i appreciate the many ways in which people on twitter are cutting through bullshit and just saying what they really believe. there's an unbelievable amount of bullshit out there and it's a tremendous service to others to point it out
i follow people who outwardly seem different and are preoccupied by different things but i think if there's one thing they have in common it's this reverence for truth and disgust for untruth (lies and bullshit). all contributing to the project of communal sensemaking 🙏
you don't even have to be right. nothing wrong with making honest mistakes, i've made plenty of those, you learn from those. the question is which signals you want to amplify as a neuron in the global consciousness, so to speak
people get confused by thinking about status (in this context, internet clout) as purely a zero-sum thing. status is *for something*: the point of status is (among other things) to tell us who we're supposed to be listening to. it's how collective consciousness *prioritizes*
the reason growth-hacking / doing stuff just for clout is bad is that it's an attempt to actively subvert the ordinary operation of status as a prioritization mechanism. when you do this you are trying to become a brain cancer in the global brain
it's easy to be confused about the proper function of status because it's so obviously working *so poorly* in the world today. there are anons with less than 1k followers who obviously have much wiser things to say than world leaders. this isn't how things should be at all
on the other hand there are people you can tell have built followings off of the strength of just sincerely working to clear up clouds of confusion and help people think more sanely about their lives. @visakanv stands out as maybe the premier example that i can think of
to say this without any neural metaphors and without using the word "status": honor and glory and acclaim are supposed to be won by the brave and the clever and the wise, and these are our natural leaders, and we chafe at having leaders who we deem unworthy
relevant to @ungatedcreative i think
it would be easy to misread this as me saying "oh you have to have brilliant original thoughts to contribute on twitter" but actually i think there's enormous value in just amplifying other people's tweets that you think are valuable. people are careless with their RTs imo
i also think there's enormous value in saying boring unoriginal shit that's still true esp. if there's a lot of culture war momentum pushing against it
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