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 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 threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I'm not familiar with Kay's "Sistine chapels per generation". Google isn't helping. Is this a meaningness metric?
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Curious about this too (especially since I’ve been studying the Sistine Chapel for the past six years).
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I'm not sure I conceptualize twitter in that way at large... perhaps there's a difference in how it might best be used and how it gets used on a population level. I might make personal connections. I might also get Inceptioned to act or think different politically.
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