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kasra on X: "maybe I'm built different but this advice has always been the opposite of helpful for me "the life you're wired for" is an idea in your head. none of us are really "wired" to be connected to an internet hivemind with eight billion other people, sitting on our laptops for hours a" / X

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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Messages Home Explore Notifications Messages Grok Lists Bookmarks Communities Premium Profile More Post kristie! @kristiehuang Post Reply See new posts Conversation kasra @kasratweets maybe I'm built different but this advice has always been the opposite of helpful for me "the life you're wired for" is an idea in your head. none of us are really "wired" to be connected to an internet hivemind with eight billion other people, sitting on our laptops for hours a day day or thumb-tapping on our phones, living in cardboard box apartments and walking by hundreds of strangers per day. yet we are very capable of living such lives and enjoying ourselves all the same there is no "life you're wired for", you have a set of inclinations and tendencies which are worth following, and which allow for an extremely wide breadth of possible great lives for you. you have to actively build such a life, and it will often not look like

kasra @kasratweets maybe I'm built different but this advice has always been the opposite of helpful for me "the life you're wired for" is an idea in your head. none of us are really "wired" to be connected to an internet hivemind with eight billion other people, sitting on our laptops for hours a day day or thumb-tapping on our phones, living in cardboard box apartments and walking by hundreds of strangers per day. yet we are very capable of living such lives and enjoying ourselves all the same there is no "life you're wired for", you have a set of inclinations and tendencies which are worth

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