this... this is why I can't follow venkatpic.twitter.com/5i14SncsFU
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Not sure if sophist is the right word, but that's how it feels. Also, his best articles were on other's ideas: legibility, etc.
He is however definitely effective at monetising the work of others and sucking cultural capital into Ribbonfarm. 

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