Efficiency is lack of guile. ☀️
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Coat retweeted
my best study tip: never take notes, never revise unless you want to; forget, pass, fail, it is all one in the end. corpses, all of us.
The best study tip I have ever gotten was from my dad. One evening, teenaged me got frustrated while making a study sheet (remember those homework assignments?) because mine was quickly becoming a hodgepodge of splotchy left-handed scribbles — the polar opposite of the neat exemplar that I was given in class. As someone who always got, “Your handwriting is too messy -5,” from teachers, I looked at the chaos spreading across the page and felt defeated.
Dad saw my distress and calmly said, “Just write down anything that you want to remember. It doesn’t matter if you’ll even be able to read it later, it’s the act of writing it down that matters.”
Learning how true this is changed my perspective on a lot of things — including most study tips.
Coat retweeted
Set the intention, “I want to be in love.”
With someone, something.
Provides orientation that aligns thoughts and actions without much discipline.
Generates intoxicating visions for the future that spur action.
Unrequited love is an advantage sometimes. Lasts a good few years.
“The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual distinction is surely acceptable to God.
But, as in the case of Abraham's offering of his son Isaac, the sacrifice itself is not always finally required. What is required is obedience.”
— A Chance to Die, Elisabeth Elliot
Coat retweeted
The phone is so addictive that it’s the first potentially harmful technology I can remember where a majority of parents just… don’t seem to care. Because they’re all using it too. Remember when programming and hours spent on TV was a big deal to parents? Seems so quaint now
Coat retweeted
not to be glib about what is really a serious issue, but if you are starting to be fatigued by the abundance of transparently false alarmism being propagated by otherwise respectable people, i would encourage you to revisit the issue of nuclear weapons with your new perspective
Coat retweeted
It's maybe a little sad to think that 'My Immortal' was possibly one of the last great pieces of social satire.
Coat retweeted
Sorry, I wasn't trying to spread "trans rhetoric" by saying "corpo bad". I really do mean it. Sure, you can run a private group but how difficult is organic reach and user acquisition compared to 2016? IMHO it's two orders of magnitude more difficult!
A decade ago, for niche groups you could almost always find a few stragglers lurking around the corner, willing to listen to your view and maybe contribute a few paragraphs after reading the required material. This is because there wasn't a deluge of introductory material on the internet, and there wasn't a tide of "influencers" warping and corrupting that introductory material to sell courses.
Woke *was* a problem. Saturation is a much larger issue and more difficult to solve. A fifteen year old in 2015 needed two or three jumps to reach reading material and communities that were out-of-band crazy and useful. In 2026, it's not even close to three jumps. It's twenty jumps and a personal message from a small community that gets you in, and even after all that, you're not very sure if that new member will stick around. The threshold of neuroticism and openness necessary to escape low-level info bombardment is way too high. LLMs make this worse and I really don't see how any of this would improve even if we had no woke.
The internet in 2026 makes people run around in circles if they venture too far from the center and it is killing culture.
Coat retweeted
Your feed is full of users that are "verified", aka they pay to gain visibility.
Use this snippet with Stylus to highlight users that have lower visibility (and better tweets!)
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background-color: #24113f !important;
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Coat retweeted
A players hire A players. B players hire C players. But if you have a critical mass of A players, one of them will spontaneously transform into a D player, which preys on A players but whose excreta gradually turn C players into B players. Each player tells the truth with some pr
