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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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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Now is the time to explore the range of social & personal expression.
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Your average person been given a very limited vocabulary in understanding the motivations of others and, oh Lordy, it shows.
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I wonder about my audience model every time my follower count drops a bit. The only thing in my model to account for it is, some of my followers follow for one topic (unknown) but drop because they get more of another. The vast majority of my 431 followers, I have no model for.
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So I just blindly trust their judgment in deciding to follow me, and carry on...
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