been thinking for a few days about how there’s a certain kind of critic that doesn’t make stuff — and his criticism “develops” in a certain way that can become very complex and even frighteningly persuasive, but is *fundamentally* mistaken or “not even wrong”
this is a part of it - it’s one of the necks of the hydra - and there’s another way of looking at it. less about resources and more about... processes? procedural intel, project management... https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1113154447050334208
many people look at things that suck and insult them loudly for being sucky. and then they say they want to make great things but they don’t know how. the thing is that to make great things you first have to make things that suck, and suck a lot, repeatedly, and manage that
an older friend once told me about a sort of crisis moment he had in his youth when it really weighed on him how “contaminated” almost information is, and it’s kinda getting to me too rn. not quite a crisis but a sort of ominous feeling/rerealization
was talking with another friend yesterday about how people misunderstand each other’s feelings and intentions... and some version of this plays out in every domain. it’s a mystery anything works at all, so much of everything is broken telephone hearsay
everything starts out scrappy and we do ourselves a disservice when we pretend otherwise https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1155820325357010944
a reccuring class of well-intentioned but bad advice I get from people who don’t make YouTube videos is to make my videos look more professional

My friends who have successful channels never tell me to do this bc they know better

the right priority is to keep making videos https://twitter.com/destraynor/status/1087398748479733760
you can reverse engineer this advice to understand where it’s coming from, it’s a systemic misunderstanding, like thinking the sun goes around the earth

successful channels look glitzy

but it’s not the glitz that made them successful

it’s success that afforded them glitz
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