I should probably spell out what I meant here: https://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1220802270880653312 … anyone charismatic, especially if they're aware of the mechanisms, can absolutely *destroy* a vulnerable person's mental health, on purpose or not. if Visa were evil — he isn't — he *could* do this
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @default_friend and
Yeah, I think I grok you now: the ability to make people give you the power to make them stronger is the same ability to make them weaker. The perverse response is to come to distrust or even loathe capacity *in general.*
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yeah, you articulated that better! I think being explicit that you know you can influence people, and that it's something you do on purpose, freaks people out because of what you said above is it as much "why would you say that" as "uh oh there are people who can influence me"?
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @webdevMason and
for me, I say this stuff for a variety of reasons 1) it is a fucking bizarre experience to have thousands of people listening to you and caring about what you say, even when in absolute terms that's small, like intrinsically you gotta work through that somehow
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @webdevMason and
2) some people have the "game recognize game" response and they are super super super super super worth talking to, also the only reliable collaborators IME, nobody who isn't a cocky bastard executes on stuff the way that I personally like to
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @webdevMason and
You kind of have to be a little cocky to build a following and continue to share your thoughts Not a lot of wallflowers in this neighborhood
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Replying to @liminal_warmth @sonyasupposedly and
y’know actually I kind of have the opposite frame I share my thoughts *because* I don’t know what I’m talking about the people I seek out are fellow pilgrims and seekers, not disciples I’d joke that you have to be cocky to think you can figure stuff out on your own
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Replying to @visakanv @liminal_warmth and
I'll cop to it — I think I have valuable things to say, and I like that people listen but I agree that the big value capture is in speculation & idea-play; in school we learn to shut up until we're certain we have the right answer, on twitter we relearn playful speculation
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Replying to @webdevMason @visakanv and
Totally! Playful speculation and joking around is literally what makes this fun for me But you do have a lot of valuable things to say more than many so is it cocky to be justified in your opinion? Huh. Now I’m wondering where the line between self confidence and cockiness is
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I think a person can drive themselves nuts with self-referential thought loops, and that almost everyone should focus less on whether they deserve their audience and more on whether they're utilizing whatever platform they have well, for good
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