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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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 like what you're saying here. I think knowing what each person's outward-facing skillset is very helpful. eg I am a marketing consultant with a specialization in software startup content marketing
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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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I'm kinda getting this mental model image of a bunch of us as a sort of "autonomous healing laser drone swarm" that travels the world looking for things to fix/heal
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haha yes that would be dope. but we need a way to stay connected to reality while doing that!
i’ve done enough self-improvement workshops to know it’s not actually that hard to help someone enough to give them shiny feels, but doing something that *lasts* is a whole other game
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I have actually never done a self-improvement workshop lol
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it’s a wacky game! you can produce incredible energy in people and then *after the workshop it all dissipates*
showed me what was possible which i needed, but didn’t take me there
