The longer a live twitter thread, the more likely it is to be crackpottery (not counting listicle threads). I haven’t done live ones longer than ~30 I think. Newsletters have gone to ~100 but that’s just numbered essay paragraphs, with lots of editing/rearranging/resequencing.
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I can't quite imagine what other formal structure would satisfy "I'm exploring an idea in chunks and following many little paths as I explore different facets", but I'm open to ideas!
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Serializing into essays with organic callbacks, foreshadows etc. Basically, we think in branches, but we consume in serial sequences. I built a whole failed branching-map web product, so learned this the hard way.
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