At the other extreme, James Carse Finite and Infinite Games is almost incompressible *despite* being highly redundant and repetitive
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But the people who *have* put in the work to read Carse have all been way more deeply influenced by it. I’ve read both. I never cite World is Flat except as a joke. I cite or use Carse almost every other thing I write. Often in a foundational way.
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Shall we call this the Velvet Underground effect? https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/03/01/velvet/ …
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Spider webs of references are increasingly useless. “I’m going to replace you with a short list of search terms”
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Editor hat on, that’s often a sign that you’re absorbing the dialogue but struggling to find a “seed” with which to achieve an originality-adding compression as output. Often that takes learning disrespect. Most common problem I see in academically trained bloggers.
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Took me ~3-4 years/200k words to learn to sufficiently disrespect the dialogues I was responding to without actually tuning it out. Fine line between arrogant ignorance of, and obsequiously worshipful immersion in, a discourse tradition
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