Zanele Muholi is a South African visual activist and photographer. For over a decade they have documented black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people’s lives.
Zanele Muholi, Qiniso II, Durban (2019)

Today, I re-listened a VERY HONEST interview with Chamath Palihapitiya (@chamath) on @TKPPodcast.
For the 3rd time.

He is is an extremely confident humble person and the talk is pure gold. Highly recommend it. Hats off to @ShaneAParrish!

I combined key learnings below 👇

It is valuable when you can speak the truth.
Most people are not in the position to be as candid as they want to be.

When you talk about what you’ve gone through it is useful to people, especially when you talk in simple and plain-spoken terms.

It demystifies your 'greatness’, makes it more normal, and lets others relate.

Many people have to do things that are motivated by other people's perceptions of them motivated by the pressure that is extorted by people that are very close around them i.e. friends and family.

It leads to an inevitable moment when people start questioning their happiness.

Younger generations are more honest to themselves.

They are willing to be happy in the way they defined it to themselves.



Older generations were just checking the boxes.
Many people realize that it is not the pattern to maximize their fulfillment.

💥THREAD #MLKDay2021
Some important things to remember, given where we're at w/ today's events
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On this day in 2008, one of our favourite movies, TEETH, was released. This horror movie centres around a young woman who has "vagina dentata" - teeth in her vagina. Vagina dentata myths is common, appearing in South America, India, Japan and Māori mythologies. Here's one myth...

So, you all know and love the movie Moana, right? And you all know and love the demigod Māui? Well, Disney and Lin Manuel Miranda skipped a particular Māui story in the "You're Welcome" song. It involves vagina dentata.

According to Māori legend, Māui tried to secure immortality for humans (you're welcome!) by "reversing" birth via the goddess of death, Hine-nui-te-pō.

Hine-nui-te-pō is described as having "in the place where men enter her she has sharp teeth of obsidian and greenstone." This did not put Māui off (you're welcome!)

His plan was to enter the sleeping goddess via her vagina and exit through her mouth. He found her sleeping with her legs open and, seizing the opportunity, turned himself into a worm (you're welcome!)

I just finished Zero to Sold by @arvidkahl - here's what I got out of it for me personally, to apply on my efforts to build https://t.co/wRlOaEKfD2 👇

👉 Product to Business
I'm somewhere between Survival and Stability stage. I should (and do) focus on building a business around the product. Pumping out features alone will not make T1 sustainable. There is much more around it and I feel the pain of not focusing on it earlier.

👉 2020 went well
I think I did an OK job last year to build, validate and grow the project. It was validated when the first customer entered their credit card details, and it continued from there.
From 42€ payout, to >8000€ in 9 months.

👉 Process Docs
Documenting Standard Operating Procedures so my current and future team and helpers can onboard quickly and support me. It uncovers automation possibilities and it clears up my head by not having all of this manual stuff in there.

Getting on this soon 💪

👉 Value Proposition
I have to do a better job of defining and communicating it. It's hard though. >10k users are on T1 and I'm still struggling with clearly defining why... which makes me feel really stupid.

Promising Young Woman has actually given me an idea fora Batman pitch, which I am going to post here since I obviously have no aspirations of ever working for DC Comics. For all I know, it's been done in some elseworlds, but I'm gonna try anyway. (1/x)

Okay, so we open on a glitzy dinner. A bunch of obnoxious rich people are wining and dining together. They get into discussing their businesses, and the youngest man there starts discussing his interest in getting into the arms business, with an older man w a trophy wife (2/x)

The older man says it's a great business, but he didn't know Waynecorp was interested, the liability has gotten so high lately, what with all the school shootings. "Everyone who gets shot in an alley these days can su - I mean. Um" (3/x)

Bruce replies that it's fine, he believes companies have to make money however they can, and makes conversation with the trophy wife for a bit. He arranges a business meeting to discuss a possible acquisition of the gun company by Waynecorp (4/x)

We switch to the trophy wife (we'll call her Susan)'s POV, as she and her gun CEO husband wait for an Uber. They get into the Uber from the backseat and remark that the driver looks a little shady, and this is why the CEO always carries his own gun (5/x)

Son of Perdition (a prophetic poem in a thread)

He thought himself Perfecta, But his perfidy makes me sick. His lack of grace is brazen, he perfumes all his tricks. But we perceive the stink which permeates his tongue, his hypocrisy is perjury, his own perdition he has sung...

His performance is a wonder but positive he’s not. No paragon of virtue, in his lies we’d all be caught. It’s power he lusts after, he sold his soul to do so well. He’s the biggest liar, at the gates of Hell. He purchased himself mirrors to perpetuate the con...

He purloined all the light and claimed it as his dawn. But my purview is the better, I have a higher throne. Though he’s the prince of darkness, no kingdom shall he own. His purlieu is perdition. Usurper-moon defeat! He tried to block the light of love and steal the power seat...

He thought himself invincible, the light he gave so fair, but his light was only the light the Sun/Son did share. Happy too to share it, The light that is God’s face but he’d rather occult Him, And bring God’s word disgrace...

He’d prescribe eternal darkness to all he perceives as peril, his Babylon is fallen, his pursuers now are feral. All shall see his true form and the true light shall prevail, from the light he shall be stricken and from disgrace there’s no avail...

Looking for reading material to help you stay comfy & warm on this frigid January day? Well, it’s easy as another #ScholarSunday morning thread of public scholarly work from the last week! #twitterstorians

Great @benbarber96 interview of @AngieMaxwell1 for @facingsouth on countering the “Long Southern

& an equally vital @FAIRmediawatch interview w/@KeriLeighMerrit on the Lost

& one more excellent interview, @nhannahjones w/@VelshiMSNBC on Mike Pompeo’s departing attacks on multicultural

wrote a couple wonderful pieces this week. This one for @madebyhistory on Warnock’s victory & Black