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Writer, software person, armchair anthropologist, dilettante. All genders, all political opinions welcome. Book: https://amzn.com/0190495995/ 

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    1. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler May 19
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      "Live players" vs. "Dead players" (THREAD) Since reading this distinction two weeks ago, I've thought about it more or less every day. It's a simple distinction, but it explains so much.https://medium.com/@samo.burja/live-versus-dead-players-2b24f6e9eae2 …

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    2. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler May 19
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      Live players are in creative communion with reality: processing feedback, learning, and adapting to circumstances. In Samo's definition, they're able to do new things. Dead players are repeating stereotyped behaviors, often cargo-culting what live players have pioneered.

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    3. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler May 19
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      This is all highly contextual, of course. Someone may be alive in one area but dead in another. For example, I'm reasonably alive in my career choices, but a vegetable in matters of personal style. (Not *entirely* dead though... I'm on wife support.)

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    4. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler May 19
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      One sure-fire way to tell that someone's alive is when they surprise you. I think this explains a lot of the appeal of artists. Even if their art isn't particularly compelling, at least they're making things that have never been made before. At least they're showing signs of life

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    5. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler May 19
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      This is also the appeal of the "independent thinker." Even when they're wrong, at least they're trying to do something new. It doesn't have to be 100% new to the world (although that's nice). As long as it's new to the thinker, it counts as a sign of life.

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      Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler May 19
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      There's nothing necessarily wrong with being a dead player, btw. If your culture sets up good patterns for you to emulate, you can get along fine. It's just risky, because when circumstances change, you might blindly follow everyone off a cliff.

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        2. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler May 19
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          One area where I think I'm reasonably alive is the blogging space. Someday I'll write about all the different choices I've made over the years and why I made them. Because this is my area, I'm particularly attuned to the aliveness of others.

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        3. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler May 19
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          There are many people I could mention here, but the person who really stands out is @vgr. He has innovated and surprised me so many times over the years: residencies, Refactor Camp, Breaking Smart, experiments with newsletters, running a longform course, blogchains, ...

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        4. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler May 19
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          I don't enjoy the results of every experiment (nor would I expect to), but I LOVE that he's always tinkering and trying new things.

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        5. Kevin Simler‏ @KevinSimler May 19
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          Q: In what domain(s) are you most alive? What are some examples of other people's aliveness that you especially appreciate?

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          Most people can't be live players. If they try, they just generate random noise. It is better then for them to uphold tradition.

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          outsourcing best practices that are non-differentiating (cc @oznova_)

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