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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 Feb 11
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    10 years ago I had vague ambitions of starting some sort of think tank type org to house my long-term research interests... this got downgraded to think mug. Now the whole idea of running an org to do X seems like a distraction from doing X.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1217241479325765632 …

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    Life cycle model of intellectual institutions Think spoon Think mug Think bucket Think tank Think river Think reservoir Think wetland Think cesspool Think swamp
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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 11
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        So my new plan is to define my long-term programs in the form of "virus" programs that can move from host institution to host institution. Starting with my temporality research currently hosted at @berggruenInst and previously hosted at Cornell U (aka my postdoc)

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 11
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        Not being in academia though, my "program" level interests kinda evolve in a stop-go fashion as and when the virus finds hosts to live in for a while, going dormant in between.

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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 11
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        An extended universe episodic model. Chapter 1: Temporality in military (sponsor: USAF), 2004-06 Chapter 2: Tempo: the book (sponsor: Xerox, though they didn't know it), 2008-11 Chapter 3: s/w eats world (sponsor: a16z) -- breaking smart S1 is really a temporality case study

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      5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 11
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        Chapter 4: Multitemporality (sponsor: Berggruen), 2019-20 Chapter 5: Psychohistory (looking for sponsors)

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      6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 11
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        You really can't go deep/long-term on a topic without a bit of institutional underwriting (that, or personal wealth). It's just too hard to find time in the interstices of free agency and gig economy.

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      7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 11
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        I strongly prefer my model of viral hopping to academia though... the constraints of getting in bed with government funding agencies and the academic publishing model are just too tight for my kind of interests

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      8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 11
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        Like right now, I'm strongly leaning towards turning my current project output into fictional form, something that wouldn't have been possible if I'd been in academia. I'd have had to write some papers and a stodgy Springer-Verlag volume.

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      9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 11
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        Looking at it in the form of this retconned "story of a virus" narrative, I'm actually shocked at how well I executed on this plan without even realizing I was *on* this plan. The cost is painful though... having to work on stuff in bursts.

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      2. @hughcards‏Verified account @hughcards Feb 11
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        Dude, we all have way too many good ideas.

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        Replying to @hughcards

        Not me. I really only have like 3 good ideas. Everything else is variations on those themes.

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