Is Medium the Most Valuable Contribution to the Information Economy?

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i think it's important to stretch. Osuggests yeu should bounce back and forth between more superficial stuff to harder stuff. i spend too much time on twitter stor tweet storms, then writing a nice essay on medium,. But i have to discipline myself. I think a lot of what i write on mediums more important often. And i just o have to take responsibilityand it's going to be a period of alebration...it's gon ome fu.

Writer and management consultant Venkatesh Rao talks about Waldenponding with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Rao coined the term Waldenponding to describe various levels of retreating from technology akin to how Thoreau extolled the virtues of retreating from social contact and leading a quieter life at Walden Pond. Rao argues that the value of Waldenponding is overrated and that extreme Waldenponding is even somewhat immoral. Rao sees online intellectual life as a form of supercomputer, an intellectual ecosystem that produces new knowledge and intellectual discourse. He encourages all of us to contribute to that intellectual ecosystem even when it can mean losing credit for some of our ideas and potentially some of our uniqueness.