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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 5 years ago

“trying to do interesting things in the future is a status violation because your current status right now determines what kinds of images you are allowed to associate with yourself” https://t.co/yLq7eVbsgm

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 5 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

“Publicly setting out to do valuable and important things eventually is above the status you already have now, and will generate an immediate system-1 slapdown reaction.” 👀

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 5 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

This also explains why Slingshot Theory works - when you leave one context for another, and are a new entrant in a new environment, people don’t know what your status is yet, and are more open to assuming its higher than what it was before https://t.co/oUEK1PVFCx https://t.co/DaDqCjs0Eu

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

I’ve mentioned an essay idea to several people in the past week and have received a lot of positive feedback about it. I call it the SLINGSHOT THEORY, loosely based on a sweet trick used by rocket scientists - using the gravity of a planetary body to add velocity to a spacecraft https://t.co/GIBM9fMcL3

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J0eCool@CountJ0ecool• about 5 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv This is basically interviewing at other companies to get a raise based on your experience at the first only with entire careers, rather than just individual jobs

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 5 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

Even the Son Of God was not immune to this social dynamic https://t.co/rRm67DuB1T https://t.co/nKyc7IiEbm

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

I take solace in the fact that a much esteemed Fellow Dude on the public speaker circuit had the same problem. Local audiences, man, jeez. Tough crowd. Can’t please ‘em. (Matthews 13) https://t.co/RQ4nIhcHXq

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 5 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

Even the Son Of God was not immune to this social dynamic https://t.co/rRm67DuB1T https://t.co/nKyc7IiEbm

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

I take solace in the fact that a much esteemed Fellow Dude on the public speaker circuit had the same problem. Local audiences, man, jeez. Tough crowd. Can’t please ‘em. (Matthews 13) https://t.co/RQ4nIhcHXq

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 5 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

This also explains why Slingshot Theory works - when you leave one context for another, and are a new entrant in a new environment, people don’t know what your status is yet, and are more open to assuming its higher than what it was before https://t.co/oUEK1PVFCx https://t.co/DaDqCjs0Eu

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

I’ve mentioned an essay idea to several people in the past week and have received a lot of positive feedback about it. I call it the SLINGSHOT THEORY, loosely based on a sweet trick used by rocket scientists - using the gravity of a planetary body to add velocity to a spacecraft https://t.co/GIBM9fMcL3

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J0eCool@CountJ0ecool• about 5 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv This is basically interviewing at other companies to get a raise based on your experience at the first only with entire careers, rather than just individual jobs

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 5 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

Even the Son Of God was not immune to this social dynamic https://t.co/rRm67DuB1T https://t.co/nKyc7IiEbm

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

I take solace in the fact that a much esteemed Fellow Dude on the public speaker circuit had the same problem. Local audiences, man, jeez. Tough crowd. Can’t please ‘em. (Matthews 13) https://t.co/RQ4nIhcHXq

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 5 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

Even the Son Of God was not immune to this social dynamic https://t.co/rRm67DuB1T https://t.co/nKyc7IiEbm

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

I take solace in the fact that a much esteemed Fellow Dude on the public speaker circuit had the same problem. Local audiences, man, jeez. Tough crowd. Can’t please ‘em. (Matthews 13) https://t.co/RQ4nIhcHXq

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