Said differently, social proof affords some people exceptional agenda setting power. They become cultural Schelling points. Social network architectures tend to render such dynamics concrete -- and, very often, pathologically sclerotic.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1173988670669377536 …
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At this point I have 16k followers. Know why? It's because I'm EXTREMELY online. I hope I say interesting/funny things, but the main reason is because I spend a lot of time on here. But how often do people see / react to my tweets as if I'm/they're authoritative. Too often.
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I did a lot of scribbling about these things over the summer (mostly too half-baked to share w/ anyone else). This one quote from Hit Makers (which I read years ago) kind of catalyzed it all for me: "A one-to-one-thousand conversation is not a conversation. It is a presentation")pic.twitter.com/9VcEN0k2Is
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Mara. I desperately want to work with you if only for access to your notes.
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I think my notes are probably a hazard to self and others, tbh! Looks like I was reading
@DavidEpstein's range at the time, too! (Yes, I write footnotes by hand…)pic.twitter.com/Hnvldn30NH
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Again, *unironic chef's kiss*
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…eventually I got distracted learning how to draw hedgehogs and foxes.pic.twitter.com/0HmU5qmAdu
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Who wouldn't, Mara? (Any archer?)
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