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visa @visakanv.com · 10/04/2023

the secret ingredient to almost everything good is simply giving a shit

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Ilya Farber @nihilfit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Or as @visakanv.com used to say at the old place:

Visa tweet: “focus your time and energy on what you want to see more of”

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Neq @nequals001.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

@visakanv.com has a thread about psychofauna: xcancel.com/visakanv/sta... www.visakanv.com/blog/psychof...

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I likve @visakanv.com's description:

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John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 25/04/2026

The best part of TPOT was the catchphrase "focus on what you want to see more of".

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visa @visakanv.com · 23/04/2026

does it feel like bsky still gets new waves of people fleeing X, or does that feel like it’s been done for a while?

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John Stokvis @johnstokvis.com · 18/04/2026

@visakanv.com‘s description of good work having “an idea in the car” echoes the feeling of reading a lot of AI writing. The human impulse towards efficiency strips all the dynamic life from the writing. Lots of interesting parallels between the photocopier and LLMs as well, prob not a coincidence.

xerox'd flowers °
When my work does well, it's usually because the idea was driving. But then I get cocky, or arrogant, and think, "I was there. I was involved. That was successful. should drive this time." And it doesn't work, because there's no idea in the
car.
visakanv

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visa @visakanv.com · 07/04/2026

I’d been shampooing my whole life and yet never thought to do it in a way that was physically pleasurable. (New post: open.substack.com/pub/visakanv...

open.substack.com

if it pleases you

Bentham: Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure...

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John Stokvis @johnstokvis.com · 07/03/2026

Absolute gem in @visakanv.com‘s FAN. To paraphrase: Ppl who are blindly confident are unlikely to worry about being blindly confident So if you worry about being blindly confident, you likely don’t need to worry about it as much as you do (esp if worrying holds you back from doing what want to do)

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John Stokvis @johnstokvis.com · 08/03/2026

(Re-)reminder to stop writing for everyone and write for someone instead, whoever that someone is for you (for me). Via @visakanv.com

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Bobbie Chen @bobbiechen.com · 04/10/2025

Which is not to say we're all doing basic research, but I think it's much happier to reserve time for seemingly-unimportant work. It helps thread the needle of the @visakanv.com meme that lives in my head:

A depiction of Odysseus sailing between Scylla and Charybdis. One side is labeled "life is devastatingly meaningless", while the other is labeled "life is excruciatingly meaningful". Odysseus's boat passes through the middle, labeled "ayy lmao"

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visa @visakanv.com · 13/06/2025

two more new posts visakanv.substack.com

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visa @visakanv.com · 14/05/2025

been sleeping all day and I can’t quite tell if I’m sick. I want to be optimistic but realistically I’m probably in denial lol

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 12/05/2025

I ran into my piano teacher on the street today and he shook my hand and said, “Go practice.”

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B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) @b-cavello.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

“if project management is the meta of doing work, then managing your psychology is the meta of project management” 🔥💯🙌

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John Stokvis @johnstokvis.com · 28/03/2025

There’s a throughline in these 3 seemingly disparate @visakanv.com tweets: specificity. Lots of latent fears prevent people from being specific: - of loneliness - of rejection - of failure Counterintuitively the opposite is true. Specificity makes connection, acceptance, and success more likely.

people tend to think "It's unrealistic if not impossible to make a living doing what you love" because their model assumes you're not going to talk to 100,000 people
but once you have a decent-enough product that even 1% of people like, then it's just a matter of distribution

whenever I try to put together some kind of
"master resource" it almost always ends up being overwrought and tedious
when | write something like a personal recommendation doc for a friend, it almost always ends up being useful for other people and way easier to share too

imo: if you email an author about a very specific bit of their work, and tell them a short story of how precisely that work affected you, and the before/after of how that changed something in your life, you'll instantly be in the top 0.1% of emails they've loved receiving

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erica robles anderson @ericara.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I woke up thinking about the internet. In my lifetime, billions of people began communicating with one another across the planet, daily. It is hard to overstate the significance of this shift for our species.

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visa @visakanv.com · 10/03/2025

Twitter breaking for anyone else? >_>

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visa @visakanv.com · 02/03/2025

Introspect .epub is now live! gum.co/introspect

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visa @visakanv.com · 26/02/2025

new post open.substack.com/pub/visakanv...

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John Stokvis @johnstokvis.com · 09/12/2024

This point from @visakanv.com reminds me of the classic @romanmars.bsky.social axiom: "Always read the plaque." Because they're both talking about the same thing: context. Context has always been important, but even more so in a world with the internet full of hot takes and context collapse.