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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 28 Oct 2019
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    Those of you who, like me, write in public a lot: What if, anything, have you done to adapt your style to the more beefy, toxic zeitgeist and discourse of the last few years? What’s your signal-in-noise strategy? Radiation hardening strategy?

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      2. Tom Critchlow‏ @tomcritchlow 28 Oct 2019
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        Sounds reductive but trying to write "chapters" of a book over blog posts with my strategy writing has helped the writing be more coherent (while also helping it reach a smaller audience lol)https://tomcritchlow.com/strategy/ 

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Oct 2019
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        Sounds similar to my blogchains motivation

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      2. Biswajit Banerjee‏ @parresianz 28 Oct 2019
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        Those of us who have lived through the Usenet age would disagree with the "toxic zeitgeist" part. The zeitgeist has always been toxic in some way or the other. I've stopped writing because I stopped feeling the need to write.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Oct 2019
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        I lived through Usenet era too. This is definitely 10x more toxic than normal in the US/west. Perhaps other parts of the world have been less hard hit.

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      2. Ovid 19 BC  🐮‏ @typhoonjim 28 Oct 2019
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        Hoping for "lower quality" because it means goofs like me have a chance

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Oct 2019
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        What have you changed about your writing though

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      2. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 28 Oct 2019
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        1- created @alt_visa to partition off exploration of more radioactive curiosities with closer/trusted friends 2- likelier to not bother replying to replies that seem to miss the spirit of my point (could also be bc of higher volume)

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      3. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 28 Oct 2019
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        3- I've also scaled down "here's my take on this current issue" type threads altogether – I keep track of the zeitgeist with a thread of tweets like this, but I seldom even bother articulating an opinion anymore since all variants will emerge eventuallyhttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1187219874084347904 …

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      1. Alex Boland‏ @interpretantion 28 Oct 2019
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        I just stay away from hot buttons since most of the time people are mad because of word association and not actual concepts.

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      2. Paras Chopra‏ @paraschopra 28 Oct 2019
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        I’ve seen my writing gradually reduce in quantity because I’m slowly realising that I have very few things to say that would be worth the reader’s time. Facts are becoming less interesting and genuinely new insights are increasingly harder to come by.

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