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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Jan 2019
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    LOTR languished in obscurity for a couple of decades before going classic. That’s like a doomsday device set to zeitgeist trigger conditions or something. What other exemplars of non-viral attention capture success? Any scale from tweets to MCU.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1086817638053961728 …

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    Viral outcomes no longer motivate me at any level from tweet to blog to book. A spike is a very dull kind of attention profile. I like other kinds better now. The steady burn, the cyclic endemic meme, the incepted word, the compounding secret language, the long-running gag....
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        harry potter climbed slowly, rejected by many publishers. built readership one by one.

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        Bernie Sanders

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        Google Docs is a great example of this....took a long time to gain adoption but is now ubiquitous

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        Dunno. Not aware of the history of that.

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        battle royale

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        World series of poker in LV started in 1974, but huge attendance came only in 2004

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      1. Kimoto's Gravity Farewell‏ @wr1nkl3 20 Jan 2019
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        Moby Dick was barely remembered for decades after Melville's death

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      1. Patrick Dugan‏ @duganist 20 Jan 2019
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        A LoTR movie would have have worked in an Imperial epoch like the 50s or the 00s.

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        I think the recognition of the valuable role managed livestock can play in ecosystems is seeing its due right now, bc concerns about climate change, fire, drought have people thinking about carbon sequestration, fire mitigation, and capturing water in soil.

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        Also, the aesthetic around it (organic, leathery, bucolic) combined with its positive benefits probably sooth the souls of folks hoping that more technical and digitized solutions may not be all she wrote.

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