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I’ve told variations of this story several times but it bears repeating When I was about 8 years old and I first sat at a computer and typed words into a forum and got replies from people elsewhere in the world, I swear on my life I instantly knew I had found The Holy Grail
everybody in my life told me I was weird and misguided. But it was just so plainly obvious to me. In the years since I’ve found a bunch of other people who also got it. David Bowie was one of them https://t.co/V1StWoa4gv
Montaigne understood it 500 years ago. In his time, you had to be much more privileged to take advantage of the world of letters, which he was. In our time, all you need is a smartphone https://t.co/xDaLzpVNf2
here’s the most recent thread I wrote trying to explain the tremendous opportunity that remains in plain sight that the vast majority of people continue to overlook and disregard every day. It will probably turn into an essay when I get the right spark https://t.co/E4uTD1qiqB
Yes and: this was actually also possible before the internet, by writing letters, and I think that was the most egregious omissions from my education. But most educators are incompetent writers themselves so how would they teach you? You have to go searching yourself. https://t.co/kXdrJvZVyk
Jane Jacobs said something like all wealth is downstream of specialization and trade the internet allows you to construct your own trade networks by ~13 years old I completely lost interest in school; why give a shit when you can build your own trade networks?! https://t.co/3dUuORCtig
once you have a few good riffs or talking points or whatever you wanna call them, those are like buoys or lighthouses that you can navigate by. they are like major cities in a trade network. you can build out everything in between them. connecting them creates additional wealth https://t.co/imdz5PNVjt
a question I asked myself was - how many people are there in the world like me? Even if I’m 1-in-a-million rare, and I don’t think I’m that rare, that means there’s 8,000 of me. Those people will wanna be on my team. And they will be looking for me just as I am looking for them
So all I have to do is be prolific, visible, earnest, honest, wear my heart on my sleeve and not die. That’s basically it. Sure there’s some nitty gritty stuff like solving for distribution blah blah (written about that too) but if I keep talking to people, success is inevitable
the important thing to understand when thinking in dominos is we don’t need everyone to agree with us, we just need enough of the right people to get to the next domino https://t.co/QCM7vr3rzW
@visakanv This is anecdotal, but I think that a couple of people are scared to start because they are afraid of the backlash that tweets tend to receive, especially if you are someone who has a lot of followers. Otherwise, yeah, missing out on twitter might be an opportunity cost.