Alec Resnick@aresnick·Nov 13, 2014Replying to @pmarca@pmarca serious Q: overall, do you find that your mental models of the world more frequently align with the powerful or powerless?214
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Nov 13, 2014Replying to @aresnick@aresnick @pmarca my personal distinction is those who focus on agency vs those who focus on helplessness32
Alec Resnick@aresnick·Nov 13, 2014Replying to @vgr@vgr @pmarca … generate dramatically different interventions, cultures.1
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @aresnick@aresnick @pmarca Dev of agency is hard. I think for most people ship has sailed by 14. Grip of acting-dead hard to break after that6:16 PM · Nov 13, 2014
Alec Resnick@aresnick·Nov 13, 2014Replying to @vgr@vgr @pmarca … tipping points in that state space seem very plausible given, e.g., Stanford prison experiment, etc.1
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Nov 13, 2014Replying to @aresnick@aresnick @pmarca We can't be rational about poverty yet because it's still too valuable as a political weapon. https://facebook.com/vgururao/posts/10152810415391907?pnref=story…1
Alec Resnick@aresnick·Nov 13, 2014Replying to @vgr@vgr @pmarca I don’t think it’s as simple as that; some folks have tremendous agency in family life, little in work, some take risks …
Alec Resnick@aresnick·Nov 13, 2014Replying to @vgr@vgr @pmarca … Regardless, perhaps the ship seems to sail because of the ratio focused on doing ‘to’ v. ‘for’ v. ‘with’ …