Pynchon

The talent agency for internet intellectuals.

[Pynchon @_Pynchon_]

Something is in the making!

With @anthilemoon of @ness_labs and @TheAnnaGat

🎙️📚👩🏽‍💻👩🏼‍💻

[Balaji @balajis]

Folks, the number of new deaths per day continues to rise exponentially. Now ~1000 deaths per day. It was ~100 deaths per day last week.

The number of new tests per day is not rising at the same pace. We may soon "bend the curve" by not testing people.
https://t.co/ewYtOLVQym

[Pynchon @_Pynchon_]

Hi guys - we are now tweeting from @whatstheii Follow us there ♥️🙏✨🙌🏻

[Anna Gát @TheAnnaGat]

With my beloved panelists @eamonncarey @anthilemoon @LukeRobertMason before tonight's Interintellect event 😍

@whatstheii

[Pynchon @_Pynchon_]

We are streamlining and moving to 👇

(Come by, say hi! Proper website coming soon 😁🙌🏻🔥)

[Anna Gát @TheAnnaGat]

Tentative first steps to have all the info in one place, the whole movement under one aegis, all that jazz.

The temp Interintellect site is now up!

https://t.co/IjEcMr0HDR

(Please send all typos my way!)

[Pynchon @_Pynchon_]

Incredibly cool!

[Sound Education @sound_edu]

Sound Education team member @joseph_fridman and colleagues are running a fully funded popular writing workshop specifically for academics - applications are due 1/31. Scholars working on the "big questions" are encouraged to apply.

And there'll be a podcast: @The_Line_Edit!

[Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv]

“If conflict in any particular theater shows dangerous signs of actually resolving itself, another must be spun up to take its place.”

[Anna Gát @TheAnnaGat]

This just arrived to further confirm how easy it is to make me happy 😊

[Gemma Milne @gemmamilne]

I'm going to be on @BBCRadio3 this evening with @DrMatthewSweet @Jackstilgoe @unamccormack & Alexander Boxer chatting sci-fi, hype and Asimov - live at 10pm! https://t.co/WN78cOUqmN

[Anna Gát @TheAnnaGat]

"[W]hat differentiates [the public intellectual] from the celebrity or publicity hound is that she is writing for an audience that does not yet exist. Unlike the ordinary journalist or enterprising scholar, she is writing for a reader she hopes to bring into being." - @CoreyRobin

[David Perell @david_perell]

Make your writing simple so your ideas can be complex.

[Martin Permin @purrmin]

Recorded an episode of the Crazy Wisdom podcast with @StewartalsopIII a couple of months ago. It's out today!

We talked about:

❥ Pelion
❥ Stressors
❥ Other stuff

(listening makes me want to hire an accent coach)

https://t.co/Y4hAE2l8Ev

[Anna Gát @TheAnnaGat]

Assumption: In the 2020s you can't work with intellectuals without having to deal with their political ambitions.

Reality: Many public educators wan't to transcend that framework, focus on their work, and create a neutral space of inquiry/play.

cc @_Pynchon_ @whatstheii

[Gemma Milne @gemmamilne]

So tomorrow morning at 9am, @fifiglover and I will be exploring, discussing and picking apart potential solutions to the huge swathes of food waste we have here in the UK, on @BBCRadio4! https://t.co/qFoxIKMujv

[Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford]

Why is it that public speakers are often advised to slow down, but the average podcast listener speeds up?

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

“The biggest kick is reading something new and exciting and then getting other people to share your enthusiasm. Beyond all the cant and hypocrisy in publishing, that's what it's all about.” — Sonny Mehta, publisher, RIP

[Anna Gát @TheAnnaGat]

My notes are longer than your draft.

[Anna Gát @TheAnnaGat]

This is me to all the @_Pynchon_ talent ALL the time. Love y'all 🥰

[Anirudh Pai @ani_pai]

You only need to strike the online jackpot once. Twitter followers are a lagging indicator of uniqueness.

Once you have all the weirdos together, you can start creating once-impossible communities like @_Pynchon_

When else could we have seen this?

https://t.co/yTuNtPODKp

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Conversation starter: If you were dropped back in time into January 1st 1800, how would you successfully prove you were from the future without bringing anything back?

[Pynchon @_Pynchon_]

Hmmm what do you guys think about this? 👇

[Guy @nosilverv]

Generalists DO NOT exist. You're just a specialist whose interest cuts across externally meaningful boundaries. You're illegible and thus have little value. It might be this way forever. If you're lucky, it isn (Turing, information theory).