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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As a knock-on effect, this may be what finally pushes me to do this same thing, recording what goes into one of my blog posts and what am I doing when reading!
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That’s very kind; thank you! 👋
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One thing I’ve noticed about stuff that has some element of uncertainty, like writing, improv, and coding but also just reading Twitter, is that stuff that feels like it happens “all the time” actually is kind of rare. So trying to demonstrate it live rarely works.
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Respectfully disagree!
If x = additional time spent you and y = value to others, I actually think this is at the efficient frontier. Low effort for you, lots of insights for me and I guess others.
(Even the visual of horizontal strips of writing surfaces was inspiring.)
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Appreciated!
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In eSports, watching replays is and has been the efficient frontier when near the global ceiling. Of course, combined with playing the game yourself.
I hypothesize that near the ceiling, where the “science” hasn’t been distilled, watching for subtler “motions” is ideal.
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It eventually trickles down into common knowledge. Which is more efficient, but never cutting edge.
I always wondered why we don’t see more “replay watching” outside of eSports.
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I know this wasn’t the purpose, but one of the biggest benefits for me was the micro stuff: Keeping daily note clean with bullet points; not creating lots of new notes constantly but using daily log; CMD-click for opening in a new window;
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