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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 2 Sep 2019
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      as in math, there's 3 basic strategies 1. Give up and stick to symbol level (map literacy) 2. Work with "3d projections" -- a set of partial slices you CAN big-picture grok 3. Work with "patches" -- a sort of differential geometric approach where you get good at quilting

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Sep 2019
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      Broadly, these map to 3 intellectual stances: textualism, ideology, and pointillism

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Sep 2019
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      There is a reason ambitious thinkers like Taleb, after a great opening act, often resort to generating piles of aphoristic rubble for their act 2 (and in his case, kinda retreat to increasingly refined 3d-projective repetitions of their Act 1 as their Act 3 elder game/late style)

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Sep 2019
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      I'm no exception of course. Twitter is just easier for me right now than longer forms. It's easier to scurry around like a rat in the darkness, or a worm slithering around underground, generating 280 characters worth of thought at a time

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Sep 2019
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      You have to deconvolve aging effects of course, output = (aging brain)*(higher dimensional interests)

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Sep 2019
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      There IS an alternative, which is to get increasingly idiosyncratic, convincing yourself you are discovering deep, vast hyperdimensional truths, and that you're "merely" having trouble articulating them for the benefit of others. No, it's not a "mere" compilation problem.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Sep 2019
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      You are doing what I call vanishing past your own event horizon. Or to use a more evocative everyday phrase, your solution to the problem is to become part of the problem. Congrats, you are now as obscure as the problem you were trying to investigate.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Sep 2019
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      I've been thinking about late styles/elder games/Act 2 for a year now, and all the supposed good news is feel-good fake news. If it looks like somebody is doing very interesting things past 40 or so, look again. It's always tricks with mirrors or harvesting stuff done before 40.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Sep 2019
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      In The Science of Discworld, the authors talk a lot about "lies to children" ie how popular understanding of science is layers upon layers of wilfully crafted misunderstandings to give people a false sense of comprehension. Our culture is equally full of "lies to the middle aged"

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    10. jeet ਪ੍ਰਭਜੀਤ 🦎 🔄 🐊‏ @jeetsidhu_ 2 Sep 2019
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      What are examples of lies to the middle-aged?

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Sep 2019
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      Replying to @jeetsidhu_

      "It's not too late" is the biggest catch-all one.

      1:38 PM - 2 Sep 2019
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        2. Rahul Ramchandani‏ @Rahul_Ramc 2 Sep 2019
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          For people that missed out on making themselves into a key, what does graceful aging look like?

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Sep 2019
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          Replying to @Rahul_Ramc @jeetsidhu_

          There is no such thing as graceful aging, only clever optics and PR, sufficient money to buy your way out of being an embarrassing human, and good clothes. It’s all graceless 🙂

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