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kids in shitty social graphs - @visakanv's blog

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The following is a riff from a twitter thread I once wrote that I reference fairly often. I’m choosing to reproduce some of it here because I realize it’s a core part of my motivations. People who are really knowledgeable about the world are often publicly silent about the juiciest stuff, probably because the upside to talking about those things publicly is minimal, and the downside potentially catastrophic (for them, their interests, their assets). This really sucks for smart kids in shitty social graphs. Kids in broken or even merely mediocre families, ambitious kids with small-minded peers. Young people who might achieve great things if they knew it was actually an option for them, and if they received a little encouragement. I think from time to time about the story of how Thomas Edison encouraged a younger Henry Ford, who was telling him about his prototype for a gasoline-powered engine. “No man up to then had given me any encouragement,” Ford said. I can’t help but wonder how man

The following is a riff from a twitter thread I once wrote that I reference fairly often. I’m choosing to reproduce some of it here because I realize it’s a core part of my motivations. People who are really knowledgeable about the world are often publicly silent about the juiciest stuff, probably because the upside to talking about those things publicly is minimal, and the downside potentially catastrophic (for them, their interests, their assets). This really sucks for smart kids in shitty social graphs. Kids in broken or even merely mediocre families, ambitious kids with small-m

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