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Thomas J Bevan's avatar

The dismissive ‘bla bla bla’ treatment for my last missive, is it? That’s how it’s gonna be?

Yet another reason why adding value is a waste of time. Even when you add incredible value consistently, the original poster usually doesn’t give a shit and is an ungrateful bastard.

Lesson learned. Which is possibly the only lesson I have ever learned from this hastily put together podcast off yours.

*sigh*

*sad piano music plays *

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Craig Burgess's avatar

That’s the Bevan I know. Welcome back.

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Vanechka's avatar

On one drunk evening, I asked myself what's the difference between addition and increase. For example, you can add more Campari to Negroni but it won't make it better, it will spoil the cocktail. Perhaps, when you want to 'add v*lue' the same thing can happen and your addition doesn't 'increase' v*lue but dilutes it. In that sense, adding value is not only a waste of time but also something that makes things worse. Deep philosophy here.

*sad piano music plays*

*I make another sip*

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Vanechka's avatar

I will congratulate you on every episode so it will make every Wed, Thu or Fri (whenever I post it) feel like you are drawing a new vertical line on a c*ntent creator's prison cell's wall with a piece of chalk in a trembling hand.

Anyway, the ending blew my mind. The piano combined with the 'just good for the soul' is taking this podcast to the next level of artfulness.

And I cannot but mention I feel our vernacular getting narrower with every episode and the number of censorship bip-bops is approach a state when this podcast could be interpreted as a morse code or something that was broadcasted from Alpha Centauri to warn humanity about its approaching doomsday. So, instead of Twitter lingo, I can suggest the following mapping for a time being:

- c*ntent - artful entity

- v*lue - significance

- add - augment

- making / creating - forging

"I am forging artful entities to augment significance."

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Craig Burgess's avatar

I do worry that if I keep banning words I'll have nothing left to say.

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Vanechka's avatar

Exactly, that's why I'm suggesting the cypher so the supreme leader would think we talk about art but not content and in an artful manner not using the Twitter lingo.

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