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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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Not just you, but I notice that when someone has a vague profile photo, the characterization of that person in my mind feels different than what it would be if it were to instead be a photo of that person
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