What's the Ticklers Law of Eponomy?

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i would fo genalized that to all ideas, so not just named things like cirons or ideas, just in general. You should say what it is, ticklers law of eponomy. It's the named after people weren't discovered by them exactly. Like you now, take waldon ponding. I know i thought of it independently, but i haven't actually done the resource to see whetherr somebody else came up with that kind of satirical er odo and saw it. Sid, it's a it's also possible that some one else thought of it, you saw it, didn't notice it, and it somehow rose in your brain. That happens to me.

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.