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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. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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      2/ Start at CEO/POTUS/Nobel/Rock Star and then lower down to 'burger flipper' as you fail downwards aspirationally

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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      3/ This is really shitty for 2 reasons: first, most work is framed as a failure mode on some hierarchy of accomplishment

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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      4/ Second, and MUCH worse, work that's not on the "settling for less" sights-lowering gaze path isn't contemplated at all

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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      5/ We end up in this bind because work is conflated with role, role with identity, identity with class status

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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      6/ What if instead, education were framed around lowest possible *habits* with progressive raising of sights based on composing habit-sets?

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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      7/ You would do forward state-space search in A=skill space rather than regression search backward from a goal-role in B=role space. A>>B

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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      8/ Instead of targeting a social class through work, you'd decouple that and traverse an individualized level-up hierarchy

      3 replies 4 retweets 27 likes
    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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      9/ This is more likely to diverge than converge. You'll get more unique.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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      10/ Instead of convergent apples to apples competition for roles you'll need to compose teams that are even more unique than members

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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      11/ Interchangeability is for robots, humans can decouple social class+status from work identity. Their convergence is historical accident

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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      12/ 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' is a dumb waterfall-plan question for a creative leisure society.

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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          Instead, ask, 'What will you be after the next education sprint?' Self-directed learning is *necessarily* bottom-up, divergent and agile

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 9 Apr 2017
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          14/ Let's continue why not...A very hard teaching skill is getting people to see potential in non-textbook power-habits they already have

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        1. Will Bickford‏ @wbic16 9 Apr 2017
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          Agreed! I saw a short video yesterday by @PoShenLoh about how to properly teach mathematics. Your points resonated. http://bigthink.com/videos/po-shen-loh-says-anyone-can-be-a-math-person-if-they-know-the-best-learning-techniques …

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        1. Simon Sheridan‏ @SimonSheridan2 9 Apr 2017
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          Pretty sure if you decouple social class from work identity you’ll need to find an alternative dominance hierarchy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_hierarchy …

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        1.  🤧 🌎‏ @atthatmatt 10 Apr 2017
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          My suspicion is the people asking this question feel like failures and want to keep the conversation very far away from achievable goals

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