Sonal Chokshi

@smc90

strong bias for makers. I heart art + tech. hayekian, capitalist. EIC a16zcrypto; Editor in Chief a16z + podcast showrunner 2014-2022; fmr WIRED, Xerox PARC

sone.eth | 917-area/9-zip code

sonalchokshi.org

Joined March 2008

Sonal Chokshi
@smc90
May 22
The greatest invention in moving from typesetting to typewriting to word processing to personal computing era? CUT AND PASTE! made text far more malleable, and to me, the best editing is being able to see both *gestalt* (overall shape of a piece) AND moves at *atomic* level
Sonal Chokshi
@smc90
May 22
Most people don't know what editors really do. It's not copyediting! (AI can easily do that, in various preferred styles too) - is not just emotional either. Yes editors are good at "kills" -- but the real value great editors bring is RESTRUCTURING. (I look for this in tests)
Jon Wu
@jonwu_
May 22
Our breathless obsession with curators and tastemakers could be turned a few degrees and pointed toward a romance with editors. "But editors are still the world's readers. And thus the eyes of the world," wrote the editor Betsy Lerner. An editor is a writer's first and most
Sonal Chokshi
@smc90
May 20
This, so this
anu
@anuatluru
May 20
huge difference between someone who just wants to do whatever is high status - and someone who is confident they can make whatever they do high status
Sonal Chokshi
@smc90
May 16
shoutout to all the Desis who will be triggered by this image of a foot on a book (beyond reacting to the substance of the book, threading some good ones in the replies)
Mariana Mazzucato
@MazzucatoM
May 16
My new book (matching my nail polish) on how to structure relationships (capital-labour, public-private, civil society-state) with common good principles from the start instead of correcting afterwards is out June UK, July Netherlands/Germany, September USA/Spain, October Italy…
Sonal Chokshi
@smc90
May 13
Yes! This has been my primary source of nutrition in my info diet over last couple years -- also, lotsa Victorian (as well as Edwardian) stuff applies pretty well to shifts today
Patrick Skeels
@bas_logic
May 13
In all seriousness, one of the best ways to build and maintain your memetic resistance is to make sure that at any given time, you’re reading something from before 1900. It doesn’t much matter what it is.