Want:
• Scrape popular self-referential blogs (, LessWrong sequences, , maybe ?)
• For each, construct dependency graph: what old posts do new posts reference? Simplify by hand
Find guiding abstractions. May suggest entry points for new readers
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Completely unsurprisingly if you've read a bunch of , but if you just count the number of self-referential links on then "A Big Little Idea Called Legibility" comes out on top by far!
Haven't done dependency graph yet which may be more interesting. Raw counts:
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Well, here is a few hour attempt at visualizing 's blog post dependency graph:
• Note how central the legibility post is! Even Gervais Principle pales in comparison.
• Orange is , blue is . As you might expect, they don't cite each other much!
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Are there arrowheads for directed edges? I suspect main link between me and Sarah would be me citing weaponized sacredness.
There *should* be low coupling between contributors per “intellectual hedge fund” model since I turn away pitches that are too close to existing trails.
Not yet! I am terrible at this visualization stuff so I'm moving through it slowly. I should really bug , especially since I met him through your ribbonfarm reader dinner
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Wow even just looking at Micah's Twitter profile and blocks profile (bl.ocks.org/micahstubbs) was more helpful that a few hours of googling about data vis.
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