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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I'm worried I don't know what you mean by "leading indicator" but it seems to me that you might analyze the discourse surrounding the tool. The shared google doc convo for instance generates a certain kind of conversation. And is it really thought if it's not shared?
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(Leading indicator: something you can measure as an early sign for what you really want to measure) This is a great point! E.g. impact of many reform teaching ideas in
#mtbos discourse before in widespread academic outcomes. Re: your last q—transcendent spiritual experience? - 1 more reply
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perhaps a /leading/ indicator is people attracted to use it for old thoughts and end up somewhere new. I don't have this phrase right but... "more of the same but faster" So if the "faster" is faster enough... Is your example: person tried old thing (animation), did new thing?
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