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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Mar 2019
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      Interesting diff in intellectual approaches. For some people the first step after having an idea is to find and talk to someone in their network who’s had the most similar thoughts. For me that’s the last step if it’s a step at all.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Mar 2019
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      I don’t network-workshop an idea early unless a sticky bit mystifies and defeats me, in which case I’m more likely to just drop it. Unless I’m obsessed for other reasons. Plenty of other ideas around to play with, why get hung up on one that fights you?

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Mar 2019
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      If you’re an academic you *have* to socialize your ideas early as a practical matter, even when you don’t need the “input”, to lubricate the publication/peer-review pipeline. Consultation is often insincere pre-emptive flattery in academic publishing.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Mar 2019
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      If you’re an entrepreneur with limited runway, you *have* to socialize your ideas early to derisk them to within the risk-tolerance of the funding model. Entrepreneurs don’t take risks so much as filter them to match their handling capacity.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Mar 2019
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      But if neither publish/perish treadmill, nor a limited runway is constraining you, you can let ideas develop and get sociable on their own time, based on their own personality. They’ll flow following path of least resistance and risk if you let them.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Mar 2019
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      There are extroverted and introverted ideas. Ideas that want to make 100 friends on day 1 and grow in the heart of the idea network, and ideas that want to be left alone in a log cabin for a decade to develop.

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        1. taimur‏ @taimurabdaal 24 Mar 2019
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          yes yes yes the only way to come close to originality is to let an idea brew in your own head for a looong time, until it becomes strong enough to you that when you put it out into the world, it'll be the influencer, not the influencee

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        1. Hal Morris‏ @HalMorris3 24 Mar 2019
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          Scientific truth if in any way connected to anything useful, is self replicating. The truth about politics or the social order is the opposite continually being corrupted.

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        1. Beau Butler‏ @oddynz 24 Mar 2019
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          All log-cabin all the time here. Probably to an unhealthy level, but so it goes. (Not helped by the specialist friends who would give useful feedback about the hard ideas continually leaving town) ;)

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