maybe the next phase of the twitter game is we start businesses together
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once upon a time i brainstormed ideas about how to organize a commune with all my dope friends where we could raise children together relatively unimpeded by the demands of normal jobs
and one of my only ideas was that we should be some kind of consulting / coaching agency
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like okay you want to pay to talk to us about your problems? we got an alexander technique guy, an energy worker, a business coach, an unlicensed therapist, take your pick
cover all the bases with people with different areas of expertise
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main thing i don't like about this idea is that it feels "ungrounded." had a DM conversation with which helped clarify this a lot - i don't want coaching to be the primary thing i do, i want something else more concrete that grounds and tests the coaching
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it's like the old "rationalists should have secret identities" - if you're in the job of going meta real hard on human nature or w/e you still need an object-level pursuit that grounds and tests your insights and i don't really know where to look for that yet
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there's a real frustration here which is good at tapping into and making explicit - there's so much untapped wealth in our social graph. there are brilliant people who could do brilliant things together, that *make money* in a way that isn't *terrible*
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i don't think it's overgeneralizing too much to say that this corner of twitter attracts the sort of people who wouldn't be and aren't happy in traditional jobs working for bosses etc. but there are so many of us! we could just make jobs for each other instead!
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i really don't know what that looks like yet but hopefully thinking out loud like this seeds something to come back to later
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obviously these thoughts are all inspired by the recent stonks shenanigans. like yes let’s talk about making money off silly trades, great
but also, as they say, “if you’ve penetrated the veil of maya so much why aren’t you rich” (he said, to himself)
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maybe the real rebellion against capitalism is to build wealth with the squad while maintaining impeccable ethical standards the whole way
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literally i'm only able to think about this right now because the balance has finally shifted such that making a bunch of stupid mistakes trying to make money with the homies seems like more fun than dicking around playing video games
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followup thread, thinking out loud
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a lot of the ideas floating around Have Good Opinions Twitter have concrete financial value in theory, stuff like
“modern architecture sucks” 
start an architecture firm
“everyone is confused about sex” start a sex column, become a sex coach, make sex ed youtube vids
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this recent thread from tyler is also relevant re: the interaction with enabling communally raising kids
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<<Why I am focused on village-building right now>> [Thread]
We want to follow through on our ambitions while raising kids well. Most of us are ignoring how impossible this is amidst modernity.
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There's so many things I want to make but don't really have the means to do it, and some of them would probably make some money
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tell us what the things are! maybe someone else here can help!!!
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I got this response last week, and it set me off thinking about a lot of this.
There seems like a lot of ability and will around here toward “coordinated action on large scales” and working together to make a corner of the world that this corner of twitter would thrive in,
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I am working on this. Well, many of us are. Growing crew of people with vibe like:
There's lots of challenging work to do to untangle yourself on the pathway to coordinated action on large scales, but you can do it! It'll be hard at times but also fun!
(see @meditationstuff)
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But I haven’t really seen convincing embodiments of it or large-scale moves towards it yet.
And I would love to help towards something like that, but with everything so floaty and liminal, I don’t have a good handle on even what skillsets to develop/improve on to help work on it?
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