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One reason I haven't published anything this year on my core topics of interest (culture, technology, identity, design, brands...) is that the ideas I'm working on are too long to be fit neatly into a 4k-5k word blog post. I'm not sure how to solve this so thoughts are welcome
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To complicate this, all of the ideas are very interrelated now. there is a core set of beliefs and an underlying worldview with its own logic and principles. Recently I did an internal dependency map for my own idea spaces and realized I have a lot of "idea debt"
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So right now I am slowly hacking away at this dependency map and while thinking about a loose order, the total volume of which is probably a project analogous to one of the Ribbonfarm books or the Sequences or the Uruk series, but is about understanding culture
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But I'm also hoping to find ways of publishing this that surfaces the relationships between the ideas in a more clear way People have tried things like this before with hyperlink books, interactive fiction, and straight up wikis. I'm not compelled by anything I've seen
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I'm interested in Roam Research style transclusions (have not played with this extensively yet), but I would never use it to publish because I think it would suffer from some of the problems hypertext books have, and from a visual standpoint it's not a pretty way to present ideas
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I think there are a lot of new UX patterns to be invented here that make the kind of writing project I want to do possible. I definitely need to transition from jekyll to gatsby and learn some react if I want it to be possible
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anyway, this is where I'm at, basically slogging through lots of idea debt, just busting out words, but I can definitely say I'm not bored of the ideas. yandhi 2020
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Been there. I’ve never personally managed to get out from under big idea debts. The only way out I’ve found is to sneak off, start something debt-free and fun in an adjacent place, and maybe that grows exponentially enough to eat the debt later. If not, you have a new thing 😎
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hahaha! Yeah almost everything I did this year was mostly fun adjacencies lol. I'm cutting myself some slack because I know that the ideas simply weren't polished enough before so I couldn't have written them to the level of clarity and neatness I wanted
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Everything I’ve done since 2006 has been fun adjacencies. Once you cut yourself some slack, you never go back 🤣 Beware this outcome. I suspect if you are ambitious, you have to hold on to a degree of neurotic unhappiness to make your way back from fun.
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