“Huh?” Let’s take a walk 1. I‘m a nerd. I am curious about everything. This includes obscure historical facts, and it also includes myself and my relationship with my experience of reality. 2. My curiosity leads to me figuring things out. Knowledge is power
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3. I mean that very literally. Figuring stuff out makes me more powerful. It gives me power over circumstances. It gives me power over myself. It gives me power over others. I don’t say this to show off or brag, I say this because I am first & foremost a nerd
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4. The annoying thing is this - even a few points in, this starts to look like I’m *about* to make an impassioned defense of wealthy people and their right to brag or show off, or otherwise lick their boots in some way. I cannot stress this enough: I do not give a fuck
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5. Are some VCs bragging? Obviously. Are *most* of them bragging? Maybe! Are they full of shit? Possibly! Am I defending them? No!!! Then why am I talking about this? I’m trying to figure it out. I just feel like *something* is bullshit here and/but nobody is saying it
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6. Circling around. I think lots of people are bragging and bullshitting all the time. For the most part, I *ignore* them. The only thing I care about is focusing on the people and utterances that *make sense*. Because I’m a nerd. Nerds are curious. Nerds figure shit out.
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Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted Visakan Veerasamy
7. And I think I’ve figured *this* out. Which is that VC haters are still fundamentally VC obsessed, and this ultimately honors and venerates them. This does *everybody* a disservice https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1016595001709453312?s=21 …https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1016595001709453312 …
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Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
8. Hundreds of people- thousand? Tens of thousands? Millions?? The WORLD??? Is warped by this bullshit. It *doesn’t have to be*. You can exercise your own sovereignty and focus your time and energy on what *you* care about and what *you* think is good https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1256753515956891650?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1256753515956891650 …
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Venkatesh Rao @vgr1 degree out, the $ goes to yacht designers, bartenders, etc. So damage seems low. One person living a life I would not want for myself. But who am I to judge. Except it’s not just one person. Hundreds of people are living lives shaped by the logic of 1st order failson spending.Show this thread1 reply 1 retweet 12 likesShow this thread -
9. There’s probably a smoother, classier and more charming way to do this thread but I haven’t figured that one out yet. But I will. You’ll see. Because I’m a nerd, and nerds figure shit out.
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Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted Visakan Veerasamy
“you should be dishonest to protect other people’s feelings, and your brand image” https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1221915534280642560?s=21 …https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1221915534280642560 …
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False modesty is worse than truth-telling that gets interpreted as bragging. I’m *not* saying VCs are paragons of truth. I’m saying that accusations of bragging perpetuates a lemon market which crowds out truthtellers. This is why all the real shit is said by anon accounts.
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this is much better said than my attempts to articulate something similar. shitting on supposed "braggarts" is bad because it disincentivizes everyone else from "looking like they're bragging."
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Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted Visakan Veerasamy
Yes, the strange end-result being: https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1194159431853805568?s=21 …https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1194159431853805568 …
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I kind of like this metaphor, (from "sensei-on-narcissism", Hoarse Whisperer): "Narcissism is the fire, your attention (good OR bad) is the oxygen."
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