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Do you have any “1 person twitter” relationships, where you’re not in a work/personal relationship, and not even deep friends per se, but you use each other as a think-out-loud reaction buffer for thoughts on a specific topic? I have a few, but not super active. Often on DMs.
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Test: both of you have a different set of personal friends for just hanging out in good company. A 1PT is a passive, background-thinking relationship with someone whose better to think out loud with on some topics than hivemind twitter.
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It’s quite rare. Beating a good, well-curated hive-mind twitter on any topic, even a pretty specialized one, is hard. I think of it more like a lazy 1-entry twitter list that is also a dm channel.
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I wish I knew how to do this better. It’s the conversational equivalent of blogchains. Works best with just 1 other person. Max 7-8. Back in the day I used to have dozens of email threads like this, but email gets unwieldy fast as you go many kevels of nested responses deep.
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Key difference from just a generic slack channel or dm thread is that it has a specific theme, even if loose and messy. It does not wander out of scope too easily.
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This is unstable though. It either breaks down as you exhaust each other’s depth on a theme and start derping at each other, or it broadens into a generic hangout friendship that’s not actively processing an information stream. You can switch themes but that’s been rare for me.
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Yeah I’ve had this with some people for some time but it’s always temporary, like slipstreaming behind another car for a particular leg of a non-linear race where everyone is doing their own thing / going their own way
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