I have a sort of weird narrative memory blindness with respect to my breaking smart writing. I have 141 newsletter issues since 2015, but unlike with ribbonfarm, for the life of me I can't remember what 80% of them are about, and staring at the titles doesn't really help.
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Trying to do a sort of thematic clustering and filtering of the best ones, but kinda stuck just trying to retrace my thinking evolution doing these... it's like they were written by a hidden Zaphod Beeblebrox second brain that I don't have direct access to
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I'm also having trouble even coming up with a meaningful set of tags to sort on. The material is all over the bloody place. Big History, personal development, tech commentary, sociology of tech, great weirding, industry dynamics...
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I'm having same problem with Art of Gig, and now that I think of it, Be Slightly Evil. Is it something about the email newsletter medium that makes you forget the stream of consciousness somehow? Or is it just that the topics I choose for newsletters tend to be more transient?
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i believe you were the one who told me that structure and cross-unit coherence were secondary to identity in this context...
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I don't even understand that statement now. I say a lot of shit I don't understand when people restate it back at me it seems :D
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Thank you, I thought it was just me who was having a problem understanding a lot of what you say. ;)
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