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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 17 Apr 2019
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      Perhaps no human activity has as big a gap between private and public texture as "research". Research in private is a an endless stream of sketches, vague ideas, random experiments, jokes, nerdy OCD behaviors etc. Research in public is unreadable bureaucratic papers.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Apr 2019
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      It's a point every researcher knows but surprisingly few have articulated well. Only good example I know of is Karl Weiss' "What Theory is Not, Theorizing Is" (it's about management research, but applies to any kind) https://www.jstor.org/stable/2393789 

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Apr 2019
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      My "research" from back when I was doing the academic kind is in the form of half a dozen journal papers and a dozen or so conference papers. But the real thing was in the form of about a dozen 3-ring binders of handwritten notes on 1-sided used printer paper.

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Apr 2019
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          Unfortunately, I recycled all those notes at some point because they were occupying too much shelf space. Wish I'd kept them. Re-reading my papers, I can't actually reconstruct my thinking path towards them, which was 90% of the value for me personally.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 17 Apr 2019
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          In a way, for my current interests, twitter has replaced my 3-ring binder notebooks. So it's going to be preserved for better or worse :D It's an awful place to keep a research notebook, but it's better than many other places you could keep one.

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        1. Benjamin Dean Mahala‏ @BenDMahala 17 Apr 2019
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          *looks over at my five mostly full binders from random research stuff sitting on the desk, which is never not cluttered with random scrap paper with equations scribbled on them* Yup.

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