really enjoyed reading this article by thiccy about how they met their co-founder:

"Looking back, I see that what felt like an instant chemistry was actually a slow cumulative buildup of a hundred small exchanges. Neither of us were set out to find a cofounder or make new friends. It made me realize that simply practicing your obsessions in public where anyone can wander by is a reliable and effortless filtering mechanism to find people that you align with.

The lesson now shapes how I seek every long term relationship, romantic, professional, or platonic. I think we index too hard on the first impression and don’t leave enough room for the second, third, and tenth impressions. The most aligned connections I’ve learned are rarely formed in serendipitous flashes of lightning like in the movies but rather formed gradually and effortlessly like sediment through hundreds of micro-interactions, shared quests, small victories and the occasional defeat."

thiccy

really enjoyed reading this article by thiccy about how they met their co-founder:

"Looking back, I see that what felt like an instant chemistry was actually a slow cumulative buildup of a hundred small exchanges. Neither of us were set out to find a cofounder or make new friends. It made me realize that simply practicing your obsessions in public where anyone can wander by is a reliable and effortless filtering mechanism to find people that you align with.

The lesson now shapes how I seek every long term relationship, romantic, professional, or platonic. I think we index too hard on the first impression and don’t leave enough room for the second, third, and tenth impressions. The most aligned connections I’ve learned are rarely formed in serendipitous flashes of lightning like in the movies but rather formed gradually and effortlessly like sediment through hundreds of micro-interactions, shared quests, small victories and the occasional defeat."

https://x.com/thiccyth0t/status/1937608328487821538

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Love this how many of your closest relationships started like this too