Toggle navigation
TWText.com
TWText.com
faq
Contact US
Follow US
Venkatesh Rao
vgr
long-term thinking makes people unhappy because it almost necessarily means they’re thinking about big problemsthe only future thing you can be fairly sure about is that the big problems of
Read more
Defining the idea of a “hobby” is surprisingly hardFor example you might think low risk is part of it but many hobbies are high risk, like sailing. More so than
Read more
Hmm. Can any long-arc extended universe type stuff be traced to the 1920s? Especially in genre fiction? Considering a hypothesis that it was a slump decade for EUs. There’s a
Read more
I do have double standards, and it doesn’t bother me One standard for people I think are acting in good faith, one for people I think are acting in bad
Read more
It really is very hard to care about money past the point it stops being a source of immediate anxiety. People capable of caring enough to solve for money past
Read more
I don’t recall Frankfurt making this point, but bullshit functions as a mechanism to destabilize context. When you are being precise in your rhetoric and paying appropriate attention to true/false
Read more
If you wait for pickaxes to be perfected, the gold rush will be over before you start digging.If you insist on only using a mature toolchain/tech stack, you’ll never build
Read more
Ok starting to kick the tires on @RoamResearch ... this is going to be my starting point.https://twitter.com/adam_keesling/status/1196864450520727552 So it's like workflowy but with transclusion links? I like the premise so
Read more
There's a very simple litmus test for whether an idea is right or left of center. If someone is trying to convince you that you have more agency than you
Read more
Reflecting on Marshall Plan, it strikes me that distasteful as it might seem to both sides, Blue America needs to craft a Marshall unPlan for Red America to avert a
Read more
Finished assembling my clock but it stops after like 5 tick ticks It’s a very sensitive leveling issue now. I’m up to 30s continuous ticking. The leveling mechanism is
Read more
You know that line about judging people by their actions rather than their words? What about people whose only non-trivial output is words? (assume their actions are boringly uncontroversial, like
Read more
‹
1
2
3
4
5
›