🧵 — Lulie (@reasonisfun)

“That one friend in college who insisted that the purpose of life, the way to be truly happy, was to become one's own platonic ideal. "What", he said, "is the most [his name] thing I could possibly do? Then I should do that." I _thought_ this was a joke. 1/”

working harder, getting increasingly heated/angry, past a threshold where its not working, will typically make things worse. everything gets more knotted and tense. overwhelming the bottleneck https://t.co/EP69fo5ZwE— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) June 9, 2023

most people will agree that it's good to play long games, but in the short run people do often get flustered or critical when you seem to don't have much to show for it. this is understandable. it's part of why so few people persist all the way through. the dip is disheartening pic.twitter.com/UUJi4fvnUC— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) May 28, 2023

Adler: the strongest person in our culture is the baby. The baby rules over the adults with his weakness. And it is because of this weakness that nobody can control him— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) September 6, 2018

I’m going to talk about therapy.The world needs more high-profile people to talk about it, help normalize it, explain why it’s good, and remove the stigma surrounding it. I have what, like 70k followers? That’s enough to start getting the message out there.— Yishan (@yishan) November 5, 2022

someone asked me for a reading list of my threads about increasing agency, so here are some...— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) May 25, 2022

A thing that's slightly counterintuitive about social reality, and particularly internet social reality, is that "Dunbar constraints" don't apply. You can radically change your experience by radically changing the way you behave and the people you talk with. Make alts, etc— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) October 9, 2018

so like, a lot of people are shitty managers of their own brains. i'm sorry its true. it's not even really your fault, you weren't taught better. this species is a fractal of shitty management all the way up and down.and all the cliches of bad managers apply internally as well— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) June 9, 2021

this is true for people IRL, too. the best thing I learned from my ex-boss wasn't any single insight or truism, but *his way of being*. He's calm in the face of conflict & difficulty, sincerely believe that it's possible to know things, and do things, and to change for the better— visakan veerasamy (@visakanv) October 9, 2018