visakanv
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March 7th, 2024
- visakanv > solving for distribution is about refining the entrypoint or lens through which people will approach your thing
December 23rd, 2023
- visakanv recommends Lewis Thomas's Lives Of A Cell
bully-into-kindness fallacy
- one of visakanv's talking points
October 12th, 2022
- vid with visakanv
- link to MSmith metaproject vid
- Jane Jacobs point:
- "all wealth is created by specialization & trade"
- @movebetterproj
- jaws in space: twitter.com/visakanv/status/1508743828026511361
- transparency is surveillance paper
- "how would you like to be misunderstood?"
- most people
- an open letter to a specific individual gets more attention than a broadcast
- wifi tweet
my youtube channel
- visakanv suggested making my own ~10min vid just paraphrasing Jordan Hall's meta-protocol video
Podcast summaries
- 58:01 - 1:34:30 - Helping Trace arrange work through the details on his course and on us working together. me as project advisor / biz consultant / design jammer / co-visioner Intend visakanv sacred gifts self-energizing
October 15th, 2021
- visakanv will want to read this, or at least parts of it
- just bought it for him on readgift
September 20th, 2021
- sent this to visakanv and he highlighted “simply… ultimately… always…end of story” and said "If you actually cut those words out, the “kind of true” stuff reveals itself"
- result:
- > An ethical teacher is someone who gives you THE OPTION to not be in a cult dynamic with them.
But you still have to exercise it.
Related, if you’re in a cult dynamic with a teacher it’s ultimately because you lack a developed centre.
And if you’re afraid of being in a cult dynamic with someone, that’s your shit to deal with by growing some maturity as a student - not the teacher’s.
July 30th, 2021
- dream mashups salon w visakanv
- link to 2019 yearly review in dream mashups post
- "what brought you to the salon?"
- dreams are your mind making sense of stuff, trying to integrate & combine experiences
- so if you eg dream someone forgives you or apologizes, who hasn't
- that's your mind simulating whether/how such a thing could happen, in some sense
- V > the more we make it aspirational for people to live up to being this kind of adult, taking responsibility for accommodating other people, the more people will step into it
- case studies etc
- response-ability to be noticeably different from your mother
- there's a piece here of like: don't introject others projections into yourself
- that wouldn't work anyway since you don't actually have the original data they're using in the first place
- various people describing environmental stimuli
- Visa's "sunset boi"
- Luke's childhood home experiences
- intergenerational stuff
- "history is a series of dream mashups"
- "people projecting school tests onto dates & job interviews"
- dates & job interviews end up lacking in useful feedback
- V > stopgap
- Orwell: "every book is a failure"
- da Vinci: "art is never finished, only abandoned"
- imagine the first day of school, principal is like "we don't really know what we're doing"
- "you could be the best candidate and I could get it wrong"
- M > "democracy"
- wd > I like the vTaiwan project. Not aware of anything else working hard on rethinking how it’s structured
- V > you can make more difference in the world than you think
- but it requires getting outside of the childhood belief that people won't listen to you
- need to speak your words as though they have impact
- authorities have filters that keep noise out
- but you can study/model those filters and learn to get around them
- dream mashups apply to people reinforcing the constraints that were enforced on them, contextually
- "twitter is a place where people dunk"
May 23rd, 2021
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April 8th, 2021
- some good stuff from visakanv here:
February 25th, 2021
- I have thoughts on the shadow work stuff and doing it together... I'd say that like Visa said, other people can point out your shadow, and if you're in a group or partnership then other people outside that can point out your collective shadow. Pretty much always. But most of the time, it's very hard to point at the shadow clearly, because the nature of blindspots is that, well, they're hard to see from the inside! And because of projection.
- So it's important to be able to say "okay, I see you're trying to point at something. I don't really know what it is, but we can explore it and try to get more clarity." Rather than feeling like you need to immediately change or defend yourself."
- visa said something like
- > getting each person to consider how they can be a node in their own social graph
- very cool, like, tuning this subtle parameter
the point of friendliness is not to avoid conflict, but to actually create contexts that allow for deeper, more intense, prolonged conflict over the long term
- quoting visakanv
January 5th, 2021
- convo w Michael Ashcroft & visakanv
- V > talking about what people are doing wrong is what people are doing wrong
- V > Malcolm were you the one who sent me The Fifth Discipline? y
- lots of stuff there that resonates with Friendly Ambitious Nerd
- V > this tweet
- I think you can do better, in terms of stickiness
- I've been trying to do the same thing for me
- we're doing complementary things
- researching cultural institutions
- the further you zoom in on history of progress, the spikier it gets
- the big question: how do you make a scene? / a Golden Age
- capital, academia, open culture
- me: building cultural institutions on the internet
- people playing long games
- Mal > I think V you're trying to get 10s of thousands of people to be more friendly
- V > cities outlast empires
- Mal > if you've a date in Constantiople, she will be waiting in Istanbul
- so many people so despondent
- V > my partner knows she married a visionary
- marrying a guy who is burdened with trying to create a world that doesn't exist
- idea of having a ritual for people leaving jobs
- Mich > what are we inviting people to?
- V > increase in freedom, chaos