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so, question for the audience then: what’s a valuable obvious thing other people aren’t saying? bonus points if accompanied by a take on why it is simultaneously valuable, obvious, and not being said

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Spencer Greenberg

@SpencrGreenberg

· Jun 24, 2020

Many of us want to be novel. Often though it is even more valuable to say obvious things that others aren’t saying. There’s great value in the “unsaid obvious” You then don’t have to persuade. And idea space is vast. Most obvious ideas won’t have been considered by most people.

11:10 PM · Jun 24, 2020Twitter for iPad

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whatever keeps making me so mad that I keep trying to express it and failing, and people keep saying “idgi” to my attempts, sometimes that turns into this

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Aging is bad. Death is bad.

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a candidate: tending to your offline life is much more important than whatever you’re doing on twitter

steven und kind

@_StevenFan

Jun 24, 2020

coming here to say this

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Everyone else is struggling too.

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- we all have to clip our nails - having better tools to do the job is obvious (to some) - it's not being said because this part of the world thinks it's above it

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steven und kind

@_StevenFan

· Jun 24, 2020

Just clipped my nails. Having sharp nail clippers made the experience enjoyable. Having to struggle with dull nail clippers made me anxious. No more.

steven und kind

@_StevenFan

Jun 24, 2020

Adding on to this: what do we think we are above talking about? What do we think is obvious (but might not be when considered at the group level)?

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Countries / states / cities that haven’t been hit by Covid-19 are all going to get it eventually. It’s not second-wave if that place never got a first wave. Too many people want to believe in a second wave, it’s a creepy death wish.

highly forgiveable individual

@CyrusOfHearts

Jun 24, 2020

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@QiaochuYuan

Being alive is better than being dead. Being happy is better than being sad.

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The trials and tribulations of life cannot be condensed to the quick hits of dopamine you get from social media. There's no replacement for living life. No one is better off than you. Social media might make you think otherwise but we all struggle.