I wonder if my doing a lot more of my public thinking on twitter is a cause or consequence of insight size getting smaller 🤔
My median insight💡used to register at magnitude 6 on the Richter mindquake 🤯 scale. Now it’s 4. That’s a 100 times weaker, but 100x more frequent.
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If you move to SF there's a >90% chance of a magnitude 6 or greater in the next 30 years.
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Are we still talking about mindquakes or are we talking about earthquakes 🤣
The Bay Area is an insight killer for me. I only go there briefly for work for as little time as possible.
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Could it be that your exhausting your most impactful insights?
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Both. Tweeting makes you think you are thinking when you're not.
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Long form vs short form. Short form always kills the quality, by killing reflection time, in favor of frequency.
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It happened to both of us simultaneously while you were writing Ribbonfarm longform and I was doing elaborate reddit and Facebook posts. My theory is that quote-tweeting and threading create a “10x value” that we’re all drawn to. Once you have a taste of it you come back for more
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