Van ko: I use language as an example, often as an emergent phenomenon. We're all walden. Ponding is a beautiful thing. Behoove is not doing well. Google tried to keep people from using it as a verb. It's hard to create a phrase the pit that catches on and you recalebrate your target. i think we need meet space. M e, that would be this frenchting. Or maybe it's meet face. A t f a, i'm still trying.
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.