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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 1 Oct 2019
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      It’s wonderfully open as a place, trivially easy for even the most socially inept, or awkward, or misfit types to find a welcoming crowd to hang out with. So long as you like some ideas and can add to the pot in even a modest way, you’ll make friends easily. That’s the danger.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Oct 2019
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      The shift from being primarily interested in ideas (almost always a good thing) to being primarily interested in other people (almost never better than a mixed blessing at best) is really tempting and easy. About 80% turn into pure people-scenesters at the first opportunity.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Oct 2019
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      You’d be surprised how hard it is to actually talk technology in Silicon Valley. It’s FAR easier to gossip endlessly about intricacies of raising money, what various VCs and star entrepreneurs are up to, and most easily — what various people mazes are talking about.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Oct 2019
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      You’ll learn people mazes about 10x faster than idea mazes. More people know the map of who’s who in say AI or crypto than what’s what. And if you have even minor success on any front, it is 100x, because the people mazes will come to you, and try to network you in.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Oct 2019
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      I try to stay pretty strongly on the idea maze side (though the specifically technology side of my work is mostly not public) and resist the pull of the half-dozen or so people mazes I’m nominally part of. Including my own.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Oct 2019
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      It worries me that newbies are so stoked on the community side. Apparently unaware of its dark side. They gush constantly about the wonderful, brilliant, awesome people they’re meeting and getting to know. The ideas are just currency to them.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Oct 2019
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      For many it feels like coming “home” after years or decades feeling out of place wherever in the world they came from. With nobody to talk yo in person. It’s a beast feeling of spiritual self-discovery for a lot of people. Every few years there’s a fresh batch.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Oct 2019
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      I’d even say the primary economy of the tech scene is not tech at all. It’s the economy of cults, subcultures, loose guanxi nets, dealflow intel webs, etc. I call it people mazes because there is a lot of topological variety. What’s common to all the people mazes is the openness.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Oct 2019
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      All the atomized misfits from the entire world seem to land here and immediately dive into an orgy of self-organized connecting, trying to cram a decade or more of social starvation within months.

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Oct 2019
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      If you actually want to just do interesting technical work outside of very narrow areas, you’re probably better off elsewhere. Come to Tech when you’re done with the actual tech part.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Oct 2019
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      tldr Idea mazes are undervalued in Tech, people mazes are overvalued

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          People mazes are overvalued everywhere. Their relative value in SV is lower than in NYC and DC, in particular, I think.

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