Venkatesh Rao on Waldenponding

Venkatesh Rao talks about Waldenponding with host Russ Roberts. Rao coined the term to describe retreating from technology akin to Thoreau's extolling the retreat from social contact. He argues it is overrated. Rao sees online intellectual life as an ecosystem that produces new knowledge and 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.

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