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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      These generation labels are for convenience btw, it’s all happening messily sort of parallel. Third generation. New rebundled forms emerge. Early chaotic mashup and collage pidgins give way to true deep-digital creoles. Threads on twitter are a good example. Instagram stories...

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      Finally, the *meanings* of dead “content” start to come alive. This is deep digitization. The “semantic web” failed because we thought meaning was something dead and inherent, to be modeled. Now it seems it is a potentiality to be expressed and enacted contextually, like genes.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      Even our best visioning attempts, like the Diamond Age “primer” tech, seem impoverished and reactionary with respect to what is *already* happening. The idea of an advanced game world “book” for one little girl, with humans turking at the other end, seems dated.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      If this sounds all head-in-the-clouds visioning, you haven’t been keeping up with tech (including ironically cloud tech). Much of this has already happened in patchy ways. Every year blogging becomes a little less like writing, and a little more like “idea engineering”.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      All this frankly makes me ambivalent about writing in traditional forms like books or essays. It’s increasingly clear that these are a kind of Industrial Age larping. The thing that keeps me in traditional forms is mostly lack of skills/tools to go beyond, not sentiment 🙂

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    6. Kim Scott‏ @kimballscott 19 Mar 2019
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      I thought I could digitize the content in Radical Candor. I realized after three tries and a million dollars that story telling was still the best way to get the ideas across. The book and the talks and the workshops (for two way story telling, better yet) worked. The app didn't.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      Clearly you needed 4 tries and 1.33 million 🙂

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    8. Kim Scott‏ @kimballscott 19 Mar 2019
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      :) the thing is this. the point of the book is put your damn phone in your pocket, look a person in the eye and TALK. any app is a value subtracting round trip.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      And looking at a book is different from looking at a phone how? Perhaps an assistant app to help use the method was a bad idea, but what about a learning game that takes less time to playthrough than reading a book?

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    10. Kim Scott‏ @kimballscott 19 Mar 2019
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      It's a good question. For me there is no substitute for a novel for building real empathy for another person and also for self-awareness. I suspect we will use apps for story telling at some point but we haven't figured out how to do it yet.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      We already do, they’re called video games 😂

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        2. Kim Scott‏ @kimballscott 19 Mar 2019
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          Video games are the most effective way to destroy empathy and compassion and common human decency...very powerful, but in the wrong direction!

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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          Luddite!

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