What is the "Mini cultural revolution" that he's referring to? What is the assertion here?
I'm confused as to the meaning of "Our" here. To what audience does this address? It doesn't seem to be HN'ers or YC alumni. As someone who's not a twitter denizen, I honestly have no idea what he's trying to say.
> The essay I'm currently writing is, among other things, about how to have original ideas. And while it never mentions wokeness explicitly, some of the techniques I describe I might never have considered without the experience of the last 10 years.
He means "wokeness"
As for the initial post:
> Apparently our mini Cultural Revolution may have peaked. It was painful, but I have to admit I learned some interesting things from it. For example, I learned more about independent-mindedness from seeing conventional-mindedness in action every day.
Ho ho ho, what a clever way to hurl an insult.
Whether he's right or wrong, this is pure shitposting. Which, I mean, it's on Twitter, so that's practically a given, but still.
[EDIT] Oh, as for this part of your post:
> To what audience does this address? It doesn't seem to be HN'ers or YC alumni.
There's a set of people for whom Elon Musk acting erratically, doing stupid shit, and being a total asshole, is just 4D chess because he's such a business genius, and he doesn't really mean any of it, so it's fine (cf Vonnegut's Mother Night)... and also the "woke progressives" are a grave threat and worth spending a lot of time and energy opposing. Some of these are just twitter jerks, but the tech-influencer and owner/entrepreneur/VC crowd is full of folks who think that way (this is not speculation—they say the above in interviews and such all the time, and I personally know one of these sorts, as in, IRL)
Can someone explain what wokeness means? I would be interested in what someone says that does not consider themself woke and also by someone that does consider themself woke? I suspect the definitions will be very different.
Everything social progressives in the US are currently for (at least, all the parts that are at all distinct from what the median American is for), and methods they use in an effort to move toward their goals. We could go around and around with other attempts at defining it, but I think that covers it reasonably completely while being succinct and as neutral as you're going to get on this topic.
(The term "woke" is something else, at least originally, but that's what anyone writing the word "wokeness" means)
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 32.9 ms ] threadI'm confused as to the meaning of "Our" here. To what audience does this address? It doesn't seem to be HN'ers or YC alumni. As someone who's not a twitter denizen, I honestly have no idea what he's trying to say.
> The essay I'm currently writing is, among other things, about how to have original ideas. And while it never mentions wokeness explicitly, some of the techniques I describe I might never have considered without the experience of the last 10 years.
He means "wokeness"
As for the initial post:
> Apparently our mini Cultural Revolution may have peaked. It was painful, but I have to admit I learned some interesting things from it. For example, I learned more about independent-mindedness from seeing conventional-mindedness in action every day.
Ho ho ho, what a clever way to hurl an insult.
Whether he's right or wrong, this is pure shitposting. Which, I mean, it's on Twitter, so that's practically a given, but still.
[EDIT] Oh, as for this part of your post:
> To what audience does this address? It doesn't seem to be HN'ers or YC alumni.
There's a set of people for whom Elon Musk acting erratically, doing stupid shit, and being a total asshole, is just 4D chess because he's such a business genius, and he doesn't really mean any of it, so it's fine (cf Vonnegut's Mother Night)... and also the "woke progressives" are a grave threat and worth spending a lot of time and energy opposing. Some of these are just twitter jerks, but the tech-influencer and owner/entrepreneur/VC crowd is full of folks who think that way (this is not speculation—they say the above in interviews and such all the time, and I personally know one of these sorts, as in, IRL)
That's the audience, I guess.
(The term "woke" is something else, at least originally, but that's what anyone writing the word "wokeness" means)