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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 28
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      Apropos of nothing: people sharply underrate the utility of knowing a high-consequences language pair. You'd think bilingual people are common in the world, and they are. And you'd think that they're common in corridors of power, and they are. And yet...

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    2. Georges Duverger‏ @gduverger Mar 28
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      What's a “high-consequences language?”

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 28
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      High-consequences language *pair.* Generally, my heuristic is "The people who speak X and the people who speak Y interact a lot with each other via e.g. commerce but the number of speakers of X who are comfortable with Y today is very small and vice versa."

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 28
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      I speak Japanese in no small part because of a spreadsheet in college which listed every language the university taught, the largest country it was spoken in, the size of their domestic software market, estimated % of professionals with biz-level English, and # of US speakers.

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      • dust Joe Graham I somewhat disagree Ciarán Christopher Tull 🌎💧 Rahul Ramchandani Thomas "If in doubt, don't go out" Clarke VidFlumina Alec Wilson
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        2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Mar 28
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          I wish I still had that spreadsheet, but consequential life choice made largely based on "sort by column H descending" (and secondarily because I had learned 3 words of Japanese while shepherding my sister to our high school's anime club and so that was 3 words down, right).

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        3. Andy Morgan, RippedBody.com‏ @RippedBodyjp Mar 28
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          Brilliant.

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