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1. this tweet should grow into a blogpost and maybe a book even https://t.co/KL01SsyLpY
@QiaochuYuan @visakanv My latest frame for this: everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation and their old emotional meanings. Like dreaming you're at school but it's also on a boat somehow. & as in dreams, somehow the weirdness of this mashup goes unnoticed
2. ^ actually that probably applies to all of these tweets https://t.co/nUwNeTP0JU
'Self discipline' is a patch for being conflicted about what you want to do. Often, productive people are interpreted as 'having discipline': able to force themselves to do the work even when it's unpleasant. But creative productivity only ever works in *spite* of that.
4. thread on being a knowledge worker https://t.co/I6Sm7PLOuL
5. the writing process https://t.co/6fTiJ7Xz47
6. a recent one that I foresee myself quoting a lot https://t.co/O6od1IEJ2s
7. the eigenrobot classic https://t.co/BwqtjozP4W
9. we aren't mutuals but I've quoted this tweet like a dozen times now https://t.co/6jJJuH9jPe
10. this tweet is me summarizing an absolute smash hit that @pragueyerrr casually dropped on @tasshinfogleman's podcast https://t.co/DfpVFTsvE8
ooh G connected some great dots here - 3. gratitude feels physically amazing in the body - 2. you can't be grateful for something you don't notice - 1. how you direct your attention in the world affects what you notice 1 β 2 β 3: directing your attention leads to embodied joy
@visakanv we did it guys https://t.co/YfYe4989Oh