Going to try an experiment: livestreaming part of my morning writing today at 9AM PST. I’ll mostly be consolidating some hazy questions from Design Unbound. No live interaction with viewers (hard enough w/o that). Video (probably) available afterwards.
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This turned out to be a challenging set of ideas to disentangle, so it was largely a video of me being confused for 90m, but hey, that's what my mornings are often about.
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Definitely produced a change in consciousness. Reflections:
– thinking aloud generated clarity in some moments; slowed me down in others
– made me less comfortable sitting with confusion for long periods (that’s bad)
– felt nudged towards resolution, speed (mixed bag)
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Though some people surprised me by reporting that this was useful, I’m pretty sure it’s nowhere near an efficient frontier for conveying methods. Don’t think I’d repeat this without thinking more carefully about that.
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I had to break away at 9:30… I’ve lost my link to your “current notes” page; will you update it with a pointer into this?
Also btw I had no video, only a black screen. Maybe problem at my end ( not familiar with twitch)
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The tension concerning domain knowledge is one I’ve recently struggled with in wanting to present case studies in meta-rationality. Problem is that it depends on deep embedding in the object level, which in most cases I don’t have, and certainly can’t convey to readers concisely
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Also, how do you feel your flow was affected by the stream? (I’m just now watching so apologies if you address this already at some point in the stream).
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Love the format! This is really interesting to me since writing/note-taking seems to be one of those practices where having a coach or guide would be SO helpful, yet nobody does it because it's seen as such an intense, private, individual activity (likely not the only reasons).
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Something I find neat is how much of a "conversational" tone your writing takes: you tend to write in the same way that you speak, which so many people don't do. Is that a conscious decision on your part?
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Found this extremely helpful & noticed lots of micro things of how I can improve my own work. Really showed me the value of live-streaming as a medium when used sparingly/deliberately (which it generally isn’t). “Watching experts work” should be a more common thing.
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