Military, maybe?
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I’d been shampooing my whole life and yet never thought to do it in a way that was physically pleasurable. (New post: open.substack.com/pub/visakanv...
2 days ago
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❤️🙏🏾!
2 weeks ago
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Absolute gem in @visakanv.com‘s FAN.
To paraphrase: Ppl who are blindly confident are unlikely to worry about being blindly confident
So if you worry about being blindly confident, you likely don’t need to worry about it as much as you do (esp if worrying holds you back from doing what want to do)
1 month ago
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(Re-)reminder to stop writing for everyone and write for someone instead, whoever that someone is for you (for me).
Via @visakanv.com
1 month ago
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🥰🙏🏾
2 months ago
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A depiction of Odysseus sailing between Scylla and Charybdis. One side is labeled "life is devastatingly meaningless", while the other is labeled "life is excruciatingly meaningful". Odysseus's boat passes through the middle, labeled "ayy lmao"
Which is not to say we're all doing basic research, but I think it's much happier to reserve time for seemingly-unimportant work. It helps thread the needle of the @visakanv.com meme that lives in my head:
6 months ago
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latest podcast live youtu.be/BwuxZNBmiO8?...
8 months ago
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hahah I had several past experiences like that- some accidental, some deliberate- and I regretted/grieved every one
9 months ago
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two more new posts
visakanv.substack.com
9 months ago
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update: food poisoning lol. or a stomach bug of some kind idk. 🚽 all day either way. didn’t see that one coming
10 months ago
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been sleeping all day and I can’t quite tell if I’m sick. I want to be optimistic but realistically I’m probably in denial lol
10 months ago
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I ran into my piano teacher on the street today and he shook my hand and said, “Go practice.”
10 months ago
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“if project management is the meta of doing work, then managing your psychology is the meta of project management” 🔥💯🙌
10 months ago
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it’s good on its own
haters might call it preachy in that it presents and centers rebel activity, but it’s quite clear-eyed about how difficult and fraught that activity is
10 months ago
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amazing
1 year ago
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people tend to think "It's unrealistic if not impossible to make a living doing what you love" because their model assumes you're not going to talk to 100,000 people but once you have a decent-enough product that even 1% of people like, then it's just a matter of distribution
whenever I try to put together some kind of "master resource" it almost always ends up being overwrought and tedious when | write something like a personal recommendation doc for a friend, it almost always ends up being useful for other people and way easier to share too
imo: if you email an author about a very specific bit of their work, and tell them a short story of how precisely that work affected you, and the before/after of how that changed something in your life, you'll instantly be in the top 0.1% of emails they've loved receiving
There’s a throughline in these 3 seemingly disparate @visakanv.com tweets: specificity.
Lots of latent fears prevent people from being specific:
- of loneliness
- of rejection
- of failure
Counterintuitively the opposite is true.
Specificity makes connection, acceptance, and success more likely.
1 year ago
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