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Stephen Downes

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Let's take this post on memes from 2018 as a starting point. I confess I hadn't seen it before, but hey, one can't see everything. Just so, one can't be everything, and I think that's the point of this article. And that's what Twitter - or maybe life in general - demands. "I didn't consider my articles complete without a reaction. Twitter, teeming with peers, mattered more than a general comments section." Yeah, maybe. Or maybe it's this need for approval generally. It's a hard skill to learn, to be happy with your work without the benefit of external validation. Sometimes I feel I've mastered it (as when I ran a radio station for several years with no listeners). Sometimes, not so much.

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