| Jan 04 |
3 ways to hijack the creative part of your brain:
1. Morning Mud
we mistakenly think greatness is clean.
Like you're supposed to wake up, meditate, cold plunge, sip green tea -- and then produce brilliant work.
Nope.
You gotta work like a pig. Wake up, and roll in the mud.
Seinfeld spent the first 2 hours of his day writing jokes. Why? because if you want great jokes, you gotta write a lot of bad jokes.
He did that everyday, for 40+ years. Less than 0.1% of those jokes ever made it into his standup set.
Quantity is the mother of quality.
b..bu..buut what about writer's block?
"there's no writers block" he said. "there IS scared. there IS lazy. But there's no writers block."
You can cure writers block like it's a simple case of the hiccups: "just sit down and accept your mediocrity"
Translation: the harder you try to be great, the more you paralyze your creativity. Instead, be willing to roll in the mud. Make bad stuff, everyday.
Ed Sheeran: "I don't try to be great. When I walk in the studio, I remind myself 'today, I must dare to suck'...you can never make a great song, if you're afraid to make a bad song"
The first 2 hours of the day. Sit down and create.
Before you check the news, twitter, and stock market. BEFORE YOU PUT ANYTHING IN YOUR BRAIN... make something.
Coders code. Writers write. Musicians play music.
It's not going to be good. It's not SUPPOSED to be good. Good comes later.
You will only be as great as you're willing to be bad.
2. Engineered Rest
If you're reading this - you work too much, and it's suffocating your creativity.
All great work is on the other side of a breakthru idea.
How do you get a breakthrough? 3 places:
1) in water
2) in motion
3) after a nap
Ever notice you get your best ideas in the shower?
That's because your brain shifts from Executive Mode (doing tasks) to Default Mode (connecting dots)
"Creativity is just connecting things" - Steve Jobs
Aaron Sorkin (writer of west wing, social network) showers 8x a day when writing scripts.
Einstein used to float on a boat without a motor at sea. The coast guard was worried he'd drift away. He said "good, more time to think"
Darwin used to go for long walks in nature. He'd kick a stone every lap. He started calling his problems "4 stone problems" and "5 stone problems"
JK Rowling came up with Harry Potter on a train.
Edison, Einstein, Salvador Dali all took very short naps, and woke themselves up (holding a key, or metal ball that would drop and clang when they fell asleep) - because the brain enters a hypogogic state which allows for creative connections.
Showers, Naps, Swimming, Walking -- these look lazy.
What's more important to you: Looking productive or being productive?
Just like athletes and bodybuilders use sleep to grow their muscles - you must give yourself permission to relax.
Clock out so your subconscious mind can clock in.
3. THINK INSIDE THE BOX
Creativity loves constraints.
Dr. Suess was an up and coming writer. His editor bet him $100 he couldn't write a book using less than 50 words.
"it was damn tough. but that's what made it fun. It gave it that bounce"
The book (Green Eggs and Ham) went on to be his all-time best selling book.
The lie we're told is that you need to "think outside the box"
If you study the great ones, you see they do the opposite. They put themselves INTO a tight box.
Fewer options. Tight deadlines. Less features.
^these are the tools of the master creators
that's just a taste, reply DM if you want me to DM you the full list
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| Jan 04 |
Morning piano practice https://t.co/o1KAnm9eye
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| Jan 02 |
RT @platopoker: Want to get excited about 2026 and plan to have an epic year! Watch the video below. @ShaanVP @JesseItzler @myfirstmilpod h…
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| Dec 31 |
guts > brains
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| Dec 22 |
RT @myfirstmilpod: “The more valuable you are, the less valuable your company is.”
@ShaanVP and @ryandeiss talk about the quiet tradeoff f…
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| Dec 17 |
annnndddd…. we’re LIVE!
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| Dec 17 |
we're doing our only LIVE show of hte year in an hour! come hang
Me, sam and steph -- THE 2025 Milly Awards
https://t.co/Egj2ykGHbm
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| Dec 14 |
They Foxconned Kyrie
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| Dec 12 |
this is my “good version” of a midlife crisis
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| Dec 11 |
Follow the account for more:
https://t.co/0Bun6uvyHb
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| Dec 10 |
watch this man: https://t.co/AcDOH2N2TJ
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| Dec 10 |
I LOVE THIS GUY
one of my favorite guests ever. billionaire injury lawyer John Morgan
If you smashed Walt Disney, Harvey Spector, and a Blu Ray DVD of Landman Season 1 together -- this is what you get https://t.co/2EGCgm1PGr
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| Dec 05 |
RT @myfirstmilpod: From having no money in his bank and living in a garage to building a $1,000,000,000 empire with a multi-million person…
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| Dec 02 |
how do i mute all chatgpt reply boys
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| Dec 02 |
My default answer to why I’m passing on an investment https://t.co/ru7yUkG42j
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| Dec 02 |
👀
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| Dec 01 |
Great hang with Ben Horowitz: the “Z” of a16z
Takeaways:
1. Confidence as a ceo. why this matters and what it looks like
2. Why most business books are awful
3. Fun stories about Zuck, solving Tupac’s murder case, etc
https://t.co/fLZ9JqUulv https://t.co/vkGccpBeqx
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| Nov 30 |
😅
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| Nov 26 |
Raising $$ is a "false positive" -- it sounds like winning, but really you're just starting.
A 'true positive' signal -- our ecom brand just hit 100k fans in a private FB group.
There's no special perks or discounts. Just a place for people who love the brand to hang out. https://t.co/fEJkVnj72N
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| Nov 26 |
RT @myfirstmilpod: We chat to @pitdesi - the most ‘interesting’ guy in tech & a $450M VC on 7 business ideas. They may or may not sound ill…
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| Nov 20 |
Did a solid 10 minutes of content on “May I Meet You™️” today https://t.co/kPelvZ2O12
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| Nov 20 |
I can’t figure out if Michael burry is a genius or if he’s a paranoid sally
Reading @michaeljburry tweets is like being in the writers room for the big short 2
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| Nov 19 |
I made a powerpoint presentation showing every business I tried (and failed at) before I finally 'made it'
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| Nov 18 |
RT @thesamparr: BE CHALANT. https://t.co/Y6evCq0Yp8
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| Nov 12 |
The first 15 mins of this had me laughing
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| Nov 11 |
Step 1 - trade luka because he's fat and injured
Step 2 - Recieve AD, who immediately gets fat, and injured
Step 3 - Luka gets skinny and is awesome
the most entertaining outcome is the most likely
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| Nov 07 |
RT @myfirstmilpod: .@awilkinson joins MFM again and tells you the best (and worst) business models to start before 2026.
Agencies, SaaS, R…
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| Nov 06 |
UPDATE from the soccer mom community -- new Starbucks limited edition cups are selling for $400-$500
Starbucks meets labubu meets stanley cup https://t.co/TWPtdAOeL1
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| Nov 05 |
"nobody's stopping you"
one of my favorite stories from @RyanQualtrics on how he built Qualtrics into a $12b+ company: https://t.co/MaR7cLCqbc
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| Oct 31 |
help me decide...
my trainer made this song with AI. Is it a:
https://t.co/FSC1JowL0O
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| Oct 30 |
@superpower check out more here: https://t.co/jb7ex4a5Ew
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| Oct 23 |
RT @ishanhaq: I wouldn’t be where I am today without the opportunity to work with @ShaanVP
I had the talent, ambition, time and scrappines…
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| Oct 22 |
RT @StevenBartlett: @ShaanVP the email I sent you at 19/20 years old changed my life in so many ways! - thanks for taking a chance on me!…
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| Oct 16 |
this is from 20 years ago. Apple needs this intensity today https://t.co/TI31azyeCN
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| Oct 15 |
I’m the Michael @saylor of my local coffee shop https://t.co/ElSWh7rEn7
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| Oct 15 |
This is basically the optimal strategy to become president
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| Oct 11 |
If there’s something more fun than watching your kid play sports, I’m not aware of it
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| Oct 08 |
This is wild. There’s only 1500 sperm donors and 100,000+ seeking donors?!
Great initiative , and great name “pre seed”
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| Sep 30 |
excited to watch this one. sam sat down with the guy who wrote "unreasonable hospitality"
He owns eleven madison park, the restaurant that inspired the Forks episode on the Bear, one of my favorite TV episodes of all time.
As a founder, stealing from other, unrelated industries is a huge hack.
In internet businesses, we suck at hospitality. So if you go from a 2 to a 5, you're better than everyone else.
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| Sep 25 |
me too usain bolt, me too. https://t.co/AC4DgJOW57
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| Sep 25 |
RT @_VladanIlic: The best 15 minutes you'll invest this month
insane value from @ShaanVP on how to get rich
From 0 → Rich 💰
4 rules that…
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| Sep 24 |
support my addiction : https://t.co/ISrNWvvkNH
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| Sep 24 |
I don’t care about youtube views. except when they’re up +94% in 6 hours. Then I care, a lot. https://t.co/76AtGA7Zw1
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| Sep 21 |
watch the full thing here: https://t.co/Ew81AgJd4o
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| Sep 18 |
what a great tweet. Vote yes to my trillion dollar comp package
(fwiw. I vote yes. no brainer)
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| Sep 09 |
the big filters:
- what you put in your body (food)
- what you put in your mind (media/social media)
- who you spend time with (friends)
- what you choose to give a f*ck about (what you let bother you)
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| Sep 02 |
this works for companies too
instead of trying to be a genius and do something new to grow your company, first ask: “what are we doing that’s stupid as hell, that we should just stop doing?”
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| Sep 01 |
The original Tesla master plan was sharp, powerful and real
This one reads like it’s written by a committee
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| Aug 30 |
RT @salilmalkan: I don’t know why it took me realize this but @ShaanVP and @thesamparr have the BEST podcasts in business right now. Insane…
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| Aug 29 |
new one minute blog: excuses https://t.co/A97N7EvETW
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| Aug 26 |
cool analysis here https://t.co/MSFIbdYvsm
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| Aug 25 |
i think we should all be using "tariffs" in day to day social interactions
I'm gonna slap tariffs on coworkers if they don't reply fast enough
my son could tariff the shit out of me if i don't give him ipad with dinner.
could be the move
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| Aug 25 |
great reminder:
“when the time comes to buy, you won’t want to” https://t.co/mYGAzp1rgo
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| Aug 24 |
RT @myfirstmilpod: “A lot of people say, ‘we’re not going to try to catch a falling knife.’
And I believe you make the big money catching…
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| Aug 22 |
full episode - https://t.co/52Oj8TJkyX
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| Aug 22 |
"When I see memos from Howard Marks in my mail, they're the first thing I open and read. I always learn something." - Warren Buffett
Well, @WarrenBuffett, if you’re watching…
Howard dropped a teaser for his new memo on the pod: https://t.co/WolzzfAFRs
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| Aug 17 |
🫡
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| Aug 15 |
What happened to hyperloop? Didn’t @shervin and 1-2 other companies raise a bunch of money to do it?
- tech didn’t work?
- costs too high?
- bad execution ?
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| Aug 14 |
There’s 1.3M people watching Taylor swift on a podcast right now
That might be the most watched live podcast of all time (?) https://t.co/ad79PI5S6z
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| Aug 13 |
RT @myfirstmilpod: why the “smartest person in the class” usually fails at business: https://t.co/nbhbpMUx4F
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| Aug 13 |
^ this should be the recruiting page for all @elonmusk companies
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| Aug 13 |
This is like @paulg & @jesslivingston finding Sam Altman, Twitch, and the Reddit guys in the first YC batch
Except YC kept finding Kelly Clarksons every year for 20 more years
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| Aug 12 |
5/ 😂 😂
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4/ this should be printed and framed in every conference room in America
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3/ having tried both, i’m not surprised
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| Aug 12 |
my 5 favorite tweets of the week:
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| Aug 12 |
necessity may be the mother of invention, but fun is the father
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| Aug 12 |
Morning bball training https://t.co/85aY5yS3j3
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| Aug 11 |
RT @kageman: Absolutely love this new format @ShaanVP and the guys at MFM are hopefully evolving into. I'd like to call it a vlogumentary.…
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| Aug 11 |
‘behind the pod’.
episode 1. tomorrow. https://t.co/wcBhbj6rbs
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| Aug 08 |
new one minute blog: 3 ways to win in podcasting https://t.co/Awb26hap2Z
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| Aug 08 |
full episode - https://t.co/jBBeRfEgKV
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| Aug 08 |
“I’m gonna rock your sh*t in a couple seconds”
The Hormozi Hotline – Me and @AlexHormozi roast their business, then try to fix their problem
- A $500K side hustle asking “how to drive sales from tiktok”
- A recruiter “stuck” at $2M in revenue
- Luxury travel hackers trying to 2x their close rate
- A creator with 200M views & no business model
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| Aug 06 |
@AlexHormozi full episode: https://t.co/CM6OsDmyXx
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| Aug 06 |
new pod with @AlexHormozi
NYTimes: "this is the mona lisa of two dudes talking"
Wall st Journal: "two words...MASTERCLASS"
Gordon Ramsey: "it's like podcast Wagyu" https://t.co/ga3FjiYHRb
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| Aug 05 |
you are the average of the 5 people the algorithm decides you need to see over and over again
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| Aug 04 |
https://t.co/iTWT1WceAC
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| Aug 04 |
“It’s only work if you’d rather be doing something else”
- Bill Graham
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| Jul 30 |
“Timidity is dangerous: Better to enter with boldness. Any mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity. Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid.” – The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene coming on the podcast today. Excited to hear his thoughts
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| Jul 30 |
RT @PabloMotoa: i love @ShaanVP’s take on this.
should you learn how to code or create content?
with the recent launch of Lovable’s new f…
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| Jul 25 |
i've begun a new tradition of congratulating whoever comments "First" on every youtube video
imagine him waking up and seeing this. finally validated. finally seen. https://t.co/k50bIfuh1R
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| Jul 22 |
https://t.co/zSoAEbRGUH
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| Jul 22 |
"There's riches in niches"
My brother in law has built a $1B+ real estate portfolio focusing on grocery-anchored shopping centers.
he doesn't really do podcasts, but I convinced him to do one explaining how he:
- made his first million as a broker
- lost it all on a bad deal
- starting over, building a 82-gym chain
- making $3M on his first deal using a purchase option
- compounding that into $1B+ over 10 years
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| Jul 16 |
rsvp - https://t.co/41KuQsuWiC
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| Jul 16 |
If you're a creator or like business, i think you're gonna like this
I'm speaking at the Creator Business Summit later today with beehiiv...and the best part, it's free
come check it out (link below)
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| Jul 15 |
This is pretty badass
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| Jul 13 |
Wife sent in the big guns instead to stop me https://t.co/7LzBtMWraS
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| Jul 13 |
Playing piano until my wife finds me and arrests me https://t.co/ZhezhH0AZG
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| Jul 12 |
Some people like wine and cars. I’m a simple man with simple needs https://t.co/L1dPOuMAIJ
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| Jul 11 |
In the AI gold rush every good idea (few) and every bad idea (many) will be fully tried and funded
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| Jul 10 |
have you heard of the “lipstick effect”? https://t.co/bOqyNMJkIq
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| Jul 09 |
Late night piano session https://t.co/K3i3LEh95z
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| Jul 08 |
jobs said the computer is a "bicycle for the mind"
AI is a "mind for the bicycle"
(now you can clap)
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| Jul 08 |
Beehiiv is one of those companies that I totally underestimated - it’s going to be way bigger than I would have guessed
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| Jul 02 |
RT @harleyf: How do you sell a hand sanitizer business for nearly a billion dollars?
You reimagine a functional product and turn it into…
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| Jun 27 |
RT @options_selling: Okay, if you want to hear what people really think about $GOOGL gemini…
On My First Million, @ShaanVP dropped a gr…
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| Jun 26 |
Learning piano like a 6 year old https://t.co/YO3Dc24HYH
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| Jun 24 |
https://t.co/rYHttFs0Gt
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| Jun 24 |
this guy decided he wants to do 100 pushups in a row this year. He randomly DM's me each week's stats.
honestly, one of the better DMs I get.
I appreciate a man who sets an arbitrary goal for himself, and then chops wood every week to make progress.
🫡 https://t.co/ng7hCUZcy1
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| Jun 20 |
genuine question btw.
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