Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 9, 2014Replying to @jzellis@jzellis you're aestheticizing behaviorist/psychoanalytic distinction in cognition style into strawman meritocratic vs context orientation11
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 9, 2014Replying to @jzellis@jzellis "understand scars of world"? Put earth on couch much? = psychoanalysis1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 9, 2014Replying to @jzellis@jzellis "The world is far subtler and her scars are far older than most geeks really seem to understand." <-- bs patronizing. Not true.3
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 9, 2014Replying to @jzellis@jzellis a) you don't "solve" most big problems, just gradually improve how you manage them, beating existing models is goal b) James Carse211
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @jzellis@jzellis you've been listening to too much Mozorov. Again, 10% of engineers who think that way end up having the most impact. Rest=noise.7:14 AM · Aug 9, 20141 Like
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 9, 2014Replying to @jzellis@jzellis even worse...that stuff is nearly all noise.1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 9, 2014Replying to @jzellis@jzellis the noise of critics and the theater of scenesters they are responding to is too much sound and fury to drown out. You gotta filter111