I think my fundamental problem with my Twitter use is that it’s not as shitposty as I’d like. I get tempted repeatedly into dumping more serious thoughts here, which I’d like to capture more systematically in less leaky, more pipeliney media.
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Twitter paradox: without Twitter I wouldn’t even think a lot of capture-worthy thoughts. Hive mind canvas inspires thoughts I wouldn’t otherwise think. But it also makes it hard to take those thoughts out and somewhere more selfishly useful. So they live in half-ass limbo.
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Twitter is not a good place to put the thoughts it inspires you to think. It’s the Groucho Marx meme club.
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The thing is the foresight that goes into even the simplest behavior to enable easier capture later is enough to kill the play mode that drives the value. Even making up a hashtag before riffing on a theme is a creativity killer.
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You only realize a shitpost is not a shitpost but the core idea you need for Chapter 7 of your book *after* you tweet. Capture *has* to happen ex-post.
When I dimly realize it might be important I email myself instead and file it. But I realize it only half the time.
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What about dishing out the thread on the fly & after it's done transferring it somewhere "less leaky, more pipeliney", and cleaning it up / formalising it a bit? Twitter acting both as inspiration and the canvas for a "rough manuscript" for a post / chapter that comes after.
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Script to dredge/harvest a months worth of recent tweets for single display/review when you're in that particular mood..?
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I use for bookmarking + annotation, with the handy setting ‘automatically bookmark what I favorite in Twitter’
It makes after the fact triage, tagging, and correlation across sources fairly manageable.



