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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 21 Sep 2019
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      Have you ever set/pursued real life goals? Not joke ones or fakes you make up for a workshop exercise. I haven’t. I’ve only: a) picked among opportunities (50%) b) stirred the pot to create new opportunities (30%) c) allowed random play to snowball into bigger thing (20%)

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    2. Emmett Shear‏Verified account @eshear 21 Sep 2019
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      What's the difference between choosing among opportunities and pursuing a life goal? Aren't those the same thing?

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    3. Zed Burnett‏ @chophshiy 21 Sep 2019
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      Same here. If one did not believe that an outcome (aim) was actually an opportunity... does not compute.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Sep 2019
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      You apply to a bunch of jobs, get a few interviews, a couple of offers, pick one. That’s response to opportunities. You decide you’re going to get to Mars or prove the Poincaré conjecture with no clear sense of whether there’s an opportunity to do so. That’s a goal.

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        2. Emmett Shear‏Verified account @eshear 21 Sep 2019
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          Decided to start a company during college based on argument from my friend "we will never have better access to intellectual capital or more risk tolerance than now". Does that count?

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Sep 2019
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          Well looks like you did, so yeah 🙂

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        2. Zed Burnett‏ @chophshiy 21 Sep 2019
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          Are you trying to point to the distinction between present(ed) opportunities and those which are contingent upon one's capabilities at a future (uncertain) date?

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Sep 2019
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          Roughly. It’s a loose distinction, not a fundamental one. An opportunity is access to a leveraged pathway to a valuable end. It’s easier but also more fixed.

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        2. Nick's Curve is Bent AF‏ @ndwpdx 21 Sep 2019
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          In high school, among the posters I had on my wall was a plot of an SRAM chip. I understood the very crude basics of VLSI. I programmed minis and micros. I said then "I'm going to design these computer chip things". ... And I did. [/massive Adrian Belew riff]

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        3. Nick's Curve is Bent AF‏ @ndwpdx 21 Sep 2019
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          That was 1980 -> 1990. [long random intermezzio] FF to Y2K: overweight, underconditioned: "I will race my bicycle, with the best of my cohort, and actually finish respectably". That was the first coherent goal formed in a while. [narrator: He'd check this one off, too.]

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        1. Tom Sullivan‏ @tomwsullivan 29 Sep 2019
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          Learning math for real after school let me down

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