# Tweets From Tyler Alterman

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## Metadata
- Author: [[@TylerAlterman on Twitter]]
- Full Title: Tweets From Tyler Alterman
- Category: #tweets
- URL: https://twitter.com/TylerAlterman

## Highlights
- My favorite poem is actually a spell written by the ancient Egyptians: "Becoming a Light in the Darkness" (trans. Normandi Ellis)
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  Out of nothing I return to the white sea foam. I have made an end of things. This is my last concern. ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/TylerAlterman/status/1480625290841931783))
- <<Why I am focused on village-building right now>> [Thread]
  We want to follow through on our ambitions while raising kids well. Most of us are ignoring how impossible this is amidst modernity. ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/TylerAlterman/status/1354547643972788226))
- 1/ 2020 will see the dawn of the metatribe. Here is an ethnography. ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/TylerAlterman/status/1305265874157395976))
- 1/ At some point it's time to stop playing optionality games and cash in ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/TylerAlterman/status/1313139005572042752))
- Can someone here try to DAO-pill me in a non-hypey way? Readings appreciated ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/TylerAlterman/status/1458501994369503239))
## New highlights added July 22, 2022 at 10:30 PM
- Thread of prompts for deciding between jobs or projects (though these could be adapted for romantic partners, places to live, etc) ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/TylerAlterman/status/1537293251660722176))
## New highlights added January 1, 2023 at 1:48 PM
- poast your best Midjourney (+ other generators) prompts with photo example
  my fav is @meekaale's "with mind full of syntactical structures and symbolic sigils, roerich sunset savannah , incredibly beautiful psychedelic line art, vector illustration, hyperbolic DMT realm" https://t.co/QUX1Jobj9h
  ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FlAhuW5XEAA1iqe.jpg)
  ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FlAhvwqWQAs5zDo.jpg)
  ![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FlAhxwBXkAEqFwl.jpg) ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/TylerAlterman/status/1607822248873971712))
- The Surrealists were not just "those guys who painted weird dream stuff"
  They had utopian ideals similar to what I've heard around meta-, postrationalist & tpot circles 
  [thread] ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/TylerAlterman/status/1608441264722284545))