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I wonder why many feel the urge to define a posture and motive in the Discourse. My one big meta thought is that it’s better to be in the discourse than out of it. Beyond that I have no strong views on how/why to be here or what to do here now that I’m committed to being here.
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My Discourse = 30% twitter, 40% newsletters/ blog, 30% everything else (Discord, Slack, Facebook). This presence mix is like a housing decision. As in “Ok I’m going to live in this city/neighborhood/apt. I’m going to do this mix of things possible here.” No big theory around it
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Physically there’s reasons you have to live *somewhere* There’s no such thing as going offline from meatspace. There’s nowhere more theoretically basic to go. I feel the same about online. You have to be online *somewhere* it’s becoming part of the definition of being alive.
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It’s a bit like language. Isn’t it interesting that everybody is at least monolingual? Only babies and severely mentally disabled people are unlingual. Living entirely outside of language. Linguistically, your head has to live *somewhere*.
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Lingual, like citizenship of at least one country, is an ex officio feature of being human. “Native tongue” is an interesting phrase. Physically, I emigrated to the US from India at age 22. Linguistically I emigrated from Hindi+Kannada to English somewhere between ages 3-8.
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While I can still triple boot and think with native fluency in all three, English is my default now since I spend almost all my time in my English head, and have the biggest vocabulary in it. The other two are usable, but atrophied. Feels like booting into a 1980s DOS shell.
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