from Visakan Veerasamy | by Visakan Veerasamy

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

one of the most powerful magical forces we’re all in thrall of is how mundane and inert everything appears to be. this is an illusion our minds generate to make things easier to navigate, but it also blocks us from seeing possibilities in plain sight

2. people who are looking for incremental solutions to a problem will often ignore or disregard solutions that eliminate the problem entirely (often requires upstream reconceptualization)

3. when examining my own Twitter use I realize I rely on a kinda-surprisingly small group of people to piggyback off of. those people probably might not realize how load-bearing they are for me and I oughta let them know… also, ^this for everything

4. a lot of things that are valuable in hindsight seem mundane in the moment. was thinking particularly about things like, keeping a covid diary. “who cares?” if you care, that’s good enough. so much of the value of these things is non-obvious, non-apparent until much later

5. we are still in the early days of blogging. this sounds weird to people who already talk about it all the time, but it’s true nonetheless. our human intuitions aren’t very good at dealing with decades-long cycles. it’s still a good idea to start a blog if you stick with it t.co/otTca8Didb