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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 Dec 2019
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Preethi Kasireddy

      I accept all excuses, but I especially recommend “I have no dreams” if you want my sympathy. Complaints about life being unfair also entertained if you make good jokes.https://twitter.com/iam_preethi/status/1201299751213256704 …

      Venkatesh Rao added,

      Preethi Kasireddy @iam_preethi
      The internet gives us an infinite number of tools to learn anything. There are zero excuses for not waking up every morning and making use of them to pursue your dreams. ...Or you can just sit here on the internet and complain about how unfair life is.
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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Dec 2019
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      I’ve managed to pretty cheerfully get through 45 years of life with no dreams. Distractions are a very good substitute. Complaints about life being unfair are the dawning of useful insights Excuses are the spice of coffee breaks

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Dec 2019
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      Doerism as a personal preference is great, yay Doerism as hustleporn is tolerable. Emotional labor tax to support universe-denters psyche-sustaining self-talk Doerism as a universalist normative philosophy is to be resisted with all the boneless passivity you can conjure

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Dec 2019
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      Well maybe I do have a sort of dream https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1174152501018296320?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1174152501018296320 …

      Venkatesh Rao added,

      Venkatesh Rao @vgr
      Afaict the emergent goal of my public persona is to be a bad influence on good people that others are trying to save/rescue/motivate/inspire/exhort. My superhero name would be Null Hypothesis.
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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Dec 2019
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      Dragging your feet and rolling your eyes is a more potent mode of agency than doerists like to admit, which is why it can be infuriating to well-intentioned people trying to cause positive change. The trick to motivation is to drop the “positive” and just drive change.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Dec 2019
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      Exhortation is not inspiration. Exhortation is the in-group amplifier drug among already-aligned and activated doers. For the inertial out-group the change-seeking tribe wants to mobilize, the key to motivation is creating disequilibrium.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Dec 2019
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      Artistic inertia as a martial art

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        1. Reclusive Wizard‏ @ReclusiveWizard 1 Dec 2019
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          A good martial artist will always try to remain in maximally flexible positions as long as possible before needing to commit to something, which feels very mediocre in mindset to me. My kenjutsu instructor called it “zero sword” but I call it “mediocre sword” to myself now

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        1. the [devil-]mandalorian‏ @swimming_blerd 1 Dec 2019
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          not one you want to use, anyway

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