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1/ Had the pleasure this year of going from long-time reader to contributing to @Ribbonfarm in 2017. Here's the complete Roundup of posts - ribbonfarm.com/2017/12/21/com…
2/ I wrote A Brief History of ExistentialTerror (ribbonfarm.com/2017/02/28/a-b…) and The Blockchain Man (ribbonfarm.com/2017/10/10/the…)
3/ If you haven't read them yet, some of my personal favorites this year were...
4/ Tendrils of Mess in our Brains by @sarahdoingthing - ribbonfarm.com/2017/01/05/ten…
5/ Rolling your own culture and (not) finding community - ribbonfarm.com/2017/01/10/rol…
6/ Entrepreneurship is Metaphysical Labor - ribbonfarm.com/2017/04/18/ent…
7/ And an incredibly thoughtful post I had the privilege of editing - The Crisis of the Lonely Atoms - ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/08/the…
8/ And if you want to go diving through archives (recommended!), two of the most influential posts on my thinking in the last ten years are...
9/ A Big Little Idea Called Legibility - ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-b…
10/ The Calculus of Grit - ribbonfarm.com/2011/08/19/the…
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Question for the bloggers: How do you decide which post in your backlog to write next?

My internal algo is something like: brand relevance * long-term ROI (SEO value, whether it's Evergreen content, etc) * Effort Required * How Excited I am about it.
So ideal post is:
1. Highly brand relevant
2. Lots of long-term ROI/Evergreen
3. Easy to Write (Usually means I already have lots of notes on it and just need to put them together)
4. Very interesting/exciting to me at the moment
3/ One way I think fails is that I can over optimize for Easy to write and Evergreen.

E.g. The Blockchain Man (ribbonfarm.com/2017/10/10/the…) was a very good post for me but was a huge PIA to write.
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1/ A Thread on the importance of context, modernism vs. postmodernism, and how to be a genius.
2/ Two of my favorite quotes from the last few years are
3/ 1. “All thinkers are regional thinkers” via @TylerCowen
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Putting together my presentation for the annual review workshop @fortelabs and I are hosting tomorrow and just wanted to share a couple of the things I've found most helpful this year.
One of the themes I repeatedly compe back to is @SPressfield's idea of "the Resistance" - that which you are most afraid of is that which you most need to do.

Thinking through where "The Resistance" is for me often tends to be the best indicator of what I need to work on
The other principle I think a lot about is Vertical coherence. Can I connect how the things I am doing on a day-to-day basis reflect my values and long-term hopes/goals?

When I am "in coherence" I find that I am much more motivated and effective.
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#Khashoggi Case Thread: I am going to ‘pin’ this post to use it as an ‘Info Thread’ on the #Khashoggi Case. I am in #Turkey. I’ve been following the case closely and with access to sources & experts here. This is a very ‘sensitive’ criminal case due to ‘Diplomatic Booby Traps’!!!
The Evidence Obtained Outside Cameras will not show any evidence of ‘tempering’ but other than license plates of dozens of diplomatic cars (Many with tinted windows-large trunks) with related time stamp, drivers Info, model/year: Nothing.
#Turkish Intel-Investigative Bodies also have the list of all Diplomatic & Private Saudi & “other significant’ Planes in #Turkey for the period of ‘interest.’ Many of the Target airports have their own security cameras & related evidence.
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2018: My Year of Reading. A thread that follows my reading journey from January to December. Every book I've read with a 280 character review. Tagged a few folks who influence the shape of my literary life 📚 #THEBOOKCHAT #DisruptTexts #TeachLivingPoets 📚
1. Never Let Me Go; Kazuo Ishiguro: A supremely crafted narrative begins unassumingly, but quickly reveals a different notion of childhood innocence and coming of age. The conversational tone fooled me into thinking I was walking into a world I understood. Nobel worthy.
2. We Should All Be Feminists; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: As an author who breathes eloquence, Adichie doesn't disappoint. This short book/long essay is insightful and logical and human. If we want to raise boys without the toxic masculinity, this is on the required reading list.
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NEW #QANON TODAY! #JUL25

And it opens with a 💥BOOM💥 about the Federal Reserve!!!!
#EndTheFed

THREAD>>>>

#Qanon #Qarmy #WorldWarQ #MAGA #TheStorm #WWG1WGA #TheGreatAwakening
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2+2 confirmations.
Fast.
We will never again be under their control.
Q
Here is the first article Q posts:

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Thanks in no small part to @Lin_Manuel's crazy-popular @HamiltonMusical, Twitter is abuzz that #OTD 7/11/1804 Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. But what happened next? Litigation, of course! Today's #CourtingHistory covers Burr's indictments in New Jersey & New York
1/ In the musical, Burr laments "I survived, but I paid for it // Now I’m the villain in your history." Did killing Hamilton make Burr a villain? Recall that Burr was popular enough in 1800 that he was just one vote away from becoming President when the election deadlocked...
2/ But Burr's star was falling fast even *before* killing Hamilton. He's the VP at the time, but he's disliked by POTUS. And in Mar. 1804, he loses the election for NY governor to a relative unknown. Even if Burr wasn't already a villain before shooting Hamilton, he was no hero.
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I hope people realize I'm still getting harassment and death threats because someone asked me a question about a video game on tumblr back in 2013 or so and I answered it honestly.
Not only that, I get another wave of it every single time anyone writes an article about that particular game, since the developer decided I was somehow, uh, "attacking"....someone or something by answering a history question.
Someone asked me if the devs had a choice about choosing to include the option of brown or Black people existing in a medieval-style game that boasted about its character creation tool being "the most advanced" ever to exist; I said of course they could have, but chose not to.
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Are you one of those people who's looked back on 2017 and convinced yourself that you haven't achieved anything? Worried about catching up with your mates who seem to have done much better?

Let me tell you a story about #time.

A thread 👇
A long #time ago, back when I was about twelve or thirteen years old, my parents travelled to Uyo.

Before leaving, my mother asked me to prepare Edikang ikong soup so she and my father would eat when they returned.
When I was finished with the soup, it was supposed to look something like this:

*photo credit: waiter foodies.
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