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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Replying to @vgr
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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Visakan Veerasamy @visakanvThe key feature of (public) Twitter is that any player can interact with any other player. Any player can reply to any other player’s tweets, or retweet it, or quote-tweet it. This bypasses traditional limitations of both “real life” as well as older web mediums like “blogs”.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
framed another way: twitter is currently one of the best places to do public thinking, IMO bc its a place where other players are structurally incentivized to play with you. [obviously Not All Thinking, but the amount of play each (individual!) thought gets is off the charts]
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You’re way too rosy-eyed about it. I think it’s short-hop brain travel. The Southwest Airlines of thinking.
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Replying to @vgr
works for me! I think of it as a sort of fractal salon where the arbitrary constraints just so happened to incentivize some of the right things and disincentivize some of the wrong things. knowing twitter they'll probably screw this up somehow sooner or later
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I’m actually doing my new blogchain format in part to reclaim some thinking for blog. I think it’s dangerous long-term for so many people to put so much of their thinking on a poorly managed private platform.
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Replying to @vgr
I agree, I had a panic moment when twitter search results started serving me junk and started compiling threads into blogposts I call threadposts
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