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Venkatesh Rao
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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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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Apr 2019
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      A hero’s journey model where a key stage is defined by accidental arrival at a Hacker News type community that’s off to the side of main adventure road via a confusing exit ramp. The hero’s job is to break out of the illusion that they’ve arrived and get back to the adventure 🤔

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Apr 2019
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      Individual relationships are interesting. Events are interesting. Aggregating and reification into a “community” is an intellectual death sentence. Stick with the adventure, appreciate company when you get it, don’t let “community” turn into a destination

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Apr 2019
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      Communities tend to find meaning in mutuality and stop moving. You can’t prevent caravans from circling the wagons under threat, but the key is to uncircle and resume movement when the threat is past. At every stage some will choose to stay circled. Social vortex shedding.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Apr 2019
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      I’ve always been ambivalent about what a few people insist on calling the “ribbonfarm community”. I stopped objecting at some point because I didn’t want to seem ungracious about support I really do appreciate. Thankfully despite the label it has never been a proper community.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Apr 2019
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      Both in my head and in practice, it’s always been more of a slowly moving conversational traffic jam than a community. At least as many people have been annoyed at getting stuck in it briefly as enjoy it. 🤣

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Apr 2019
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      Relativity theory. When I started writing I thought of my blog as a static place, with readers passing through, some lingering longer than others. At some point the metaphor switched. I was the one passing through. Initially alone, then with a troupe with a churning membership.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Apr 2019
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      Now it’s a fully relativity theory. Everybody is moving on a trackless land. Some people just enter mutual gravitational capture. That’s community. A stable gravity well of mutuality. It can grow bigger and bigger and warp adventure space.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Apr 2019
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      Really big ones like hacker news collapse into black holes. Someday somebody will take a picture of this.

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Apr 2019
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          One of the reasons I still do refactor camp is that it’s 50% or so entirely new people each time. Reassures me that something is moving, hopefully me. I don’t think anybody besides me has attended all of them.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Apr 2019
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          This thread reminded me of one of only 2 India-themed posts I’ve done, this one on the hero’s journey metaphor in Bollywood music. I think too much is lost in translation here. I oughta do a western-native versionhttps://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/02/13/safar-aur-musafir-the-heros-journey-in-bollywood/ …

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