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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 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.

    8:25 PM - 8 Jan 2020
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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. maxwellroe‏ @maxwellroe Jan 8
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        Is your position that the biological imperative for people to feel connected to a community who “sees” them is deppressing because modern civilization fails in this regard, ir that the individuals fail to evolve?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 8
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        Either way.

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      2. Sagar Dubey‏ @cigardubey Jan 8
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        How much effort do you put into seeing yourself?

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 8
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        Zero

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      2. Font of Augurs‏ @MeFromBefore Jan 8
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        tbf this is sampling bias — you aren’t seeing people who prefer not to be seen

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 8
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        I’m nit talking about public seeing. Most people are just seen by family/close friends.

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      2. Bushra Farooqui‏ @startuployalist Jan 8
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        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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        Bushra Farooqui @startuployalist
        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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