When you don't use social media, your life gains a wonderful quality: All the realizations you wrote about here are transparently obvious to me and I've never thought otherwise.
There's just so much brain damage that users go through. It leaves those of us who have avoided social media with unbelievably massive advantages in every aspect of life. You can have this privilege too! Your brain damage can be reversed, with time.
No worries! I figured you just got a bit overcommitted, as I do all the time trying to publish as widely as possible while still holding down a paid job. Hopefully it turned out ok... was running against the email limit length so I kept things brief at the end!
[also feel free to drop the opening picture of Brandon if you think there’s any risk of copyright issues... I’m pretty clueless about such things]
>That’s the problem with Twitter. Makes everyone look a lot worse than they are.
I agree with you. An interesting related debate is whether Twitter makes people look smarter or dumber than they are (naval says smarter in the tweet below), but I think if anything you only look smarter to your ingroup on Twitter. Low context makes it much harder to look smart to your out group because they can easily assume the worst of you instead of taking the time to fill in the details of what you actually think.
Still very weird to think that all these strange people are actually existing in NYC, and don’t simply live in my phone! I guess I just need to meet more Twitter ppl offline lol
I like these articles of yours a lot. The romantic in you shines forth quite brightly, which makes the piece all the more pleasant (I'm a bit of a romantic myself—or maybe I just have an affinity for it). I think the title is also true, and you do a wonderful job in typical DF fashion stepping through that with your first-hand experience.
The discussion of an in-person party is proof that this post is insufficiently online! It ruins my immersion to think that you, or any of these people actually exist in real life. (Not that I've heard of any of them except for Moldbug, FMC, and Pink.)
I met anna & dasha after one of their shows, they move and talk in a charming way that images (and even film) don't get across very well. I think that's the case with most people. The screen is not a mirror, it's a shadow play we've agreed to suspend disbelief in.
The title was nice and then the post made me sad. Maybe wistful? Parties are weird. I got older and can’t handle drinking anymore. Instead I just get obsessed with my at-home routines and find it impossible to imagine socializing at a place like you described. But I also miss when that kind of event felt super normal. Parties always made me feel warmer towards other people, but would typically end in feeling worse about myself for some reason.
When you don't use social media, your life gains a wonderful quality: All the realizations you wrote about here are transparently obvious to me and I've never thought otherwise.
There's just so much brain damage that users go through. It leaves those of us who have avoided social media with unbelievably massive advantages in every aspect of life. You can have this privilege too! Your brain damage can be reversed, with time.
No worries! I figured you just got a bit overcommitted, as I do all the time trying to publish as widely as possible while still holding down a paid job. Hopefully it turned out ok... was running against the email limit length so I kept things brief at the end!
[also feel free to drop the opening picture of Brandon if you think there’s any risk of copyright issues... I’m pretty clueless about such things]
>That’s the problem with Twitter. Makes everyone look a lot worse than they are.
I agree with you. An interesting related debate is whether Twitter makes people look smarter or dumber than they are (naval says smarter in the tweet below), but I think if anything you only look smarter to your ingroup on Twitter. Low context makes it much harder to look smart to your out group because they can easily assume the worst of you instead of taking the time to fill in the details of what you actually think.
https://twitter.com/naval/status/1619867277410865152?s=46&t=BovcUuvX5Ip_zzmmhRb9Rg
Still very weird to think that all these strange people are actually existing in NYC, and don’t simply live in my phone! I guess I just need to meet more Twitter ppl offline lol
was surprised to find yarvin like that irl too, knowing his tone online. guess in person does hit differently, to your point
I like these articles of yours a lot. The romantic in you shines forth quite brightly, which makes the piece all the more pleasant (I'm a bit of a romantic myself—or maybe I just have an affinity for it). I think the title is also true, and you do a wonderful job in typical DF fashion stepping through that with your first-hand experience.
This was a great start for my Monday.
Glad you had a good time.
The discussion of an in-person party is proof that this post is insufficiently online! It ruins my immersion to think that you, or any of these people actually exist in real life. (Not that I've heard of any of them except for Moldbug, FMC, and Pink.)
I met anna & dasha after one of their shows, they move and talk in a charming way that images (and even film) don't get across very well. I think that's the case with most people. The screen is not a mirror, it's a shadow play we've agreed to suspend disbelief in.
The title was nice and then the post made me sad. Maybe wistful? Parties are weird. I got older and can’t handle drinking anymore. Instead I just get obsessed with my at-home routines and find it impossible to imagine socializing at a place like you described. But I also miss when that kind of event felt super normal. Parties always made me feel warmer towards other people, but would typically end in feeling worse about myself for some reason.
Miss you on twitter, but you seem to be doing well off of it.
We stan "having courage but still stumbling due to social awkwardness" KD.
Sincerity is good, actually. :-)
You’re a daily dose of restoring faith in humanity, DF.