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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Sep 2019
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      Glamorous institution syndrome: — Prioritize intellectual-glamor branding — Manufacture a vision surplus — Overpromise/underdeliver — Overvalue PR as a KPI — Big on manifestos — Charisma engineering as core competency — Fear “boring” perceptions — Spotlight-driven funding

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Sep 2019
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      These are neither good, nor bad. They are just features that present a particular kind of attack surface to predators/parasites. Domestic cozy ethos is the opposite and has its own attack surface (often based on silent neglect and decay)

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Sep 2019
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      The media lab events should serve as a warning for institutions cut from the same cloth. - Pivot the brand now - Swap out impresario leaders for quiet bureaucratic-heroes - Reduce funding reliance on PR - work on problems that are unsexy and hard not stunts - refactor > vision

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    4. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston 8 Sep 2019
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      This seems like a plan to kill the Media Lab. It's supposed to be visionary, so you need a visionary leader, or one that's good at picking visionaries to lead labs. They need to double down on vision, but likely a new vision.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Sep 2019
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      Worth a long-bet. I think we're headed for a decade or two of "vision recession" where the initiative shifts to the opposite of "visionary" types.

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    6. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston 8 Sep 2019
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      If you don't believe in vision's future, then you should probably just winddown the Media Lab and start a more serious research lab with a fresh culture.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Sep 2019
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      Possibly. This is is in fact what I suspect a lot of funders will do. In fact, taking it one degree out, the funding culture will change, and a different kind of billionaire/millionaire will step in while the glamor-seeking/BIRGing kind will retreat.

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    8. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston 8 Sep 2019
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      Even in a depression though, I think the culture wants hope/vision. If 2020 picks Trump again and the culture wars continue, we may have everyone asking for safety/normalcy more though and then you're right. Is that your bet?

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Sep 2019
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      Hmm I don't think Trump re-election is a good proxy. If he wins, his mandate for term 2 won't be the same as term 1. If someone else does, it will mean different things depending on who does. But note that there are no strong "vision/hope" candidates like Obama in 2008.

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    10. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston 8 Sep 2019
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      A Trump re-election will be a referendum on the culture wars (and maybe whether change is possible at all). @ewarren is clearly a vision candidate and on the rise. Same with @AndrewYang. People crave a new way forward right now past our apathy / inaction.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Sep 2019
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      Replying to @NickPinkston @ewarren @AndrewYang

      Yang, yeah. Warren not sure. And I don't know what the election will be a referendum on. I'll wait for the post-mortem

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        2. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston 8 Sep 2019
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          I'd say Warren has a strong vision for a progressive future for America. I def don't agree with all of it, and it's def not all "new ideas", but it's not just a bunch of focus-group-tested BS.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Sep 2019
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          Do you think "healing" is a vision? Because I think that's what there's an actual hunger for right now, not "vision" in the positive-future sense. Just healing of wounds and some R&R. Healing --> key reforms --> new vision. Path will be about a decade at least, more likely 2.

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