Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 26, 2020Though...Quote TweetVenkatesh Rao@vgr·Dec 15, 2018You have no obligation to be useful or interesting to the world.19
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 26, 2020otohQuote TweetVenkatesh Rao@vgr·Nov 7, 2014Sufficiently enlightened self-interest is indistinguishable from altruism. Suff. clueless altruism is indistinguishable from self-interest.214
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 26, 2020Best not to try and figure it outQuote TweetVenkatesh Rao@vgr·May 27, 20151/ My best aphorism to date, "civilization is the process of turning the incomprehensible into the arbitrary," admits several follow-ons16
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 26, 2020Just be normal, it doesn’t have to make senseQuote TweetVenkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 9, 2018Normalcy is simply the majority sect of magical thinking16