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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 Feb 8
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      “Where to live next year” decision is turning out to be NP-hard. Wife and I are gleefully vetoing each other’s ideas and getting nowhere. “Too snowy” “Too dry” “I need a decent airport” “Need a Whole Foods” ... Megacities: unsustainably overpriced Schelling points from hell.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 8
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      We are both in our 40s and completely suck at basic adulting

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      • vidy thatte 🇺🇸 Manage Tail Risks. Grow The Economy. David Alleyn sonya! supposedly? Font of Augurs Shulgin's Daemon westworld organizational culture 💎 Sam Kelley
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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 8
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          There are only 3 American stories. 1. Never moved away from Smalltown 2. Sustainably living in Charismatic Bigcity, having moved from Smalltown 3. Crashed out of Charismatic Bigcity to Different Smalltown that exists as a living critique of the former

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 9
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          Varun gets it, A city is not a candidate until I understand what continuation it represents. It’s a narrative extension problem. The constraint satisfaction part is merely the legible bit so it’s easy to get caught up in that. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1226565741081591808?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1226565741081591808 …

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          Replying to @vr00n @kellybianucci @DanielleMorrill
          You’re possibly the only one among people responding who is grokking the way I’m trying to frame the problem. 😀 It’s not a constraint satisfaction problem. It is a narrative extension problem with a set of constraints.
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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 9
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          The city you live in is a *powerful* predictor and embodiment of the story you’re enacting, especially in the context of the series that came before. If you don’t have a good narrative justification for why you’re moving there, you won’t last long (unless you get trapped there)

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        5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 9
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          One of the best arguments against the big economy and in favor of paycheck career is in fact “too much freedom.” With paycheck career, job hunting = lifestyle design. Your next job locks down your next chapter.

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        6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 9
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          Another thing single people don’t appreciate (going by responses) is that the couple version of the problem is an entirely different problem. Qualitatively different.

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        7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 9
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          Loop linking macro cities threadhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1226388443694948355?s=21 …

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          Since WW2, the story of humanity has increasingly been the story of the top 100 or so charismatic big cities. The ones that can each lay claim to an important subplot of the human story. Not necessarily the biggest ones but the ones that you instantly associate with a big story.
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        8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 9
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          The only thing more fraught than giving people city advice is giving them dating advice probably. Career advice is less fraught, coming in at #3. Wonder why there aren’t “city match” sites the way there are dating, marriage, and job sites.

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        9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 9
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          Probably because there’s no meaningful counterparty to the match.

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        1. Ben Kelly‏ @kellyreid Feb 8
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          I like southeast Asia personally

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          I’ve read your blog for a while now and the general clarity of your thinking suggest to me you don’t give yourself enough credit for adulting. It’s a tough world!

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