1/ *takes deep breath and cracks knuckles* I don't know. But, let's find out!https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1151373014560198657 …
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5/ The tricky part is "I know" means more than your work -- it means your personality, slowly revealed and perceptually integrated. That does take time and attention. It's computer-mediated socializing, and socialization is expensive!
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6/ As an example, I feel like I know
@MaureenBug and consider her to be a friend based on our interactions on this website. But, I digi-met her because twitter started promoting likes to the main feed, and our likes kept colliding. I wouldn't have anticipated that!Show this thread -
7/ Revisiting OP,
@balajis asked for a more "productive" network. That demands you can properly articulate your objective function. And that's the thing NO network allows. Again, instead, they all have effectively the same one -- maximize engagement to resell attention.Show this thread -
8/ That's the part I would want to fix. I want to be able to plug and play and switch between whatever attention allocator I want or other people have built. (Note: your social graph is an implicit allocator that isn't portable.)
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9/ I want to build infrastructure around the idea that I don't know what would be best for you, and maybe -- even probably -- you don't either. We need endless and accessible experimentation! A dynamic and variegated ecosystem.
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(P.S. I've slowly been designing something that would work like that, but I'm not sure I'm in a position to take on twitter et al. I think I found a sneaky back door, but still. Until my next steps, consider this yet another moment of me trying to discover new like-minded folks.)
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