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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 3 Aug 2019
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      Everytime I tweet non-trivial thoughts, I get a flood of links/pointers to work by others that people think I ought to be familiar with/connect to. I appreciate it, but without specific hooks I’ll likely ignore it. If I followed all such leads I’d get no thinking of my own done.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Aug 2019
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      If you actually want to help me (or anyone) think better, supply hooks. Supporting/confirmation bias hooks that build on what I’m saying in a yes-and improv way are most useful: “This book adds to your idea and as a bonus connects to your other pet topic of mediocrity”)

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Aug 2019
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      Disconfirmation leads are second-best? Why, because until I build something worth subjecting to falsifying scrutiny, I’m not going to bother. The momentum of a creative fugue is more important for the first half of a thinking session, and confirmation fodder is 10x more useful.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Aug 2019
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      Least useful is just pointers to vaguely similar thinking you’ve seen elsewhere with no clear build-up or break-down creative destruction dialectical potential with reference to mine. It may be there, but unless you give me a specific preview, screening the leads is intractable.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Aug 2019
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      Think about it from my point of view. I’m generally trying to build out a thought that’s useful, interesting, and has some novelty. Pointing to undifferentiated similar things can only convince me to abandon a bunny trail, not pursue it more deeply (if that’s what you want of me)

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Aug 2019
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted David Chapman

      And of course, if I detect hints that a reference/pointer is a warning shot across my bows, to defend intellectual turf, you’ll attract a very different, beefy kind of hostile attention from me rather than respectful and grateful clue-following 😂https://twitter.com/meaningness/status/1156970208709398529?s=21 …

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      David Chapman @Meaningness
      It’s easy to assume that, if there’s an academic field named after some phenomenon, the people in it are doing whatever can be done to discover things about that phenomenon, and everything known about it is taught in that field. This is rarely true.
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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Aug 2019
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Science Banana

      Also, be aware that my thinking style involves a LOT of “scholarly civil disobedience” ie refusing to know about things. Please don’t be offended if I seem reluctant to go down paths you’re eager to send me down. It’s just process discipline.https://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/1008714338574585856?s=21 …

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      Science Banana @literalbanana
      Refusing to know about things is a valid form of civil disobedience
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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Aug 2019
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      This may not be your style or best style for all topics, but I prefer reinventing wheels to digging up refs or getting lost in other minds mazes. It’s a big reason I left academic research. It’s how I uncover whatever nuggets of interestingness I do, and how I have unpaid fun.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Aug 2019
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      Thank you for reading my social media API documentation. Yes it’s a small-minded, petty way of conducting one’s intellectual life, obsessively protecting elan vital, fun, and shitposting rights over being a good, collegial citizen of scholarly communities. Sorrynotsorry 😇

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 3 Aug 2019
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      Gonna leave this thread pinned.

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        1. Patrick Atwater‏ @patwater 5 Aug 2019
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          #zanyIdea What if there was a gymnosophist bot -- as in a physical robot -- that wandered around the downtowns of various cities reading out these tweets? @vr00n just picture it! Man that'd be priceless😂🤣😂🤣😂

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        1. Dan Hon‏ @hondanhon 5 Aug 2019
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          "Lead me down a path rather than stop me in my tracks"

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        1. Don‏ @goldblatchikens 7 Aug 2019
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          Sweet, provide the example so that people can mimic it.

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