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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 26 Sep 2019
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      A test of whether you’re wasting time on social media. Take whatever ennobling activity you think you could be doing instead and ask how its relevance, meaning, and practical value (both selfish and selfless) might evolve over the next 20 years as the Great Weirding continues...

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 26 Sep 2019
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      Almost nothing makes the cut. Health, close relationships, math skills, hands-on technology skills: these are more important than, and crucially, not future-fragile dependent on, the course of the great weirding. Everything else depends on how the GW evolves.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 26 Sep 2019
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      Betting on social media, going long on it, is in a sense a bet that the Great Weirding will gain energy and creative-destruction power. Whatever happens, will happen here. You’re on the ground floor of the future here.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 26 Sep 2019
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      If you make a list of everything else you could be doing and sort it into 2 piles: depends on/does not depend on, Great Weirding future, almost everything is in the first pile. The second pile is the things I listed.

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 26 Sep 2019
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          Another test: would making X “social media context-aware” make a difference to what’s hard about X? X = Writing a book? Yeah, a social-media-aware book is hard in a very different way. X = Designing a Mars rocket? Not really, though Elon Musk tweets about his.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 26 Sep 2019
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          If social media could alter the nature of X, then investing in the social media context of X sufficiently is higher value than waldenponding to do unreconstructed-X. If not, then it’s a hedge to GW. Go for it. Solve the hard thing about X. It’ll have value whatever the GW does.

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        1. Matt Elder‏ @fiddlemath 26 Sep 2019
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          Owned power has a hope of surviving the Weirding; borrowed power does not. Fair rewording? (cf @SamoBurja's http://bit.ly/2mdy3d4 )

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        1. Will Bickford‏ @wbic16 26 Sep 2019
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          Ground floor weirding leads to curiously strange looping on the 13th floor.

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