I have been on a many-hour-long wikipedia binge into history and I feel like I know something about the world that I didn't quite know before, but it's very non-specific. it's not a thing, I feel like I have a heightened sense. also I am delirious from lack of sleep
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it's interesting that I've never quite read anything that properly reverse-engineers successful author/poet/playwright types, like does a big study of their paths in life, the constraints they operate under, and the actual sources of their success
maybe topic of my next salon
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for eg like the big Q for me with shakespeare is, how did he land the Kingsmen gig? that seems like a thing to investigate deeply
goethe wrote a successful novel at 24 and then got a patron from some noble dude
I think many authors we consider great today were great publicists
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and this is extra fun for me to explore bc i'm kind of living it, too. I think I write pretty good tweets. but do I write the *best* tweets? nah. i'm in the top 20% of Good Tweet Writers maybe. but I'm rewarded disproportionately bc of other factors (reply game etc)
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i think many people write very good individual tweets but i think your tweet-writing process overall is much better than almost anyone else’s. it reflects on itself and incorporates new stuff and grows and changes. most good tweeters find a niche and stay in it forever
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yea so if you write top tier 0.1% best tweets but only within a niche and for that niche, you’ll probably never see anything beyond it
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Eg the thing I’m doing now where I’m transitioning to YouTube is probably the sort of decision that very few Good Tweeters make and it will result in me being again disproportionately rewarded for crossing scenes/niches
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