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Emmett Shear@eshear• over 1 year ago

I find explaining any actually interesting idea usually requires explaining like 5 subsidiary ideas. If you’re lucky. If you’re unlucky it’s like 25 and either they’re ready for a three hour lecture or you’re not going to succeed.

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Emmett Shear@eshear• over 1 year ago

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it’s a different 5/25 ideas for everyone you talk to depending on their background and assumptions, so if you want to succeed you have to spend a lot of time probing.

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Emmett Shear@eshear• over 1 year ago

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This is why finding marginal ideas is so powerful…one of those 5-25 ideas is something most people are both ready to understand without preamble and leads to other interesting stuff.

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Emmett Shear@eshear• over 1 year ago

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Motte and Bailey

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Emmett Shear@eshear• over 1 year ago

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Losers clueless sociopaths

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Emmett Shear@eshear• over 1 year ago

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Do 100 things

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Emmett Shear@eshear• over 1 year ago

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They work bc they’re edge ideas ppl are ready for. Find the frontier!

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universe sweetheart 💓🌈💭@univrsw3th4rt• over 1 year ago

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@eshear might need to include this in my thread i haven’t created yet https://t.co/fdvCpunO4Z

universe sweetheart 💓🌈💭@univrsw3th4rt• over 1 year ago

i would like to create a thread called “thank god, thank you for saying this” for things i felt crazy for thinking but heard no one else acknowledging

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Jakeup@yashkaf• over 1 year ago

Replying to @eshear

@eshear I have one interesting idea: what fucks up people's dating lives is a preoccupation with the maintenance of their symbolic social identity but I'm writing a 15-chapter book about it because I have to explain everything from mimetic desire to dating app selection bias to feminism

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bashu, thanks@bashu_thanks• over 1 year ago

Replying to @yashkaf

@yashkaf @eshear This sounds real good

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Ari Zerner@AriZerner• over 1 year ago

Replying to @yashkaf

@yashkaf @eshear Excited to read it, though I imagine I've gotten a fair bit from here and your blog already

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