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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

best of 2016 @visakanv tweets, the thread

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

1. still waiting for an app or site that does this really well. it doesn't make sense to me that idle time waiting in queues, etc can't be better spent pruning and updating tasks more intuitively and obviously than currently possible https://t.co/CiBUiOS0ZW

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 10 years ago

There should be a mode for going through emails, todos and calendar appointments etc the way we go through Tinder or Imgur. More intuitive.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

2. my answer to "what should twitter do next" in 2016 turned out to be exactly what they did, nice. in 2018 I would like to say, please make bigger and better inroads into the harassment and abuse problem(s) https://t.co/YbsrJNC6BF

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 10 years ago

@lakey generally I'd say pay attention to what users are already trying to do. Make it easier to do tweetstorms &or allow for expanded chars

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

3. still waiting. basically something that takes a conversation that you have with someone and makes it super easy for you to turn it into a shared doc or a blogpost without all the tedium. Actually I've started doing this manually with some chats https://t.co/uHDDjO4k4r

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 10 years ago

I wish there was something in the space between IM and collaborative text editing. Is there already something?

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

4. ever since I observed this phenomenon I'm realizing it's a very persistent problem, a trap that's very easy to fall into. there's an interesting paradox(?) where we're *impulsive* + yet living mostly either in an imagined past or future rather than now https://t.co/KmcMoDjHg1

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 10 years ago

I wonder if anyone relates to this: it sometimes seems my brain holds on to things I USED to care about more than what I care about now

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

5. I forgot that it ever occurred to me to frame it this way, but it's true! (meta: it's worth writing down thoughts because sometimes you have unusually good hits that you can't reliably/consistently get – but being able to re-reference them is powerful) https://t.co/WeOGohP0EQ

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 10 years ago

What I find almost ecstatically exciting is the idea that if you have a deep understanding of how/why words work, you can think new thoughts

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

6. one of my "the emperor is naked" thoughts is that SG doesn't have a censorship problem, it has an idiot problem. I used to criticize the government all the time and never got in trouble for it. You mostly just gotta avoid baseless accusations https://t.co/zuiBTLaoO7

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

7/ PERSONALLY, I don't think I've ever felt censored. I've criticized the Government, etc multiple times. But my experience is limited, ofc.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

7. I think I'm basically here already! Congrats Visa-26, we did it https://t.co/BWGaL32elx

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

One of my fantasies/goals is to earn the right to have enough quality followers that I can get interesting responses to anything I ask.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

8. this was a good decision https://t.co/XpFrt2CMf1

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

Wow, my Facebook feed is really terrible. And I thought I put in lots of effort to curate it, too. Maybe time to start Twitter up again

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

9. this is one of the simplest and best editing tools in my arsenal – literally just take the stronger word, phrase or sentence and put the emphasis on that instead of whatever filler you were using https://t.co/6QYkSZDHfy

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

@natedesmond I got a suggestion for your sumome popup copy: https://t.co/xuRYcHmALo

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

10. I think I've gotten a lot better at this in the past 2 years https://t.co/9gXl9yOxeN

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

Something I find challenging to this day is distinguishing between "I want this" and "I want to want this".

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

11. and then you effectively "translate" it into your own natural language, into something that speaks to you and resonates with your life experience https://t.co/yEBffgFkdQ

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

a hard but useful exercise: to dig into cliches and find out what the fundamental insight really is, and why it's worth saying/remembering

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

12. "a wolf in bro's clothing" is the kind of lovely phrase that I can never come up with intentionally; only accidentally in conversation or while pursuing something else. it's funny how much of writing is just... noticing what's good https://t.co/oirF6fGDik

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

.@vgr A bro is a support character more than a protagonist. Mercutio was a bro. Bassanio was a bro. Iago was a wolf in bro's clothing.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

13. I'd forgotten about this thread and I am heartened to see it again https://t.co/pwALn5nLJm

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 9 years ago

I feel like there should be a better way to talk about stereotypically dark and cliche things without coming across as cynical

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

14. I have gotten significantly better at this – I think I'm about 60% satisfied now (and was about 10-20% satisfied then) https://t.co/Q9zyjhw8vY

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 9 years ago

It's hilarious that in 2016 I still haven't developed a working system of managing information/inputs that I personally am satisfied with

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

15. nice https://t.co/CSzPyl1pjW

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 9 years ago

I am going to try anyway. https://t.co/6y7hUww6ry

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

16. interesting take https://t.co/tpZ0Dni5Ed

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 9 years ago

The protagonist of @siliconHBO is a stand-in for our entire species. Stumble upon Holy Grail (intelligence), proceed to horribly mismanage

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

17. creativity https://t.co/ZufIP4yKpi

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 9 years ago

@fortelabs some quick thoughts on creativity (i could go on for hours): https://t.co/TuhICjBDOU

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

18. every word is loaded https://t.co/2aaHwBnahS

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 9 years ago

Tonnes of people have really shitty conversations because they never get around to questioning their assumptions and definitions

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

19. learning of the existence of tremendous hatred https://t.co/N7Pw0DQhId

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 9 years ago

There is the sanitized bubble of reality that you're born into and then there's this vast, treacherous, uncharted wilderness outside of it

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

20. evergreen concern of a frustrated idealist https://t.co/fsmvsXNFqz

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 9 years ago

How long have we spent in the past ~5 years in passionate arguments that ultimately amounted to nothing? What could've we done w that time?

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