Tweets From Venkatesh Rao

Metadata

• Author: [[@vgr on Twitter]]
• Full Title: Tweets From Venkatesh Rao
• Category: #tweets
• URL: https://twitter.com/vgr

Highlights

• No technique or tool for saving links works because we try to save too many links ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1511929706240626689 pull))
• One of the underrated features of Web3 is that the more you use it the more you feel like you’ve genuinely emigrated to a new continent. Perhaps a new planet. And regular web feels… old somehow. Walletvision. ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1489123240844795909 pull))
• If you don’t switch to hard mode by 35, life switches to impossible mode for you by 45. Middle-class privilege + mediocre intelligence + decent strategic thinking = incentives are heavily loaded in favor of getting addicted to playing in easy mode by like 19 ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1484953194367127553 pull))
• Web2 was a customer service medium defined by the complaint “why wasn’t I consulted” Web3 is shaping up to be a citizen service medium defined by the complaint “why wasn’t I governed?” https://t.co/u736viTt0a ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1470529785201717250 pull))
• Gonna make a thread of my ongoing slow journey (emigration? perhaps…) to Web3, along with my covered wagon full of Web1 and Web2 stuff. Including NFTs, DAOs etc. So if those topics annoy you, you can mute this thread. ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1457449043164991488 pull))
• If anyone is still gets me and @visakanv confused, these tweet maps say it all 🤣 Guess which one is me and which one is visa’s? https://t.co/YF0vhXOEsY

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  ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1266104435958140929 pull))
• Thinking about how some things are sticky in the zeitgeist and others are not. Seinfeld, sticky. Friends, not sticky. 🤔 ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1451794244188786690 pull))
• Started writing a robot pov story (third-person limited pov, the most common for a human protagonist) and realized pronouns are a genuine challenge for realistic (hard sf) non-anthropomorphic robots. Asimov used the R suffix, but stuck to androids so didn’t need to solve it. ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1450484420058615819 pull))

New highlights added October 9, 2022 at 12:10 AM

• I think it’s time to start making my thread of threads and begin reeling in my dissipated brain.
  1. Boundary intelligence https://t.co/tkQXmOdBDj ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1279451428302422016 pull))

New highlights added November 11, 2022 at 11:48 PM

• This is actually a good test. If a little friction stops you you’ll end up with twitter “alternatives” that offer distinctions without differences. It’s not a coincidence that the 2 serious options, mastodon and farcaster, have friction. https://t.co/bvMn7QXCcZ ([View Tweet](https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1589409718430478336 pull))