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Lately I’ve had this odd sense that people take me both less seriously and more seriously than they did 5-6 years ago. I like it. Kinda liberating.
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Easier to be direct without causing offense for one. Beyond about 20k followers you turn into some sort of cartoon apparently. Things you say get passed through a cartoonizing filter. Unconscious heuristic: “No signal that 20k+ people are paying attention to can have much alpha”
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Yoda Voice: Choose between gravitas and cartoonishness, you must, when pass 20k followers, you do. I choose increasing cartoonishness. If I ever cross a million, I’ll only tweet cartoon noises Whee! Grrr! Eek!
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You affect far more people now than you could meet personally. Your actions and words are predominantly write-only and any feedback is mediated. Therefore all your go to people instincts are now obsolete. Gravitas is the default strategy.