twitter slightly encourages you to write "down" to an audience less sophisticated than yourself. for bell curve reasons this is the best way to maximize size of audience but it misses out on the possibility of writing for, and attracting, peers and mentors
to attract peers and mentors you need to be writing stuff that is at your personal edge, half-baked stuff you barely understand, conspiracy theories, howls in the night. writing "down" is for stuff you've finished digesting and are done with. valuable but too much is limiting
every once in awhile i come across a pretty intelligent person who has for whatever reason trapped themselves in a bubble where they're always the smartest person in the room and they constantly talk "down" which drives away potential peers and mentors, which maintains the bubble
it's an unfortunate self-fulfilling prophecy and it cuts off the growth potential of learning from others. you hate to see it Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
personally i came here sort of desperate for peers and mentors and am happy i have found so many!
personally i came here sort of desperate for peers and mentors and am happy i have found so many!
if you want an example @nosilverv strikes me as someone who is almost always writing at his personal edge and the energy of it really comes through, great shit (and i'd be honored to call him a peer if he'll have me)
the more all-caps or emojis he uses the closer he is to his edge
related
you get the audience you ask for on twitter to a sort of shocking extent. @visakanv probably has some A+ tweet about this i'm forgetting atm
ayyy
to get more personal, from my math background i got extremely used to writing and talking "down" all the time and it left a bunch of annoying tics and habits in my writing and talking style that i'm still slowly ironing out π
still have a tendency to overstate confidence
this is sort of a version of the top tweet but note that itβs written βdownβ and mine is directed to my peers
yeahhh
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