Hangman

Fame is a game

In this week’s newsletter: Fame = Hangman game, Houses of Goa museum, The new norm of 2050 and many more…

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Essay of the week - Hangman

Have you ever played Hangman? It was one of my favourite childhood games ever. Hangman and Eminem were my first few english teachers ❤️

Okay Prado, but why are we talking about hangman today?

Well, I’ve been going to lots of meetups, conferences, after parties and one of the common things happening to me is that people are starting to recognising me from my Twitter.

Please Note: They recognise or introduce me as someone who has 20k+ followers on Twitter rather than someone who writes interesting stuff or talk about something specific i’ve written.

Trust me I have no problems with this. I sometimes enjoy the dopamine it triggers when frens recognise me through my Twitter and wants to click a picture or something.

Here’s what I hate about this.

FAME.

I neither have a face for fame nor the perfect set of teeth.

Fame is something I’ve written about before too 👇

Fame Game 🙏

Fame is a game.

Fame is a hangman game.

Everytime you say something that someone don’t like, you get a strike like in the game of hangman.

Share a different perspective than masses and you will be cancelled soon enough.

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Conclusion:

My goal for this essay is talk about fame and use the hangman analogy.

Not everyone plays the fame game. I love this explanation 👇

David Perell @david_perell

There are two kinds of fame: 1) Kim Kardashian Fame: You're famous for being famous, so everybody knows who you are. 2) Charlie Munger Fame: A small number of people deeply respect how you think, but most people wouldn't stop if they saw you on the street. Choose Munger fame.

All I’m saying is that choose Munger Fame. that’s all.

We don’t want to play the hangman in real life.

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P.S: I got this hangman analogy from the song “Hangman by Dave”

These were the lyrics:

They say that fame is a game and it's true 'cause if you say the wrong word then everybody wants to hang man.

Love that song. Go listen to it.

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10 Interesting things for you 🙌

1. Imitate, then innovate (Blog)

2. Something from my Twitter👇

Prado @pradologue

It’s 2050, the new norm is you don’t ask the guy his age and the lady her salary.

3. A Meteorologist from the University of Reading shows just how long it takes water to soak into parched ground, illustrating why heavy rainfall after a drought can be dangerous and might lead to flash floods (Watch)

4. awww ❤️

5. Interesting Museum of the week:- Houses of Goa

Enjoy some good writing. Click on it to enlarge.

6. Question of the week:- 

Prado @pradologue

tell me a song that helped make your experience better. like you are on a ride and that song just makes everything better. like you are stargazing on the terrace and that song... you feel me right? The song that makes the journey better 🙌

7. Picture of the week:- Last couple weeks I was at the Polygon Fellowship. I was handling communications. Shoutout to Shlok and Devfolio.

8. Current read: Got back to reading - The four agreements.

9. Meme of the week:-

10. Quote of the week:

• "I don't want to believe, I want to know" - Carl Sagan
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• "The thing about an addiction is, you never realize it is one until it's too late. Until you realize the control you thought you had had been a lie the entire time."
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• We do not remember days, we remember moments. - Cesare Pavese
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• Life’s lines of Closeness (Read)

• Cathedral Thinkers (Read)
  
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Personal Announcement 🚨

I’ve taken this week off to chill in goa and attend a conference. Honestly it’s more lie meeting frens.

Drop me some book recommendations.

See you next week.

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Prado
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