<story><title>Minimum Viable Self</title><url>https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/162-minimum-viable-self</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>F_J_H</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;I simply don&amp;#x27;t inhabit it, and I don&amp;#x27;t feel that I&amp;#x27;m missing out.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve wondered about this - but how do you know what you are missing out on?  For example, if you were active on twitter or LinkedIn and carefully cultivated those profiles, who knows what life changing connections you may have made? (I&amp;#x27;ve seen several people comment on getting jobs, business partners, fellow hobbyists, etc. on twitter.)&lt;p&gt;*edit:  missed a word</text></item><item><author>OnACoffeeBreak</author><text>I appreciate the point being made from the outside. I have no social media persona (a decade-old defunct Facebook account might be it, plus HN which doesn&amp;#x27;t feel social in the same sense), yet I don&amp;#x27;t feel that I&amp;#x27;m homeless in the virtual space. I simply don&amp;#x27;t inhabit it, and I don&amp;#x27;t feel that I&amp;#x27;m missing out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thanhhaimai</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve not asked the question &amp;quot;what I am missing out&amp;quot; for like almost a decade. It came from the realization that I constantly and always &amp;quot;miss out&amp;quot; on 99.99% of things that happened in the universe. Whatever more Twitter I read won&amp;#x27;t move the needle of the statistics.&lt;p&gt;Rarely it happens that my success depends on things I &amp;quot;miss out&amp;quot;. On the other hand, usually that my success depends on how well I take advantage of the opportunities I currently have.&lt;p&gt;So respect the opportunity, and make sure you&amp;#x27;re ready when it comes.</text></comment>
<story><title>Minimum Viable Self</title><url>https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/162-minimum-viable-self</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>F_J_H</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;I simply don&amp;#x27;t inhabit it, and I don&amp;#x27;t feel that I&amp;#x27;m missing out.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve wondered about this - but how do you know what you are missing out on?  For example, if you were active on twitter or LinkedIn and carefully cultivated those profiles, who knows what life changing connections you may have made? (I&amp;#x27;ve seen several people comment on getting jobs, business partners, fellow hobbyists, etc. on twitter.)&lt;p&gt;*edit:  missed a word</text></item><item><author>OnACoffeeBreak</author><text>I appreciate the point being made from the outside. I have no social media persona (a decade-old defunct Facebook account might be it, plus HN which doesn&amp;#x27;t feel social in the same sense), yet I don&amp;#x27;t feel that I&amp;#x27;m homeless in the virtual space. I simply don&amp;#x27;t inhabit it, and I don&amp;#x27;t feel that I&amp;#x27;m missing out.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lugged</author><text>Spending all that time on social also comes at a cost.&lt;p&gt;Personally, one I&amp;#x27;m not comfortable paying.&lt;p&gt;What are you missing out on by focusing everything through the lens of the Twitterverse?&lt;p&gt;Better yet, what is it doing to your psychology?</text></comment>