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Heart Sunk as reply to no answer

Drew

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He left the restaurant the bell dung behind him. The wind waited for him to turn the corner, and then blasted his face. He could feel his cheeks reddening, and was thankful to get into his car. He turned it in on and waited. Turned his radio on. Searching the...

Interesting as reply to free spirit

Drew

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The next morning Alan's mom woke up before the boys. They snored, and she crept around it was 7am. Her coffee machine was timed to start brewing thirty minutes before. She poured it into a thermos, and got into the car. She knew that only by the time she got...

Seen as reply to in the future, he'd remember

Drew

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He read something last night. Maybe it was on Instagram or Twitter , where you don’t remember like the top writer or the top football player, but you remember a good teacher or a good coach. These people you read about don’t really matter it’s the people who are close...

Westcity
lights out as reply to Magic

Abraham Kim

Twitter vape

He took one puff of the magic. Then another. Max immediately craved a third. Could something be called magical if its powers waned this quick?

His lips wrapped over the vape . Then all he could see was the purple glow. The room had gone black. Suddenly it was very quiet....

I don't care if you quit Twitter

I DON'T CARE THAT YOU DON'T CARE THAT I DON'T CARE THAT YOU DON'T CARE THAT I'M QUITTING TWITTER!

Brian Ball will be on

forever!

Hipsters as reply to cloud town

Drew

Twitter hipsters

Will road in the car an old suit, and his Dads old tie. The cloud factory to his left he looked at it.

Yeah good to see you too!

The cloud factory was silent. He was cold, and the heat was blasting pushing away some condensation on the windshield. He leaned...

idling as reply to Chill

Abraham Kim

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Hector watched the cortisol infused rats scuttling around.

People had places to be. And they had to have been there ten minutes ago. deadline s were past due. And the coffee was no longer hitting. Though they still needed the coffee. That was not up for discussion. Even when the caffeine...

Westcity
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It happened quick. He never saw it coming. Never saw it happen even. In the movies you got to see how people mourned you. How your death brought people together even for just a weekend.

But in real life you just died. Went into the darkness. No way to see or...

a dumb man

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He was a dumb kid. That's what everyone said. Rocks for brains. And they were probably right. He'd given up on school by the time he was ten years old when his report card started coming home with Ds and Cs rather than just Cs.

Not all of them, but several...

a smart man

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He had good grades in college. Wasn't just one of those book smart kids, but actually had a decent head. Decent, but not great. He knew he wasn't the type to be able to start his own business and get rich. So he graduated and got a job.

At his job...

Westcity
podunk as reply to The Pink House

Abraham Kim

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"Are we going to knock on all these doors?"

"Yes."

"Why? There must be a better system?"

"There isn't. It's not like the old days when everybody watched the same few channels."

"What about Twitter ?"

"Twitter? What about it?"

"Can't we tweet it there and get it trending?"

"Just how many followers do you think our...

Westcity
a 36 year old

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Except for one month, I wrote everyday for 12 years. I remember vividly the winter afternoon I stopped such a habit. It was a few days after my 36th birthday. I'd taken the day off from work. And just like on any day off from work I had been lazily...

The burden of Baz - I

He is on

just search for him by his name Basile Samel.

He's started some projects that were in support of writing, then shifted into some productized service where his team wrote technical articles for yoru company to boost seo engagement.

but now i believe he's working full-time trying to support entrepreneurship at the Cat farm -- which is an alternative living place.

Heat Zombies II as reply to Heat Zombies

Abraham Kim

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You would check Twitter where other likeminded folks would be complaining about the current apoclypse . The narrative had done a 180 since last week. Back then all the educated office workers -- many of them not in the office anymore -- were proclaiming the tragedy of the zombies. How...

this is your cue to lean in

I realized only after reading these comments that I asked the wrong question lol. But I was happy to receive those answers anyways as they interest me as well.

My cues are scrolling through

and

even after I've already gone through the entire chronologically ordered timeline.

However my question I meant to ask was... not about the cues but what are you resisting leaning into?

So much for Elon's takeover of Twitter

What happened to

not wanting

to buy it initially?

"Want to catch a movie this Friday?"

"No. I'm too busy and i don't like you."

"Okay. I'll go play pinball by myself."

"Hey wait! You need to take me to the movies this Friday. Or you need to pay me 100 bucks!"

Today reflections

Seen a lot of 12 step courses on

that promises to make you 100,000 recurring a month passive.

The courses only cost like 30 bucks, maybe you should start there?

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context

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No action is ever out of the question.

There is always a proper place and time for anything.

Take a man's daughter from him

and threaten to kill her

but give him a chance to slit your throat

and he will.

When looked at like this

life is less about the individual

and more about the setting.

But who...

Fiction Tennis, Volley 16 as reply to Fiction Tennis, Volley 15

Abraham Kim

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Dempsey was pounding the Apple Magic Keyboard connected wirelessly to his iMac when the door flung open. How could such a beautiful sight stir such fright in him. Had she found out about last night's escapade?

"Babe. What the hell is going on?"

He took his hands off the keyboard and moved...

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V2

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V2 rocket program.

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon .

A novel inspired by a single concept. That sprawled into an entire web of stories.

All coming from one human, timeless value: fear .

The ICBM will take less than half an hour. It will arrive with no sound. It's probably better if...

Money
financial-idiot.blog - Fresh from the Press

Philipp Haidenbauer

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A few minutes ago, I was sitting on the toilet when suddenly an idea struck. I finally had a name for my not-yet created money / financial newsletter .

Without further ado, I introduce: financial-idiot.blog No, there isn't a landing page yet, nor is there anything other.

The idea struck me,...

permission to do nothing

I've been meaning to recommend you check out

.

This article now gives me a specific thing to send your way:

https://twitter.com/theChrisDo/status/1486986486561927171

It's for a

Space titled Why Boredom Is Important For Creativity- Biz Fundamentals

ps: twitter space is just

but on Twitter.

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And, not Or

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The promise of web 3.0 or web3 is cool. Basically it argues for a shift in the way our digital infrastructure is organized so that not only the investors/founders/creators have equity and profit from that infrastructure but also the users.

There's great power in the idea of feeling like a user...

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Before the commitment

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For me the worst part about the internet is the best feature: infinite access to information.

By this point in my life I've figured out and accepted that the best type of day is not the kind that starts with consuming. It doesn't matter how good the podcast is or how...

Abe's Blog
Networking

Twitter Eminem

Something about networking events makes you act different. Especially when around someone super successful. You start trying to think of interesting things to say. You begin feeling like the beginning lines of Eminem 's Lose Yourself.

I've been around that rodeo enough now that I catch myself. You don't need...

Flash Fiction Practice
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This was before web 2.0 . You didn't surf the net expecting most your information to come from one of the bigs like Facebook or Twitter . Instead you would visit these horribly designed websites with no sense of topography and often light-yellow or pitch black backgrounds. Something about that...

100 LLC
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My Twitter feed consisted mostly of what people would consider "money twitter". Tim Ferriss and Joe Rogan type of content. Libertarian, respectful of classical education while simultaneously prowling for new hacks, and bullish on individualism type of influencers and content.

Anyways, a trope on my feed was this idea that...

too much distractions.

and we know what the other thing is.

Calling mom to make sure you tell her that you love her.

Thinking for yourself is a tough one. Because it's so important yet at the same time the only way to think well for oneself is to be open to changing the way one thinks based on others'... especially wiser ones than us.

experience is a great one. I think often we delude ourselves into thinking we are getting a lot of experience.. but we're just scrolling through

head nodding at things we already knew/experienced.

Flash Fiction Practice
Drift

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I once watched two people fall in love and it made me sad. One of them was my roommate, and I was sad because when it happened, I didn't feel anything.

We had all gone to high school together... somehow we were living in the same house. Ivan, the guy, fell...

Flash Fiction Practice
She waited eagerly

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She waited eagerly. Everyday. Especially when walking under the summer sky on her walks, wondering what this winter would be like.

She secretly hoped that COVID would be worse this year. That it would be bad enough that her university would let her work from home again.

She wanted this...

Keni and Brandon have you heard anything about Magnesium. It's currently a big thing with a lot of guys on the Church of

who claim that it's been great for their mood and sleep.

At some point, it's time to stop listening to advice

===

Jesus

More than decent

I honestly can't claim any horizon projects because I'm not working on anything at the moment that I have outcome based expectations for yet.

I do have general expectations for continuing to develop the world of

and the characters within it... which I'm doing in the "I found the diaries of Greco" series, but even with that I see it more as practice than a thing I'm horizoning.

Let me know if I'm thinking of horizon projects different than you. I'm interpreting it as the biggest, active project that you are planning to complete.

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Similarly to the saving hte best part for later fallacy that writers make, I think you should just write it through. Write it through because then the real part begins. Finding what's wrong with it and why it sucks.

Most writers seem to do a better job with fixing bad writing then creating bad writing. Most writers refuse to write bad stuff so they sit with their phone in their hands staring at

or

or motiviational

videos instead.

Trust me, your story's going to suck really bad. No matter how great you think it is in your head. So get it out and then let's make it good.

I touch on this in

Rewriting is easier than writing

Also recommend the article that's mentioned in that post. In fact just read that.

Documenting Adagia
Corners as reply to Internet Corners

Abraham Kim

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Even the big spaces like Twitter have their own corners within them. The difference between big places and small corners though is that the latter continues to design intentionally for the specific corner crowd.

Product Hunt and Angel List was designed specifically from the get-go for a niche case. A...

Somebody who works at Balloon House Magazine
Unfair

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Later while alone it what I wanted when around Jeannie became clear. It went beyond her flesh, past the mere material -- just as how the story of a book is worth more than the ink and paper that contain it,

I'd been daydreaming too much about my meetings with...

200 Words a Day
What makes a legend?

Tim Subiaco Twitter legend

Tim Subiaco will always be a legend to me. He was one of the rare members who wrote fiction everyday. Almost all the other people couldn't manage it. They either were like me and got stuck by the allure of writing the more easy nonfiction or they just stopped showing...

Truth always comes out

Have you ever seen the

film

Mulholland Drive

?

If not can you make that the next film you do watch?

And I mean deliberately watch. Not one tab on movie another tab on

while looking at something about

s on your phone watching.

I am starting to think that the things that make a business successful - boils down to the basic things that most of us need on an individual level.

Boom that's all it is. Organizations/businesses are there simply because it proved to be the best way to deliver some type of affect to humans. As in

said it best that he was never trying to found a company when founding

. It just got to the point where having a company was the only way to get Twitter to operate at the scale needed.

Now this is not to say that all incumbent businesses are pure and holy. Often the environment will be conducive to the growth and sustanence of lackluster organizations. This is where disruption is possible.

I liked your list a lot. For some reason it motivated me a lot. It made me go take a walk this morning instead of just looking through

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Welcome to America

Warren Buffett cataracts Twitter

If you're lucky you'll get to live long enough that your lens' grows cloudy. It doesn't matter how sharp your base vision is before this gradual formation. Even if you were seeing 20/8 (the accepted max visual acuity for humans) the world will still appear obscured to you through cataracts...