's fascinating experiment over his last 6-week walk struck a similar chord. Each day of the walk, Craig sent one photo from that day's segment to subscribers. The vibe yawns over weeks, a totally different feel from a coffee table book compiling a journey in retrospect!
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Games have really figured this out.
e.g. MOOGs like WoW choreograph players’ incentives and environments to invoke an ever-expanding horizon over many months. The design elements aren’t about raw hours: they’re more about how the feel of play sessions change, week to week.
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and I have been excited about how the mnemonic medium creates a context where readers continue interacting with an author's work after the initial reading session. It's a mass medium with a weakly authored time component.
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In an upcoming mnemonic essay, we exert more authorial control over time, adding questions which evolve over weeks of review sessions. But there's much, much more to explore there!
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Can you all think of any other good examples of a mass medium with a lengthy, strongly authored time dimension?
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daf_Yomi and similar practices may be of interest to you, on the off-chance you aren’t familiar.
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I thought about this practice as I wrote the thread, and I realized I was much too ignorant to comment! Big thing I was curious about: do you know if the translation or interpretation text itself has changed so as to interact with this schedule?
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I’m pretty sure it has not (I believe the practice began in the 20s); however, there are plenty of other supporting materials which have been designed around it (ranging from static forms like commentary and study questions to dynamic ones like structured reading groups).
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(That said, I think the Talmud might be a slightly confusing example insofar as it is not analogous to a textbook but rather the phenomenon about which a textbook is written.)
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In this sense daf yomi is, IMO; better analogized to a schedule of koans (though that’s not their intellectual character).
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Right! I was curious if any of the supporting materials around the Talmud for this practice have an important authored time component. Sounds like maybe, sort of!
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Yeah, though they are "just" sitting atop the schedule, e.g. accompanying essays like steinsaltz-center.org/home/doc.aspx?, daily lessons like rabbishmuelherzfeld.podbean.com, podcasts like hadran.org.il and personalized structures to expose you to these like alldaf.org/#shevuos_15
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So in your context I imagine the more interesting analogy might be about the relationship between text and meta-text in a mnemonic structure.
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