✨ New essay with , illustrated by : numinous.productions/timeful/
We've previously written about a "mnemonic medium," which helps you remember what you read. Here we explore a different angle, extending a book in time to help it connect to lived experience.
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I’ve been assembling notes on how various texts might be made more timeful; thought I’d share this oddball:
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Earlier drafts' examples focused on self-authorship—e.g. "timeful" versions of Meditations or 's Atomic Habits. Still excited about those ideas (e.g. implementation intentions seem well-suited), but they need more experiment!
Some early notes:
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Some thoughtful notes from
: docs.google.com/document/d/1f9
One nice observation: he points out that some authors (e.g. Taleb) help their books extend through time by enacting the texts' ideas in ongoing interactions (e.g. on Twitter, podcasts, etc).
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I’ve often thought that web articles need an “exploded view” to give the reader context of where they are in the text
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I thought of Smart Sparrow when I read this. In its early days that tool embedded adaptive tuition techniques to guide students through concepts to best deliver them for different learning styles.
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Yep, there are definitely some overlaps with various adaptive learning technologies. I find that exploring similar topics outside an explicitly educational context often leads to quite different conclusions!
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