How to Optimize Follower Count on Twitter

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Twitter has an addictive quality and I've been trying to work on making sure I don't check it too often because of that. Just trying to optimize followers, just like pure follower count is a really horrible idea. One thing I've realized is that by going through this loop of picking a topic and then saying, what can I tweet about this that's actually valuable? It both forces me to try to extract the core of an idea, which I find a really useful mental exercise. And you know, although that is going to be less nuanced, which is a drawback, there is really a lot of value in trying to be incredibly concise and simple in your explanation.

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What's the best way to teach rationality? How do you communicate rationalist principles to people who aren't already interested in thinking more clearly? What has COVID taught us about how people typically make decisions and think about problems? Where and how can the rationalist community improve? Does rationalism have anything to say about (for example) exercise, spirituality, art, or other parts of the human experience that aren't typically addressed by rationalists? What are some positive aspects of social media (especially Twitter)? What's going on with recent dating trends? Has dating gotten harder in recent years? How many people does it take to make a pencil? Is there a case to be made for anti-antinatalism?

Jacob is the only rationalist with an MBA. He writes Putanumonit.com and is famous for bringing the idea of decision matrices to the pages of the Economist and the New York Times. Jacob is Russian-Israeli and is currently living in Brooklyn with his wife and two guinea pigs. Follow him on Twitter at @yashkaf.

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