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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago

woke up, glimpsed something before my brain fully loaded, suddenly shocked with the reminder/re-realisation that all learning is a matter of defining and solving problems, soliciting and integrating feedback, it’s that simple, Fuck

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago
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fuck fuck fuck fuck

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Matt@mattdsegal• about 4 years ago
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@visakanv why so fuck?

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago
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everyone gets ā€œstuckā€ when they are 1. unwilling or unable to define the problem 2. unwilling or unable to solicit the right feedback 3. unwilling or unable to integrate it it’s recursive all the way through, all the way up and down that’s ā€œallā€ there is to anything https://t.co/tmy8XP7HBk

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago
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FUCK!

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago
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Just condensed my 200 page book draft into like 3 tweets lol and I haven’t even had my coffee

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Loopy@strangestloop• about 4 years ago
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@visakanv Curious if a particularly lucid moment like this would make for a good video

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago
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my brain’s bullshitter hadn’t loaded yet to build up a resistance against the simplicity of idea, ie there was a tiny window of opportunity in which I could integrate the feedback https://t.co/khgV4V90Z9

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

Andy Grove tried to tell us this but even as I wrote it down I don’t think I was really listening and I don’t think I really believed it or so how deeply, deeply true this is https://t.co/fqLTrMP0oU

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 6 years ago

"When a person is not doing his job, there can only be two reasons for it. The person either can't do it or won't do it; he is either not capable or not motivated. [...] All you can do to improve the output of an employee is to motivate and train. There is nothing else."

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago
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interesting that this is at least the second time I woke up with this perspective; suggests to me that it gets lost/degraded when mingling with other people and inheriting/integrating their perspectives https://t.co/vfPc6KtdSk

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Morning! Woke up at 5am with Victor Wooten’s ā€œit’s so simple, but we make it hardā€ quote on my mind

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago
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I feel like I’m walking on air right now. The only thing that stops me is me (my reluctance to define, solicit, integrate) my godddd

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago
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I feel like the guy in Limitless rn I still haven’t had my coffee I’m too wired already

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago
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my hands are shaking this is wild https://t.co/9CsGbVapjc

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago
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all there is to anything https://t.co/E03LxTH9WT

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

anybody* can get to an audience of tens of thousands you just have to be thoughtful, persistent, prolific for 10+ years. ask questions and answer them. define problems and solve them. solicit feedback and integrate it. that's all there is to anything

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Malcolm Ocean īØ€šŸ“ā€ā˜ ļø@Malcolm_Ocean• about 4 years ago
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@visakanv this quote isn't nearly as good of an insight as the one you've just had due to limitations in the concept of how to operationalize "motivate" & "train"

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