TITLE: It Started with a Tweet
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: November 25, 2015 10:50 AM
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Bret Victor's much-heralded
<A HREF="http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/">
   What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change?</A>
begins:

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 This started with a tweet.  I'm embarrassed how often
 that happens.
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Why be embarrassed?  I am occasionally embarrassed when I tweet
snarky and mildly regrettable things, but only because they are
snarky and regrettable.  However, having a thought, writing it
down, and thinking some more is a perfectly honorable way to
start writing an essay.  Writing something down on Twitter has
the advantage of sharing the idea with one's followers, which
creates the possibility of getting feedback on the idea from
smart, thoughtful people.

Sharing idle thoughts with the world can add value to them.
They aren't always so idle.
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