Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 22, 2021Everybody around me is either too damn clever or depressingly dumb. Wish I had a reliable test of mediocrity. Plus or minus meh from where I am.143104
Venkatesh Rao@vgrCleverness has an expiry date. If you don’t use it all up by that date, it goes bad and stinks up the fridge. Lots of stinky cleverness around too.5:57 AM · Jan 22, 20213 Retweets2 Quote Tweets48 Likes
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 22, 2021Replying to @vgrIf you run out before you can afford to, you’ll have to settle for trying to be a good person instead, which sucks. That’s why I put myself on the slightly evil ration plan when peak cleverness started to loom.222
Blasphemous Aesthete@anonymoussum1·Jan 22, 2021Replying to @vgrDoes cleverness and/or dumbness get software upgrades? Or are we stuck with what we have?21