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Turns out that Threadapalooza, though largely an unmotivated accident, ended up provoking some interesting thoughts related to my main topic of interest in recent years, temporality.
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Specifically, the question of calling the end of a "race" when everybody is sort of racing in their own time/tempo under different cognitive circumstances with no shared rules, kinda like the Mock Turtle race in Alice in Wonderland
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It's actually a well-posed mathematical question too: when do you call something like this "done", given that not everybody is even trying to cross the 100-tweet finish line? And how do you attribute a race time to them when they do their thread in 2-3 sessions instead of 1?
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An aspect of the race is, depending on the topic you chose/were given, it may or may not unleash a sort of wound-up set of thoughts you didn't know you had. It may cross threshold of banality into new territory at 35 or 75. Each thread is a narrative scan of threader's brain.
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I see a parallel to ultramarathon running (runners have different motives & levels of ability) and hiking the entire Appalachian trail (some do it straight through and others choose to break it into segments and stopping between each segment). Perhaps measure by author's motive?