1/ The charitable interpretation here is that pg — someone respected in the startup community for, among other things, writing essays — communicated inarticulately because he has failed to update his audience mental model. The less charitable interpretation is that he hasn’t.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1161894981503614977 …
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8/ IDK if that’s a damning indictment. The medium also facilitates an ease of access to people in positions of power that otherwise may not exist. That’s pretty great! ...or, at least it can be.
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9/ But, the idea of an impossibly narrow intersection of meaning in places that are rendered algorithmically salient is one I’m thinking about a lot lately because in those collision spaces, we frantically learn social associations that generalize poorly and dangerously.
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P.S. My use of PG’s take to open this thread makes the effect more obvious. Like, you probably read and evaluated it in a way colored by that explicit initial context. But it wasn’t necessary for the argument and risked distorting it on predictable lines.
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This wasn’t actually intentional. It was just sloppy (and habit because I try to quote things that provoked ideas on here.) However, it accidentally clarifies. The only difference is that most of the time you don’t see the reference that affects your perception.
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People work at different scales & emotional echo chambers. As people gain influence, their message will interact with the layered sheet cake of humanity. It will attract stans & skeptics. The author can either use both as fuel to expand their capacity or cut bait.
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Words are overloaded to a purpose. David Snowde'ns liminal model speaks to transitions. Some folks manage transitions of scale & meaning well. Some folks decidedly don't.
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