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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Patrick Atwater‏ @patwater 8 Aug 2015
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      @vgr some stream of consciousness reactions after reading breaking smart 1) ok so agreed software is revolutionary and eating the world yada

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    2. Patrick Atwater‏ @patwater 8 Aug 2015
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      @vgr 2 ya this is a subtle blind spot for many old economy types and this series perhaps is the best codification of the implications of the

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    3. Patrick Atwater‏ @patwater 8 Aug 2015
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      @vgr hacker ethos for important institutions at a both technically sound and political economy institutions level

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    4. Patrick Atwater‏ @patwater 8 Aug 2015
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      @vgr 2.1 and not to belabor the obvious but a manifesto of the andreesen over the thiel ian technology meta narrative

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    5. Patrick Atwater‏ @patwater 8 Aug 2015
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      @vgr 3 yet after 80% through I'm left a bit unsatisfied and honestly think this betrays Silicon Valley blind spots

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    6. Patrick Atwater‏ @patwater 8 Aug 2015
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      @vgr 4 my first professional ish gig was as a clerk typist at a municipality collecting easily automate able data but the barrier there

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    7. Patrick Atwater‏ @patwater 8 Aug 2015
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      @vgr isn't software but institutional inertia, bureaucracy yada http://www.argolabs.org/blog-1/2015/7/21/wait-so-what-actually-is-the-retail-price-of-water-in-california … kinda obvious abstractly but a bitch concretely

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    8. Patrick Atwater‏ @patwater 8 Aug 2015
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      @vgr 5 listening to all you "tech types" talk about public institutions is like hearing a fish describe walking on land. Just being real

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    9. Patrick Atwater‏ @patwater 8 Aug 2015
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      @vgr 6 case in point: public education. The barrier to promothean "personalized" learning isn't a lack of useful software tools but rather

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    10. Patrick Atwater‏ @patwater 8 Aug 2015
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      @vgr the other parts of layours network. School days structure, standardized testing and other pastoral sounding public admin stuff

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Aug 2015
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      @patwater if tool doesn't really disrupt the dysfunctional order and seed a better one, it's a failure, so I disagree that there is no lack

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        2. Patrick Atwater‏ @patwater 8 Aug 2015
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          @vgr ya but dude that's the point. We don't need new tools. We need to pioneers new institutions that ca leverage existing tools

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Aug 2015
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          @patwater there I disagree entirely. Medium is the message. The only thing I've seen ever change an organization is a powerful new tool.

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