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I love the move this project makes of injecting new nouns and verbs into pre-existing habits and environments. A new kind of controllable peripheral vision. I'm not very task-ish, so this makes me wonder: what else might I want to throw in these slots? e.g. favorite art/poetry?

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Jason Yuan

@jasonyuandesign

· Jan 1, 2021

Introducing Hijack Your Feed—an extension that replaces ads on your Twitter feed with tasks from your todo list

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Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

There's lots of ways to frame this kind of project. I don't "reclaim your attention" is quite right: there's a "productivity" orientation, a sense of "should" there that doesn't feel quite right. I vibe more with something like… offering nucleation sites for alternative actions.

1:13 AM · Jan 3, 2021Twitter Web App

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points out, sometimes endless scrolling happens because there's a vague dread that when it stops, something unknown and probably less hedonic will happen. Making alternatives concrete ("order cat food") might make the dread less diffuse.

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Omar Rizwan

@rsnous

· Jan 1, 2021

- one story I could tell about this is about 'dread' (twitter.com/left_pad/statu) where you dread / put off switching from scrolling Twitter to do whatever task; Twitter is this immersive medium that's hard to leave

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Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

Jan 3, 2021

Should the whole OS be "in the feed"? I notice feeds produce a change in consciousness. I feel e.g: frenetic, impatient, restless, reactive. Some activities really lend themselves to that mindset (e.g. triaging email)—those are good candidates! Others benefit from stillness.