been waiting 14 years for this t.co/N5XayuNGSw
8 months ago
met a couple of different friends yesterday and today for lots of good conversation and I wanna try and remember stuff that came up, so- a thread of kinda disjointed thoughts
8 months ago
piggybacking off of this to talk more generally about dunking: i think most dunkers dont think strategically or in terms of outcomes. i think most dunking is mostly a kneejerk re-assertion of one’s own identity + consensus-seeking with others who dislike the same thing t.co/91EeEYgiXB
8 months ago
one of the things that keeps me tweeting is i honestly love the little puzzle of trying to convey the tone of a thought via plaintext. ive done it 250,000+ times and i still find it to be a fun, interesting challenge
8 months ago
fwiw: I consider myself a student of Watts, and i’ve received similar feedback on my own stuff: my belief is that its fundamentally about enjoying yourself (while having done the reading). also he put in the hours speaking Read * Enjoy * Speak is roughly ~(0.05)^3 or 0.000125 t.co/9pzl1kTIzm
8 months ago
a fun lil mini-microcelebrity moment I had at a meetup a couple of weeks ago: most people didn’t know me so I got to have nice warm pleasant conversation with friendly strangers. then a couple of people who did know me asked to take selfies with me and it was so funny to witness-
8 months ago
nice eg to point at while noting that not all years of experience are the same. some people have the same year of experience 10 times and are less competent than someone who was actually learning for 3 t.co/JHcbeP5ZAP
8 months ago
just addin my lil spin on this t.co/47XtAXdNa1 t.co/aGePmabz3P
8 months ago
i just got accepted into a private facebook group that's like uh... "magick memes" and i know some of yall are gonna absolutely enjoy the shit out of these t.co/Y45oIRJUuy
8 months ago
what are some Internet shibboleths, that u could use to convey (90s?) Internet-savvy, thatd draw a blank from someone who isn’t? text or visuals kids these days probably don’t know what http:// is? geocities? I’m struggling to articulate what I’m looking for…
8 months ago