Tom Critchlow@tomcritchlow·Jul 6, 2020What are your cornerstone posts and links for "thinking in public" - blogging, podcasting, writing etc..? What advice would you give those going from zero to one and just beginning to share their thinking in public?16964
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jul 8, 2020Replying to @tomcritchlowribbonfarm.comSeeking Density in the Gonzo TheaterConsider this thought experiment: what if you were only allowed 2000 words with which to understand the world? With these 2000 words, you’d have to do everything. You’d be allowed to oc…12
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jul 8, 2020Replying to @vgr and @tomcritchlowhttps://ribbonfarm.com/2016/09/22/speak-weirdness-to-truth/…1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jul 8, 2020Replying to @vgr and @tomcritchlowribbonfarm.comHow to Take Your Brain Off-RoadThe more you read, the more you know how to read, and the harder it is to get lost in reading. When you’ve read only a few things, it is not possible to get very lost because each book, artic…11
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @vgr and @tomcritchlowribbonfarm.comRediscovering LiteracyI’ve been experimenting lately with aphorisms. Pithy one-liners of the sort favored by writers like La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680). My goal was to turn a relatively big idea, the sort I would n…4:25 AM · Jul 8, 20201 Like
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jul 8, 2020Replying to @vgr and @tomcritchlowribbonfarm.comThe Rhetoric of the HyperlinkThe hyperlink is the most elemental of the bundle of ideas that we call the Web. If the bit is the quark of information, the hyperlink is the hydrogen molecule. It shapes the microstructure of inf…11
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jul 8, 2020Replying to @vgr and @tomcritchlowribbonfarm.comElderblog SutraA series exploring the meta/infra adventures of ribbonfarm in its elder-blog era, 2019+1