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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Mar 2019
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    Thought experiment. Take the top 7 books that have shaped your thinking as a “stack” in the software sense running on the hardware of your brain. Would someone else who shared your top 7 be able to follow along most of your thinking, say 80%?

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Mar 2019
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        Don’t take the particular numbers seriously. Think of it as: do the first n books explain m% of your thinking where m(n) is a positive definite function? (ie the more books you share in your stack with me, in the same order, the closer your thinking to mine)... true or false?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Mar 2019
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        Many people seem to loosely operate on this assumption, which is sort of like a blank slate model where books get loaded in and interconnected, and a sort of “principal component analysis” yields books in order of explained fraction.

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      2. Catherine Baab-Muguira‏ @Greedzilla1 16 Mar 2019
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        What are your seven books?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Mar 2019
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        My point is this idea doesn’t work

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      1. korede‏ @korede_ta 16 Mar 2019
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        depends on what you define the “kernel” as i.e. the interface between the hardware & software. i’d argue that (in this context) it’d constitute background and lived experiences... that fundamental difference would determine how the “stack” would influence diff people’s thinking

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      1.  ❄️ 🌨️ ☃️Dr MadeOfMistake (IQ 211, ~19 Hands) 🎄 🎅 🎁‏ @madeofmistak3 16 Mar 2019
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        I sure like to get a nice long look at someone's bookshelf. It feels like peering into their soul.

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      1. Engineer Extraordinaire  👽‏ @RaleighC 16 Mar 2019
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        Follow along? Absolutely.

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      1. Akshay Alladi‏ @akshayalladi 16 Mar 2019
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        No. I think thinking is shaped by a wide variety of factors that interact as a complex function. So this would not work.

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      2. visa is working on his ebook‏ @visakanv 16 Mar 2019
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        visa is working on his ebook Retweeted visa is working on his ebook

        No, unless maybe they also happen to be a Singaporean Indian who married their first girlfriend at 22, bought a home at 23, was “gifted” in school, repeated a year, didn’t go to university, parents ran a family business, is hideously online,https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1035718150053015552?s=21 …

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        visa is working on his ebook @visakanv
        Alan Watts The User Illusion Lost Illusions Sideways look at Time Lives of a Cell Surely you’re joking Mr Feynman Foucault Seneca Seth Godin Sagan Animal Farm Antifragile Ogilvy Randy Pausch WaitButWhy bill wurtz Russell Brand Derek Sivers pg’s essays Ribbonfarm 48 Laws of Power https://twitter.com/zackkanter/status/1035365193159778304 …
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      3. Raghav Agrawal‏ @impactology 17 Mar 2019
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        You bought a house at 23!?!?🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

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