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the prateek kuhadification of Indian indie music scene is killing me from inside.

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I guess the living room’s giving

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2 years

if as an Indian man, you haven't done the bowling action in a while, there's something wrong in life.

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7 months

Dating for men in India is extra hard because - 1. You have to bear the load of collective trust issues that men keep causing in our patriarchal and sexually repressed culture. So by default, you are untrustworthy. 2. You must get into women's shoes for a bit and feel the…

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2 years

Earth got no chill.

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5 months

@vxsjmz i’m gonna provide so hard that she will be shivering with love

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6 months

One thing you have to understand about India is that your average Delhi bloke doesn’t care how much the pollution levels will rise due to firecrackers. Same goes for other areas, more or less. It's not their fault that the pollution levels are absurd. Such complicated and large…

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

UPI, one of the largest transactional and open networks was built on web2 and it just works. Don’t waste your time and energy on bullshit wars. Be long on Indian tech. We still have a lot of shit to build.

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

indian middle class and lower middle class people will rarely talk about trauma on twitter for pure engagement because they have been through the real shit. it's the trauma that gives them the fuel to hustle. it's too valuable for them to sell it on socials for cheap dopamine.

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

you will severely reduce the feeling of loneliness if you just sleep at 11 pm. i'm sorry but some things are that straight in life. you literally can't feel lonely at 6 am in the morning. your biology doesn't permit that feeling lol.

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@poetofgrindset

1 year

india completely skipped dating and went from arranged marriages to situationships

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@poetofgrindset

6 months

I'll never take the dating and relationship discourse here seriously because I have walked the walk and let me tell you how much non-effort is prevalent and has been normalized. I'm as guilty as any average person. Here's what usually happens: You go on a date. It goes well. You…

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2 years

notion is just lego for adults

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@poetofgrindset

6 months

5 months into the new job and I shipped my 3rd big project today, just before Diwali. Thank you late 20s depression, year-long sabbatical and chatGPT. 🙏

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1 year

@koushikjoshi It feels good to be rational in retrospect. But we are not rational beings. If we were, by the same reasoning, we wouldn’t fall in love with the wrong person because we know very well how destructive it is. Everyone needs a coping mechanism. A cigarette is just cheaply available.

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2 years

i've watched this movie 3 times and still think about it almost every day. it's like it has become a part of the very fabric of my thinking.

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7 months

She didn't complain about the actual work in the whole rant. This is literally how I felt at many times in my career. Every officegoer goes through these emotions at least once in their life. People hate Gen Z because they just straight up ask real questions. They refuse to…

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Gen Z girl finds out what a real job is like 🔊

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2 years

37 years old founder suddenly discovers that sleep and friendship are non-negotiable necessities in adult life — after brainwashing a whole generation of young *builders*.

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4 months

@kogonadafilm the way i was hit with emotions without this scene, i too would have to call ambulance

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

no business class can match this kind of comfort.

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28 days

@thepurpledoe biggest reg flag - avoids any conversation that involves their existing position in society biggest green flag - medium ego, passionate about something and prefers committing to it for long-term

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@poetofgrindset

6 months

I wonder if 90% of India never experience cross cultural cuisine, which is really sad. My north Indian folks could never know that there exists something called Puliyogare which is so beautiful, so elegant, and just looking like a waow.

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

no one will never spill the truth but software development is one of the most loneliest jobs ever. the mental fortitude it takes to shut up and ship quality work, never be recognised above your manager's level and not respected by your spouse wholeheartedly is unquantifiable.

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@poetofgrindset

11 months

dating is harder now bec people (esp women) have never been more ambitious in their choices. but humans are not products. you can’t just wait for a better iPhone next year. people are people. they aren’t getting better by throwing more money at them. love has no software updates.

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2 months

@Viggie_Smalls93 she is 40, hot and successful. she ain’t need any filter.

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

when people wonder how some people can workout, write, run a company, travel, and socialize while they can’t do anything other than their job, what they don’t get is that it’s not a one night's success. it's a dream that takes years of relentless self-awareness and execution.

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@poetofgrindset

11 months

as an indian adult, it’s absolutely important to start making money & most importantly, stop relying on your parents money asap. why? bec it takes time to hone your assertiveness, independence & judgment. goes parallel with how much you save. parents fund should be a last resort.

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@poetofgrindset

1 year

the sluttiest thing your web app can do is open every link in a new tab by default.

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@poetofgrindset

5 months

if you are feeling romantically alone today, remember that you have not been shameless and straightforward enough to ask people out or you are very lazy and indecisive when someone does asks you out.

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2 years

how to own your life - mercilessly forgive yourself, own the consequences of decisions, savor the pain, funge your fuckups into laughter, invert the life's narrative regularly, be existential alone and euphoric with people, do absurd things to the absurdity of life. go insane.

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@poetofgrindset

6 months

When I was in Kota, there was a period of a few months when I entertained the idea of ending my life almost every night. The loneliness was extremely crushing. The world felt like an open-air prison. In search of any iota of consolation, I used to think that I was free, even…

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@poetofgrindset

8 months

the american mind cannot comprehend this

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28 days

@thepurpledoe just straight-up avoids conversations about masculinity, patriarchy, social power, financial dominance, etc. it's still better if they have strong opinions about these things and engage in conversations to learn more and improve on bad conditioning and prejudices. avoidance…

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8 months

"For men, dating is like dying of thirst in the desert. Not a drop of water in sight. For women, it’s like dying of thirst in the ocean. Water is everywhere, but it’s mostly toxic and full of salt.”

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2 months

@emmarstones her face has more expressions in this video than my whole ancestry combined

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@poetofgrindset

6 months

I looked for meaning for so long but found none. Then I started having fun and I don’t think of meaning anymore.

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@poetofgrindset

1 year

if social media is removed from your life, would you still solo travel?

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@poetofgrindset

10 months

you don’t need a new social network. you need a non-judgemental lap to lie on after a good day of meaningless hard work.

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1 year

In my limited experience, I have seen that non-ambitious people have some of the best sleep. Something about flipping a switch and losing all expectations from life when they reach bedtime. Nothing to look forward to the next day. Hence, no anticipation. Sleep like it's last one.

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@poetofgrindset

5 months

@iamjaglan Selling lehngas is a lot harder than a software job.

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@poetofgrindset

6 months

Can’t wait to get replaced by AI and work the fields as god had originally intended

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@poetofgrindset

10 months

technology is really the greatest equalizer because a 20 yo and a 35 yo feel the same amount of existential crisis now

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

except Tanmay, other AIB members were avg. comedians and it shows. they were good as a group which works with the laid-back nature of the podcast format. after the split, others didn't even try to develop their craft. but Tanmay knew the grind. that's why he was the mastermind.

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

Anyone here willing to read if I write about my story of lurking at the edges of depression and despair and how I got out of it?

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@poetofgrindset

7 months

California Burrito single-handedly keeping me healthy without taking half of my salary.

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

Sometimes I feel lucky that I never got addicted to Instagram. That shit is literally mental poison. I can't express the immense grief that I feel for those who are addicted to it. To the point that it has become a necessary dependency for validation in their lives.

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@poetofgrindset

5 months

controversial: most of the content economy is just already rich people doing things for fun on camera to appease people in the labour markets who know in their guts that it could never be possible for them. obviously, you can have this kind of life but you also have to turn your…

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@poetofgrindset

10 months

bhai ye never stop building waalo ka office hai to badhiya

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

i go to coffee shops not for work. i go to them to do half-assed book reading, half-assed writing, and thinking with lots of disruptions. i want to sip coffee sleep-deprived, dazed and confused. i want the fully chaotic coffee shop experience. not the fake work experience.

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@poetofgrindset

8 months

you are not procrastinating. you are just waiting for a forehead kiss to jump start your life.

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

Very soon, human touch will be the scarcest of the resources on earth.

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2 years

the best kind of couples are those who honestly accept that they don't know why they love each other. they just. that frees them to think about what's next. the worst kind of couples keep finding & updating their reasonings. that's why romanticism is more limiting than enhancing.

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7 months

@babubisleriiiii mai to turant ek sutta share kar leta aapke bhai ke saath

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2 years

The first piece of long-form writing I did was a one-page suicide note in 10th standard. Starting early does help.

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7 months

Woke tech people: Marriages in India are an institution to keep women out of the financial arena. Woke tech people in Winters: Marriages in India is a 50 BN dollar industry. People are going to spend more than ever as they climb the economic ladder. Huge alpha in disrupting the…

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

if you eat eggs, it’s literally the swiss army knife of your diet. i don’t know any other food, which is healthy, that takes less time to get delicious. the best part – you never get bored of it. truly, a match made in heaven.

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@poetofgrindset

1 year

No one likes daily stand ups. There’s no meaningful answer to the question - what did you do the last day? Especially for creative work like programming, designing, etc. Scrum meetings are a disease of the software development culture.

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@poetofgrindset

6 months

People who say that alcohol is bad are - - either in college trying to show busyness - never worked in highly uncertain jobs - on a brief sabbatical thinking that the war with life is over - just using a different form of coping mechanism trying to sound superior

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now that i have a 9-5 job im really starting to understand alcoholism

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2 years

living with your parents in adulthood mostly does more harm than good in the long term. in the Asian context, it's not an opinion. it's a fact.

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5 months

@localaliennn lmao overacting

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@poetofgrindset

1 year

it takes two days of a warm female presence for traumatic men to doubt their whole “fuck it, we ball” strategy

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@poetofgrindset

1 year

since i’m a late bloomer, finding love as the only next year’s resolution sounds like a decent idea.

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8 months

if you live in India, work in tech and are not a sociopath, make sure to go out. anywhere. although we have been pushed into this capitalist machine to make a living, we are far more than this. our cultural instincts oppose sitting in a room and changing the world from there.

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

people out here repacking basic life wisdom shit into startup jargon and i can't help but cringe pro max at it

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

came here to "network". found the vibe-market fit instead.

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

update: dad called in about 10 years to say thank you. it’s always mom who calls. guess he was teary eyed but can’t be too sure. men in that generation weren’t allowed to be soft. told me that he lost his father when he was 3 yo. so, it felt good when i acknowledged his efforts.

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2 years

started celebrating mother's day and father's day from this year by sending surprise cakes to them. smol smol steps.

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1 year

when i’m obsessed about something, it completely takes over my mental space. it’s always in the background no matter what i’m doing. it’s the first thing when i wake up. it’s the last thing before I fall asleep. don’t know if it's good or bad. wonder if anyone else feels like it.

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5 months

The worst part of having a hyper-independent mindset is on a random day, you get a slight pain in the chest and your mind goes “This is it. This is how I die. Alone”. The worst part is not the actual symptom but the feeling of not being able to think of someone to call for help.…

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2 years

trust me when i say this: reading a 3k word piece in one go is a superpower nowadays. it's a subtle sign of mental fortitude that is becoming rare rapidly. if you have it, don't ever lose it.

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

3x intern at the same company?? where you lost your shame?

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

a decent job with a decent home without any debt, mental illness and risk of chronic diseases is a pipe dream for most urban Indians. it wasn't the case for a middle class family 20-30 years back. sweet sweet economic progress. add to that the lack of clean air and water.

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2 years

The older I get, the more I realise that attraction towards someone works on Via Negativa. Things that you can’t define or articulate. The moment you try to codify your reasonings, it’s downhill from there. That’s why we’ll always fail at defining terms like love, creativity, etc

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4 months

one more year of not knowing what CRED does while i walk by the office every other day

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10 months

happy 23rd to the person who got stuck into a lift

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5 months

what i’ve observed is if you keep looking at a girl doing cute girl behaviours with appreciation for more than 10 seconds straight, she will abruptly stop doing those things and smile shyly in the most charismatic way imaginable

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5 months

boring recap for 2023: - slow start, job hunting, side project and just waking up whenever i want (sabbatical mode) - found a job, didn't look promising but wanted to move to blr. so took it. moved and left the job in 3 days lol. but at least i moved - found a remote one after 3…

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11 months

will be tweeting from the new home 👍

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5 months

men focus on having a top-notch job, going to the gym, looking good and treating women well and all but completely forget that you have to be some kind of humorous too

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2 years

The thing that I like about UPI is not the numbers or the rate of adoption. What I like is that UPI is not a product. It's a protocol. We have always been a service provider nation. We have just started to invent protocols. Who invents protocols holds the power.

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2 years

these two guys next to me on the flight are really hyped up about compensation, company perks, company parties, sponsored trips abroad, girls joining in their teams, yada yada yada, and all i can think of is their career existential crisis 5 years down the line.

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10 months

i still have no idea why cred exists

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7 months

I love this scene because it beautifully shows how it’s so hard for a man to show his weakness in front of another man. All they have got is vague words like - “You okay? Yeah, I’m okay.” For them, the shorter the small talk, the better. Because they are under society’s gaze.

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6 months

I don’t endorse firecrackers but I, an average tech worker, don’t have the right to stop those who want to feel whatever they want to by using them.

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2 years

pretty sad that the next move of some of the successful new age Indian entrepreneurs is starting a YT channel rather than at least thinking and brainstorming on hard problems like pollution, floods, etc. i'm not even asking to start companies. just to build new FP mental models.

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11 months

important goal to have in your 20s is to be done with the games, lies, hidden rules, necessary evils, etc of society - and move on to better things that actually are under our influence. some people get away by delaying their acceptance of these things. some aren't so lucky.

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1 year

the best love songs are written by people who can't love the best art is created by people who don't have beauty in their life the best code touches billions of people but is written by atypical introverts the best businesses are started by people who hate being limited by money

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7 months

@hourly_shitpost Rock bottom is important to start peaking on the correct path. I love all those mfs out there.

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2 years

every once in a while when i can't help shouting at my father because he is shouting at my mother, i'm at crossroads with my worst fear — the fear of recursive behavior — driven by a relentless intangible generational code.

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@poetofgrindset

1 year

sabbatical officially ends after 390 days today. back to software engineering again. wild ride.

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

Did we really dream to become pilots and astronauts only to become product designers and developer advocates?? Civilisation is utterly cruel to the kids fr. No offence to those professions. I'm just thinking in absurdist relativism. 💀

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2 years

Indian liberalism is funny asf. It begins at 18 and dies at 28, for most people.

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

Gf of my friend, that I met for the first time, tried to hook me up with her sister for a date. I’m guessing it’s because I don’t have a carefully crafted digital persona and I hate dating apps. So, I guess she liked what I brought to the table. Anyway, this is the way, homies.

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2 years

today is the perfect Delhi weather. shows up a month before the onset of winter. the ideal kind of cloudy. the opposite of how spring feels. feels like a good story ending with a neutral tone with its fragrance in the wind. there’s no formal name for it but we call it romance.

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10 months

you don’t need to visit 10 countries to cure yourself. you just need someone to go on walks when the weather calls for it.

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@tekbog i used to love reading this book and failing exams

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I had a colleague turned friend who used to commute from Dwarka to Noida for a total of 5 hours every day. He used to smoke weed to cope with the lost time and lack of motivation to change jobs. Ever since WFH happened, he turned around his life in 3 years and now is a happy and…

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2 years

there’s this girl on twitter who has been liking my tweets for some time now and i also do the same but never follow each other. we have a tweetonic relationship.

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

Every successful person woke up everyday thinking of themselves mediocre with some frame of reference. That’s how they improved & became successful in the eyes of the world — still thinking they are mediocre — with a new frame of reference — and that’s how they remain successful.

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6 months

Rule of thumb: The best-sounding dating discourse will almost always come from the most deranged online person because they will try to coin every kind of reasoning to not act or take the lead IRL.

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@poetofgrindset

2 years

Young men today are so fucked up in their heads. They think that pickup lines and memes work in real life. These silly gooses hang around in reddit communities ranting on pickup lines and making fun of women’s responses on dating apps. Really scratching the bottom of the barrel.

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