Jacob Falkovich

@yashkaf

Poems, puns, and Putanums.

New York, NY
Vrijeme pridruživanja: srpanj 2010.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    14. pro 2019.

    1 like = 1 way to live better. I'll try to keep a ratio of 50% things I actually do, 50% things I should do but don't.

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  2. prije 10 sati

    This thread of a prof acting victimized ("I'm still shaking!" "My welfare and safety!") because a student didn't finish reading 100 Years of Solitude is a much more entertaining work of absurdist magical realism than 100 Years of Solitude. Way shorter too.

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  3. prije 18 sati

    I'm planning a trip to the 52nd parallel in April 4th-17th: Berlin, Amsterdam, London. What weird stuff is happening? Who do I have to see? Where are the best mushrooms?

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  4. 6. velj

    What do people hope to do with money? Gain influence, gain respect, get laid, relax, have fun. All those things can be pursued directly and much more efficiently than by trying to get rich first.

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  5. 5. velj

    I wonder if it's mostly selection bias. A man is more likely to ask when he's low EQ, low confidence, or the date is mediocre. Women don't like those things, so they say they usually don't want to be asked. But if you're a confident guy on a great date, asking costs very little.

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  6. 5. velj

    The saving grace is that 300 words can be banged out in a straight hour, like washing the dishes or going to the gym. That's how I do it: anxious brainstorm on Tue with the deadline looming, then write on Wed in one sitting. If it was 600 words, I would've quit after five posts.

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  7. 5. velj

    I think that the following two things are actually incompatible: 1. Being able to generate three dozen distinct, semi-novel, essay-worthy ideas on a topic. 2. Being able to stick to a topic for two years in the absence of any external constraints other than stubbornness.

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  8. 5. velj

    At this point I'll probably hit the initially-agreed goal of 34 posts/10,000 words. In retrospect, that goal was utterly ludicrous, as evidenced by the fact that a year into it no other blogchain has made it past 10 entries.

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  9. 5. velj

    The 25th installment of my "Predictable Identities" series is up on , about outsiders who control the identities that control us. You can find it there, or start from the convenient table of contents on Putanumonit:

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  10. 2. velj

    At my gym a heavily-tattooed black dude and an orthodox Jew with tassels under his shirt are trying to one-up each other on adjacent bench press stations. Jew bro just did 5 reps of 205. His neighbor is reaching for more plates pretending not to look over. I ❤ Brooklyn.

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  11. 2. velj

    I've now hit 1,835 followers, and this is my 1,835th tweet. Have other people tracked when they hit the cross-over mark? It would be interesting to research, I feel like it can be a good indicator of future growth rate or ceiling in number of followers.

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  12. 1. velj

    By popular request (OK, it was and two friends) my Super Bowl prop game is back for the 6th year. Pick one in each box, add up the numbers, and you've got a fun game for people who can't tell football from handalmond.

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  13. 1. velj

    Heh, I got featured on two hours after sending the above tweet. By the way, it's well worth the monthly fee — I don't know who the best writer online is, but is probably the best reader.

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  14. 1. velj

    Shoulder-to-shoulder on my timeline: a white male supremacist icon feeling helpless against pigeons, while a Jewish nerd interviews a porn superstar about culture and consciousness.

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  15. 31. sij

    This is the best month ever on Putanumonit, with almost 1000 daily hits. It beat months when I was shared on HackerNews, Browser, or MargRev. It came from two sources: Macedonia and Twitter. So thank you all for sharing, and check out the rest of the blog.

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  16. 31. sij

    P.S. This was all about heterosexual dating. Gay dating is probably as great as its ever been with legal marriage and matching apps. But once the euphoria passes, they may also have to deal with issues of economics, their place in the culture, and integrating online with offline.

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  17. 31. sij

    But the offline and blue-collar have a big cultural mountain to climb, especially the men. A lot of them will choose to go their own way, as will the casualties of the gender wars of the 2010s that had their brains permanently poisoned against the other gender. 😢 </thread>

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  18. 31. sij

    To wrap it up: I think that dating will actually get better for the online and the educated, as they learn to leverage the internet for meeting like-minded people offline. I literally have a personal blog with a "date me" button, 10 years from now it may not seem unusual.

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  19. 31. sij

    A return to religion or community-based life can help the non-rich and urban find good dates, but there are two issues with it: 1. God doesn't exist. 2. Netflix and video games do, and they're often more fun than going out to deal with people.

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  20. 31. sij

    A solution would be to frame fatherhood and jobs like physiotherapist as the epitome of wonderful manhood, but I don't think that our culture is moving there. If anything, antinatalism is on the rise even as Western birth rates are catastrophically dropping.

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  21. 31. sij

    This is bad for dating. Women don't want to date unemployed/broke guys, especially if these men don't tend to make up for it by doing more housework or childcare. It's a catch-22: men need to "feminize" to be economically useful, but that can hurt their romantic appeal.

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