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sometimes I experience a flash of insight that feels like a real breakthrough, and then I find out I had the exact same insight years ago but didn’t quite manage to translate it into meaningful action. which is sobering, humbling and sometimes kinda ominous experience
actually wait I tweeted it yesterday. lmao. parent brain https://t.co/4Lq0QWoElV
once you have a mid-sized body of work, lets say ~200,000 words, you can start getting some interesting additional value out of rereading old material looking for phrases that have a surprising energy to them. i think this is something that will be difficult for chatgpt to do
@visakanv yeah I went to write a sequel to my Transcending Regrets post, with new insights from the year since I first wrote it, and partway through trying to write the sequel I went and re-read the original and found that all my new insights were already in there
@visakanv yeah 😭 https://t.co/xkJItbgj7D
one thing that freaks me out more than almost anything is to read journal entries from years ago & find that the exact same problems+solutions I came up w/ mere months ago are described there fully. what is it that makes me continuously lose the most crucial insights of my life?
@visakanv https://t.co/WrctEKeIWA