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@visakanv.com

Author of FRIENDLY AMBITIOUS NERD and INTROSPECT

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visa@visakanv.com · 3mo ago

does it feel like bsky still gets new waves of people fleeing X, or does that feel like it’s been done for a while?

John Stokvis@johnstokvis.com · 4mo ago

@visakanv.com‘s description of good work having “an idea in the car” echoes the feeling of reading a lot of AI writing. The human impulse towards efficiency strips all the dynamic life from the writing. Lots of interesting parallels between the photocopier and LLMs as well, prob not a coincidence.

xerox'd flowers ° When my work does well, it's usually because the idea was driving. But then I get cocky, or arrogant, and think, "I was there. I was involved. That was successful. should drive this time." And it doesn't work, because there's no idea in the car. visakanv
John Stokvis@johnstokvis.com · 5mo ago

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)

visa@visakanv.com · last yr.

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

John Stokvis@johnstokvis.com · last yr.

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.

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 distributionwhenever 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 tooimo: 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
erica robles anderson@ericara.bsky.social · last yr.

I woke up thinking about the internet. In my lifetime, billions of people began communicating with one another across the planet, daily. It is hard to overstate the significance of this shift for our species.