Links tagged with “venkateshrao”
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Elderblog Sutra: 13
On what the demise of Twitter, or an Elon Musk-ruled Twitter, might mean for the distribution of blogging.
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Mediocratopia: 10
Venkatesh Rao: “Aptitude is the rate at which you level up, by changing the nature of the problem you’re solving (and therefore how you measure ‘improvement’).”
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Clockmaking: 2
Venkatesh Rao’s lengthy description of making a pendulum clock from a laser-cut wood kit is interesting.
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Mansionism 1: Building-Milieu Fit
One post in and I’m enjoying this new blogchain looking at which possible futures would be a good fit for mansions.
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A Text Renaissance
For the “The Eighth Death of Blogging” section, half-way through, on the costs of a site being popular-ish, “a nightmare zone where monetization is janky and hard”.
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Domestic Cozy: 9
High Peasant (Boomers), Premium Mediocre (Millennials), Domestic Cozy (Gen Z), Favela Chic (Gen X). From a low cost vs private pleasure 2x2.
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Elderblog Sutra: 8
“I’ve neither succeeded spectacularly enough at what I do that I can afford to ‘make bad movies for the rest of my life’ … nor have I failed so miserably that it’s an easy call … to just toss it all as worthless sunk cost, and start afresh with whatever resources and talents I have left.”
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Elderblog Sutra: 1
“Old blogs must choose: should they turn into elder blogs, or should they turn into late-style blogs? One does not preclude the other, but you must decide what you solve for.” (via Warren Ellis)
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The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millennial
Once you’ve read about premium mediocre you realise it’s a thing you see everywhere but hasn’t yet defined. (via a few places)