Chaining some favorite tweets from an old account here so I can close it:
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Children end their thoughts with “?!”. Adults with “.” The curious with “?”. The stubborn with “!”
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Idealists pretend to be pragmatic. Pragmatists pretend to be idealistic.
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It’s important to do what feels right. But also important to be open to experiences that expand the range of things you feel right about.
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There’s a world of difference between bold ambition and desperate ambition.
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Main issue with self-identified problems solvers is that they’re incentivized to trivialize problems and even create them at regular cadence to ensure personal fulfillment.
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Discrimination often manifests as a refusal to barter as equals. Instead one party requires the other to “prove” themselves first.
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A strange loop of gatekeepers furiously doing nothing and judging everything.
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Pessimists tend to blame other people. Optimists tend to blame pessismists.
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Envy is dangerous because it compares your internal reality with another’s external projection. Inner truth will always lose to sterile perfection.
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Envy is a result of taking yourself too seriously. By taking your own projection too seriously you take the projections of others as truth rather than metaphor.
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The denser the city the more a specialization can become a service and lifestyle. Without density everyone must become a generalist because there are no economies of scale via deep specialization. So things are expensive and not as high quality.
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Invading a country at war with itself is unintuitively a bad idea. There is increased chaos to capitalize on, but it's also heavily militarized. Applies to people who are at war with themselves as well.
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Many of us live in privilege moats dug by people long ago. This compounds intelligence/creativity/drive as these same traits don't get you that far elsewhere. Cue constant justification/victim scripts as background anxiety.
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Wondering what the difference between "F*ck u" money and "fudge you!" money is.
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Humans are valued for their ability to value. To see a lion's strength and a bird's flight. To point at a stone and say "chair". To point at a mountain and say "there".
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When you dehumanize those who would dehumanize others, the total number of humans dehumanizing others doesn't change even if you succeed.
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True neutral doesn't choose sides. Very few people value truth to the point of being willing to be hated by everyone. It's also not clear that it's a virtue.
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