DoubleQuotes, DQs in the Wild, DQs @pmarca style
Sunday, October 11th, 2015[ by Charles Cameron — first post in a series, with brief intro to series on top ]
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Okay, a three-post series coming up, of which this is post one. To help you navigate:
This post reports a conversation between Adam Elkus, Marc Andreessen (briefly) and Daniel Griffin about “@pmarca style” DoubleQuotes DoubleQuotes — origins discusses the seeds of my own DoubleQuotes practice in the form of a visualization game from 1994 DQs in the Wild and DQs @pmarca style offers links to a number of examples of “prior art” relating to all of the above.
Some readers may be interested in all three, which would delight me — for myself, they’re an attempt to corral a dispersed set of matching ideas, mostly for the record.
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So here’s the conversation, as far as I managed to track it. It opens with Adam quoting a paragraph from Jean-Marie Guéhenno‘s The Problem with Coalition Airstrikes in Syria, which he finds paradoxical, followed by his comment to that effect:
Author says there is no military solution, advocates one immediately afterwards http://t.co/i13ZELN3qC pic.twitter.com/aiMmAax0J2
— Adam Elkus (@Aelkus) October 7, 2015
this is a nice example of a @pmarca-style double quote spotted in wild.
— Adam Elkus (@Aelkus) October 7, 2015
given that war isn't an end in and of itself, the "no military solution" mantra is bizarre. As long as you are fighting you believe that….
— Adam Elkus (@Aelkus) October 7, 2015
,,,,,you can use violence (kill people or threaten to kill people) to achieve a desired political end.
— Adam Elkus (@Aelkus) October 7, 2015
hence the paradox of author using the military to convince parties in conflict that there is no military solution to conflict.
— Adam Elkus (@Aelkus) October 7, 2015
@Aelkus This kind of thing is such the triumph of hope over experience. !
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) October 7, 2015
@pmarca One day I hoped I could find a nice natural example of the "do x!" "don't do x!" people you often tweet about, and tonight I got it
— Adam Elkus (@Aelkus) October 7, 2015
@pmarca "there is no military solution!" "we'll bomb them to show them there is no military solution!"
— Adam Elkus (@Aelkus) October 7, 2015
@Aelkus these always remind me of @hipbonegamer's posts on @zenpundit – looking back they were referred to as DoubleQuotes back to 2010.
— Daniel Griffin (@danielsgriffin) October 7, 2015
@Aelkus @hipbonegamer @zenpundit You've prob. seen them, but – earliest I could find & w/ explanation of their use: http://t.co/MlJpD1Kq1t
— Daniel Griffin (@danielsgriffin) October 7, 2015
@Aelkus @hipbonegamer @zenpundit More recent explanation at the end of this post: http://t.co/ye4ko3zDTL
— Daniel Griffin (@danielsgriffin) October 7, 2015
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It was in fact Adam who first drew my attention Andreessen’s style of “double-tweeting”, as we’ll see in the final post in this series.
Next up: DoubleQuotes — origins, or what the HipBone Games looked like, shortly before I first considered playing them on a board.
