It’s an odd phenomenon: if I tweet anything even slightly crypto-adjacent, my inbox suddenly overflows with grifters—along with thoughtful, well-intentioned people to be sure, but the grifter quotient is quite noticeable. What produces this effect?
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In general I really like the variability that comes from having a tweet amplified into different communities.
e.g. sometimes I’ll get retweeted into meditation/philosophy spaces and get lots of great responses with a wonderfully different way of seeing the world
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Sometimes Weird Anonymous Twitter will notice something I’ve written, and I’ll get to bear witness to a ton of inscrutable but fascinating conversation reliant on mysterious memes!
(I miss the original Weird Sun Twitter)
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Sometimes I innocently tweet something about note-taking and I get momentarily connected to this unseen universe of puffed-up productivity gurus marketing themsleves with Three Easy Tips.
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e.g. just in the last twenty minutes… why does this happen??
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