Just realized what I’ve been thinking about in a crappier 2.0 way is what I thought through better (though not great) under ‘shaving the shadowyak’ in this 2015 post.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/02/18/a-dent-in-the-universe/ …
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Past a certain point, letters to a future self (which are trivially possible) are more valuable than sci-fi letters to past selves. You can save future idiot-you from worse do-overs. Also need a better term than ‘worse do-over’.
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Disciplined indexing and backlinking of your past work, plus review processes so you don’t forget, are probably worthwhile things but seem like way too much work. It would take me weeks to review my blog posts alone, forget tweets or notebooks etc.
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I think one reason I’m doing blogchains, which I’m only just realizing, is future-proofing. Now at least on specific themes like weirding or mediocrity, I can review my long-term thought trails relatively easily. Emphasis on relatively. Still not easy.
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Making past thoughts more accessible seems like a big opportunity
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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