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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 May 19
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      My relationship with money gets odder and odder every year.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 19
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      It’s neither healthy nor unhealthy, it’s just not on the real axis. More on the imaginary axis for me. Beyond “it’s a problem to be solved,” which I solve with mediocre competence when I can, and fret about when I can’t, I just can’t bring myself to take it very seriously.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 19
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      It strikes me as similar to comics or other fandoms, which I can’t take seriously beyond a low satiation point for eerily similar reasons. The economy is just Comic-Con with more boring collectibles and trading cards and stuff.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 19
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      You can get super-clever and genius-level impressive with both money-fu and comics-fu but I’m just not clever in those ways or interested enough to work hard to get medium clever. So even though it costs me other sorts of minor pain and annoyance, I don’t go deep.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 20
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      It’s a bit like negentropy. The more money you have the less information you know you don’t have, but you might not notice or care because money makes what you do know seem beautiful and complete.

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        1. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv May 20
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          this got me curious, what do you take most seriously

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        1. Barry Kelly‏ @barrkel May 20
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          "the less information you know you don't have" - struggling to comprehend. Is this a decrease in known unknowns, or a decrease in knowledge about known unknowns? Is the "known" or "unknown" decreasing in "known unknowns"?

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          You sound like an economist. Virtually every economist I know saves c. 15% of their income, and puts it into a tax efficient Vanguard tracker fund. It's utterly dull, with virtually zero thought to it, because that's almost always the most efficient thing to do!

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