š§µ View Thread
š§µ Thread (21 tweets)
my biggest weakness at the moment is actually "wipe quick" ā I sit with half-done things for too long, but the real problem isn't that they're half-done, but that they're not properly threaded properly-threaded half-dones are *fine* lingering on a half-done for too long is not
by "properly threaded" I mean contextualized against everything else that I'm doing, plotted on the (multi-thread, lol) map of my body of work https://t.co/gCwM7GN3h6
Interesting conversation with a writer friend earlier about the fragmentation of information. We both agreed that fragmentation isn't actually a bad thing - what's missing & needed is better threading. Twitter threads are a specific instantiation of a solution to bigger problem
all of life is a set of projects, run in elaborate configurations of both series & parallel there are many ways to play it loosely it seems like the smart thing to do is to increase your output (empower yourself) & reduce net resistance (unshackle yourself), so you can do more https://t.co/EOhX4ExHE8
there IS a situation where increasing output or reducing resistance might not be the smart thing to do ā it's when you're using that additional net power to do things you don't actually want to do. climbing the wrong trees, doing more projects that don't actually serve you
(but usually that increased capacity / reduced resistance is something that serves you long term, so if you got stronger in order to achieve X, and X is stupid, you can still use your newfound strength to then achieve Y, which might be less stupid. don't overthink this, lol)
shower thought: what's the single most important project in my life right now? and what came to mind was "unshackling myself further" (which is related to why I was reading Rousseau earlier, lol). what are the current shackles, & how do I break them? & what will I do after?
classes of shackles: - limiting beliefs & assumptions - meatbag status (health) - outdated habits & coping mechanisms - immediate environment - peer group - financial situation - information diet - social reality they're all connected, which is why they're hard to break
some parts of social reality are very hard to escape. for example, as long as I'm a male Singaporean citizen, every year or so I have to put on my army uniform and go for military reservist training for a week or two. trying to break this shackle is super costly; better to cope
on the other hand, limiting beliefs are sometimes shackles that you can shake off just by finding out what they are. Sometimes they wither away upon contact with awareness. Sometimes they reveal themselves to be malignant and persistent, and may require invasive psycho-surgery
what would I do, if I hypothetically attained my final form of total unshackled-ness, liberation from my worldly state and became the infinite-faced avatar of the demon-god currently napping in my subconscious? uhhh... that breaks my mind, I need an intermediate proxy to consider
what does peak human existence look like for me, as I envision it? (bearing in mind that this vision itself is the product of a relatively shackled mind, and so would be an imperfect projection) I have a sort of rote answer to this. "I would sleep really well, be very fit..."
"I would be effortlessly writing amazing books and essays that blow my own mind, learn new things every day, meet great friends (old and new) all the time, travel to interesting places with my wife, probably have kids and be a great dad, cook, play music, learn to draw..."
"I would challenge and inspire everyone around me to love themselves and each other simply by leading by example. I would have a mind that's ultra-sharp, I would be patient and kind, focused and disciplined, calm, sensitive, perceptive. I would help others like, *so* much, omg~"
"I would read all the great books and watch all the great movies and TV and synthesize all of that in my head and attain psycho-social enlightenment, and in the process become a neopagan technoshaman, unshackling the species from person to person via nourishing ideavirus(es)"
Ok. So what specific, single shackle is the single biggest obstacle (ugh, mixed metaphors) between me-now and me-then? Itās probably a set of shackles working together in concert. What are they? Several ways to design/frame this problem, worth taking some time with a few versions
My brain throws up āoh, my daily routine is the problemā at me. Iām presented with a choice: do I believe that, and start troubleshooting? Or do I suspect that it might be a symptom of sth else, and keep looking? I got time; letās fork it and explore both paths independently
If my routine is the limiting factor, why? Why do I not have a smarter routine? My brain throws up āmuh childhood š¢ā - I hated schedules as a kid, disregarded them, rebelled against them, and now as an adult Iāve been conditioned to be averse to them still. Itās a bug in my code https://t.co/H13nyhK58L
I am getting tired and bored of this particular story https://t.co/fTQyUIMVrN
Interested again https://t.co/wg2aqOLXmq
Iāve basically taught myself to manage my ADHD with notes and threads. My āschedule intelligenceā (deadlines, calendars, checklist) is terrible but my recognition and web-jumping is fantastic, so I spent something like a decade using the latter to build an elaborate mind-palace https://t.co/A2E4okufzH
