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The “revving up,” the “working up.” Hopefully wrong on average. Shameless. Started @getcognito and @bloom

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    John Backus‏ @backus Jan 11

    20-somethings play a valuable ecological role in Twitter communities IMO: Discovering ideas/content for the first time, which older members will view as "classics", and enthusiastically sharing. Used to mess w/ my head ("others probably know this") but now I see it as a positive

    1:12 PM - 11 Jan 2019
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      1. John Backus‏ @backus Jan 11

        I have a theory: The people that feign surprise ("You JUST learned about X?") are more often other 20-somethings looking to differentiate themselves as more in the know than others their age. Older members tend to either let newbies be or they appreciate a good resurfacing.

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      2. ∞ 🐢∞‏ @infiniturtle Jan 11
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        thank you for saying this

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      3. John Backus‏ @backus Jan 11
        Replying to @infiniturtle

        “This feels too obvious” held me back from sharing for at least a year. Prodding from @devonzuegel helped me get past that

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      4. ∞ 🐢∞‏ @infiniturtle Jan 11
        Replying to @backus @devonzuegel

        maybe i will go back to my main now lol

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      2. Justin Gage‏ @jGage718 Jan 11
        Replying to @backus

        @sarthakgh (no troll) i feel this and i feel like you'd appreciate it

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      3. John Backus‏ @backus Jan 11
        Replying to @jGage718 @sarthakgh

        To be clear too, I view myself as doing this (I'm reminded of it all the time when I share classics). Sar, @devonzuegel, and @sonyaellenmann come to mind too. Many others that I don't know quite as well and won't risk tagging 😆

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      2. @rogerclark‏ @rogerclark Jan 11
        Replying to @backus

        following young people is pretty good imo. their lives & minds are less structured, so they're more likely to "waste time" finding cool things and blabbing about it with less of a filter. sometimes the re-treading of obvious ideas/experiences is eye-rolling, but mostly endearing

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      3. John Backus‏ @backus Jan 11
        Replying to @rogerclark

        Well said and appropriate scare quotes for "waste time." Adding on, I think you can view re-treading both as: • Required training so new generation can level up • Smoothing function for group, resurfacing "best of" in case others missed it

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      4. Akshay Krishnaswamy‏ @hyperindexed Jan 11
        Replying to @backus @rogerclark

        Occasionally there's also novel integration of re-treaded ideas. (Hard to cohere X and Y when they unfolded, but retrospectively the connection is clear..)

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      5. @rogerclark‏ @rogerclark Jan 11
        Replying to @hyperindexed @backus

        agreed

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      1. Robin Green 🌹 🔰‏ @greenrd Jan 12
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        And remember, often we WON'T have heard of it before. You're a practitioner? But maybe some of us are amateurs in this field of knowledge or ideas. You've rediscovered some cultural artifact that every 40 year old from your country has seen? But I'm not from your country. Etc...

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      1. Sam‏ @Crypto_Nerdy Jan 11
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        Doesn't always have to be 20 year olds. Maybe they just joined 6 months ago and just tries to soak up and read all they can. 😉 Been studying for 3 years. Only recently Twitter. Discovered there are amazing discussions that I don't want to miss.

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      1. Pekka‏ @pekkagaiser Jan 12
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        What if there were a place like Blockbuster used to be but FOR BOOKS 😁

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