"tweeting makes your brain more powerful"
@paulg as revised by @KevinSimler as revised by mepic.twitter.com/GgoKYr4VWd
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The problem is that there are many different ways to tweet, most of which do the opposite of making your brain more powerful. Plus tweets are so short they don't give you much room to develop ideas.
It's fun to think of which people do use Twitter effectively to develop ideas, and what patterns they use. Tweetstorms are an interesting form, IMO, in part because there is a small but real pressure to make each tweet count. I know my essays could do with more of that pressure
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Perhaps one way to simulate this pressure in essay writing is to write drafts in numbered list form, separating each thought. (Then you could remove the numbers before you publish). I am thinking of some
@vgr articles likehttps://mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/life-spirit-distillation?e=d295679b52 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I agree, but I also like the ability to freely refine short aphorism-like phrases without initially stressing about how they will be received.
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One way I helped myself get the best of both worlds is sending texts in a ‘judgement free’ thread to my brother, then iteratively refine the texts. Eventually I tried to form a narrative and aggregated them into refined draft here: http://amathematicalworld.com/infinitepotential …
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tweetstorm ux also makes it feel right to write only in H1 , if you wrote only in h1 on your blog that would feel weird and wrong
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