up. I think I pocketed like $300 for it, which was amazing to 17yo Visa
  (resurfaced 3× · 42 likes · 2020-01-06 · Music · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1214199779112017922)
- every time
  (resurfaced 3× · 42 likes · 2021-12-12 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1470125980517732354)
- 
  (resurfaced 3× · 42 likes · 2021-08-31 · Random · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1432734746992275457)
- I am committed to fixing this. I don't want to be walking over the same old ground 5 years from now. Or even a year. 5 months? Weeks? Days?
  (resurfaced 3× · 42 likes · 2015-01-17 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/556509408927023105)
- I think Lilly Singh is someone else who’s done this masterfully. There are probably several other people who’ve done this via a YouTube path. It’s easy to say “oh she has a makeup team now” - yes, and there’s more that goes into this. You have to rework your self-concept/image
  (resurfaced 3× · 42 likes · 2019-11-26 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1199290956043800577)
- The coolest thing I learned from having an anon public alt (different from private locked alt) is that I can get people to like me even if they have no idea who I am. People don’t *just* like me because I’m a pretty pretty princess. My text game is legit, independent of my face
  (resurfaced 3× · 42 likes · 2019-07-07 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1147980345620361217)
- I had a habit back then - whenever I saw someone fall in the moshpit, I'd rush to help them up. It seemed like a decent thing to do. I was mocked for this, by some 'tough guys'. They called me the Moshpit Medic, and said it like it was bad, uncool, dorky, etc. I felt shame then.
  (resurfaced 3× · 42 likes · 2018-03-21 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/976292058636861441)
- Leeroy Jenkins
  (resurfaced 3× · 42 likes · 2019-01-21 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1087402173577625606)
- The challenge of being a nice person who tries to talk about nasty things and encounters the unfortunately-common assumption that since nasty people talk about nasty things, people talking about nasty things are probably nasty
  (resurfaced 3× · 42 likes · 2018-10-01 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1046728142461624320)
- If I had the time, I would happily argue with every single person about every single thing until *they* collapse from exhaustion. Unfortunately time is limited, so time arguing with idiots is time not spent with my wife, who is a lot more fun & interesting & deserving of my time
  (resurfaced 3× · 42 likes · 2018-10-23 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1054716710786191360)
- if you then take notes on your observations as you go (of the disparity between your memory and the reality), you will then have an approximate sense of what the fog of time is like. You can’t make it go away but you can sort of account and correct for it somewhat
  (resurfaced 3× · 41 likes · 2021-02-07 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1358464739416809473)
- cal newport is my sworn enemy
  (resurfaced 3× · 41 likes · 2019-09-23 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1176098539287371776)
- indian startups as 2000s-era pickup artists
  (resurfaced 3× · 41 likes · 2019-06-24 · Marketing & Branding · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1143120314819235840)
- A Pharma CEO is a drug dealer with shareholders
  (resurfaced 3× · 41 likes · 2018-12-19 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1075509052799574016)
- @pranayaryal @michael_nielsen Any parabola can be expressed as the intersection of a cone and a plane. I can’t believe they didn’t teach me this in math class
  (resurfaced 3× · 41 likes · 2019-04-09 · Science & Technology · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1115764679119261697)
- 6. Whatever you decide to do, be prolific. Not "enjoy yourself" or "do what you love" or "do great work" – all of those things are moving targets. Your definition of great work is shitty. Self-conscious enjoyment is shitty. Just be prolific, and you'll do great fun work you love
  (resurfaced 3× · 41 likes · 2019-01-12 · Writing · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1084064553841745922)
- But of course, and again, women and girls are not rehabilitation centres for dysfunctional dudes. Come to me, my dudes. You are safe with me. Lay down your borrowed weapons and take off your too-big armor, and let's talk about your fears and uncertainties. You can be so much more
  (resurfaced 3× · 41 likes · 2018-07-27 · Friendship & Community · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1022789964889649152)
- I’m meeting a friend for coffee in The Central Business District on a work day. Coming to the CBD is always a funny experience for me; I always feel Iike a tourist in a corporate zoo
  (resurfaced 3× · 41 likes · 2018-07-25 · Transportation & Urban Life · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1022030516655190017)
- wife is out visiting friends, time for me to get fucking wild
  (resurfaced 3× · 40 likes · 2020-11-28 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1332638711532511233)
- liking this long necklace I got recently
  (resurfaced 3× · 40 likes · 2020-11-10 · Fashion & Style · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1326098168811941888)
- I’m always imagining beautiful publics and commons that don’t yet exist
  (resurfaced 3× · 40 likes · 2020-07-05 · Art & Creativity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1279577689305694210)
- during the Han period there lived a polymathic fellow named Zhang Heng (78–139 AD), who invented what was likely the first seismograph (for detecting earthquakes). Also worked on calculating pi, charting stars, theorized about eclipses, wrote poetry... ugh, I love him
  (resurfaced 3× · 40 likes · 2019-12-28 · History · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1210871220373086210)
- The first page of The War of The Worlds [1898], by H.G. Wells
  (resurfaced 3× · 40 likes · 2019-10-15 · Books & Literature · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1184078490661838848)
- As you get older, have more diverse life experience, have more diverse friends, friend groups and contexts, it becomes clearer what your “general state” is, and you can breathe easier. 50yos advise giving less of a shit but it’s easier to do with 20 more years of life experience!
  (resurfaced 3× · 40 likes · 2018-10-07 · Life & Meaning · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1048775122872455168)
- ‘sup Visa-27, Visa-29 here! I think you were on the right track, just not as precise as you needed to be. You were circling around a “learn from your mistakes” riff. YES AND: You can’t learn from your mistakes if you avoid facing them out of shame. Shame is the bottleneck here
  (resurfaced 3× · 40 likes · 2019-01-18 · Personal Growth & Self-Improvement · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1086333252523053057)
- War is worse than hell
  (resurfaced 3× · 40 likes · 2018-04-04 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/981363923692564480)
- 35. While we’re at it, “right”, “left”, “liberal” and “conservative” are all stupid words. Hell, words like “socialism”, “libertarian”, “democracy” and “republic” are all stupid words. It’s not the words’ fault but people’s blundering usage of them. We are truly godless heathens
  (resurfaced 3× · 40 likes · 2018-05-12 · Politics, Culture & Identity · https://x.com/visakanv/status/995223245539323904)
- I like the version of this that's cranked to 11. The one that goes "Aw hell no, what is this ignorance? You gonn' LEARN today from a professional, let me break out my handy-dandy teaching notes," with paragraphing, bullet points and bolded bits, with 3,000+ upvotes and 14 golds https://x.com/rachsyme/status/942097086367092741
  (resurfaced 3× · 40 likes · 2017-12-16 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/942125089654374401)
- thinking about a scene from Outer Worlds - Vicar Max's vision quest  "I'm who you think you are. [...] I don't exist, yet you have judged yourself against me your whole life. Why do you berate yourself for not being me?"
  (resurfaced 3× · 39 likes · 2020-09-22 · Games · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1308456021409411072)
- We knew that the information superhighway was gonna be an infinite stream of HD tiddys, but we didn’t quite realise that it was going to be such a personalised hellscape, too. The internet gives the people what they want, and the people want *movie trailer voice* fucking mayhem
  (resurfaced 3× · 39 likes · 2018-07-12 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1017319495713546240)
- @sonyaellenmann titty sprinkles
  (resurfaced 3× · 39 likes · 2019-06-01 · Observations & Humor · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1134726352009961472)
- @Aella_Girl I think it's helpful to frame these in the inverse – "be less inauthentic" and "be less masked" – it's not so much about "finding a true authentic self" (no such thing IMO), and more about reducing social "glitchiness" which seems to be a consequence of tedious mental models
  (resurfaced 3× · 39 likes · 2019-08-01 · Psychology & Emotions · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1156835796093038592)
- 5 years and 4 months later, today is my last day at ReferralCandy. It has legitimately been the most stimulating, encouraging, challenging, even inspiring experience of my life. Most of it is because of @dineshraju - my coach, therapist, my Commander Shepard https://x.com/referralcandy/status/298280513758711808
  (resurfaced 3× · 39 likes · 2018-06-29 · Work & Ambition · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1012504508012744705)
- Behold, the larger-than-life ghosts of alluring Sirens, gazing at you along the marketplace corridors - frozen in space & time, their dazzling images recreated in ink and light, reminding you that you are lesser, urging you to consume, tantalising you with the promise of escape
  (resurfaced 3× · 39 likes · 2019-05-23 · Sociocultural Commentary · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1131414901233078273)
- (This is true for me too. Welcome to my mind!)
  (resurfaced 3× · 39 likes · 2019-04-02 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1113165439486517249)
- "this is twitter lol, who spends that much time and effort"  I do! my friends do, too! that's how you *make friends*. that's how you *build relationships*. that's how you *expand your mind*. you learn nothing from stupid disagreements. IMO you're wasting your time *otherwise*
  (resurfaced 3× · 39 likes · 2019-01-23 · Internet Culture · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1088080204294107136)
- Was watching some Indian standup about languages and heard something interesting – that diaspora Tamil is far more “proper” or “scholarly” than in TN. IMO this is probably largely because Tamil teachers in Singapore (and everywhere else?) tend to be stiff cultural guardian types
  (resurfaced 3× · 39 likes · 2018-09-11 · Language & Linguistics · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1039559369203929088)
- changing topics for a sec  10 years ago I posted some t-shirt ideas on Facebook for fun, like a dozen of these  a bunch of people really liked them and asked to buy them  so I got them made  ended up selling thousands of tshirts  idk why people say business is hard
  (resurfaced 3× · 38 likes · 2022-02-08 · Business & Markets · https://x.com/visakanv/status/1490909018465792000)