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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 8
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    It’s really depressing how important it is to every person to be seen, no matter how obscure and unimportant, and how deeply they start to collapse when they’re not being seen. And older = worse. Most people don’t develop the inner resources to endure not being seen for long.

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 8
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        And “seeing” work in service of people with nothing much to present is the most difficult kind of caring work. Relentlessly demanding, exhausting, and fundamentally unrewarding/thankless, even if you’re being paid. Reverse dementoring. Soul transfusion instead of soul sucking.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 8
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        Not proud to admit this, but I’m finding out my soul surplus available for seeing-caring work is extremely limited. I’m like a cellphone battery at 10% and red even at my best. In awe of people who seem to have 10x battery to go around soul-charging others.

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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 8
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        10% surplus for random other humans that is. More like 70-80% for selfish use.

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      2. Bushra Farooqui  🎄 🌉‏ @startuployalist Jan 8
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        Bushra Farooqui  🎄 🌉 Retweeted Bushra Farooqui  🎄 🌉

        I've moved on from the narrative of being seen. Idk, from time to time, I think there's something more going on --https://twitter.com/startuployalist/status/1215125696726499328?s=20 …

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        woke: “social” technology is fragmenting the psyche and eroding human relationships bespoke: “social” technology is breaking the monopoly of the single true self, unlocking new universes and higher Kegan stages
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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 8
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        Sadly it’s not a “narrative”. It’s a basic need and unconscious drive like eating that most people never reconstruct into anything else.

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      2. Bushra Farooqui  🎄 🌉‏ @startuployalist Jan 8
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        Fwiw, one of my favorite passages from a novel was an elaborate description of how the main character engaged in a ritual opposite of a somatic-meditation, to piece by piece, vanish and become unseen even to himself, until he was reduced to an element

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 8
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        Mystic fiction is nice. The average human is not a hero.

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        One of the key steps on the road toward ego death / stream entry

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      2. Andy‏ @vaughnandy Jan 8
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        Being "seen" can occur through multiple methods. Apps, or social groups, wherein people find their communities, broaden that away from just physically seen, to being "heard".

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        the sense of being sensed higher value to be 'understood' of coursea

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