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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This has been on my mind a ton recently, too. The old "rationalists should win" thing. While there's lots that's bad about that meme, there's also something to it.
Developing skills that widen the scope of fun and creation and joy we can experience seems like one good grounding
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yes haha a lot of this is an elaboration on "rationalists should win"
like agh if we think we're so right about everything let's use it to make our lives amazing already
hopefully this will help alleviate what i see as a growing frustration with a kind of "ungroundedness" in this part of twitter - playing the insight game but in a way that doesn't necessarily ground in anything (although this might be a projection on my part 😅)
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Could be projection! I'm not sure I see most people here as ungrounded.
Either way, I am very here for more grounding! 😁
... and businesses
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Totally!! The big question mark is how do we moneymake with it?
Seems like a good thing to do is to come to an understanding, at least tentative, of what we believe is Definitely Valuable. Then see if we can monetize providing that
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yes i like this. and ah it feels good to be having this conversation "in public" instead of confining it to the small private slacks and stuff
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In sports and board games like Chess, Coaches are usually good players but never the best players. It is possible to teach someone to be better than you at something.
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