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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 Jan 3
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      The version of me that wrote this in 2011 has sort of quietly died in the years since.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/07/31/on-being-an-illegible-person/ …

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 3
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      Driving from LA to Vegas rn, a drive I last did in 2011. One of the bleakest drives in the world, yet also one of the most poignant.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 3
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      Some day I might do a longer India visit and redo the long train rides that played a similar role for me before 1997 that big drives did 1997 to 2011

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 3
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      Last proper big drive was 2014. Seattle to Bay Area and back. That’s a lovely drive too.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 3
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      Last 6mo have been weird. Spent time in Ann Arbor after 17y (not counting a 2011 drive by), DC after 9y. Now Vegas after 8y. All triggered by father-in-law passing, Feel like time is in rewind. Like I’m retracing my life steps and finding bits and pieces I lost along the way.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 3
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      There was also Austin after 20y in 2018 🤔 Haven’t been back to the town I grew up in since 1997 when I was 22. That’ll be trippy when I eventually make it back.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 3
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      “Going down memory lane” is a thing. Especially when you realize that there are people who never left each landmark. You may have left little bits of yourself carelessly behind everywhere but others never moved. They’re all in, in one place, in one piece. Their lane is a point.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 3
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      I may have coasted past my Madeline Point™ without noticing sometime in the last few years

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 3
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      Squeezing life out of old memories is a bit like squeezing more juice out of an old sketchy looking partially squeezed half lemon you found wrapped in Saran Wrap in the fridge in the back

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 3
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      People who move tend to move “with the times” in a sense. Movers and stayers kinda bear witness to each other’s lost lives.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 3
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      I can sense a sad-mode me to come via a future regeneration in about a decade that will be a powerful downer. You’ve been warned. Being is a continuous choice between melancholy of memory and sanguinary amnesia.

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