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[Tyler is finishing a book, slow to reply @TylerAlterman]

Amongst dancers, it’s well known that there’s a pre-dance that you have to do before each time you dance. You have to bear 10-30 minutes of dancing in a way that feels awkward before you really hit your groove

If you didn’t know about the pre-dance phenomenon, then you might give up dancing at minute 7, right before you were about to hit your groove

I find that anything involving creativity is like this, from writing to schmoozing at a party to working through my own complex emotions

If you don’t know that all these things require an awkward pre-dance, then you lose confidence too early. You conclude that you’re “just not a creative person.” You give up or start using an AI instead of your own internal ocean of untapped intelligence

[Tiago Forte @fortelabs]

This TikTok video has been living rent-free in my head for weeks, especially now after all the AI slop short-form video announcements

Piggybacking off a NYT piece (which appropriately I haven’t read) he argues that better, sharper brains and deeper levels of human experience are the new luxury goods

The ability to engage in long-form reasoning has become a rare skill. It’s the ability to shield yourself from attention span fragmentation, while the poor get increasingly addicted to screens

This new class of luxuries include: focus, literacy, memory, mindfulness, silence, emotional regulation, interpersonal connection, calm, nature, health, clarity, slowness, self-acceptance, learning, self-reflection, self-control, info hygiene, cognitive dignity, and community

This is deeper than thinking inequality; it’s inequality in levels of human consciousness, which will increasingly separate the rich and poor

[Tyler is finishing a book, slow to reply @TylerAlterman]

Once upon a recent time there existed the "culture class." This consisted of bohemian artists, intellectuals, and the rich kids who funded & hung out w them

This culture class was responsible for sceniuses such as Warhol's Factory, Gertude Stein's salon, the Algonquin Round Table, Bloomsbury Group, etc etc. They're called the culture class because they used to *create* our culture

There are lots of reasons the culture class is producing sceniuses at a rapidly declining rate. In particular, most of the culture class has gotten eaten by political ideologies that make people worse at thinking and creating

But that's an old story. I want to address to remnants of the culture class that haven't been ideologically captured. Listen up

To you who remain, I say this: TRAVEL LESS

The members of the culture class who remain are addicted to travel. "Want to perform your dance piece at my showcase?" "Can't, sorry, I'm doing a residency in Virginia" "Come join my writing group?" "I'm away for a workshop series all summer"

My feeling is that people are trying to find magic elsewhere rather than take agency for producing it at home. But that magic elsewhere is ephemeral

This constant traveling makes it impossible to build the sort of community that leads to scenius. Stein Salon met every Saturday. Bloomsbury Group met twice per week (once for writers/philosophers & once for artists). Algonquin Round Table ate lunch *every weekday* (plus a Saturday poker night)

If you want to change the world, you need collaborators. If you have those, you need to make regular, in-person contact with them your top priority. Start now

[rohit @krishnanrohit]

Just learnt about this concept. How did I not know this before, it describes so much of tech life.

[Tyler is finishing a book, slow to reply @TylerAlterman]

I see a lot of people try to create parties, meetups, clubs, classes, etc and...give up. They get defeated by:
(a) no-shows: no one comes
(b) blow-shows: they fail to get the types of attendees that they want – eg not enough women, not enough quality speakers, too many lemurs, etc.

The main reason for no- & blow-shows is a failure to understand that – especially early on – invitations need to be *high touch* to get the ppl you want in the room. That typically means more direct, personal invitations + more frequent reminders

Hosts need to have empathy for potential attendees. They might be plagued by:
• Busy schedules
• Emotional drama
• The cultural ADHD we all have now
• Gazillions of notifications (your Partiful notification might be one of 100+ notifs they get that day)

So if you end up with no-/blow-shows, it doesn't mean that no one likes you & you're a terrible failure. It often just means: you need to be more proactive

By way of illustration, I think my friend Alex Simon puts in the amount of work necessary to create a successful new thing

She's creating a school for adult emotional learning called Lifeshop. Tonight I'm going to one of her classes on "How to Stop People Pleasing." It wouldn't be on my calendar if it weren't for her high-touch approach. She:
• Posted about Lifeshop in my groupchat of NYC friends, her mailing list, and other mailing lists I follow
• Texted me about this class in particular, bc she knows its a subject that interests me
• Followed up 12 days later when I didn't reply
• Then followed up again with "see you tonight?" when I told her that I wanted to come

Other high-touch approaches I've seen work:
• Ask people if they have any friends they want to invite (& possibly incentivize them with free tickets)
• Assign roles to the people that you especially want there. (I'm much more likely to attend if it's my job to give a talk, set up, clean up, greet people, etc.)
• Spread out ownership: invite people to be cohosts or coplanners. They're more likely to then invite their own networks

(What approaches am I missing? Let me know)

This high-touch approach might sound like a lot of work, but you (mostly) only need to do it at the start of something new. This is when people are still building the *habit* of attending your things

May your social containers be well-attended!

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

one of the classic symptoms of ADHD is the ability to focus — but only on what you find interesting. that isn't a pathology, that's a personality, and adderall isn't medicine. it's a drug we use to turn young, thoughtful men into robots.

[rohit @krishnanrohit]

This wins the internet

[turbz @nicktorba]

@_cturner works for adults too

[turbz @nicktorba]

i just want something to dedicate my life to, that is all

[turbz @nicktorba]

@nickcammarata everybody is scared to die more than ever

[turbz @nicktorba]

a great test for your app idea is, when you find that the thing already exists, are you going to download it and use it or are you sad that it already exists and just drop it?

[turbz @nicktorba]

@NickADobos so good

[turbz @nicktorba]

i mean there's just something so insane about having a completely stranger alter your body with power tools

[turbz @nicktorba]

watching my dentist remove my wisdom teeth yesterday is the most fun i've had in years

[turbz @nicktorba]

@__drewface I did the same for the longest time. It looks better but long hair is such a vibe

Be ready for distant relatives and acquaintances to need a few extra seconds to register who you are

[turbz @nicktorba]

@kneelingbus @kaseyklimes I started my answer thinking «highly motivated» and then realized I mainly meant « highly motivated to get out of the house and do things/meet people » and ended up in the same place

[turbz @nicktorba]

@TylerAlterman Also if I didn’t already stare at a screen working all day I’d probably be more willing

[turbz @nicktorba]

@TylerAlterman I’ve been on the same fence and have avoided it for the same reason.

Most of the reactions I’ve heard from others are the « it was so sick» variety but not like « it changed my life », which obv it doesn’t have to do that, but 100 hrs is a lot