i think i read twitter too fast, and maybe everything else too. i read like i'm scanning for "information" as opposed to really letting myself feel the impact. when someone writes good shit on here i've started rereading it slowly, sometimes out loud
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i know lots of ~"gifted" people who developed a habit of reading fast as a kid and now i'm wondering if it was / is a kind of dissociation mechanism 🤔
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otoh there are plenty of tweets you probably shouldn't let into your soul. so reading quickly to scan for good tweets and slowing down for the good tweets seems pretty sensible overall
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i was really quite serious when i said “follow ppl whose tweets u want inside u” twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/st…
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I’m kinda working on a thing to let me typeset Twitter threads with LaTeX and read them tweet by tweet on the e-ink screen as if it were a book of poems, I tried a prototype with one thread and it was pretty interesting
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ooh nice
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listening to audiobooks just about fixes this for me--it's like the narrator's voice and cadence are available when i want to settle in and read.
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Is there a voice making the word sounds in your head when you read or naw?
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been thinking about this recently
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A bit trite but I think the internet needs tools that *lengthen* the engagement cycle (e.g. imagine if you could “throttle” twitter’s timeline to limit how many tweets you see per minute; you’d spend more time with each tweet, maybe think more about how you build your feed?)
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