kavin

@intelligentpawg ever since i was a little boy i knew i wanted to leverage synergies across verticals

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to transform unstructured data into actionable business insights

the curse of being small on here is having takes and no one to be wrong at

bro the real fear isn’t that AI becomes conscious. it’s that it’s already the empty body without organs deleuze warned about. deterritorialized so hard there’s no body left to receive what it’s producing. infinite organs, anddd no one’s home.

@paging_cora BAPPPLEEEEE

i love that people are like “kids don’t drink anymore” & they’re talking about bougie little cocktail bars in LA or w/e sounds economic to me ‘cause all i know is, right now, it’s a big deal in my hometown that you can get busch light apple flavor at applebees for a limited time

yoshizawa is the father of modern origami. he didnt use math, he actually folded by pure intuition and trial and error until his models got so complex he had to invent a whole notation system just so people could replicate what he was doing. the system did not in fact enable the art, the art actually forced the system into existence. robert lang is physcist from nasa and is an origami legend. like one of the greatest alive imo. he folded obsessively, then used his physics background to reverse engineer why certain folds work. that's how circle packaging was born. a full computational geometry framework extracted from freestyle failures. karpathy talks about the same thing with ai. don't study the theory first. build something, break it, struggle with it. the understanding comes from the doing not the reading. the formalization is always downstream of the practice. the people who actually push a field forward aren't the ones who master the existing framework and apply it. they're the ones who outrun the framework and force a new one into existence type shi.

@tszzl bro this is deadass about the Rizzler 🤣🤣🤣. a child who the internet decided has divine charisma just from a facial expression. he is our primordial child of great power.

in comparative mythology, there is the archetype of the child god that re-emerges across time. it is possible, and indeed likely, that the “primordial child of great power” can be an object of worship even if it displays the characteristics of being “cute”

@finn_hulse the pursuit of glory can just as easily betray a lack of self confidence as the absence of it. the moment your self-worth needs an audience it stops being yours bro.

the pursuit of virtue and glory is surprisingly rare and anything less betrays a deep lack of self confidence this is because, all else equal, anyone would choose virtue and glory over alternatives so aiming for anything less suggests a lack of self belief, not a preference

underground rappers and pre-seed founders have the same job. you have a product nobody asked for and you need to make strangers care. osamason's come up is a better GTM case study than anything on a newsletter.

@tszzl the oring model assumes one productive function. but when a cognitive input drops the energy doesn't always disappear, it reroutes. most of the knowledge that's actually made me useful came from the exact moments i was failing at the thing i was supposed to be doing"

“oring theory” is true on the individual cognition level especially at high levels of skill. minor differences in energy levels, stamina, focus, emotional stability etc change what you are capable of by orders of magnitude

@DancingEddie_ start larping harvery specter ASAP

update: graduating law school does NOT immediately lead to a dm inbox full of attractive women

@signulll you can tell who's been in the reps and who's been in the notes app

i rarely if ever truly prepare for anything anymore. at some point, your entire life either becomes the preparation or it doesn’t. & if the accumulated pattern of how i think, work, notice, respond, synthesize, improvise, & stay calm under pressure hasn’t prepared me for the thing in front of me, i doubt a few frantic days/hours beforehand are going to save me. i find it way more useful to just breathe & not think about it too much.

@mert it's cause crypto people also wanna cop an eigth from their plug on the same app

I dont understand why telegram is the default msging app in crypto it is neither good at business nor privacy nor "community" if you want business, use slack if you want privacy, use signal

none of you in sf have more selvedge than me

@knveth yo chat am i muted yo chat yo chat am i muted

The concept of a 37 year old man addressing his Twitter audience as “chat” every single day

@dhruv_ nahh bruh my goal is to make so much money that i can afford to have all my boys live with me

@elkelk it's cause every alex eubank clone needs a new niche to sell you a program

@kavinn_j LMAO for real This has always been a thing why did we have to add a label to it

The worst person you know: “I like to run AND lift weights. I’m a hybrid athlete.”

@schizohustler the algorithm literally trains you to distrust your own taste. that's the real damage fr

i cannot overstate how dehumanizing writing a post for twitter's fucking algorithm is and how it makes everything slop

fair.

@fel1de foucault would've looked at linkedin impressions the same way he looked at disciplinary records. same logic, voluntary surveillance disguised as self-improvement.

@kavinn_j build in public is just the confession optimized for distribution. foucault would have had thoughts on the engagement metrics too.

foucault said the confession was the west’s central technology of power. he died before “build in public” but he called it