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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. Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸‏ @Conaw Apr 16
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      Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸 Retweeted Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸

      @beondeck @julianweisser @eriktorenberg here's your roadmap to 1B ARR. You're welcomehttps://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1250892359362985984?s=19 …

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      Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸 @Conaw
      Replying to @ResonantPyre @wolftivy
      You could do this with any gated community or otherwise enclosed commons. Better business model for a university too.
      3 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
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    2. Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸‏ @Conaw Apr 16
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      Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸 Retweeted Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸

      Large empires start small, but at every stage they are a magnet for talent and ambition. The well aligned city on a hill is the project any wealthy landowner could start today So much human capital today is crushed by the weight of Maslow's Pyramidhttps://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1250919440599805952?s=19 …

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      Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸 @Conaw
      Replying to @Conaw @wolftivy @_StevenFan
      Black swan farming not limited to finance. Applies to cultural, artistic, scientific and moral achievement as well. Someone who improves societal health of the citadel does not capture that value financially, but by making the community more attractive they build wealth for all
      1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
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    3. Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸‏ @Conaw Apr 16
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      Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸 Retweeted Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸

      Run your city how you want. I'm long on Amish parisheshttps://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1250923492658180097?s=19 …

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      Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸 @Conaw
      Replying to @wolftivy @spearofsolomon @_StevenFan
      Character is the result of repeated decisions Culture is embodied models of how to live well distributed enough to form standards and be common knowledge. I'd short the passport price of any city with highest bidder citizenship.
      4 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
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    4. Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸‏ @Conaw Apr 16
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      Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸 Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

      Post-corona Antifragile Dark Age Readyhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1250998683673325570?s=19 …

      Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸 added,

      Venkatesh Rao @vgr
      This 2013 post just bubbled up via someone tweeting it. I’d forgotten I’d written it. Weird how often this has been happening lately. My map of what I’ve written is slowly fragmenting. Quite a nice post. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/12/09/our-diurnal-civilization/ …
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    5. Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸‏ @Conaw Apr 16
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      The night is dark and full of terrors But my hope is that the next dark age (more experimental localized governance - city states, citadels) will be different from past ones, because much wealth created within the walls will be non-rival technology.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/12/09/our-diurnal-civilization/ …

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    6. Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸‏ @Conaw Apr 16
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      Borders, boundaries, and the enclosed sovereign subcultures that comes with them, are necessary for solving any complex problem. Building a flourishing community and navigating human conflict is a complex problem. We need smarter cells. I buy the story that we're in declinepic.twitter.com/93QdX8C3q7

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    7. Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸‏ @Conaw Apr 16
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      Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸 Retweeted Yuri de Gaia

      The cryptokid-defend your bitcoin from AOC-galt's gulch-citadel is def in the same family, but likely different motivational structure. I want to free •some people• from constraints, so they can experiment and share the results more broadly Promethiahttps://twitter.com/Y_deGaia/status/1251009086499385345?s=19 …

      Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸 added,

      Yuri de Gaia @Y_deGaia
      Replying to @Conaw @wolftivy
      Make it a private city with fees paid by citizens (which doesn't have to conflicts with dividend payouts) and you'll get a citadel. https://degaia.co/defining-the-citadel/ …
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    8. Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸‏ @Conaw Apr 16
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      The dark age is coming, it's going to be glorious, and @vgr is absolutely getting a mansion.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 16
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      Replying to @Conaw

      At the moment the road to my mansion looks like it weaves through a slum next to a gutter if things continue the way they are

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    10. Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸‏ @Conaw Apr 16
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      Replying to @vgr

      Unless @kylemathews or @fortelabs get you your mansion first, more likely western North Carolina. I hope you like borderers.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 16
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      Replying to @Conaw @kylemathews @fortelabs

      Yeah that’s 3 of my mansion options. Hope one of you makes it. It’s not a very deep bench.

      10:46 PM - 16 Apr 2020
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        2. Mark Robertson‏ @calhistorian Apr 25
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          Replying to @vgr @Conaw and

          @readwiseio save thread

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        3. Readwise‏ @readwiseio Apr 25
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          Done! We've saved this whole thread to your Readwise library so that you can revisit/remember it 🧠📚

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