I want to do another thread related to the previous one, on temporal fidelity, on “I-it time” versus “I-you time”. Object relations time versus social relations time. And indirectly about interest vs social graphs. And more concretely about documents in social media.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1157668998588141569 …
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It strikes me that anything we think of as a “document” is usually extra-temporal. It exists outside human time. Social streams on the other hand have a temporality to them (a meaningful internal clock corresponding to a stream of consciousness; a “headspace” you can enter).
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A great deal of communication medium design effort goes into coupling objects like documents to communications. Attachments, links to google docs, etc. They all seem janky. There are no good solutions. Why? Consider the most stream-native document possible: a Twitter thread
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A thread messes with chronological serialization of a stream by forking off a logical serialization. “Reserializing” the global stream is a trade off between following events in logical order locally on the thread vs following events in chronological order in the stream.
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This is NOT merely an issue of lack of design imagination. There is NO way to avoid making this tradeoff. Why do I think this? In fluid mechanics (the OG stream) you can choose to model flows in Eulerian or Lagranguan ways but not both at once http://www.tempobook.com/2013/06/24/lagrangian-and-eulerian-decision-making/ …pic.twitter.com/Z5Odcoaolw
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A document can have an internal clock too. The history of “track changes” or the commit log of a git repo represent internal clocks driven by local state changes. But this time is object-relations time. I-it time. Confined to process rates inside a frame boundary.
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In general, this closed process is too impoverished to be a “headspace” a human can inhabit for long. You can get your head “wrapped around” a complex bit of code or a challenging essay, but it’s stressful, like being underwater. You’ll have to come up for air (richer headspace).
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It sounds like I-You time / headspace is (the best kind of) communication (h/t Niklas Luhmann, on his Zettelkasten: http://luhmann.surge.sh/communicating-with-slip-boxes … ) Books exist on a spectrum of this quality, some are very rich.pic.twitter.com/O57mecF31Y
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