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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

there’s this thing i’ve been coming to increasingly believe that goes: you can do almost anything, but literally none of it is worth it by your current standards

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

here’s an example: you could reach out to almost anyone in tech type circles if you apply this kind of advice, and even if you fail, you’ll have met some v interesting people but no one does https://t.co/SX700P8oif

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

a good way to start approaching this project is to make a list of all of the people that Famous Busy Person interacts with, and impress *them*. You can actually do this entirely on twitter if you’re patient and observant

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

or talk anyone into working some form of collaboration but do you have the laser-focus and self-knowing you’d have to have to dedicate so much work to one specific person or company knowing it could easily fail for some dumb reason https://t.co/aJlVEGuuQR

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Patrick McKenzie@patio11• over 4 years ago

@visakanv Would bet that literally no one has sent typical CEO: “Here is a properly scoped internship project and here is the Day One output. Are you interested in seeing Day Two?”

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

“it’s possible” “oh, but when i see the effort required to get there, suddenly my motivation is evaporated”

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10/25/2021
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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

i link to this tweet all the time it’s one of the ones here that’s made the most impact of all to me https://t.co/ZYBZwihOKm

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10/25/2021
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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

because it made it clear that nothing really felt worth it unless it was gradiose vapourware my motivational system really grinded to a halt, until it started resetting and picking back up from this newer, more accurate place https://t.co/5PRPUUQVse

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

Nothing feels worth to you when it is not grandiose vaporware. What now! Your motivational system comes to a halt. You acknowledge nothing happens, till you start to get a glimpse of something that does make it worth it. https://t.co/f1dncQ7hEj

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

it’s just not worth it in the way you thought it would be but you have the chance to decide if you still wanna do it now “what else are you gonna do?” https://t.co/PYUcyJsOKw https://t.co/2F55IRJmxC

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

Turns out even when the thing musn’t be done, you can still do it. https://t.co/zJnbAytmyg https://t.co/4VjipSX2a1

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

👇 yeah, what’s the difference? https://t.co/0XRO4g0tGh

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 6 years ago

Some people will think, wtf, I have to do the thing 3,000 times? That’s impossible! Nobody can do that! Others will think, wait, that’s all I have to do? Just do it again until I get good? That’s easy! Anybody can do it! What do you think?

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

It’s something like this. > The racecar driver is actively trying to get better, the commuter mostly just wants the commute to be over https://t.co/2cWPYvfASC

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 6 years ago

@RainyDuke The core difference is focused attention. The racecar driver is actively trying to get better, the commuter mostly just wants the commute to be over https://t.co/9fyeKM4EzP

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

success as the ability to replace your problem with a different one https://t.co/ncrv9DRtGv

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David R. MacIver@DRMacIver• almost 4 years ago

@cloudsinvenice Success, noun: the point where you get to replace a problem with a more interesting problem.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago
Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth https://t.co/19VtxEFofK

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 6 years ago

Some people will think, wtf, I have to do the thing 3,000 times? That’s impossible! Nobody can do that! Others will think, wait, that’s all I have to do? Just do it again until I get good? That’s easy! Anybody can do it! What do you think?

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