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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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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 18 May 2019
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    Shelf-respect: books you honor with shelf-space but don’t seriously mean to read. What are yours? Especially recent ones. Usual suspects: Tufte, Knuth, Shakespeare, Rumi, Piketty, Bratton, Wolfram, Bible It isn’t signaling, anti-library, or aspiration. It’s...idolatry?

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      2. Dorian Taylor‏ @doriantaylor 18 May 2019
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        pic.twitter.com/RbNu3g26nP

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      3. Dorian Taylor‏ @doriantaylor 18 May 2019
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        (jk i've read them all and some that aren't there)

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      2. @hughcards‏Verified account @hughcards 19 May 2019
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        Can I republish your "You are not an artisan" post on the @gapingvoid newsletter?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 May 2019
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        Sure 🙂

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      2. George Gibson‏ @ggibsonD35 19 May 2019
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        The value of a library isn’t the books you have read but the ones you haven’t (yet).

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        That’s the Taleb anti-library concept I cited... and no that’s not what I’m talking about

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      2. Raj Rajagopal‏ @tweeting_raj 18 May 2019
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        The road to reality by roger penrose

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      3. Josh Marshall‏ @josh_m 18 May 2019
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        Did you try and only get 1/10th of the way through too?

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      2. Phil Liao‏ @pliao39 18 May 2019
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        Gödel, Escher, Bach Infinite Jest Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Sometimes, I even let people think I've read more than their first chapters. But I swear, I'll read them one day (or at least chapter 2 😉). The stuff I actually read is on my Kindle

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      3. Sam Havens‏ @sam_havens 18 May 2019
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        These are great books, once you get momentum

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