Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2025-03-07
I prefer to get 1 good reply from a thoughtful person than 1000 RTs with no meaningful engagement. and these days the RTs really donât seem to increase the odds of quality replies by much, and in fact near-guarantees low-effort low-quality replies
Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2025-03-07
i think two things are trueâ I think (1) some aspect of this dynamic is near-universal with the acquisition of any kind of capital, and I also think (2) the climate on twitter lately has been particularly inhospitable, partially because of algo, partially bc of politics/vibes
Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2025-03-07
the lesson in (1) is itâs a bad idea to get too successful (too rich, too famous, even maybe too sexy) too fastâ and here by too fast i mean before youâve established filters, peers, etc to navigate the eventual onslaught of tedious bullshit thatâll come your way
Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2025-03-07
if you get too rich too fast itâll seem like everyone just wants to be friends with you because youâre rich, because they want access to your capital, etc. this isnât 100% true, but by volume itâll be like >95% true, and managing that will be psychologically challenging
Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2025-03-07
if at that point you become overtly grumpy and cynical etc youâll then drive away the 1% or 0.1% of thoughtful players, and then âsuffering from successâ becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy
Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2025-03-07
and itâs often the case that the people who become successful in some dimension are usually the boldest players with the least self-doubt etc who had opportunity strike at the right time, and itâs v difficult for those people in particular to suddenly switch to being nuanced
Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2025-03-07
I think celebrities in the 2010s and 2020s are actually psychologically doing far better than their predecessors, imo in large part bc they have access to each otherâs DMs, so wiser voices can guide the newbies who are overwhelmed. one mentor whoâs been there can be all the diff
Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2025-03-07
iâve been fascinated by this topic for a long timeâ I think a question iâve always had was, why donât we have a better class of public figure? iâll probably write an essay about it someday, but for now you get these periodic threads where i sorta sketch out a proto-form. ok gn
tutor vals @TutorVals 2025-03-07
whatâs a recent post youâd like a good reply to?
Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2025-03-07
i donât really think about it like that⊠a good reply can come from anyone, in response to anything. itâs about resonance between the post and the replier, which is particular to that *relationship*, not to the post
tim @wayfaring_tim 2025-03-07
one good replyguy is a worth a thousand ____
Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2025-03-07
100,000 even
male leo (NYC Apr 17-20) @inconcel 2025-03-07
been saying for a while that the twt tl is just a wrapper for twt gcs. All the alpha is there
Tool to find mutuals-of-ur-mutuals would make this much more obvious
Also bringing circles back
Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2025-03-07
i agree with the spirit of this, tho iâm also sort of naively earnest about wanting there to be âgc-spiritedness in the open commonsâ, for the weirdo outsider kids who donât have an intro (yet)
@SelectStarMan@techhub.social @SelectStarMan 2025-03-07
Micro blogging sites would be much better if they tended toward a few group chats rather than âsmall chance of viralityâ
Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2025-03-07
twitter actually was more like that around 2013-2020 imo!
Sanjay Nadaraja @SanjayNadaraja 2025-03-07
It seems to be a law that the quality of human interaction scales inversely with the number of participants.
Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv 2025-03-07
generally true, though i believe exceptions are possible if itâs carefully managed