You know, if we really want to start helping each other here, then I think we might have to get better at knowing what we need.
Except, I don’t quite know what I need. I know what I think I need—maybe. Maybe I just have a vague sense THAT I need…something. Maybe someone? Is it you?
I’ll tell you one thing, I think I’m pretty certain that Grok and the algorithm think they know what I need.
But that’s probably because I talk about myself and this place enough that it clicks, and they just know what to serve me.
Argue all you want, if you want to at all.
But that’s not what I think I need.
I know what I think I need, and I could tell you.
But the thing is, we often think we need one thing, and then something totally different ends up fulfilling us, and the thing we thought we needed turns out to be forgotten, or never happens, because now we’re just happier.
But if there IS one thing we need—if we’re gonna start collaborating, and serving one another, and appreciating the value of this platform, and turning it into the “Town Square” (which, by the way, is where all the TRADE happens along WITH all the gossip and the “news”), then the first thing we need to do, whether or not we actually know what we need, is start SAYING what we THINK we need.
Honestly, you’re probably pretty cool. We like to prove our value to ourselves by being useful to others. Sure, we like to get paid, but what we REALLY like is PROVING OUR VALUE TO OURSELVES.
And all the things we buy are just externalizations OF that value—of our identity—of who we think (or thought) we are.
We need to start saying what we think we need.
If we do that, then you, who are a cool person, can silently start conspiring to help. Or openly, too. Service is service, even when it’s planned and plotted out.
But if I don’t tell you what I need, then you don’t really know what to provide me, you might be so cool as to give me what you think will help, or throw out little offers and support, but since my need isn’t clear, your service isn’t engaged and regular.
I think I’m starting to see why everyone keeps asking me “What are your goals on 𝕏?”
No, not goals. But…needs?
Yeah. It’s hard to admit what I need. Because do I deserve it? But that wouldn’t be up for me to decide. That would be up to you.
So let me start it here, for all of us:
I’ll admit, I don’t know what I need, because I still don’t quite know what I’m doing here.
I know I am TRYING to lead by example.
I know I am trying to be vulnerable so that you can be too.
I know that I am trying to be real so that you can trust me.
I know that I am trying to be useful to you.
I know that I am trying—more than you might believe—behind the scenes, to change this place so that everyone is a little happier. Everyone I’m meeting at least.
I know that I am trying to “make good points”, be fair, be kind, and be strong for everyone.
I know that I’m trying to make you think.
I know that I am trying to build something for you, with you, through you, for a better future.
And I know I can envision a real way to what I believe WILL BE a better future. Like, I’m trying to get us ALL THE WAY THERE.
So.
I need whatever it takes to put me in the best position to receive, spread, and build a space where we all can figure out and meet our needs.
And I don’t even need to judge whether your needs are just desires. Who cares. If they can’t be met, they can’t be met. But if you want it, it is my need to fulfill it as best as I can.
So tell me what you want, like, pie in the sky, and I’ll come up with a vision for it, then we’ll find out how to make it what you REALLY need, to feel fulfilled.
..,and just a little bit happier, love.