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
start an architecture firm
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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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yup even the core 100 or so of us could probably increase each other's productivity/output/wealth creation etc by a dramatic amount if we thought about this out loud together, and that's even before we account for all the 2nd order stuff
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maybe it helps to work backwards from the obvious failure mode / criticism – the thing I trust that most of us are adamant about avoiding is collapsing into a sort of black hole singularity of "write ebooks / teach courses about how to write ebooks / teach courses about..."
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i mean, it's not for everyone, but running a commune or farm is a lot of work and requires some Tricky coordination problems and lots to work through.
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my pie-in-the-sky has been to set up a relatively self-sufficient commune/incubator type thing, fund an attractive refuge destination with some amount of tech exports
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