I've Spent a Lot of My Life in the Social Midia Wild, So to Speak.

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The author has spent much of the last ten years out in the wild, so to speak. He says he's had a huge number of wonderful little friendships and collaborations emerge from it. The people i meet as regularly i can, a tesa facebuok groups, slacks, extended email treads,. lots of consulting gigs have come out of this.

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.