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    1. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 7 Jan 2018
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      I think abt 2. See Tim Cook's Twitter bio, he's only allowed to express himself as a fan of sports teams. There is a bland-ification that happens, the world needs the Apple CEO to be boring. Wonder what Steve Jobs' Twitter bio would've been. Probably just Apple . com

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 7 Jan 2018
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      See Elon’s bio for a chuckle

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    3. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 7 Jan 2018
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      My hero. (Elon is like R&M for me. All the lesser neckbeard nerds have polluted the pool and made it hard to self-identify as a fan). I hope he never changes on this front I once tweeted that both Elon & Trump use PT Barnum marketing playbook, got attacked by Elon worshippers 😂

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 7 Jan 2018
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      You do get its a teference to the tunnel boring company right? 🤓 For a while his bio said hat salesman when they were selling Boring company hats

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    5. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 7 Jan 2018
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      Yup. I remember reading an article about Boring once. Dude was like, "so what's the biggest hole we can make in the ground?" Made me go, man, why don't I pursue my own whims like that? Sure the money helps but most billionaires aren't like that. The mindset is remarkable

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    6. Varun Adibhatla‏ @vr00n 8 Jan 2018
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      There is something equally great and off-putting to that mindset. It's communicating "earth-shattering" change in a banal package. It's "look ma, no hands" school-boy innocence meets "honey, I shrunk the kids" clumsy dad jokes that are unassailable. It's his safe space imho.

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    7. Varun Adibhatla‏ @vr00n 8 Jan 2018
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      It's great bcz even though he's earned the street cred to make bland and vacuous SV CEO statements - he chooses to remain in whimsical free child territory It's off-putting because you'd never get a "one giant leap for mankind" poignancy from him when it's needed.

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    8. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 8 Jan 2018
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      Personally, I'd have been delighted as a child if Neil's first word on the Moon was "Whee!"

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    9. Varun Adibhatla‏ @vr00n 8 Jan 2018
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      This echoes of Bagehot's Dignified / Efficient framing of English constitution. To complete the requisite 2x2 here: Whimsical / Sclerotic Musk just happens to be Hard Whimsical / Efficient. Tsar Nicholas II exact opposite.pic.twitter.com/K58I2jgGQv

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    10. Varun Adibhatla‏ @vr00n 8 Jan 2018
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      Daym just realized this is a "V"eird thread. Vhee!!! :>

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jan 2018
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      Any excuse for tribalism huh

      7:45 PM - 8 Jan 2018
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        1. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 8 Jan 2018
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          We need a Vu and a Vo to complete the set and then we can summon Valhalla

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