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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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    1. 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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      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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        1. 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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          @snigdhar0y -- this is one of your superpowers, btw: "soul-charging" ❣️

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        3. Snigdha Roy  ❄️‏ @snigdhar0y Jan 9
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          my battery is always full for you :)) 🔋

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        1. Leigh Honeywell in  🇨🇦‏Verified account @hypatiadotca Jan 8
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          I think a lot of us who do a lot of charging work got a weird tweak from the factory such that it charges us too. Though not in a totally reliable way - it usually charges me but sometimes wiped me out, and I can’t predict which will happen

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        2. Vivek Ponnaiyan‏ @viveksworld Jan 8
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          None of us would have ever guessed 😂

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        3. Vivek Ponnaiyan‏ @viveksworld Jan 8
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          For a lot of people just doing the “normie social thing” is exhausting.

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

          https://twitter.com/startuployalist/status/1214653088138588161?s=20 …

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          Gen-Z: “‘I use my battery on you’ as a friendship level” pic.twitter.com/zvh3h22ahY
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        2. Bushra Farooqui  🎄 🌉‏ @startuployalist Jan 8
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          Part of my "soft goals" for this year is to increase my emotional slack for care-work. I'm awed by those who offer very rich, attentive, intellectual-emotional feedback. As if they have a deep, inviolable security that isn't controlled by emotional or financial markets.

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        3. Karen Karenina‏ @culteyes Jan 10
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          “Care-work”; emotional markets. Is this some strange Silicon Valley spell? Where everything, literally even ones basic animal needs and instincts, become financialized? Fascinating if so!

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        1. Made in Cosmos  💫‏ @made_in_cosmos Jan 9
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          My battery went all the way down to 0% last month. Wasn't sure if I'd come out of it alive, but now that I did, I'm not worried about my or anyone's else battery running out anymore. We're all equipped to deal with this.

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