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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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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 27 Oct 2019
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    If you apply 5 Whys heuristic to your work, what root cause do you get? Trivial example: Why do I work To make $ Why do I want $? To pay for lifestyle Why do I want my lifestyle? It is comfortable Why do I want comfort? To avoid pain Why do I want to avoid pain? I dislike pain

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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Oct 2019
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        For all the people jumping in with advice, this example is not mine. It’s just an illustration of how the heuristic works

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      2. Brian Skinner‏ @gravity_levity 28 Oct 2019
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        I got stuck trying to understand why boredom is unpleasant

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Oct 2019
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        Hmm. YOLO? Fear of mortality and time running out without every minute packed with interestingness?

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      2. Paul Baumgart‏ @paulbaumgart 27 Oct 2019
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        Why do I work on developer tools? Because it’s high leverage + interesting tech. Why is it high leverage? Capitalism demands more productive devs. Why? Software is eating the world. Why? It creates greater economic efficiency. Why? Computers are better at boring work than humans.

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      3. rektide de la fay‏ @rektide 27 Oct 2019
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        rektide de la fay Retweeted MΞMO AKTEN

        The inner-article here talks a lot about the in-exhaustability of computers. Where-as an artist can make a couple takes & then starts to grow tired, a computer can stick to task indefinitely, producing countless takes that we might be able to steer & grow.https://mobile.twitter.com/memotv/status/1186939187158814722 …

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        MΞMO AKTENVerified account @memotv
        "... the people who argued ... using computers dehumanises art, the opposite is true. BC it's thx to all this technology we can get very close to what we have imagined, that otherwise we might not have found" 👌💙 https://twitter.com/oiioiioioiiioio/status/1186931015756996608 …
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      1. young‏ @metaashu 27 Oct 2019
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        Because the universe turned out so, and couldn't've turned out any other way. Hard determinism

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      2. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 28 Oct 2019
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        I too dislike pain

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      3. James Stuber‏ @uberstuber 28 Oct 2019
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        so relatable

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      1. Mathieu Helie‏ @mathieuhelie 27 Oct 2019
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        Any sufficiently deep root cause analysis ends in one of two states - the ultimate cause of all problems: human nature, - a causal cycle, the root of the problem is the problem.

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      1. Shubham Jain‏ @mythirdbrain 27 Oct 2019
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        It's helpful to modify it by asking how else can I achieve this. Why do I work? To earn money. How else can I earn money? ..investing etc.. Why do I want my lifestyle? Its comfortable. How else can I be comfortable? ....meditating, monk lifestyle...

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