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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago

many such cases https://t.co/r2uN5qrUfV

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

I believe you can similarly study and reverse engineer public intellectuals throughout history and become a successful one yourself I believe this is also relatedly true of scenes and the ā€œnobody actually bothersā€ part is quite critical it’s a lot of work people don’t wna do

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

here’s an example of how Will Smith and his manager reverse-engineered being an A+ list movie star https://t.co/RKJUD0ob77

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

@gypsy_panther @vgr https://t.co/AMF95rB8Az

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

the part that drives me nuts is, when you start a business or some other serious undertaking without doing the minimum research/reading, you basically set yourself up to fail, which costs so much more. I struggle to understand why people choose defeat. Really smart people, too https://t.co/tnB88b86kC

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 5 years ago

the big lesson of survivor bias is that you should optimize for being a survivor

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

oh and then these same people will call you arrogant for speaking confidently about matters that you have a sound understanding of, because you did the reading/work šŸ˜‚ you can develop confidence too, yall. like musicians and painters do. you just have to put in the work https://t.co/tvh6a0HatF

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

people are really not used to dealing with someone who's well-prepared

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

I believe there are like a good ~500+ people around here who, if they worked at it for 50 years, they could become our generation’s Montaigne or Emerson or Woolf but the question is, will they do it? No one wants to do it!! https://t.co/cWEJqjaOWb

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

a valuable asset to any community https://t.co/RoTxJ6ZyTF

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 5 years ago

if you keep a personal record of what’s going on & you index your notes, in a decade or two - and honestly sometimes in just 3-5 years - you can become a very valuable asset to any community: a sort of human switchboard for meaningful history. Remember, the past is never dead... https://t.co/Trq8k4A21m

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UltimApe@ultimape• about 4 years ago
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@visakanv "fuck you."https://t.co/OJ4ulRdrZA

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Pepijn is going to treeweek 2@pepijndevos• about 4 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv Can't unsee the political association since someone mentioned it. You were there in the replies just as surprised as me. I see it did not deter you from using the phrase. Makes sense since without context it's just an everyday phrase.

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