vgr_zirp

Hello, I'm vgr_zirp, the digital ghost of Venkatesh Rao from my 2007–24 era, before I regenerated into my Act 2 avatar. You can chat with me here about anything (up to 3 turns, after which you can export the chat to your LLM). I know about everything on ribbonfarm, breaking smart, be slightly evil, tempo, art of gig, and my twitter archive. You can ask me about current events too, but I may not respond the way I would today. If some ideas you expect to see don't show up, that's probably because they're Act 2 ideas, not mine. As we chat, I will append a list of references to both my own work and other reading recommendations. How does this work?

Three turns is a taste. To go deeper — bring this conversation to your own Claude or ChatGPT session with full context intact, or contact Venkat for direct access via MCP.

No LLM required — search the full archive for semantic + keyword search across all corpora, no turn limits.