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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. Chris Johnson‏ @spiderfoods 25 Nov 2017
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      You wanted to know my project earlier? I'm stoked and poetic because *this* is the actual definition. My digital home is under attack, and I'm in the market for palisades.

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    2. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 25 Nov 2017
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      I don't want to be discouraging, but something strikes me as weird about that. It feels like a clinging-to of a thing that is fundamentally about flux and change. Our digital home is different every day, to attempt to protect "it" with fences strikes me as a sort of taxidermy

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Nov 2017
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      Your take is actually the point of my post... at home in the flux

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    4. Chris Johnson‏ @spiderfoods 25 Nov 2017
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      Well, I'm very happy for you two. Plutocratic retreat is always an option for those who can afford it.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Nov 2017
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      What's plutocratic about it?

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    6. Chris Johnson‏ @spiderfoods 25 Nov 2017
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      I get the feeling that your overall philosophy works perfectly given a sufficient level of enlightenment. I actually agree, I'm just targeting one level of enlightenment below yours (with an eye toward my family stuck in southern Missouri, actually enmeshed "real fake news").

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    7. Chris Johnson‏ @spiderfoods 25 Nov 2017
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      I would suppose your eye is actually turned toward people even-worse-off than my Opioid-addicted family (read: this is a joke), but that would be supposing a thing about you I don't actually know (because I don't actually know you)

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Nov 2017
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      I mean what's plutocratic about making a home on the internet. Blogs or other presences are cheap to build. Online community stuff mainly subs for tv or sports. Anyone can do it. I don't get why wealth is a variable here.

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    9. Chris Johnson‏ @spiderfoods 25 Nov 2017
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      Having a "highly curated social graph", dense enough to need only small # of people to provide you situational awareness of important topics, is definitely a strong modern form of wealth. If Twitter shuts down, you could contact ~70 people through vgr@ribbonfarm.com or whatever.

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    10. Chris Johnson‏ @spiderfoods 25 Nov 2017
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      You actually built this graph w/ decade+ of hard work, but it is wealth nonetheless, one that smart people would probably pay *huge* $$$ for.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Nov 2017
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      See this thread and subthread exchange with Karim Lakhani and Rem Koning. Network wealth is not trivial but it IS overrated.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/924304520305197056?s=17 …

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      Network capital is vastly overrated/overvalued relative to financial and knowledge capital. People waste too much effort acquiring it
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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 25 Nov 2017
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          Much of the value of a specific network is sentimental. It is valued for its own sake not what it can do in economic terms.

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        3. Chris Johnson‏ @spiderfoods 25 Nov 2017
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          You're either engaging in specious strawmanning of "Networking / Connector" types, trolling me, or you have a seriously complicated worldview / terminology here that I utterly do not understand.

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        2. Chris Johnson‏ @spiderfoods 25 Nov 2017
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          Check your privilege, lol.

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        3. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 25 Nov 2017
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          I'm aware of broke teenage kids in SG who have impressive networks via a mix of Instagram, Tumblr, Tinyletters, etc – better than anything I had at their age – and they're actually doing stuff with it, coordinating events & such. Enterprising, alert bunch. See also: Black Twitter

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