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A thing my ex-boss got me to meditate on (not literally, but I think about it a lot) is that product-market fit heals and forgives almost everything. The highest order bit is almost the only thing that matters by a long shot, to a dramatic and unintuitive degree https://t.co/JtNh1rlCq2
thereās this entire genre of interesting content along the lines of āso strange/wild/weird how this successful person/company didnāt care about Xā https://t.co/93EXXMnaWz
You can insert your own examples. āItās ridiculous how [[successful business]] fails at [[surprisingly basic thing]]ā the useful Q my boss would ask me: is it actually ridiculous? Or is it only ridiculous within your model of reality, which expects things to be a certain way?
Approached from a slightly different angle, reality *seems* unrealistic all the time because it deviates from our model of reality but what is real is already so https://t.co/1r9nRWxEQx
If reality seems unrealistic, itās because you were holding on to a false idea about how reality is. Reality isnāt unrealistic; your expectations were Reality isnāt unrealistic, your expectations were Reality isnāt unrealistic, your expectations were Reality isnāt unrealisti https://t.co/Ygl39kad2Z
Circling back to the original tweet- not to single it out, but itās illustrative: the critical life lesson here is that you can be āunbelievably idioticā and still win big. Do you realize this? Do you feel it in your bones? Because lots of people donāt realize this
Lots of people think āI will be successful if I become less stupid, less incompetent, less fail, less embarrassing...ā This is almost entirely back-asswards, an illusion caused by media bias, narrative bias, selection bias, halo effects
I am trying to help people see that they can be much more successful than they realize, imagine or expect, because itās their expectations, imagination and models of reality that are miscalibrated there is a silly naĆÆvetĆ© to this endeavour but itās also very rewarding
We I talk about this practically every time we meet even now, because itās so alien & deviant from mainstream understanding. Itās like breathing water instead of air. But with each breath you take, you become more powerful, bc youāre operating with a more accurate model of world
Scott Adams is an annoying asshole who understands this one thing right and so he can afford to basically get everything else wrong A lot of good people get everything right except this, which is so frustrating and upsetting to see Exboss would encourage me to let it go but š¤
My understanding of this at the heart of what allows me to basically tweet for a living. Itās a pretty mediocre living but itās freedom - freedom that a lot of smart angry dudes wish they had but donāt bc theyāre too busy being right about everything else except this
You can be smart about a thousand things that donāt matter or you can be smart about like the 5 things that do some will say āoh why not be smart about 1005 thingsā but in a sense the 6th thing is a distraction from the first thing itās endlessly complicated of course
In a way itās a lil hubristic to tweet about this, but all communication is a lil hubristic because itās intrinsically lossy. Exboss and I have been talking about this for almost a decade (damn) and we are both still learning how strange and counterintuitive this is
The shape of one of our theories - which we argue about - is that itās unintuitive because it runs against human moral instincts. We want to treat everyone fairly, everyone matters, etc. And in a sense yes of course they do. But value isnāt distributed that way
Probably like 10 of my tweets out of 151,000 are responsible for 60% of the value of the @visakanv account. I canāt actually point you to them with confidence because the truth of it makes me uncomfortable. The truth is always uncomfortable
this is blowing my own mind as I tweet this, this is how unintuitive this truth is- every time I meditate on it it delivers me value. My success in life is almost directly a function of the degree to which I am willing to face the discomfort of the truths I donāt like
Hereās a truth that Iāve obviously been avoiding: hardly anybody gives a fuck about my 2nd ebook. Going by preorders in relation to marketing, people are interested in Unlearning Coercion than in Introspect. Introspect is like the album the artist loves that the audience doesnāt
I do personally believe there is an intangible beautiful value in caring about things that donāt have market value, Iām very sentimental and romantic like that. I will tilt at this windmill forever. But also I donāt want to be a total sucker
Indulgence from a position of strength is aesthetic, beautiful, etc. Indulgence from a position of weakness is pathetic many trad accounts on here are aware of this in letter but almost none of them embody its spirit, which is a painful hypocrisy I wouldnāt wish on my enemies
heh. itās actually really stupid of me to give a fuck about like, whether people think Iām narcissistic or shameless or anything of that sort - it actually, quite literally, Does Not Matter. itās me acting out some trauma from my teenage days. I didnāt expect this to hit me here
But you see what meditating on the nature of reality does for you? It doesnāt spare your feelings lmao. What is true is already so. You go in trying to understand Facebook and you end up getting personally attacked and having your ass kicked by your own truth-seeking mind
Thanks Visa https://t.co/2Y4DqATRfg
periodic reminder that product market fit is not intuitive https://t.co/gt1o3K2RvN
great product with absolute shit comments section that users put in tremendous effort to try and Macgyver a solution to https://t.co/CTfFqrGCkx
yea https://t.co/yQUsVIH5Sq https://t.co/QwRs5hwUyu
yea people will continue to insist on learning the wrong lessons from this, probably because it's easier to be smug than successful https://t.co/nvSQlvKetQ
@visakanv 'wow seems like the bar for being an incredibly rich man is actually not that high? guess i'll dunk on them for failing to meet my childish hero expectations rather than becoming incredibly wealthy myself lol'
@visakanv p.s. it's really important to me that you follow your creativity wherever it leads you, even if that leads you away from one project and towards another. i'll be a fan of whatever you do and others will too! ā¤ļø
@visakanv Unlearning Coercion is 3rd ebook? In any case, whatever you're doing under the heading of "unlearning coercion," I'd recommend you check out Perceptual Control Theory. Oohāactually! ā¦let's have a recorded convo where I share my take on how it's deeply relevant!
@patio11 @visakanv when you say āmore economically,ā you mean in terms of generating value for its beneficiaries in the world? (assuming itās the salary negotiation one) https://t.co/LmgqroJFfY
@visakanv example out in the wild https://t.co/zyxUIgnsNz