I keep thinking about this tweet. Nestable bullets as the base unit of thinking and writing. Is that actually what digital writing "wants" to be, uncoupled from physical limitations?https://twitter.com/elzr/status/1259587325560045578 …
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This objection came to mind while reading
@maxkriegers's dreams of digital conversation. Not everyone enjoys talking recursively. Many talk narratively: retelling anecdotes linearly, which you're supposed to experience & emote at, not analyze/annotate.https://twitter.com/elzr/status/1259267529714909186 …Eli Parra 🌊 added,
Eli Parra 🌊 @elzr"Chatting with Glue" by@maxkriegers is out! A brilliant, exploratory essay on digital conversation's future —"As We May Talk". It's a paper/prototype that's a comic —braiding images & text a la@Nsousanis's Unflattening. Survey maps of the chapters. Read it mobile-friendly ↓: https://twitter.com/maxkriegers/status/1259168597429096450 … pic.twitter.com/qIhmOe5sbj2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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And yet, there's nesting in all human language. A word is a list of chars, a sentence a list of words, a paragraph a list of sentences. A page a list of paragraphs... We can now extend these structures digitally to nested bullets, threads, 1- & 2-way links, tags, transclusion...
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threaded thinking will end up a world-historical event.
We're at the beginning: Threaded Twitter (