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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2/ But, I don’t want to talk about his (either bad or sloppy) take. Instead, I want to explore the idea of an audience mental model for people with high follow counts.
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3/ Imagine you exist in a social position that crosses a lot of boundaries and compels attention from lots of different people. Also, imagine that you care deeply about communication so you have good receptive models for all the people listening to you.
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4/ What messages could you express that would also be *accurately* received by the disparate sub-groups (assuming sincerity)? Very few. Clichés at best?
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5/ Tweets offer very little explicit context. BUT a lot of implicit context. The trouble is the latter varies by the receiving group’s prior interactions, desires, beliefs, and expectations.
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Yea that’s one of the reasons Im building mutes/blocks with stochastic expiration — when the boundary is too rigid, subsequent communication gets harder and harder as meaning deviates even further
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