I miss the days when I would randomly meet people (usually “academics” and “creatives”) who tried to impress me by telling me things they were doing that I had already done.
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You might have had a more viral tweet or sold a book or whatever, but I’ve published for all the places, hooked many of you up with an agent, etc. Meatheads do the same thing to me, assuming I have zero physical capacity and need to be told of their feats of strength
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As do the nerd trivia kingpins, who often seem irritated that my knowledge of their worlds is worked into stuff that crosses subject-matter boundaries. “Well *I* know that supercard listing better than he does!” Cool, bro, I’m just selling stories and living my life
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I don’t self-promote, I self-actualize. I might be better off if I cared more about what others thought, but I just do the work the old fashioned way, not the way the thirtysomething “kids” of today “do the work” of hustling in the tweets
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