Wow, first Notion article i've seen here, that platform is so great, i'm so happy :)
Turtleocracy
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#32A bit off topic, but is there a name for this trend to put emoji everywhere? I have some trouble to read like that. There is a kind of Madeleine de Proust though, it feel like children book: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/8c/d1/e5/8cd1e583de4c89bf09c4275b2...
I don't know if there's a term for it - but I was under the impression it's sole purpose was for marketers to create content that read/felt like it was written by "your friend". Lays on some heavy cringe-worthy "fellow kids" type of vibes.
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#33I thought this would be fluff, but this is a genuinely interesting schema for modelling research-type organizations that I haven’t seen before. (If you think it’s “just X”, the page does spend some time clearly compare-and-contrasting with anything you might think to analogize it to. It’s not quite any existing thing.) It probably is consultingware of some form, but I don’t mind scavenging insight from a predatory situation if there’s some there to be taken.
One thing I would like to see, though, is a list of historical evidence that this paradigm does better than the standard academic “publish papers to gain notoriety” paradigm. Turtleocracy has been tried before, I’m sure, even if by accident—there are only so many relationship graphs a small set of humans can end up in. I’m pretty sure some private research organizations work[ed] like this?
But I’d like an analysis of how much their working-like-this contributed to their success or lack thereof. It’d be interesting to contrast different private research institutions, e.g. {Bell Labs, RCA Labs, maybe Oak Ridge?} on their comparative Turtleocracy-ness vs their comparative “throughput” in pumping out new foundational knowledge (which I assume is the goal here.)
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#34A bit off topic, but is there a name for this trend to put emoji everywhere? I have some trouble to read like that. There is a kind of Madeleine de Proust though, it feel like children book: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/8c/d1/e5/8cd1e583de4c89bf09c4275b2...
I thought that was interesting. Also, using the down arrow on my keyboard to scroll a paragraph at a time was interesting.
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#35Someone's very annoyed with Twitter's tendency to produce "hot takes"..
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#36These mental models can be an interesting perspective, but please take them with a grain of salt. The more branding, marketing, cute names, and emojies applied to a mental model, the more you should be suspicious.
This "Turtleocracy" model might help bring some insight or inspiration in certain challenging environments, but be careful about assuming you're in a "Turtleocracy" or stereotyping people into "Rabbit" or "Bird". It's tempting to reach for these systems and stereotypes when you're in conflict with someone because it gives you a sense of having the upper hand. Ironically, doing so will turn you into the very person this article warns about in the section about Tyranny of People with "Takes". Always be on the look out for signs that you're wrong or that you've misunderstood the situation.
In my experience, it's healthy to have a variety of different models and perspectives through which you can view situations. It's not healthy, however, to try to force every situation to fit your favorite mental model. When you all have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Don't be that guy.
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#37To continue with the example, many times turtles when slowly crossing the highway of innovation get run over by the trucks of disruption that they did not see when they started to cross the highway.
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#38https://www.notion.so/Fundraising-c5092becfe074069b8252fb866... <- tl;dr it's a startup teaching stuff to other people/companies/startups.
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#39These mental models can be an interesting perspective, but please take them with a grain of salt. The more branding, marketing, cute names, and emojies applied to a mental model, the more you should be suspicious. This "Turtleocracy" model might help bring some insight or inspiration in certain challenging environments, but be careful about assuming you're in a "Turtleocracy" or stereotyping people into "Rabbit" or "…
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
The language component hasn’t occurred to me, but suddenly makes sense. I once supported a customer for whom Google Translate wasn’t helping much, so we resorted to a combination of screenshots, boxes, arrows, and emojis and it ended well :)
However in most usages, there is no actual language benefit -- I doubt the animal emojis will actually help understanding of this article for any non-english speaker. In fact, I doubt you could really express anything beyond the simplest concepts with emojis in a language-agnostic fashion. Actually I'll go a step further: the idea of emoji as a language agnostic writing system is dumb. It's equivalent to pictograms,…
And the more specific those meanings get, the more divorced they become from the way a new observer interprets the plain symbol.
Picard and Dathon, at El-Adrel.