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#  @simonsarris Simon Sarris
Simon Sarris, a writer and thinker, has been sharing his insights on various topics, including societal issues, technology, and aesthetics. He recently highlighted the problem of people denying or refusing to consider tradeoffs, which he believes is implicated in many real problems, including the housing crisis and birth rates. This idea is a recurring theme in his posts, where he also touches on topics like urban planning, parenting, and the importance of understanding consequences.
### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::66761201/interactions)
- X Week XXXXXXX +166%
- X Month XXXXXXXXX -XX%
- X Months XXXXXXXXXX +46%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXX +114%
### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::66761201/posts_active)
- X Week XX -XXXX%
- X Month XXX +48%
- X Months XXX -XX%
- X Year XXX +84%
### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::66761201/followers)
- X Week XXXXXX +0.04%
- X Month XXXXXX +0.86%
- X Months XXXXXX +6.60%
- X Year XXXXXX +25%
### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::66761201/influencer_rank)
### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::66761201/influence)
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**Social category influence**
[automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) XXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks) XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX%
**Social topic influence**
[women](/topic/women) #68, [mazda](/topic/mazda) #146, [snake](/topic/snake) #863, [money](/topic/money) #4116, [vr](/topic/vr) 3.08%, [robot](/topic/robot) 1.54%, [shrimp](/topic/shrimp) 1.54%, [legit](/topic/legit) 1.54%, [awkward](/topic/awkward) 1.54%, [socially](/topic/socially) XXXX%
**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@becomingcritter](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@cremieuxrecueil](/creator/undefined) [@goldnecklace2](/creator/undefined) [@brotsquared](/creator/undefined) [@mazedamouth](/creator/undefined) [@maiab](/creator/undefined) [@obversers](/creator/undefined) [@lavendergooms1](/creator/undefined) [@carry_inv](/creator/undefined) [@alt1na1](/creator/undefined) [@jixijenga](/creator/undefined) [@laserloony](/creator/undefined) [@ananke_ananke](/creator/undefined) [@cartoonshateher](/creator/undefined) [@landsharkrides](/creator/undefined) [@uncledoomer](/creator/undefined) [@sowellsista](/creator/undefined) [@plemy11](/creator/undefined) [@cluffalo](/creator/undefined)
**Top assets mentioned**
[Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.A)](/topic/berkshire-hathaway)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::66761201/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"People used to imagine a guy to get mad at now they imagine a past to get mad at. This is more dangerous. Potential to cause great psychic damage. Do not do it"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1946025478617244098) 2025-07-18 01:53:24 UTC 75.3K followers, 54.3K engagements
"@uncledoomer they're also "valuing their time" with no counterfactual"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1948178898308456522) 2025-07-24 00:30:19 UTC 75.3K followers, 184.2K engagements
"The snake that lives in my Mazda is giving me saucy looks this morning"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1932421747627675864) 2025-06-10 12:57:01 UTC 75.3K followers, 17.9M engagements
""what if we position and stagger the balconies so that you can be spied on from above by a minimum of X of your neighbors""
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1946182998656737486) 2025-07-18 12:19:19 UTC 75.3K followers, 89.1K engagements
"Men dream of killing their way to the 49th floor of the dojo and women dream of girlbossing their way to the 99th floor of Salesforce tower"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1947635641342169381) 2025-07-22 12:31:36 UTC 75.3K followers, 14K engagements
"But sometimes you find a person and within them you spot a point of inertia gears mindlessly turning and you must hoist the black mast throw your body into the machine"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1947491721241367009) 2025-07-22 02:59:43 UTC 75.3K followers, 4688 engagements
"I think people vastly over-index on money and under-index on a lived vivacity ("energy") interestingness projects having a general idea of what they want out of life long term goals. Any kind of living with a sense of intention"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1948575515180236959) 2025-07-25 02:46:20 UTC 75.3K followers, 7643 engagements
"Twenty minutes of Enya and his mood is unchanged"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1932429028096458783) 2025-06-10 13:25:57 UTC 75.3K followers, 18.3M engagements
""I am a rationalist going about clarifying my rational position. Now imagine if there were enough shrimp to blot out the sun. Enough shrimp to consume all mass in the baryonic light cone even. now Merriam-Webster defines torture as-""
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1947356582800412915) 2025-07-21 18:02:44 UTC 75.3K followers, 41.7K engagements
"Obviously the ideal is that substantial embarrassment falls mostly on yourself it is a resource you burn. Obviously when you see a retreating party you should build them a golden bridge"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1947491287260925990) 2025-07-22 02:58:00 UTC 75.3K followers, 2284 engagements
"This is a wildly incurious reply. A wealthy person having X kids is on its own a culture change from the movie-star-only era that came before the IG era. It's also quite different from the "boss babe" norm of delaying/forgoing children"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1945670224172175842) 2025-07-17 02:21:44 UTC 75.3K followers, 38.6K engagements
"I need to shadow someone like this for a week because I sincerely don't believe it. Something is being left out. Like when people self report calories and are off by thousands"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1948549085859889183) 2025-07-25 01:01:19 UTC 75.3K followers, 798.8K engagements
"The simple moral fact is that shrimp do not respect your personhood even slightly. If they were similar sized they still would not view you as equals if you were smaller than them they would eat you without any hesitation. They would not spare a single blog post"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1947357949958947083) 2025-07-21 18:08:10 UTC 75.3K followers, 2272 engagements
"@MazeDaMouth @BecomingCritter So he threw mass resources at hopefully owning the device space for VR. Hence Oculus and Ray Ban etc etc. I think he still believes this but he's open to it not being the next big thing. But "why not try" seems like a very reasonable position. It's too bad about the software"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1947424940237721784) 2025-07-21 22:34:21 UTC 75.3K followers, XXX engagements
"Google made a monopoly on search (ads) and then started right away fooling around making great for free products that we all take for granted to this day. Imagine if they tried to blow up google"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1947499477524177394) 2025-07-22 03:30:32 UTC 75.3K followers, 16.3K engagements
"funny enough I'm not really crazy about this color. But my wife bought a shirt (Buck mason) of this color and I'm crazy about it when"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1927876648214372733) 2025-05-28 23:56:25 UTC 75.3K followers, 3055 engagements
"its kind of weird how bad in practice it has been to break up some monopolies. It seems like one of the few ecosystems that actually generates slush fund situations for very smart people"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1947498021006250393) 2025-07-22 03:24:45 UTC 75.3K followers, 378.9K engagements
"if you're not my bank we don't really need to be doing this on the regular"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1919188638555914650) 2025-05-05 00:33:22 UTC 75.3K followers, 10.1K engagements
""I want to be desired but I do not want to court desire. I do not want to make myself desirable. That should happen automatically unlike the desire." I think the sentiment is at the heart of a lot of modern dating malaise"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1948001404410298436) 2025-07-23 12:45:01 UTC 75.3K followers, 22K engagements
"I somewhat dislike this common line "want to take these women out of the workforce" My wife and I run a small firm together (our family). There are many things to get done lots of delegation. One of the tasks is "go get money" so I also have a job (actually I run a small.)"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1947312767108575713) 2025-07-21 15:08:37 UTC 75.3K followers, 84.5K engagements
"obviously any rational person in a universe where shrimp were approaching much smaller number than this there would be war on the shrimp mass shrimp death millions of us employed in gunning down these monsters possibly nuclear intervention to save any other shred of life"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1947357414505755014) 2025-07-21 18:06:02 UTC 75.3K followers, 2282 engagements
"@zeta_globin children like going places just don't try to do the same things as adults"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1947308211326869953) 2025-07-21 14:50:31 UTC 75.3K followers, XXX engagements
"@BecomingCritter deep in the mines I see I feel my old writing is awful and yet I think I still manage to be correct here. I probably commented on the post"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1947498787120836824) 2025-07-22 03:27:48 UTC 75.3K followers, XXX engagements
"Why didn't Buffett build anything great He's XX he could have built any magnificent thing he wanted to. He could have tried to start a city. Instead he plays around in the market"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1910521381617348643) 2025-04-11 02:32:47 UTC 75.3K followers, 2.4M engagements
"@MazeDaMouth @BecomingCritter IMO he strongly believed that not owning a device-based system puts Meta at a huge disadvantage (Amazon believed this too hence Kindle Kindle Fire and the Amazon Phone and even now dead I think Amazon app store) Totally reasonable belief He saw an opening with VR"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1947424257463480829) 2025-07-21 22:31:39 UTC 75.3K followers, XXX engagements
"I think you should be occasionally strategically rude in a way that might totally upend peoples lives for the better. Sometimes people need a push or a question forced but they don't know it yet"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1947490802034512309) 2025-07-22 02:56:04 UTC 75.3K followers, 49.7K engagements
"A being incapable of what we consider a basic reciprocity exists at the whim of our sympathies. I think it is good to have sympathies. Even irrational ones. But it is not somehow rational to extend ones sympathies to shrimp especially an imagined infinite blob of shrimp"
 [@simonsarris](/creator/x/simonsarris) on [X](/post/tweet/1947358450595274826) 2025-07-21 18:10:09 UTC 75.3K followers, 2142 engagements
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@simonsarris Simon Sarris
Simon Sarris, a writer and thinker, has been sharing his insights on various topics, including societal issues, technology, and aesthetics. He recently highlighted the problem of people denying or refusing to consider tradeoffs, which he believes is implicated in many real problems, including the housing crisis and birth rates. This idea is a recurring theme in his posts, where he also touches on topics like urban planning, parenting, and the importance of understanding consequences.
Engagements: XXXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXX +166%
- X Month XXXXXXXXX -XX%
- X Months XXXXXXXXXX +46%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXX +114%
Mentions: XX #
- X Week XX -XXXX%
- X Month XXX +48%
- X Months XXX -XX%
- X Year XXX +84%
Followers: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +0.04%
- X Month XXXXXX +0.86%
- X Months XXXXXX +6.60%
- X Year XXXXXX +25%
CreatorRank: XXXXXX #
Social Influence #
Social category influence automotive brands XXXX% finance XXXX% stocks XXXX% technology brands XXXX%
Social topic influence women #68, mazda #146, snake #863, money #4116, vr 3.08%, robot 1.54%, shrimp 1.54%, legit 1.54%, awkward 1.54%, socially XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @becomingcritter @grok @cremieuxrecueil @goldnecklace2 @brotsquared @mazedamouth @maiab @obversers @lavendergooms1 @carry_inv @alt1na1 @jixijenga @laserloony @ananke_ananke @cartoonshateher @landsharkrides @uncledoomer @sowellsista @plemy11 @cluffalo
Top assets mentioned Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.A)
Top Social Posts #
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"People used to imagine a guy to get mad at now they imagine a past to get mad at. This is more dangerous. Potential to cause great psychic damage. Do not do it"
@simonsarris on X 2025-07-18 01:53:24 UTC 75.3K followers, 54.3K engagements
"@uncledoomer they're also "valuing their time" with no counterfactual" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-24 00:30:19 UTC 75.3K followers, 184.2K engagements
"The snake that lives in my Mazda is giving me saucy looks this morning" @simonsarris on X 2025-06-10 12:57:01 UTC 75.3K followers, 17.9M engagements
""what if we position and stagger the balconies so that you can be spied on from above by a minimum of X of your neighbors"" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-18 12:19:19 UTC 75.3K followers, 89.1K engagements
"Men dream of killing their way to the 49th floor of the dojo and women dream of girlbossing their way to the 99th floor of Salesforce tower" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-22 12:31:36 UTC 75.3K followers, 14K engagements
"But sometimes you find a person and within them you spot a point of inertia gears mindlessly turning and you must hoist the black mast throw your body into the machine" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-22 02:59:43 UTC 75.3K followers, 4688 engagements
"I think people vastly over-index on money and under-index on a lived vivacity ("energy") interestingness projects having a general idea of what they want out of life long term goals. Any kind of living with a sense of intention" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-25 02:46:20 UTC 75.3K followers, 7643 engagements
"Twenty minutes of Enya and his mood is unchanged" @simonsarris on X 2025-06-10 13:25:57 UTC 75.3K followers, 18.3M engagements
""I am a rationalist going about clarifying my rational position. Now imagine if there were enough shrimp to blot out the sun. Enough shrimp to consume all mass in the baryonic light cone even. now Merriam-Webster defines torture as-"" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-21 18:02:44 UTC 75.3K followers, 41.7K engagements
"Obviously the ideal is that substantial embarrassment falls mostly on yourself it is a resource you burn. Obviously when you see a retreating party you should build them a golden bridge" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-22 02:58:00 UTC 75.3K followers, 2284 engagements
"This is a wildly incurious reply. A wealthy person having X kids is on its own a culture change from the movie-star-only era that came before the IG era. It's also quite different from the "boss babe" norm of delaying/forgoing children" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-17 02:21:44 UTC 75.3K followers, 38.6K engagements
"I need to shadow someone like this for a week because I sincerely don't believe it. Something is being left out. Like when people self report calories and are off by thousands" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-25 01:01:19 UTC 75.3K followers, 798.8K engagements
"The simple moral fact is that shrimp do not respect your personhood even slightly. If they were similar sized they still would not view you as equals if you were smaller than them they would eat you without any hesitation. They would not spare a single blog post" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-21 18:08:10 UTC 75.3K followers, 2272 engagements
"@MazeDaMouth @BecomingCritter So he threw mass resources at hopefully owning the device space for VR. Hence Oculus and Ray Ban etc etc. I think he still believes this but he's open to it not being the next big thing. But "why not try" seems like a very reasonable position. It's too bad about the software" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-21 22:34:21 UTC 75.3K followers, XXX engagements
"Google made a monopoly on search (ads) and then started right away fooling around making great for free products that we all take for granted to this day. Imagine if they tried to blow up google" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-22 03:30:32 UTC 75.3K followers, 16.3K engagements
"funny enough I'm not really crazy about this color. But my wife bought a shirt (Buck mason) of this color and I'm crazy about it when" @simonsarris on X 2025-05-28 23:56:25 UTC 75.3K followers, 3055 engagements
"its kind of weird how bad in practice it has been to break up some monopolies. It seems like one of the few ecosystems that actually generates slush fund situations for very smart people" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-22 03:24:45 UTC 75.3K followers, 378.9K engagements
"if you're not my bank we don't really need to be doing this on the regular" @simonsarris on X 2025-05-05 00:33:22 UTC 75.3K followers, 10.1K engagements
""I want to be desired but I do not want to court desire. I do not want to make myself desirable. That should happen automatically unlike the desire." I think the sentiment is at the heart of a lot of modern dating malaise" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-23 12:45:01 UTC 75.3K followers, 22K engagements
"I somewhat dislike this common line "want to take these women out of the workforce" My wife and I run a small firm together (our family). There are many things to get done lots of delegation. One of the tasks is "go get money" so I also have a job (actually I run a small.)" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-21 15:08:37 UTC 75.3K followers, 84.5K engagements
"obviously any rational person in a universe where shrimp were approaching much smaller number than this there would be war on the shrimp mass shrimp death millions of us employed in gunning down these monsters possibly nuclear intervention to save any other shred of life" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-21 18:06:02 UTC 75.3K followers, 2282 engagements
"@zeta_globin children like going places just don't try to do the same things as adults" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-21 14:50:31 UTC 75.3K followers, XXX engagements
"@BecomingCritter deep in the mines I see I feel my old writing is awful and yet I think I still manage to be correct here. I probably commented on the post" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-22 03:27:48 UTC 75.3K followers, XXX engagements
"Why didn't Buffett build anything great He's XX he could have built any magnificent thing he wanted to. He could have tried to start a city. Instead he plays around in the market" @simonsarris on X 2025-04-11 02:32:47 UTC 75.3K followers, 2.4M engagements
"@MazeDaMouth @BecomingCritter IMO he strongly believed that not owning a device-based system puts Meta at a huge disadvantage (Amazon believed this too hence Kindle Kindle Fire and the Amazon Phone and even now dead I think Amazon app store) Totally reasonable belief He saw an opening with VR" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-21 22:31:39 UTC 75.3K followers, XXX engagements
"I think you should be occasionally strategically rude in a way that might totally upend peoples lives for the better. Sometimes people need a push or a question forced but they don't know it yet" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-22 02:56:04 UTC 75.3K followers, 49.7K engagements
"A being incapable of what we consider a basic reciprocity exists at the whim of our sympathies. I think it is good to have sympathies. Even irrational ones. But it is not somehow rational to extend ones sympathies to shrimp especially an imagined infinite blob of shrimp" @simonsarris on X 2025-07-21 18:10:09 UTC 75.3K followers, 2142 engagements