👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
fight the urge to clean up the past; what happened happened, in all its messiness. use that discomfort as drive to clean up your future instead.
"I prefer to rebase instead of merging, to make the history cleaner" is the VCS equivalent of retroactively rewriting ur life narrative to be untrue, but consistent; the messy history is more honest, but it gives us visceral discomfort, as we like to believe ourselves rational.
the smarties are invaluable in that 1% of situations where the difficult approach is the right one; you can't teach someone how to be smarter, but you can teach them how to be more clever.
staffing an organization is a balancing act between intelligence and practicality.
when faced with a too-difficult problem, they try to route around it, all too aware of their limitations. this is usually the right answer, as the difficult thing is rarely the right thing to do. descending the ease gradient often leads us to a passable solution.
my smartest colleagues tend to be a bit... dumber, in practical terms. they prod just a bit too deep into the wrong questions, empowered to do so by their intellect; they get stuck trying to solve irrelevant difficult problems. the more normal ones, however, cleverly avoid this.
the problem with sharp minds is that they tend to get stuck where blunter ones don't
this is a dualistic qualia believer subtweet
some of yall really be treating argument from failure of imagination as legit huh
just realized I'm mutuals with my mom (on main). big step for our relationship
as usual, if you recognize any of these traits in yourself, I encourage you to consider where you might lie on the spectrum; it's ok to decide that you're a little autistic without a doctor telling you so, I promise. it might help you make sense of some of your patterns, too.
autism is fundamentally about sensory sensitivity and disregulation, how deeply one is able to perceive the world, and how unable they are to handle that depth of perception. everything else is downstream of neurology.
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y'all seen Atypical? its this Netflix show about an autistic high schooler and his various struggles. I've seen it around but only just watched the first episode; it's wild how relatable it is, tbh. I'…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1425298091813523456
I've previously described my perspective in a very similar way, including the "social simulation" aspects Sasha mentions. we act normal... because we learned how to do it
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sufficiently advanced autism is indistinguishable from just being competent
many people IRL don't actually believe me when I tell them i'm an aspie; i'm too sociable, too perceptive, too "normal"
thats bc i've sunk much effort into learning to be …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1397985417639698432
great article, highly relatable; matches my own experience quite well, down to the smallest details. so many more of us are slightly autistic (aspie) than is commonly believed; autism is a spectrum everyone is somewhere on, rather than a discrete disorder.
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Hi, I'm slightly autistic, I wrote this about being slightly autistic https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/on-being-slightly-autistic
https://twitter.com/sashachapin/status/1453086069616898051
what do you believe? when nobody is watching, what do you believe?
we can have a little petty posting as a treat it's fine
personally, if i were to preach at others, I would first ensure my own house was in order, so as not to be a. forced to bifurcate my own mind to protect my self image, and b. one day potentially be exposed as a hypocrite
but y'all do y'all. free country apparently
corporations are memes writ large upon the world; springing fully formed from the minds of men, neuronal activation patterns turned socioeconomic
tend to your memetic gardens, lest you let some weed take root; one never knows which may escape and wreck havok upon the world
