Is there some way that the Kindle user interface could give me the same sense of urgency and being alive that Twitter does? Asking for a friend.
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This is a fun prompt—to lean into the fray of urgent, "hot" media; to make reading "compete" with Fortnite. Framed that way, I wonder about the inverse: "cooling" my relationship to Twitter so that timeless books naturally outcompete. i.e. Where should "home field advantage" be?
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i.e. imagine that on my coffee table, there is:
– a few books
– a stack of papers
– a bound volume of 500 algorithmically-selected tweets from the last week
This is a very different type of interaction!
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what did attention allocation to this "junk content" look like pre internet/TV? I've never read a national newspaper from cover to cover, what's the "playthrough time" of all the news that's fit to print?
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The problem, of course, is that if we treated Twitter like newsprint, we wouldn’t be having this very conversation.
This observation is really the sense in which ’s prompt most resonates. Conversation is a source of real meaning. Reading is often abstract or dutiful, disconnected from intrinsically-meaningful purposes. Very excited about connecting books to social sources of meaning.
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That is: I suspect it's possible to connect to meaningful social interaction without the frenetic urgency, the tiny grain size, the context switching, etc.
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