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Welcome to theVisakanv Megaweb

Since 2008, Visa has been thinking out loud on the internet, sharing his ideas with the world. The result: a quarter-million tweets, more than a thousand essays and blog posts, and hundreds of videos. The Visakanv Megaweb collects all of it, plus the books and media Visa keeps recommending, into one archive, organized so you can find your way through. Pick a place to start.

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An archive of Twitter postsby Visakan Veerasamy

Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) has been posting on X (formerly Twitter) since 2008, racking up more than a quarter-million posts across dozens of topics. The Visakanv Megaweb organizes them into a single archive you can browse without friction. Explore Visa’s most popular posts, favorite themes, and online network via curated lists. Looking for something specific, or want to browse the archive your way? It’s all here: filters for date, length, and more, plus search across text and handles.

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Best Tweets

A list of his 1,000 most-liked posts and thread-openers. The place to start.
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Best Threads

Visa's most-loved threads: the 1,000 best by likes. Start here, then page through to the full archive.
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Longest Threads

Visa's biggest megathreads, ranked by length: his longest unbroken sequences, up to 200+ posts.
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All Tweets

The complete archive of every tweet from @visakanv’s X/Twitter account. Filter by type (replies, quote-tweets, originals), theme, date, and popularity, with full-text search to locate any post.
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All Threads

All of Visa’s X/Twitter threads in one place: 26,000+ since 2008. Sort by likes, length, or date, and search for specific posts.
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Themes

The 36 themes that recur throughout @visakanv’s posts. Open one to explore its most popular tweets and search within the category.
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Recurring Posts

The top 1,000 posts Visa quotes and reshares himself. Enter to explore the ideas and themes he keeps coming back to.
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Visa’s Network

The accounts Visa engages with most, measured by quote-tweets and replies. Dive in to see the extended Visakan Veerasamy online universe and follow their conversations.
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Retweets

Every post and account Visa has amplified: 10,711 retweets since 2010, self-retweets aside. A map of who and what he points his audience toward.
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Stats

The shape of @visakanv’s 262K+ tweets: replies, quotes, posts and retweets, volume by year, the themes he returns to, and the all-time records.
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Wander

Land on a random tweet from the archive, pulled from Best Tweets and the top posts in each theme.

An archive of books and mediareferenced by Visakan Veerasamy

Visa is a prolific consumer of art and media. Over the years, he has referenced, reviewed, and recommended thousands of books, essays, articles, comics, and videos. The Visakanv Megaweb pulls his collection together in one place. Each item carries a link tracing it back to the mention.

About the Megaweb

The Visakanv Megaweb is a public archive of everything Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) has put on the internet: a quarter-million tweets, more than a thousand essays and blog posts, hundreds of videos, and the books and media he points to.

Visa has been thinking out loud online since 2008. The result is one of the largest bodies of personal writing on the web, but until now it has lived in scattered places: threads you unroll by hand, blogs on separate platforms, videos spread across years. The Megaweb pulls all of it into one place you can read and search.

What’s inside

The archive is in four parts. The Twitter Archive holds his posts, threads, replies, and quote-tweets. The Writing Archive collects his essays and blogs across three collections. The Video Archive gathers his vlogs, talks, and readings. The Library is everything he points to: the books, essays, articles, and videos he references in his own work.

How it’s organized

Each part is built to be browsed on its own terms. Read a theme from top to bottom, sort by what is most-loved or most-recent, narrow to replies or originals, or search the text directly. Every item keeps a link back to where it came from.

A note on the data

Counts, excerpts, and rankings are drawn from Visa’s public posts. Sourcing and update cadence are still being finalized.

Writer and internet builder, known online as @visakanv. Here are his books, where to support his work, and where to find him.

His books

FAN Friendly Ambitious NerdOn becoming a kinder, bolder, more curious version of yourself.Gumroad →Goodreads →
INT IntrospectAn inward hero’s journey to earn your own trust and self-respect; a remix of Nietzsche, Emerson, Watts, Campbell, and Jung.Gumroad →Goodreads →

Support his work

Become a patron on Patreon →

Find him online

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An archive of Visakan Veerasamy’s online work.
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The Twitter Archive›Best Tweets

Best Tweets

Many tweets from Visa are popular, but some are more popular than others. Browse the 1,000 most-liked top-level posts in Visa’s Twitter archive.

The Twitter Archive›Best Threads

Best Threads

Visa is known for megathreading, and has written more than 26,000 threads since 2008. Explore his threads, including the longest and most popular. To page through every one, browse the full list →

there's an incredible story going on in the mountaineering community rn. there's a Malaysian climber who was at death's door, and was rescued by a sherpa who risked his own life to carry his lifeless body on his back for 6 hours. The climber then blocked the sherpa on Instagram https://t.co/AJW70vJ3Kr

Sociocultural Commentary 2023-06-04 · ♥ 224,642 · 5 tweets · Read the thread

from time to time I think about this post, which I think remains in the top 0.01% of everything I have ever read https://t.co/TTSEBlL16T

Internet Culture 2023-07-11 · ♥ 186,151 · 9 tweets · Read the thread

we already live in a boring dystopia https://t.co/4feoT4DWSC

Other 2018-04-29 · ♥ 158,423 · 44 tweets · Read the thread

Guy describes how his friend is the group’s Airport Dad (takes everyone’s passports, double-checks everything, etc) the comments are full of ladies who wanna marry him https://t.co/K8vG9srMVw

Random Observations & Humor 2023-05-26 · ♥ 100,975 · 3 tweets · Read the thread

this mf failed to detonate his shoe bomb once 22 years ago and now everybody everywhere has to take off their shoes at every airport forever until the end of time https://t.co/b2G0T9ZiKt

Transportation & Urban Life 2023-07-14 · ♥ 76,842 · 3 tweets · Read the thread

free vpn installer tonight queen? https://t.co/sAUAEk5KLu

Random Observations & Humor 2023-12-18 · ♥ 73,156 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

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 https://t.co/7oocai2DLq

Personal Growth & Self-Improvement 2023-08-07 · ♥ 56,100 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

kind of cool to know: a lot of celebrity Wikipedia pages have photos of them at comic con because there’s one guy (Gage Skidmore) who photographs them all https://t.co/xnsZWEf1Ox

Pop Culture & Entertainment 2023-10-10 · ♥ 54,000 · 4 tweets · Read the thread

if I were to have a museum exhibit with something like “humanity in 500 objects” this would be one of the more important ones

Other 2026-05-09 · ♥ 49,142 · 3 tweets · Read the thread

the tragic thing that I suppose lots of people have to learn the hard way is that getting people to care is an almost completely independent skill to acquiring achievements or accolades. it’s mostly storytelling actually

Art & Creativity 2023-08-20 · ♥ 44,474 · 4 tweets · Read the thread

casually dropped banger from The House Bunny (2008) https://t.co/aVBzOTJAW7

Film & TV 2023-12-27 · ♥ 42,815 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

this remains to me one of the most interesting emails ever written https://t.co/GEXLlbvEyL

Other 2024-06-11 · ♥ 37,988 · 3 tweets · Read the thread

one thing ive learned as a serious-hobbyist media consumer is that if a movie like this is actually made, it will somehow end up being the most profound one with the actual richest understanding of the source material https://t.co/2PdkxOviVS

Film & TV 2023-11-26 · ♥ 36,898 · 4 tweets · Read the thread

first real good 9/11 joke i've ever seen https://t.co/0Wi7VtHyBA https://t.co/1YymShDCFp

Random Observations & Humor 2023-06-09 · ♥ 36,180 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

I can’t take Whiplash seriously because the premise is flawed; you don’t get good as a jazz drummer by becoming a human metronome. The whole thing has a cartoon model of musical excellence. Maybe it should’ve been a movie about sports instead https://t.co/u8AGnmmJuW

Music 2024-05-26 · ♥ 35,794 · 5 tweets · Read the thread

feel like I haven’t see a “there are too many podcasts, why is everyone trying to start a podcast” take in a while https://t.co/YA2yUWGa2n

Internet Culture 2024-01-01 · ♥ 35,126 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

Arnold had an abusive alcoholic father. He was born in an Austrian village with ~2000 people and had little money. He started lifting weights, got so good at it, which took him to the US. Decided he wanted to do movies. Became huge star despite accent. Decided to do politics…

Pop Culture & Entertainment 2025-02-24 · ♥ 29,976 · 3 tweets · Read the thread

Can’t sleep, time to do a fresh reboot of VV’s talking points

Personal Growth & Self-Improvement 2020-11-23 · ♥ 24,643 · 104 tweets · Read the thread

I like this photo I took when I was out on a walk today https://t.co/0B8vXzy57j

Art & Creativity 2023-12-25 · ♥ 24,072 · 4 tweets · Read the thread

one thing about the japanese, they will develop a special interest in something and then do it better than you

Other 2025-05-02 · ♥ 23,172 · 9 tweets · Read the thread

me: I love you wife: how much me: why this obsession with quantification wife: what gets measured gets managed

Random Observations & Humor 2016-04-16 · ♥ 21,118 · 32 tweets · Read the thread

an interesting thing about humans is that pretty much everyone gets at least 20% smarter when they’re doing pranks or other goofy shit. saw this in the military all the time

Psychology & Emotions 2025-03-05 · ♥ 18,162 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

References I use pretty often:

Other 2020-11-30 · ♥ 15,119 · 74 tweets · Read the thread

whenever my 18yo does something upsetting- smack one of his parents too hard, make too big of a mess, etc- he attempts to redirect our attention and reset the vibes by pointing and naming any object he recognizes. (Apple!)

Romance, Parenting & Family 2025-04-21 · ♥ 14,274 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

excellent minute of a comedian getting a hot girl to do a side by side comparison of hot girl mannerisms https://t.co/H4958AXAJS

Pop Culture & Entertainment 2024-02-16 · ♥ 13,866 · 4 tweets · Read the thread

for future ref, the recommended reading list at the back of the manual of The Sims https://t.co/LVOU1ZUxcd https://t.co/bNnUFU90r7

Books & Literature 2024-01-30 · ♥ 13,564 · 3 tweets · Read the thread

i'm so curious to understand the economics behind this business. have they actually built the thing? how much did it cost to make? what do they do if nobody buys it? how did they finance it? do they sell smaller subs? let's investigate https://t.co/ZOmAOEjKNd

Business & Markets 2024-02-05 · ♥ 13,100 · 15 tweets · Read the thread

my 18mo will ask to see the inside of our fridge (“fridge? daddy? fridge?”) and then when I open it he’ll quietly whisper “wow”. which is really quite an appropriate response to modern commercial vapor-compression refrigeration systems

Romance, Parenting & Family 2025-05-09 · ♥ 12,617 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

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

Film & TV 2019-06-12 · ♥ 11,971 · 7 tweets · Read the thread

one of the funny things about life– hilarious when it happens to others, humbling when it happens to you– is meeting someone who’s casually, indifferently better at a thing than the median person who makes an identity out of it

Sociocultural Commentary 2024-01-12 · ♥ 11,845 · 4 tweets · Read the thread

one thing i've noticed in the past 20+ years of being very online is that a lot of people who end up being really popular, get their early start from doing a gimmick, and then dropping it once they reach a critical mass. and people then often forget the gimmick within ~3-5 years

Internet Culture 2024-12-05 · ♥ 11,124 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

when I was single I used to love talking with girls who had bfs. if they like you enough they introduce you to their single friends!! and warm intros are 1000x better than cold approaches

Romance, Parenting & Family 2025-05-20 · ♥ 10,852 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

this is gonna sound like a bit, but i'm serious: if there's one thing i suspect might be a cure to all ills, it is good reply game. i'd argue that good reply game, in le guin's sense of "love is not a stone that sits there, love is bread that must be remade anew, daily", IS love https://t.co/c6Cx1rQ3CA

Friendship & Community 2024-07-29 · ♥ 10,261 · 7 tweets · Read the thread

when tiktok is good it’s really good lmao https://t.co/i0LmjnMi0Q

Internet Culture 2022-10-16 · ♥ 10,130 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

collecting notes on what seems to be an emerging story of animals being onboarded onto our superstimuli https://t.co/4xWC04Vjsv

Other 2023-09-10 · ♥ 9,804 · 4 tweets · Read the thread

kids feel the blues too big source around this age is that people no longer find you cute. now they scold you for making mistakes. mama’s too busy with the new baby. nobody claps and whoops and cheers for your accomplishments like they used to. you’re on your own now kid… https://t.co/ZVR69xJ3VS

Psychology & Emotions 2024-07-10 · ♥ 9,711 · 3 tweets · Read the thread

a while ago people were asking how come it took humanity so long to develop agriculture etc. i suspect the answer is basically this. innovations are deviations which threaten the prevailing social order and so they tend to get put down https://t.co/zBZOls8gMb

History 2024-01-17 · ♥ 9,681 · 6 tweets · Read the thread

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

Internet Culture 2018-09-11 · ♥ 9,570 · 24 tweets · Read the thread

i'm happily married 10+ years with a wife and son who love me and i have none of that shit together lol. this is the "shiny lure" class of advice i was talking about. ime the only thing you actually need in a relationship is to know/learn how to relate to each other healthily https://t.co/j00J3M1pNq

Romance, Parenting & Family 2024-04-10 · ♥ 9,547 · 6 tweets · Read the thread

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

Personal Growth & Self-Improvement 2021-05-18 · ♥ 9,154 · 78 tweets · Read the thread

i have a ~140wpm typing speed, which often impresses people who aren't very online. like, all my life i was basically the fastest typer in any room i was in. once i posted a link to a typing speed game on here and like 5 people beat my ass immediately

Internet Culture 2026-03-18 · ♥ 9,045 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

one of life’s big “cheats” is: you can learn a lot by reading a lot and talking with a lot of people and thinking through it all

Education & Learning 2024-04-24 · ♥ 9,034 · 3 tweets · Read the thread

an interesting genre of pic is "celebrity as a bridesmaid at a friend's wedding" https://t.co/aLueik1w73

Pop Culture & Entertainment 2025-01-11 · ♥ 8,684 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

I’ve gotten thousands of DMs over the years from people telling me about their problems. Here’s one interesting pattern/cluster I’ve noticed, which I’d loosely describe as “anxious self-flagellating ambitious guy who desires greatness but refuses to learn from his mistakes”

Personal Growth & Self-Improvement 2024-04-19 · ♥ 8,392 · 13 tweets · Read the thread

when I was in the military I was responsible for a file, meant to track loans of certain items. one month my superior yelled at me for not bringing him the file. “but nobody loaned anything,” I said. “I don’t care!” he shouted. “your job is to bring me the file!” https://t.co/jxROIEqHl1

Sociocultural Commentary 2024-05-12 · ♥ 8,328 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

kids will say things like “strawberries taste better when I’m wearing my strawberry socks” and I bet they’re 100% right and this subtle sense of aesthetic gestalt is socialized out of us

Psychology & Emotions 2025-04-14 · ♥ 8,261 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

when I was a kid so many adults used to tell me “when you have a child of your own then you will understand (why adults bully and manipulate and condescend to children)” and like yeah now I understand… that all those adults were wrong and messed up lol https://t.co/onrBEu48sg

Romance, Parenting & Family 2023-12-22 · ♥ 8,121 · 3 tweets · Read the thread

I just discovered the Pepsi rebranding slides from 2008 and it is truly breathtaking https://t.co/idhAbVWufp

Marketing & Branding 2018-10-25 · ♥ 8,036 · 4 tweets · Read the thread

a lot of paradoxes might be best resolved with a sense of humor (eg: dicking around can be productive, but if you're anxious about *being* productive, that typically ruins the whole thing) the conflict creates a vortex that can be anxiety-inducing, until you see the joke

Random Observations & Humor 2021-09-29 · ♥ 7,980 · 17 tweets · Read the thread

imo: if you’re deliberate about “doing the reading”, whatever that means for any domain, within a year it’s possible to be in the top ~5% in the scene. This is because 95% of people don’t do the reading https://t.co/cGLCJf3hQV

Education & Learning 2024-06-10 · ♥ 7,714 · 3 tweets · Read the thread

fascinating. i went to look up the original post because this is so interesting to me. particularly the second paragraph where they list out everything they've "tried", which seems like successful processes (audience, paying customers), before listing out the failed outcomes... https://t.co/jq7Hg8C4Ib

Work & Ambition 2024-01-24 · ♥ 7,337 · 12 tweets · Read the thread

focus your time and energy on what you want to see more of

Personal Growth & Self-Improvement 2020-11-07 · ♥ 7,052 · 12 tweets · Read the thread

there are several interesting things to be said about the mass Ghibli event First thing is that people don’t often know in advance what they’d want out of a tool until they see it for themselves. “generate any image you can think of!” draws a blank for lot of people

Art & Creativity 2025-03-26 · ♥ 7,021 · 13 tweets · Read the thread

these improover type memes somehow always have a glaring omission: the absence of cultivating a great peer group, friends, community

Personal Growth & Self-Improvement 2025-03-09 · ♥ 6,984 · 4 tweets · Read the thread

periodic reminder: have you taken a minute to write down what your actual problems are lately? the practice of properly describing a problem often reveals its solution

Personal Growth & Self-Improvement 2023-12-27 · ♥ 6,927 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

we made a lil guy https://t.co/BPp4KOvAjc https://t.co/RPnmuHLt3f

Psychology & Emotions 2023-10-24 · ♥ 6,852 · 7 tweets · Read the thread

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 https://t.co/B5cc3GWp1M

Music 2019-01-12 · ♥ 6,829 · 65 tweets · Read the thread

Friends, I have found,,, a salmon vending machine https://t.co/RyY2oj63Ln

Food & Dining 2019-02-25 · ♥ 6,663 · 19 tweets · Read the thread

i figured this out by age ~6 and it made me miserable, occasionally even suicidal, until i was about 22- but after that it's basically been paradise. (there's an interesting parallel between how people flinch from the full truth of the lowest lows and the highest highs) https://t.co/hHFHydoYDP

Life & Meaning 2023-12-27 · ♥ 6,555 · 3 tweets · Read the thread

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

Romance, Parenting & Family 2018-11-07 · ♥ 6,363 · 18 tweets · Read the thread

The courage to be disliked, Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. Heard good things, let’s dig in https://t.co/yriXyV6LMn

Psychology & Emotions 2018-09-06 · ♥ 6,192 · 92 tweets · Read the thread

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://t.co/yHoNg9I3K2

Music 2019-01-18 · ♥ 6,025 · 24 tweets · Read the thread

a dairy cow eats ~100lbs of food and shits ~60lbs of hot stinky manure daily, you never see that in the pictures https://t.co/AjTygZAmDX

Random Observations & Humor 2024-07-20 · ♥ 5,873 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

since i was a kid i kept seeing variations of this idea being expressed. the president is an idiot. the boss is a fool. the mogul is a clown. and people would be arguing about whether that assessment was correct or wrong. and that in turn struck me as the wrong frame entirely https://t.co/r70WgmQe3C

Philosophy 2024-03-16 · ♥ 5,866 · 8 tweets · Read the thread

*taps mic* people wanna be fuckable more than they wanna fuck

Other 2019-02-13 · ♥ 5,781 · 31 tweets · Read the thread

1 like = 1 weird, uncomfortable or off-brand thought

Sociocultural Commentary 2018-05-10 · ♥ 5,662 · 75 tweets · Read the thread

#nowreading Tribe, by Sebastian Junger https://t.co/v2vPBTJUq1

Sociocultural Commentary 2018-04-23 · ♥ 5,604 · 57 tweets · Read the thread

my wife is a smart sensible woman and it seemed sensible to both of us that it would be a good idea for her to socialize with other moms online and it seems like every day she is just being bombarded with horror stories https://t.co/vOaLiswqAE

Internet Culture 2023-08-28 · ♥ 5,574 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

leaving out the years that he worked at AMD and LSI is a great eg of how a lionizing narrative works. it creates the impression of superhuman genius, which confers a valuable aura that has material impact on morale, negotiations, etc. Similar to “Singapore was a fishing village”

Sociocultural Commentary 2025-07-22 · ♥ 5,558 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

A thing my ex-boss got me to meditate on (not literally, but I think about it a lot) is that product-market fit heals and forgives almost everything. The highest order bit is almost the only thing that matters by a long shot, to a dramatic and unintuitive degree https://t.co/JtNh1rlCq2

Personal Growth & Self-Improvement 2021-04-14 · ♥ 5,556 · 29 tweets · Read the thread

nietzsche has a quote that's like, "insanity is rare in individuals, but in groups it is the rule". over the years as i've participated in all sorts of groups i've come to see more clearly how and why this is true

Sociocultural Commentary 2024-01-31 · ♥ 5,543 · 10 tweets · Read the thread

before I had a toddler I vaguely assumed that development happens broadly, like a sea level rising steadily over the years. the reality of it seems much funnier. there are moments where a 2yo can seem strikingly lucid, like you would probably expect from a 5yo. then it collapses

Romance, Parenting & Family 2026-02-28 · ♥ 5,452 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

growing up in singapore in a hindu family i never really understood our religious practices until i went to my grandpa's village in india and witnessed the moon and the night sky and the bewitching quality of fire in absolute darkness https://t.co/NYB2R4iDWk

Religion 2024-04-09 · ♥ 5,340 · 8 tweets · Read the thread

Same Student 10-Minute Timelapse https://t.co/REIJz3sBXd

Art & Creativity 2021-10-09 · ♥ 5,322 · 3 tweets · Read the thread

this was part of my reasoning when proposing to my wife when we were 22. If it didn’t work out in 5 years, as long as we didn’t have kids yet we could be 27yo divorcees with basically no downside https://t.co/64yn4coBTu

Romance, Parenting & Family 2024-07-10 · ♥ 5,267 · 3 tweets · Read the thread

my wife is watching a video of a guy recite prime numbers for 3 hours and she’s getting flustered and angry at some of the numbers

Random Observations & Humor 2022-11-08 · ♥ 5,253 · 5 tweets · Read the thread

i'm always fascinated by how some kids have better theory of mind than some adults. it's always funny because it's sort of unfinished/imperfect, but this gets completely lobotomized from a lot of people https://t.co/745SXKTiBe

Other 2023-09-24 · ♥ 5,181 · 4 tweets · Read the thread

i feel like i've heard/seen a bunch of stories over the years along the lines of, "man's wife gets pregnant, gives birth, he now finds her disgusting/unattractive, and starts lusting after perfect pretty young women" this is almost backwards for me personally,

Romance, Parenting & Family 2024-04-17 · ♥ 5,155 · 7 tweets · Read the thread

I generally try to stay clear of giving people “you should do this” type of advice, but I think one thing I do wanna push for is: you should try to get your ass out of your hometown, to somewhere on the other side of the planet, ideally in your early 20s. Save up, spend a month

Travel & Place 2024-06-04 · ♥ 5,077 · 4 tweets · Read the thread

sharing this for all the mfs who ask if it's over for them at 27 https://t.co/fBL6MOMLI5

Personal Growth & Self-Improvement 2024-08-31 · ♥ 5,042 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

this was me up until ~27. i still occasionally have a bit of it. ymmv, but in my journey my understanding has been, the way out is through. you can't banish the gut reaction. rather you gotta find a way to be deeply immersed in the feeling "I am safe, I am loved, I am cared for" https://t.co/7zw70kEoHc

Psychology & Emotions 2024-08-23 · ♥ 4,996 · 8 tweets · Read the thread

just binge-watched all(?) 25 episodes of Solo Leveling, an anime brave enough to ask “what if our protagonist just kept becoming more powerful and just kept defeating everyone effortlessly and also became handsome and sexy and rich and everyone fears and respects him?” https://t.co/OBbdNTma8B

Film & TV 2026-05-09 · ♥ 4,980 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

in 2019, Scott Alexander wrote a review of The Body Keeps The Score, with an initial conclusion of "Overall, I was not too impressed with this book." A few weeks later, he updated the review with an anecdote of a patient's recovery that IMHO is more interesting than the review https://t.co/tbGLQSSz1M

Art & Creativity 2023-04-30 · ♥ 4,955 · 8 tweets · Read the thread

the most sick overpowered skill i unlocked in my 30s that wouldve been incomprehensible god-mode to my teen and early 20s selves is that ive learned how to enjoy being misunderstood

Personal Growth & Self-Improvement 2024-01-11 · ♥ 4,949 · 7 tweets · Read the thread

a lot of loneliness plays out like this: people accumulate past grievances that they feel have not been appropriately heard. they front-load interactions with this (eg complaining about ex on first date), which makes other people feel unheard. this perpetuates the wretched cycle

Psychology & Emotions 2024-07-22 · ♥ 4,939 · 7 tweets · Read the thread

Only just learned about students from Singapore’s top girls’ school getting into trouble for praying to the school’s statue of Athena 😂 frankly I’m with the girls, I think it’s a perfectly reasonable thing to do. You put a goddess of wisdom statue & you expect girls not to stan? https://t.co/1AnwlxPtpy

Sociocultural Commentary 2022-03-22 · ♥ 4,930 · 5 tweets · Read the thread

was talking with a fellow dad who was struggling with making certain decisions, like when to be tough, when to indulge, how do you know if you’re going too far, etc. I found myself saying: just imagine that your child’s adult self is in the room watching you. in a sense, they are

Romance, Parenting & Family 2024-10-31 · ♥ 4,926 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

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

Business & Markets 2018-12-18 · ♥ 4,912 · 39 tweets · Read the thread

wife: what the fuck https://t.co/tbTL8gelJA

Random Observations & Humor 2018-08-28 · ♥ 4,892 · 42 tweets · Read the thread

a fun thought experiment i like to give people is, 1. imagine you're dating someone who is basically identical to you psychologically/emotionally etc, same worries n anxieties and pet peeves etc 2. how would you drive each other insane? what would ya'll fight about? https://t.co/WcZdtZfr05

Romance, Parenting & Family 2024-04-24 · ♥ 4,888 · 5 tweets · Read the thread

I was getting emotional listening to my wife soothe my son in the next room, cooing and whispering to him in tones I can only describe as sacred. Suddenly she beckons me over in distress, help, come help, come help now. I rush over. There is a large pigeon on the windowsill.

Random Observations & Humor 2023-12-07 · ♥ 4,786 · 4 tweets · Read the thread

dudes rock https://t.co/AJpD50vtN0

Random Observations & Humor 2021-02-26 · ♥ 4,763 · 91 tweets · Read the thread

one of the most depressing forms of internet illiteracy to me is when parents seem oblivious to the potential consequences of posting undignified/unflattering pictures and videos of their kids. we have already seen this play out with the kids of some of the early family bloggers

Internet Culture 2024-08-03 · ♥ 4,741 · 8 tweets · Read the thread

wife and i were on a walk with our son and we witnessed an interesting conflict in another family unit. there was a wailing toddler asking her aunt(?) (cousin?) to carry her, and an older aunt(/grandma?) was insisting very forcefully that no!!, she must walk!!, dont be lazy!!!…

Psychology & Emotions 2024-01-03 · ♥ 4,727 · 12 tweets · Read the thread

“insightful visuals” thread 1. Improvement vs perceived improvement https://t.co/gOCucvURFf

Other 2018-11-25 · ♥ 4,614 · 87 tweets · Read the thread

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

Art & Creativity 2019-01-24 · ♥ 4,608 · 32 tweets · Read the thread

this seems correct to me and it also seems like a really glaring example of JBP's internal conflict that seems to be eating him alive; he is not in alignment with his own stated principles https://t.co/jySWJPwmyF

Politics, Culture & Identity 2024-07-24 · ♥ 4,589 · 4 tweets · Read the thread

if you’re sufficiently charismatic, people who are attracted to you will thirst over specific “ordinary” features - even body parts - in ways that they wouldn’t when someone else without that quality has those same features. A lot of people seem to misunderstand how this works

Psychology & Emotions 2023-08-17 · ♥ 4,551 · 5 tweets · Read the thread

whenever people say things like “I don’t want to bring children into this horrible world” I ponder about the people who had kids during the Black Death, when it felt like God was actually abandoning humanity in real time. maybe those people didn’t see parenthood as a choice

Life & Meaning 2024-07-05 · ♥ 4,544 · 2 tweets · Read the thread

one of the reasons it's difficult for say, a powerful person to truly be close friends with someone much less powerful, is that a bunch of their intuitions for how to behave are calibrated for what the consequences would be in their shoes (and not just for them, but for others)—

Sociocultural Commentary 2025-02-15 · ♥ 4,531 · 25 tweets · Read the thread

The Twitter Archive›Longest Threads

Longest Threads

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All Threads

Every thread Visa has written: more than 26,000 since 2008. Search the text, narrow by year or length, and sort however you like. See the 1,000 best-loved →

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