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You can just tell people things and change their lives

6 tweets · September 2020 · 53 likes · 1 retweets · read on Twitter

Another case study of [[you can just tell people things and change their lives]]. Impossible to say what or where Roam would be if I hadn't pointed @Conaw at this, but it would definitely be somehow different.

Conor @Conaw ·

@hmillerdev Few years ago @Malcolm_Ocean told me there were two twitter accounts that were doing Roam on Twitter @GRITCULT and @visakanv Took me a few weeks to make sense of either - but after I did, moved my digital life on here in big way.

I'm just creating the [[you can just tell people things and change their lives]] page on my roamblog right now, so I don't have this old theme saved, but lemme see if I can find a few old tweets about that. Aha, here we go:

QC @QiaochuYuan ·

@sashachapin @tferriss i bookmarked this tweet to read this and i'm glad i did 👍

Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv ·

4. a handful of well-chosen words can change your life x.com/visakanv/statu…

quoting @visakanv: it is really remarkable, on retrospect, to consider how it's ultimately a very small set of words, presented as tweets and/or blogposts, that have been responsible for so much of the goodness in my life (people, opportunities). Just a few thousand really

Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv ·

@QiaochuYuan @Malcolm_Ocean @yoshikischmitz @joyurge We should all act as if each of our actions could potentially have such crazy outsized impact on others, and yet simultaneously not take ourselves too seriously (Visabrain: that is how we win) STOP IT

David Perell @david_perell ·

Few things will inspire you like a specific compliment from somebody you admire. It's amazing... one sentence can carry you for years.

elon might not have gotten onto twitter if this guy hadn't said something

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️ @Malcolm_Ocean ·

yo guys you know how we talk about who got who using twitter? here's who got elon onto twitter: @westcoastbill twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…