Timothy Lim

Twitter Logs Week 3 2025

  • A traumatized person often shares their story because they’re scared. They’re living with tension, confusion, & pain that they don’t know what to do with. Validating them allows them to believe they are safe. Shaming them increases their pain & gives them more to heal from.

  • this is what I mean by “most arguments are fake” or “there isn’t a fundamental disagreement”. If you try to understand both sides you’ll see this very clearly.

  • perspective is nuts btw. - “hey guys im really backed into a corner here if you have any extra work right now i’d love to take on some of your work so I can make some extra cash”. Crickets. - “I’m revolutionizing personal finance all I need is $50k” 3 meetings

  • Years ago I saw a tweet about only marrying someone you could picture divorcing and I didn’t get it, and over time realized it’s saying marry someone who will be fundamentally decent to you, even if doesn’t turn out. Someone who is incapable of nastiness even as you split.

  • Someone should take great non-copyrighted diaries and paste into a newsletter service and automate so you can get an entry per day. Really pleasant to get the feeling of living alongside people like that.

  • ok phew. so i’ve updated my blog’s Start Here page to include a starting list of posts… and then a further list of posts that have other lists of posts there’s still a bunch of dust and mess and noise around, but there’s a prevailing order that has emerged that i’m happy with

  • I notice some people continuously feel creatively blocked & then it turns out that they live alone, like, rural Ohio. I think they’re falling for the myth of individual creativity. They might be shocked by what a massive difference it makes to go join a generative scene somewhere

  • There is a kind of waiting that is simply exhausting, and a lot of people don’t realize they are spending so much time waiting [for something unseen to change]. Many of these people are not really lazy, just stuck in a local minima

  • a lot of people who claim to be exhausted all the time might be better off if they tried to do more

  • horniness and will to pussy are actually two separate axes. high horny and low WtP are gooners, worshipping the representation and rejecting reality. high WtP and low horny are pickup artists, men who lose their souls playing a dispassionate numbers game. u need both to be whole.

  • geohtz’s programming archive is gold…by just watching it you can learn how he logically solves complex problems, explaining them, use resources and docs…he has explained simple stuff like logic gates to training models on tinybox

  • Too many men started selecting for beauty, sweetness & obedience when choosing a wife and stopped considering things like tenacity, hardiness, ingenuity & battle skills as female assets & therein lies the crux of the decline of all of Western Civilization

  • “Hot women see the worst version of men.” Sadia Khan says men are constantly pursuing hot women for sex, which makes it seem as if men care about nothing but sex and will cheat etc to get it. That then makes hot women suspicious when they get into a relationship with any man.

  • David Tennant is a crazy name like your ancestor’s job wasn’t smith or miller or something it was just rentoid

  • peak travel hack: koreans LOVE food and travel a LOT. so any city you’re in, google city name + “맛집” then translate the results ywbb

  • I LOVE seeing someone’s magnum opus/the one that made them mainstream and comparing it to their earlier creations and prototypes, and seeing the evolution of their creative dna, what they were experimenting with, how they kept their signature moves, like-

  • If anyone wonders why I post the things I post, it’s because of these guys. The 23 y/o man who feels trapped by his circumstances needs to know that he can just make a change, and that the stakes are far lower than he thinks. He can ride a greyhound up to ND, flirt with a gal at a gas station, find himself a job in the sugar beet harvest, live in a wall tent in Tok, AK, read all day at a library in coastal Maine, sleep in the ditch, dumpster dive yogurt and bread, find a job on a gulf oil rig, or buy a $30k house in a random town in WV. He can join the Marine Corps, take a job as a winter range sheepherder in Nevada, sling beers at a bar in Michigan’s UP or get his class B CDL in Ajo AZ to drive the senior citizens’ bus for a decent wage. He’s got the WHOLE country at his disposal, and with a little grit and gumption, he can earn as much as he needs, with a sleeping bag, a tarp, and a few cans of beans. He can lounge by the sea or he can work doubles for months and years until he can ride back home victorious – or start a new life in some seldom-seen notch up in the mountains somewhere. He’ll find a wife, he’ll find God, he’ll get his ass beat, and he’ll have his salad days – when money’s coming out of his ears and everybody’s his friend. This isn’t some boomer myth, it’s reality – I’m 30 years old and living proof that this country can sustain you if only you take a damn RISK and do it NOW, full stop. My entire ambition in talking like this is to convince those men who ask “what’s the point of all this?” to NEVER give up and NEVER consider suicide. That’s it. I’m not talking down to people, I’m not hating – I’m giving a pep talk, and if you don’t want it, scroll on.

  • “Consilience” is the idea that all knowledge should eventually interlock, producing a unified understanding of reality. Below is a network showing this unity, as measured by co-citations. It appears the humanities never received this memo, and have now reached escape velocity!

  • My fav medium is blogs but barely anyone blogs these days replaced by IG captions, not the same #blogging

  • my latest office setup, lying down with my head on the zafu and keyboard on the seiza bench is actually a very comfortable working posture with the vertical screen and big fonts image

  • if I were a new poaster with no audience etc one thing I would do would be to draw up something like a vibe graph, charting public sentiment of popular characters over the years, updating with each new event. zuck a lil down from his peak. gaiman crashing thru the floor. etc

  • still smile when i look up this snapshot of my website from when I was 12 years old

  • the true origin of the phrase “i will never log off” – a chip log, used to estimate the speed of a vessel in water, which influenced the captain’s log, which influenced logbooks…

  • I made this so you can invalidate your hot friends opinions while telling them they are hot

  • when reading, focus less on finishing books or taking detailed notes, and more on your own creative output

  • I like this thread, chiefly because it makes me realize that most criticisms I level against automobiles can be leveled against mobility more generally. The man who spends 90%+ of his life within a 10mi radius of his home is a different sort of man from us today. The problems we know in our era are not his. His work, his family life, his faith, and his mind move at a primordial pace – silence is his; his will is constrained by ancient limitations. The man who jet-sets across oceans, speeds down highways in automobiles or on buses, races down roads on bicycles, and flies across the continent on trains is a schizophrenic man – a man who is made formless by the fact that he is bound by so few limitations of space. It should not be any wonder that “mobile man” descends into madness and godlessness – and that those for whom fixity in place is normal are the bearers of the torch of human culture and faith in God. Interesting to think about as I close on a house in a tiny, isolated village in the mountains.

  • after watching david talk about how being a miserable fuck and how it accomplishes nothing. Makes you a shell of a person. Makes you less creative it felt like he verbally broke so many curses that i needed to be broken.

  • this reminds me that when i was like 23 i took a shot at the LSAT, got into a good law school, and then was like “ok the debt vs likelihood of actually making enough good lawyer money to cover it aint worth it”

  • I keep saying this: we are not in a scientific age, most people experience the world as magic & it either works or doesn’t work. This is solvable. It’s a matter of courage, not intelligence

  • “males are more concerned with abstract rules than females are…boys have developed complex group games…and carry on debates about rules at an abstract level. In contrast, girls play less complex games, and if there is a dispute, the game ends abruptly and without resolution.”

  • Thiel did a fireside chat my freshman year (2014) of college where someone asked: “Could the next Zuckerberg be in this room?” Thiel: “He would never show up to an event like this.”

  • One reason why architecture is so important is because happiness is the accumulation of little things throughout the day. A pleasant conversation. A walk in the sun. Getting work accomplished. Eating a delicious meal with someone. Laughing. Noticing fine ornate work on buildings. “Give me the bad news all at once, give me the good news a little bit throughout the day”

  • The realy truth is that few understand anything. Attacking invisible enemies that don’t exist, using conceptual frame works that stopped working decades if not centuries ago. Blind leading the blind. But there is always hope and the future lays open for us to take.

  • Southeast Asian news be like: Malaysia: “POLITICIAN ARRESTED FOR INSULTING ISLAM” Indonesia: “12 VOLCANOES ERUPT AT THE SAME TIME” The Philippines: “CHINA CUTS ALL TIES AFTER NAVY CLASHES” Singapore: “woman worries puddle in front of her HDB is growing in size”

  • There shouldn’t be anything inherently degrading about rejection. It’s just a thing that happens sometimes and that is okay. It doesn’t feel good to have high hopes and get them squashed, but disappointment can be the extent of the bad feelings if ego is left out of it. That goes for the rejector and the rejectee ofc

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  • I’ve personally helped several hundred people with their problems at this point and one of the most widespread issues was they were previously thinking of focus or attention span as something fungible, like a commodity, when it always turns out to be more like love and caring

  • 2,000 year old seduction manual that still holds up today → The Art of Love, Ovid [book] Remedia Amoris Paola Pinotti

  • A family counselor of 50yrs told me: A strange thing happens when a child sees their father loving their mother- they feel like their father is loving them. Same thing when their mother shows affection to their father. IHO, it’s the only time a human can be loved indirectly.

  • many of you know I’m a heavy and daily user of the spaced repetition app, Anki what some of you may not know is one of my main use cases is putting photos and scenes of meaningful events from my life in there so i can occasionally think back to them and smile

  • periodic reminder that you can simply refuse to rate anybody’s attractiveness on a 10-point scale

  • 1/ This internal 2007 Nokia presentation on the first iPhone is a really good example of how incumbents actually get disrupted Oftentimes, the incumbent already knows what needs to be done. It’s just that organizational incentives inhibit the incumbent from doing it

  • The most profound shift in my relationship with emotions came when I started viewing them less as states to manage and more as visitors to host. Each feeling arrives with its own intelligence, its own temporal logic, its own way of moving through the body. Anxiety isn’t just worry - it’s a highly sophisticated threat-detection system, scanning the environment for subtle patterns my conscious mind might miss. Grief isn’t just sadness - it’s a complex process of metabolizing change, of integrating loss into the larger story of who we’re becoming. Even anger, which I spent years trying to smooth over, carries its own wisdom about violated values and crossed boundaries. There’s something liberating about treating these emotional visitors like respected guests rather than intruders to be controlled or eliminated.

  • The way I envision Google: Some manager MBA type decides a product is a good idea. Then two 130 IQ devs throw C++ at it while hundreds of 150 IQ devs pretend to work. Every day, the manager rolls three six-sided dies, and if they are all 1, they cancel the project.