In the last year I think I stopped thinking of myself as a writer (always a very uncomfortable fit for me... it’s always been mostly an instrumental behavior for thinking and self-entertainment for me). I think I sometimes write well, but am not primarily a Writer.
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Even given my relatively cavalier approach to adopting and discarding identities (regardless of success/failure) it’s amazing how little the “writer” identity has penetrated despite it being 90% of public API for a decade. I feel zero connection with strongly writerly people.
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Briefly considered re-centering personal coordinate system origin at “researcher” (hence the crowd-plindependent-researcher thread last week) but nah, in no mood for a do-over of identity circa 1998-2006.
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Thinking about my thread this morning on why independent research is hard, and what it would take to make it possible, and whether it’s within the reach of private investors who ALL complain endlessly about how they have far too much capital and don’t know where to put it. twitter.com/vgr/status/119…
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Candidate identities currently undergoing beta testing for new core identity:
1. Game designer
2. Indie Consulting Elder
3. Podcaster
4. Think-tanker
5. Psychohistorian
6. Journeyman curmudgeon
7. Neoastrologer
8. Hypermedia experimentalist
9. Fiction writer
10. Rasputining
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I always saw you as a public intellectual. One who understands the new economy and the power laws of technology
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That’s a perception that’s zero fun to actually play to, but nice to hit it as a side-effect note occasionally

