Good post. More like this when you have a sufficient number of links to merit a post would be appreciated. Here because I respect your voice and analysis; nice to see your recommendations and what is influencing your thought as an aspect of that.
In my view way too many people rely on Facebook / Twitter / Reddit etc. for ideas / inspiration, and there are too few independent sources that aren't being filtered by huge tech cos.
I'm not saying that Facebook / Twitter have no place, but they're too prominent.
Too few of the guys writing about pickup and adjacent topics link one another and work to point the way forward... I've consistently tried to say, "I'm not alone in this, and you're not alone either." When guys rarely or never link anyone else... it makes me a bit suspicious.
Not sure if it supports or detracts from your argument that I independently found most of the blogs you linked and have kept up with them bc of Twitter (we run around the same groups there even outside PUA/game twitter). I find that the filtering the big sites do is very helpful; I'm much more likely to read an independent source if it's preceeded by a bite sized preface from the author on twitter or a rec from an account I follow. I'm much less confident in finding good independent sources without their meditation. Precious few times I've come across writing worth reading consistently (and isolated from the ecosystem of accounts I follow on these big sites) via search engine even in the halcyon days of google results. Perhaps that's what you're lamenting, but I think it largely speaks to how little writing isn't pozzed or compromised by poor analytical power.
I know that uniting the corners of the online game world is your crusade and we are all the better for it, sincerely, but I can think of 1000 reasons guys wouldn't get hyperlink happy writing their own game blogs and without it at all suggesting that they at all believe they are alone in this. Being online writing a game blog is ipso facto proof of being connected to the online community. We're a long way from Brad P evolving pickup independently from the "seduction community" in the early 2000s.
I'm curious to hear more: suspicious how? -- from their being stingy with giving credit for ideas where due? their isolation from the community betraying less interest in moving the state of game forward than a blog would suggest?
I concur with Ant here. My opinion is that there is a lot information out there, and there's more value in giving an opinion on the good and bad points of an article vetted for its value to accompany an article than to search for an article worth reading, now that most popular search algorithms have been gamed by websites with subpar content that abuse the ability to artificially elevate in the search results.
Everyone starts as a beginner, but the paucity of non-beginner material is notable to me and so I decided to focus on that. Probably pointlessly, but I do hear from guys who have put some RQ ideas to work.
How do we determine if something is pointless? Whether objectively or from our individual points of view, it seems like a tricky question.
My instinct is to tell you it’s not pointless, but I must admit my bias as a present beginner, inspired by your stories and others’, who looks forward to years ahead where I can see the value of your works from a more advanced level.
You are a beginner right now, but if you keep moving, growing, and learning, you will probably move into being more skilled over time, if your desire is to sleep with lots of women (lots of guys want a pretty, acceptable girlfriend to build a relationship with, which is obvs fine).
Lots of other guys's stories are out there... I try to foreground some of them... but I can't get away from the "most guys don't care" thing. That some guys do, is good.
I am somewhat past the "write primarily for myself stage." Feedback does matter to me and inspire me. There is an analogy to running a business... at some point, if revenue isn't > cost, then you don't have a business.
Which can be okay. The world has space for hobbies. But pay the rent first.
Good post. More like this when you have a sufficient number of links to merit a post would be appreciated. Here because I respect your voice and analysis; nice to see your recommendations and what is influencing your thought as an aspect of that.
In my view way too many people rely on Facebook / Twitter / Reddit etc. for ideas / inspiration, and there are too few independent sources that aren't being filtered by huge tech cos.
I'm not saying that Facebook / Twitter have no place, but they're too prominent.
Too few of the guys writing about pickup and adjacent topics link one another and work to point the way forward... I've consistently tried to say, "I'm not alone in this, and you're not alone either." When guys rarely or never link anyone else... it makes me a bit suspicious.
Not sure if it supports or detracts from your argument that I independently found most of the blogs you linked and have kept up with them bc of Twitter (we run around the same groups there even outside PUA/game twitter). I find that the filtering the big sites do is very helpful; I'm much more likely to read an independent source if it's preceeded by a bite sized preface from the author on twitter or a rec from an account I follow. I'm much less confident in finding good independent sources without their meditation. Precious few times I've come across writing worth reading consistently (and isolated from the ecosystem of accounts I follow on these big sites) via search engine even in the halcyon days of google results. Perhaps that's what you're lamenting, but I think it largely speaks to how little writing isn't pozzed or compromised by poor analytical power.
I know that uniting the corners of the online game world is your crusade and we are all the better for it, sincerely, but I can think of 1000 reasons guys wouldn't get hyperlink happy writing their own game blogs and without it at all suggesting that they at all believe they are alone in this. Being online writing a game blog is ipso facto proof of being connected to the online community. We're a long way from Brad P evolving pickup independently from the "seduction community" in the early 2000s.
I'm curious to hear more: suspicious how? -- from their being stingy with giving credit for ideas where due? their isolation from the community betraying less interest in moving the state of game forward than a blog would suggest?
I concur with Ant here. My opinion is that there is a lot information out there, and there's more value in giving an opinion on the good and bad points of an article vetted for its value to accompany an article than to search for an article worth reading, now that most popular search algorithms have been gamed by websites with subpar content that abuse the ability to artificially elevate in the search results.
All right, I'll see if I come up with enough stuff to bother... there are a couple of guys who read a lot and will send me interesting material.
I have less first-person game reporting right now, but I have done a lot of game and think I still have some useful things to say in the intermediate/advanced phases, which most guys never get to. For example, https://theredquest.substack.com/p/how-many-women-are-open-to-sex-parties-and-partner-swapping-intermediate-advanced
Everyone starts as a beginner, but the paucity of non-beginner material is notable to me and so I decided to focus on that. Probably pointlessly, but I do hear from guys who have put some RQ ideas to work.
How do we determine if something is pointless? Whether objectively or from our individual points of view, it seems like a tricky question.
My instinct is to tell you it’s not pointless, but I must admit my bias as a present beginner, inspired by your stories and others’, who looks forward to years ahead where I can see the value of your works from a more advanced level.
Not totally pointless, but I thought there'd be more virality in writing about the game... but it seems not to be the case, https://theredquest.substack.com/p/most-guys-dont-care-much-about-getting-laid-i-hypothesize
You are a beginner right now, but if you keep moving, growing, and learning, you will probably move into being more skilled over time, if your desire is to sleep with lots of women (lots of guys want a pretty, acceptable girlfriend to build a relationship with, which is obvs fine).
Lots of other guys's stories are out there... I try to foreground some of them... but I can't get away from the "most guys don't care" thing. That some guys do, is good.
https://twitter.com/AsleepThinking/status/1628063844894486528
I am somewhat past the "write primarily for myself stage." Feedback does matter to me and inspire me. There is an analogy to running a business... at some point, if revenue isn't > cost, then you don't have a business.
Which can be okay. The world has space for hobbies. But pay the rent first.