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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

funny riff that came out during my last salon: some people have bad project management and they misdiagnose it as moral failure this is like a lvl 1 hero thinking he’s a bad person because the first item on his todo list is ā€œslay dragonā€ and he hasn’t done it yet

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

you are not a bad person, you are just incompetent former gifted kid types particularly prefer to stew in the misery of perceived moral failure rather than admit incompetence, because the latter violates their self-image

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

above tweet is a tricksy one because people read very different connotations into the word ā€œincompetentā€, depending on your context and background etc. I mean it in a casual, playful way, like a cute baby is incompetent at touching his nose

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

another interesting thing that happened during my 3hr+ salon was that every 15mins or so I’d find a new angle to return to the riff ā€œthe hardest part of playing long games is managing your psychologyā€. And I enjoyed it as a speaker, it felt refreshing & surprising each time

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

wait I'm not done with the earlier point šŸ˜‚ https://t.co/PzyculTnAS

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David R. MacIver@DRMacIver• over 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv Partly the tweet landed for me precisely because I'd much rather be a bad person than be incompetent.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago
Replying to @DRMacIver

@DRMacIver many such cases around these parts

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David R. MacIver@DRMacIver• over 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv Yeah. Although I think perhaps I have a slightly different flavour of it. I don't mind being bad at specific things, there's something about incompetence in a more general sense.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago
Replying to @DRMacIver

@DRMacIver usually I think there are connotations of weakness, which in turn have connotations with revulsion, disgust, unworthiness

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