Dan Barrett

I write about art, mental models, entrepreneurship, and productivity. Musician: HAVE A NICE LIFE, Giles Corey, Black Wing.

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Bend your rules before you break your rules

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Everything is exhausting

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Happiness is imaginary.

So stop obsessing about it

Imagine you already have it

And move on

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The “right side of history” is essentially defined by being empathetic to those who are suffering when you are not.

Sooner or later

It comes back around

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Meaningful Tweet:

Comedians are Jokesters

But Politicians

Are Clowns

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Most important question to answer each week:

“Did I do what I set out to do? If not, why not?”

You either adjust your future expectations (and thus feel better on average)

Or remove constraints (thus performing better on average).

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Predicting the future is a sucker's game.

An infinity of ways to be wrong
Only one way to be right.

Better to make it so that the future doesn't matter.

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You’re always optimizing for something.

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We are flattening the world

And it’s making us miserable.

We’d rather be anxious in a world we can manipulate than live with the uncertainty of the real.

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Everything is exhausting

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If at all possible you should be friends with someone who embarrassed you with their productivity

Tim is that person, for me

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Opportunity cost is a slippery one.

Easy to string yourself along on things that aren’t working simply because they might work…someday.

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I’ve been tweeting about a lot of nerdy stuff. Stats, rationality, whatever.

Make no mistake

I want to fuck the world up.

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The less validation you can get by with, the more powerful you become

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Nobody believes what they tweet.

Nobody

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Typing out

and then deleting

hot takes

un-tweeted

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If at all possible you should be friends with someone who embarrassed you with their productivity

Tim is that person, for me

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I like to call it BET-Coin because you are BETting that the price will go up send tweet

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So, hey. I’m the first to admit - I don’t know a TON about NFTs.

But I do know a bit about market bubbles.

And while I am 100% for anything that gets artists paid...

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Opportunity cost is a slippery one.

Easy to string yourself along on things that aren’t working simply because they might work…someday.