Either nobody else is interested in things I’m interested in lately, or I’m doing a very bad job of explaining myself. 😕
It always seems to be stuff that, when I talk about it, sounds 1 degree off some banal subject, but in my head it’s 90 degrees off
Divergentism is a bitch.
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OR Twitter is a terrible medium (compared to eg Ribbonfarm posts) for laying down a novel, complex argument...
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I feel the same way. It’s also how I first honed in on you. I do believe myself to be a poor communicator though; it seems I’m a bit of a poet.
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Seems like an interesting opportunity to tackle and test that little thesis about communication and the gaps between complexity and clarity.
Every human interaction has a degree of rethoric inside; Paul Grice's maxims should help.
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I guess the closer you are to the bleeding edge the fewer people are there to keep you company.
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I wish we could manually & invisibly weight followees.
What you say always ultimately makes wonderful sense, but:
- It's a little like the "THAT'S what I should have said!" joke response timing.
- There's so much good yet cognitively cheaper low-hanging fruit all around here.
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I think by the nature of being generative, you accept a high rate of strike outs and misunderstandings, don’t worry about it.
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