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cpetersen.bsky.social
Historian @Stanford; editor @nplusonemag; published in @nybooks etc. Writing a book about meritocracy and Silicon Valley. Tweets represent my private views not my employer's.
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I should really write more. It makes me happy.

all of central Brooklyn is playing a game of Egg The Cybertruck with this one guy who keeps street parking in the hood

My conclusion from this excellent one-hour discussion hosted by @bostonreview.bsky.social was that the sequel to "Mastery and Drift," which will focus on the Democratic Party of the 2020s, should be titled "Learned Helplessness." bsky.app/profile/cpet...

Going to live tweet this Boston Review book launch for 'Mastery and Drift' with all my favorite historians… secure.givelively.org/event/boston... @brentcebul.bsky.social @lilygeismer.bsky.social @dygottlieb.bsky.social @pastpunditry.bsky.social @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social and Simon Torracinta

One of the best things about professional cycling is that absolutely amateurish shit happens on such a regular basis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgj5...

Liberal friends taken aback when I suggest institutions might respond to Trump not following the law by not following the law themselves. I guess this is what you get when your only response to incipient authoritarianism is to shout "NORMS"

Asked what he thought of Resistance, Gandhi replied, "I think it would be a good idea."

Explaining as patiently as possible that Resistance wasn't a failure it was just never actually tried.

Hearing from dear liberal friends that we just need "keep our heads down" and "wait this out for four years" …

Exciting news: the Global Business Network archive at the Stanford Silicon Valley Archives has just been processed and is open for research!! Get in there. oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:...

Time to brainstorm some new name for the Resistance … Siri, what are all the synonyms for 'spineless'?

Surrender monkeys

What is the whitest music ever made and why is it Low