How should we evaluate tools for thought? There's no simple metric, as far as I can tell. The best tools change your paradigm anyway, so your old metrics (books printed per year?) aren't what matter. Here's one (vague, but focusing): how much meaning is unlocked on the margin?
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It's all a variant of Kay's "Sistine chapels per generation," I guess! But the marginal meaning doesn't have to be a grand edifice: Twitter's most powerful metric as a tool for thought is in creating transformative (off-platform) personal connections.
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It's not clear how to get leading indicators for any of this! As far as I can tell, you want to be on the lookout for very strange stories, like
@mairwatching casually making an animation system in Smalltalk at age 12. Do any of you have good leading indicator stories here?Show this thread
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