KISS, me, more.

thot #2 on taking charge of your content

1. “If I ever take to cooking, the first thing I will learn to cook is happy chemicals”

2. “I need to stop getting off to Mac Miller, I have no dignity for the dead”

3. “I think I want to become a product manager just so I can buy myself a fancy screen”

4. “These boys kept crying like I CAN'T WAIT FOR DONDA and when it out they be like omg I'm not ready for this like king make up your mind”

5. “Bro so Store 99 doesn’t actually have everything priced at 99 INR?? DUDE WHATTA SCAM!?”

6. “Why am I constantly blowing over this, it’s literally cold coffee. Oh right, my trust issues”

This is thots by Kaav and you just went through Community Thotluck - our combined thots, out of context (oh yeah I’m just getting started with my pun game). Share your whacky, nasty, out of context thots with me here. Don’t forget to give your favorite community thot a khajoor in the comments. Yeah right, it’s a date :)

7 “I need to stop nutting all over my newsletter”

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thot of the week

It was so good to hear on all the valuable feedback you guys gave me on my first thot last week like “such a chaotic and fresh energy”, “reading it felt like having a conversation” “it’s basically just you, in an email”, “value your readers’ time you dipshit” :)))

Truly invaluable! 😊

KISS: keep it simple, stupid

For the uninitiated, KISS is a celebrated principle most commonly used in product design and usability. It basically implies that the simpler the explanation, the simpler the product, the more likely it is to be effective. That perfection (which btw overrated), is not reached when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away.

the takeaway

It’s evident KISS has had a significant impact on my thot pattern considering the fact that in the past 1.5 years I’ve had

• an audio meme page called ‘memes in a serious voice'

• a vlog page called ‘dumb vlogs for cheugy dawgs’

• a tribe community for ‘small town girls with big city education’, and

• wall posters quoted ‘random motivational quotes’ and ‘polaroids of me and my friends’

yeah the second poster just had drawings of snakes. And for all the right reasons. (kidding. love you all xx)

My problem is not that I can’t KISS. My problem is that when I do, it’s always much MORE. More words in a copy. More pages to my document. More details to my story, and more stories to my feed.

Yeah I’m a moreon like that 🤷‍♀️

Why else did you think I’m speaking to you on this blog post right now and not on a twitter thread? I am ready to have fewer of you if that's what it takes for me to be able to give some more of me. But no because I want all of you to love me all of the time, I’ve got for you what I always do

something more

How to not choke when the internet always wants to feed you more: a nano guide to taking charge of your own content

Kaav’s favorite content antacids, a cumbersome list

• On Instagram: Make multiple alt accounts. No, not another ‘close friends only - max pvt - alter ego - reckless shitposting’ finsta. A no friends, content only Instagram knowledge vessel. Make an account (or multiple) and only follow pages serving a certain category of content. Remember one account, one topic family. But Kaav I’m not a person but a cocktail of my curiosity. Okay, sit down madam cocktails, we only do shots here. Your curiosity is barely rewarding if it only keeps blooming horizontally. Mindless cocktails is what you've been served to, on IG, all this while. Your ‘little bit of everything all of the time’ can change to ‘a little something for when I want’ if you just —pick an interest, make an account and tell Instagram about it. The algorithm will do the rest for you. Is it a mammoth more? Yes. But is it worth it? You tell me.

• On Twitter: Another ridiculously long twitter thread? Tag thread reader app telling it to ‘unroll’ and it will turn the twitter thread into a readable blog and send it to you

• For newsletters: Use Mailbrew if you're a NL hogger like I am. This one's a newsletter digest that sends all your subscribed newsletters in a pretty email digest feed at a time of your choice.

• For blogs: You better use this one extensively for my thots 😠. Get Pocket for when you find yourself interested in a long read at an unsuited time. Save links from across the internet in one list. Use tags to categorize topics. There are many other apps alike. Go find yourself one that fits you. Pocket app works offline too.

  Perfect for on-flight reads!

Talking of,

I will hopefully be on one, at the time you receive this issue. I’m going on a small retreat with my best girl (no offense to all my other best girls). I want to pull off a very annoying influencer move right now by asking ya’ll to ‘GUESS THE LOCATION GUYS’ but I guess I’ll spare you the drama. Side note: this is actually our first trip as ‘independent young adult women’ together and this is how the adulting’s been going so far

cc: my 23 y/o best friend circa August’21

Talk thots to me

If you found any typos in the this or my other thots - NO YOU DIDN'T 😠

I kept this thot kinda sweet and short because all said and done, your reviews really do matter a lot to me. Let me know if you prefer it short like this. Also, nothing excites me more than the thot of turning thots by Kaav to thots, by and for us all. So don’t shy away from talking to me about yours here.

• if you liked reading this thot, don’t forget to give me a kishmish (raisin) in the comments so I can enjoy a mild sugar rush 🍒 and

• if you have a feedback for me, please send it across with an akhrot (walnut) so I can put some more brain to it 🌰

(yeah you can also just ‘type’ the nuts out, it's all g)

And...that’s it!

Thanks for reading. Happy weekend to everybody and sweet dreams to green day fans!