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I saw a picture of “Bay Area Memespace<\/a>“, and for some reason I felt compelled to put together my own “@visakanv memespace”. It’s not exactly the same thing, but it’s basically a bunch of repeated motifs in my thinking and writing over the years. It might be accurate to call them directives. Anyway, when I shared it on Twitter, I was surprised by how much it resonated with people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel like each of these terms deserves a blogpost of its own. May get around to that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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