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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 9
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    This was roughly the popular premium mediocre life script, 1993-2015 Be the chosen one If you can’t be chosen one work at the It company If you can’t do that live in happening city If not, at least the country it is in If not, at least work in the sector that makes it exciting

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 9
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        Now this script apparently reads “asshole”

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 9
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        One of the best things universities do is give you 4 years to try to break out from dominant scripts in the zeitgeist. If it wasn’t for college, everybody in my high school class would have tried to be a programmer and 90% would have been terrible at it.

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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 9
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        Of course there are It universities too, but they tend to take centuries to build reputations and decades to lose it, so they tend to have stable narrative background roles over a couple of decades

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      5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 9
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        Emerging default script: you’re born chosen, doing the thing you were meant to do, in the place you were meant to do it, and already know the people you should do it with. And your family can tell you all you need to know. If you’re unhappy it’s the fault of outsiders.

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      2. Sidin‏ @sidin Feb 9
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        Any IT company or like a specific IT company?

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      3. Nathaniel Eliot‏ @temujin9 Feb 9
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        Any of three to five big and trendy ones, or the Oort cloud that is the start-up scene. Skip hardware, unless it's robotics or space. (Or space robots. If you can do space robots, I feel the answer should be clear.)

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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 9
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        All the It companies are IT companies but not all IT companies are It companies

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      2. Michelle Lee‏ @michellearning Feb 9
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        Is premium mediocrity just the pursuit of high hype:difficulty(or anti-scarcity) ratio?

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        😎https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-life-of-maya-millennial/ …

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