#venkateshrao — Public Fediverse posts
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Venkatesh Rao thinks he's Terry Pratchett reincarnated, but ends up sounding like a PowerPoint presentation with emojis. 📊✨ Apparently, if you read #LOTR, your tech brain 🧠 turns to mush. Meanwhile, he's hosting a salon that sounds like a TED Talk knockoff in Bangkok. 🍜🏝️
https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/discworld-rules #VenkateshRao #TerryPratchett #PowerPointEmojis #TechBrain #BangkokSalon #HackerNews #ngated -
Venkatesh Rao thinks he's Terry Pratchett reincarnated, but ends up sounding like a PowerPoint presentation with emojis. 📊✨ Apparently, if you read #LOTR, your tech brain 🧠 turns to mush. Meanwhile, he's hosting a salon that sounds like a TED Talk knockoff in Bangkok. 🍜🏝️
https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/discworld-rules #VenkateshRao #TerryPratchett #PowerPointEmojis #TechBrain #BangkokSalon #HackerNews #ngated -
"What actually happens in a bargaining transaction is the co-construction of a storyline that both sides end up committing to."
Venkatesh Rao: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2008/03/16/bargaining-with-your-right-brain/
#resistance #organisations #activism #management #organizations #struggles #workCollectives #collectives #negotiation #negotiating #interview #interviews #transactions #transactional #Trump #VenkateshRao #storyTelling #dealing #deals #UkraineTalks #peaceTalks #market #markets
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"What actually happens in a bargaining transaction is the co-construction of a storyline that both sides end up committing to."
Venkatesh Rao: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2008/03/16/bargaining-with-your-right-brain/
#resistance #organisations #activism #management #organizations #struggles #workCollectives #collectives #negotiation #negotiating #interview #interviews #transactions #transactional #Trump #VenkateshRao #storyTelling #dealing #deals #UkraineTalks #peaceTalks #market #markets
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I wish that #VenkateshRao would actually cross his own Gramsci Gap, and get off Substack, but here we are: https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/the-gramsci-gap
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I wish that #VenkateshRao would actually cross his own Gramsci Gap, and get off Substack, but here we are: https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/the-gramsci-gap
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“The failure mode of most political projects sincerely focused on the interests of ordinary people is the starting assumption that they are somehow saintlier than more powerful people. That it is power, or the aptitude for acquiring it, that corrupts. Nope. Human nature regresses to a mean of baseness and venality regardless of power or lack thereof. Apparent nobility can always be traced to surplus resources or acute transience of problems.“
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“The failure mode of most political projects sincerely focused on the interests of ordinary people is the starting assumption that they are somehow saintlier than more powerful people. That it is power, or the aptitude for acquiring it, that corrupts. Nope. Human nature regresses to a mean of baseness and venality regardless of power or lack thereof. Apparent nobility can always be traced to surplus resources or acute transience of problems.“
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Let's mean "Losers in the economic sense: those who have […] traded freedom for a paycheck in short. […] Losers have two ways out, which we’ll get to later: turning Sociopath or turning into bare-minimum performers. The Losers destined for cluelessness do not have a choice."
Venkatesh Rao: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/
#workCollectives #workPlace #office #managementTheory #sociality #organisations #management #organizations #firms #workCulture #power #negotiating #VenkateshRao #Rao #quotes #Losers
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Let's mean "Losers in the economic sense: those who have […] traded freedom for a paycheck in short. […] Losers have two ways out, which we’ll get to later: turning Sociopath or turning into bare-minimum performers. The Losers destined for cluelessness do not have a choice."
Venkatesh Rao: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/
#workCollectives #workPlace #office #managementTheory #sociality #organisations #management #organizations #firms #workCulture #power #negotiating #VenkateshRao #Rao #quotes #Losers
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"You actually end wars by making peace too valuable to miss out on." #VenkateshRao #vgr https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/war-rooms-and-peace-rooms ht @akkartik
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“The narrative as a whole is based on a telling of the story of #capitalism on two time scales: the decade of the 00’s (which spanned three significant financial scandals: the 2000 bubble collapse, the 2005 options backdating scandal and the subprime crisis) and the post World War II half-century, which spanned a watershed shift in 1976 towards #shareholder returns becoming the dominant performance metric for businesses.”
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/09/08/fixing-the-game-by-roger-l-martin/
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“The narrative as a whole is based on a telling of the story of #capitalism on two time scales: the decade of the 00’s (which spanned three significant financial scandals: the 2000 bubble collapse, the 2005 options backdating scandal and the subprime crisis) and the post World War II half-century, which spanned a watershed shift in 1976 towards #shareholder returns becoming the dominant performance metric for businesses.”
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/09/08/fixing-the-game-by-roger-l-martin/
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In 2018, #VenkateshRao wrote that #GamerGate was “the original flashpoint, the #FortSumter battle” of our #CultureWars https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/03/06/a-quick-battle-field-guide-to-the-new-culture-wars/
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In 2018, #VenkateshRao wrote that #GamerGate was “the original flashpoint, the #FortSumter battle” of our #CultureWars https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/03/06/a-quick-battle-field-guide-to-the-new-culture-wars/
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The #VenkateshRao #engineering reference to #NASA alignment for exceptional industrial specifications is an example of a #PerformanceChallenge: escaping the organic terrarium our race optimized itself for.
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The #VenkateshRao #engineering reference to #NASA alignment for exceptional industrial specifications is an example of a #PerformanceChallenge: escaping the organic terrarium our race optimized itself for.
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Holy shit.
#ThaddeusRussell spoke with #VenkateshRao in the Before Times™
#engineering #ScienceFiction #bookstodon #temporality #writing #narratives #time #GodsOfTime #aeon
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Holy shit.
#ThaddeusRussell spoke with #VenkateshRao in the Before Times™
#engineering #ScienceFiction #bookstodon #temporality #writing #narratives #time #GodsOfTime #aeon
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@ct_bergstrom I’ve been sharing this #CozyWeb post from #VenkateshRao a bunch today, which tells a similar story: https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/the-extended-internet-universe
I especially like the #DarkForest analogy they reference: https://onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-7dc3e68a7cb1 -
@ct_bergstrom I’ve been sharing this #CozyWeb post from #VenkateshRao a bunch today, which tells a similar story: https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/the-extended-internet-universe
I especially like the #DarkForest analogy they reference: https://onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-7dc3e68a7cb1 -
I wonder if #ScottGalloway and #VenkateshRao have ever spoken to each other.
Their writing styles seem to mesh.
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I wonder if #ScottGalloway and #VenkateshRao have ever spoken to each other.
Their writing styles seem to mesh.
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I’m a fan of Venkatesh Rao’s writing, and in this post he explores what we mean by ‘saving’ when we talk about ‘saving the world’. To do this, he uses a 2×2 matrix, categorising people’s motivations along two axes: biological scope and temporal scope. He identifies four types of “worlds” people aim to save: […]
https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/09/12/saving-the-world-using-a-2x2-matrix/
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"...make no mistake: you do need a job in the giant social computer ..."
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https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/against-waldenpondingDiscuss.