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Root: 2017-11-03
Targets: 926870938779639809
ultimape
@ultimape
2017-11-04
In these woven networks of ideas we experience the ecstasy of curiosity.Building the future one tweet at a time.https://t.co/A7NvEhYpBR
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ultimape
@ultimape
2017-11-03
And a serendipity generator - listing to the hivesong of your network.https://t.co/7OXk1WZdCs
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ultimape
@ultimape
2017-11-03
But it can also taint a discourse; polluting honest inquiry.https://t.co/7PppSBXtz7
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ultimape
@ultimape
2017-11-03
A botjardian influencing the swarm.https://t.co/fkjvM1YvFK
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ultimape
@ultimape
2017-11-03
This is the nature of twitter.https://t.co/vJLjOBuDE4
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ultimape
@ultimape
2017-11-03
We walk a tight rope - a tight line - between valuable streams of thought, and advertising / bot driven noise.https://t.co/DhTUYiGKCO
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ultimape
@ultimape
2017-11-03
Do not ask for whom the swarm claps, for it claps for thee.https://t.co/wPtT9yIe7f
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ultimape
@ultimape
2017-11-03
Routing around parasites.https://t.co/tCS3UXPjHp
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ultimape
@ultimape
2017-11-04
How does nature get it's rhythm?https://t.co/ynqGmyiD0s
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ultimape
@ultimape
2017-11-04
Who watches watchmen?Who influences influencers?Who inspires whom inspire?Who sings the hivesong?
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ultimape
@ultimape
2017-11-04
Comforted by the joyful chorus?https://t.co/KjUhAapWC4
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ultimape
@ultimape
2017-11-04
Every voice is valuable when herd [sic], even if those voices telling you what kind of instrument you don't want to be.
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ultimape
@ultimape
2017-11-04
Our collective's hivesong consists of tweets and trumpets.In fact it always did: many of us simply didn't hear them 'till now.
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ultimape
@ultimape
2017-11-04
Building structures.https://t.co/ywdEDYLdJ0
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ultimape
@ultimape
2017-11-04
Temples for the Anthropocene.https://t.co/w9bq0tyUHW
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ultimape
@ultimape
2017-11-04
Steering toward the absurd.https://t.co/dD2hEDqOHg
drethelin
@drethelin2017-08-04
#cyber https://t.co/2p1ITYu3uw
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Root: 2018-04-18
Targets: 986559769258246144
visakanv
@visakanv
2018-04-18
(Riffing) A life is a thread of experiences A social graph is a thread of friends A sentence is a thread of words Reality is a thread of cause-and-effect events A worldview is a thread of beliefs A science is a thread of experiments A scene is a thread of practitioners
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visakanv
@visakanv
2018-04-18
I find myself thinking here about some posts about bundling, unbundling, rebundling. Eg: an album is a thread of songs. Streaming has allowed for user-centric threading, so now people tend to prefer playlists to albums
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visakanv
@visakanv
2018-04-18
Interesting conversation with a writer friend earlier about the fragmentation of information. We both agreed that fragmentation isn't actually a bad thing - what's missing & needed is better threading. Twitter threads are a specific instantiation of a solution to bigger probl...
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visakanv
@visakanv
2018-04-18
I have a huge, sprawling junkyard mess of Workflowy notes, Evernote cards, Google keep cards, Notes, blogposts, etc etc ad infinitum. Buried in there are entire books worth of interesting+useful information. But it suffers from bad or non-existent threading, constrained by memory
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visakanv
@visakanv
2018-04-18
One of my personal conclusions was that it's really helpful to always, always take notes after any noteworthy experience - whether watching a movie, talking with a friend or even just going about your daily life. (Seth Godin's observational blogposts come to mind)
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Root: 2019-02-02
Targets: 1135770936953544704
visakanv
@visakanv
2019-06-04
A well-architected web of threads might be a 10x or even 100x multiplier πŸ€” https://t.co/RxDCpECJOh
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-02-02
A very cool thing about having an elaborate πŸ•Έ of threads on twitter is – when new people find and discover you, they start favoriting all these old tweets, and you get to "feel" the paths of their choose-their-own-adventure journeys. It feels a little transhuman
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-02-02
every tweet that is on my web of threads is also somewhere in my brain every time one of you favorites one of those tweets, and I see it, it feels like that part of my brain lights up, too it feels "percolate-y", like little lights branching out and spreading around https://t.c...
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-06-04
I haven’t had my coffee yet so I can’t explain the step-by-step process But see if you can connect the dots The more intertwined a web of threads, the more strongly a viral event will cause cascades and aftershocks Past a certain point the web-thread will be near-ubiquitous ht...
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-06-04
Well,, we been knew https://t.co/UF5BXQMMDD
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-06-10
@visakanv I don't aim for viral tweets myself. I try to engineer my web to target thoughtful curious types.https://t.co/Q24Tahyx9h
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-06-10
@visakanv But your webs and threads end up spilling over into mine. it's really fun to watch in real time.https://t.co/RkRm8FE81C
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-06-10
@visakanv I think about flowers a lot.https://t.co/enbYy8vX8E
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-06-10
@visakanv Curious ants running along the web of ideas, pollinating them to bring forth new fruitful ideas.https://t.co/GyEn6M2xTZ
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-06-10
@visakanv So your web looks different than mine, but thats ok.https://t.co/panPlqtEGjhttps://t.co/GAqkQVvAXk
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-06-10
@visakanv The tweet linked in this is up to 16,931 unique impressions. https://t.co/CkEsAfP5Gm
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-06-11
@visakanv Seems like you're already aware of the possibilities. https://t.co/JdhgL2B1os
visakanv
@visakanv2019-05-27
The more people play the threading game, earnestly, directed by their own taste and curiosity and eagerness to share what’s good, the better chances individual tweets have of reaching a sort of semi-immortality. One person’s thoughts can become connective tissue serving thousands
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-11-09
@visakanv https://t.co/SpfzaPe7F3
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-11-09
@ultimape https://t.co/DwKeeMqgYF
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visakanv
@visakanv
2020-04-25
https://t.co/GJeZUqKZ9Q
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visakanv
@visakanv
2021-04-15
https://t.co/QCM7vrkuBW
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Root: 2019-04-15
Targets: 1117663801367846912
ultimape
@ultimape
2019-04-15
Threading ideas to better talk to the digital collective godhead.https://t.co/GbccD4FYna
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-04-15
Words as sibboleth. Narrative as sibboleth?Gossip as social maintenance, and narrative topic as social Schelling points for group loyalty.What are narratives?https://t.co/RHj94Isz2c
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-04-15
Compression of state.https://t.co/bG2A0o8PEG
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-04-15
Data mining my old memetic compressions.https://t.co/zeDenMnjv0
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-04-15
Networks of ideas as memetics / genetics. Merging words | merging networks | merging meaning. Serendipity. Mining the adjacent possible of wisdom on the frontiers of thought.https://t.co/GfmBWfXdyNFaster and faster.
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-04-15
Accidental mashups.https://t.co/QigJCdJat8
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-04-15
One things I've learned is that compression of ideas is relative to the community you're speaking to. Its easier to compress an idea down if you can assume a lot about another person's perspective, or have an inkling on what to say to them to inspire certain thoughts to resonate.
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-04-15
To some people, that idea could just be compressed as "leveraging inferential distance to map a shared idea space". The neat thing about the internet is that curious people will google search "inferential distance" and so the compression is free.
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-04-15
Under my strange lens, I view words & sentences as primitive idea networks. Each word is a conceptual link to series of 'tweets' (memes, thoughtforms?) that already live in your head. i'm quote tweeting concepts, assuming it will resonate an idea networks already in your he...
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-04-15
I want to teach machines to meme - to sing songs about causal chains and break bread over digital campfires.https://t.co/H0s5YnnZXm
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-04-15
The spider's web.https://t.co/BIkpYlQvfR
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-04-15
Spiders who catch fish. Dolomedes.https://t.co/ehyIRTn3Tb
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-04-15
A litteral mind map. A web of thoughts encoded in the brain."Freudien slips and hofstadterian word blends.Thoughts enduced into the plumbing of the brain."https://t.co/aVFsV1o0DB
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-04-15
Finding words. Literally (per this thread), and figuratively:"Even if you bridge the chasm of inferential distance. (Maybe by finding a shared point of understanding you can build up meaning with?) This still leaves the trap of the overton window."https://t.co/kybabaAU76
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-04-15
Furiously blinking.https://t.co/w23TrYkerQ
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ultimape
@ultimape
2019-04-15
[2015] https://t.co/GCArCXsYEk[2017] https://t.co/Q0mUpmHNFvInter-temporal Synchronicity.
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Root: 2019-05-19
Targets: 1129958730743861249
Malcolm_Ocean
@Malcolm_Ocean
2019-05-19
@callumflack @KaseyKlimes everything is threads https://t.co/r0cPlBNEsL
visakanv
@visakanv2018-04-18
(Riffing) A life is a thread of experiences A social graph is a thread of friends A sentence is a thread of words Reality is a thread of cause-and-effect events A worldview is a thread of beliefs A science is a thread of experiments A scene is a thread of practitioners
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Root: 2019-05-27
Targets: 1133066996797468672
visakanv
@visakanv
2019-05-27
Now that more of us are playing the threading game: As we compete+collaborate effectively articulate things we all care about, And weave each other’s thoughts into our respective webs, The desire paths will assemble a mindcity paved with the best individual thoughts
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-05-27
We used to each aggregate & share our favorite blogs and blogposts, each of which were themselves elaborate thought paths That was great, but twitter’s killer feature is that each specific thought is both self-contained and modular The rate of reference & rework is acce...
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-05-27
It’s easier than ever to play, and it’s cheaper than ever to make mistakes. You don’t even need to solve entire problems by yourself - partial contributions and partial coinages can be tremendously valuable, because https://t.co/9QlRPlmYXd
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-05-27
Yup, and the system of routing is IMO fundamentally superior. And the cost of false starts and dead ends is decreasing, you can take more swings than ever before. A thousand tweets is a smaller commitment than a thousand blogposts, for both writer & reader https://t.co/SG3oFl...
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-05-27
One of my biggest frustrations with the old way - which is what drew me to threading in the first place - was that good ideas from the past get forgotten. Once enough people are combing through threads, the good stuff can continually be resurfaced, & the resurfacing is +ve si...
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-05-27
I’m already seeing a substantial increase in people quote-tweeting each other’s old tweets in response to other people’s tweets. This is exhilarating. IMO the value of each individual tweet and the threads these tweets are in are increasing dramatically as a result
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-05-27
The race is on to assemble the best possible articulations of ideas in ways that are not just funny or clever, but deeply resonant in ways that make other people want to revisit and reuse them repeatedly broke: viral tweet woke: tweet that’s referenced & reused in many thre...
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-05-27
The more people play the threading game, earnestly, directed by their own taste and curiosity and eagerness to share what’s good, the better chances individual tweets have of reaching a sort of semi-immortality. One person’s thoughts can become connective tissue serving thousands
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-05-27
The important distinction is that thoughts have to be repurposed, reused, referenced, even contradicted. They have to be *in play* as currency, not frozen into plaques in museums where they languish in a sort of disuse-death https://t.co/Fn4Iw40yEm
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-05-27
Yup. ThoughtRank (or TweetRank) is the next iteration of PageRank IMO https://t.co/tYIxRBJso7
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visakanv
@visakanv
2020-12-21
thread https://t.co/jdnabmJ9jc
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visakanv
@visakanv
2021-04-14
https://t.co/GIO36SQpuv
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Root: 2019-06-07
Targets: 1137022560560795648
visakanv
@visakanv
2019-06-07
Assemble the desire-path mindcity!!! πŸ•Έ https://t.co/RxDCpECJOh
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-06-07
Nice Here’s my #1 rec for @twitter: realize that quote tweets are a killer feature of your product. Add it as a separate part of notifications besides All and Mentions. And separate it from RTs. Ie make it β€œlikes, RTs, QTs”. Sounds radical? It’ll push this game into hyperdrive h...
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-06-07
Imagine if you could click on one of your tweets and see all the quote tweets of it. You can kinda do a clunky attempted workaround by searching for your tweet via URL but that’s a crappy UX and sometimes just doesn’t work Which is my most self-QT’d tweet? I don’t actually know
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-06-07
β€œOk I’m imagining it. Umm 5 people quoted my tweet? Cool! So what?” no! 5 *instances* of your tweet being quoted. You can start doing threads *in reverse*. With different threads that lead to the same *destination*. completely different way of thinking https://t.co/CJK4AZc67Q
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-06-07
We can go forwards *and* backwards; everything is connected, https://t.co/5rYLZeueio
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-06-07
Micah gets it!! Let’s get meta - when you go to his tweet, you should be able to click β€œsee quote tweets” or β€œ1 QT” or whatever and find *this* tweet. But you can’t. Yet. https://t.co/ns8xjuUDfL
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-06-07
abuse is always a concern. to reduce the potential for abuse, a person should be able to eliminate undesirable QTs from their tweets. Or maybe toggle β€œonly show QTs from mutuals”
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Malcolm_Ocean
@Malcolm_Ocean
2019-07-12
@visakanv But this already applies to replies, no? I would say in principle (not sure if this is currently so) someone who you've blocked shouldn't be able to QT you. It should at most show up as just a raw hyperlink to your tweet, with no backref-like-this-proposal.
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Malcolm_Ocean
@Malcolm_Ocean
2019-07-12
@visakanv @Twitter Oh man I totally didn't see this until now. Very relevant to the #TwitterReplacement idea I've been musing about for awhile. I think if @jack is serious about incentivizing collaborative conversations, this QT thing is a key move. https://t.co/AQEO73y4rM
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Malcolm_Ocean
@Malcolm_Ocean
2019-07-14
@visakanv @Twitter I had a further thought that I wanted to plug back into this thread about QTs-as-killer-feature. The tweet composer needs a really solid UI for searching for tweet to embed https://t.co/R8MHHm6hMg
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Malcolm_Ocean
@Malcolm_Ocean
2019-07-14
@visakanv @Twitter For an related UI/UX flow, consider the linker in google docs, which lets you paste a link but also automatically searches the web for whatever phrase you're linking. It obviously wouldn't work the same in Twitter, but I think the underlying inspiration is bas...
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Malcolm_Ocean
@Malcolm_Ocean
2019-07-14
@visakanv @Twitter Whoaaaaaaaa. The β€£Headings field here (which I literally didn't notice existed until posting that tweet) is making me think it would be cool to be able to reference a tweet from the very storm you're composing, which you can't usually do because it doesn't exis...
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Malcolm_Ocean
@Malcolm_Ocean
2019-07-14
@visakanv @Twitter A further thought on the design of this: https://t.co/nWBAXg531d
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Malcolm_Ocean
@Malcolm_Ocean
2019-07-14
@visakanv @Twitter @jack Seriously how do we get this in front of Jack? https://t.co/HcliX1ZoSI
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Malcolm_Ocean
@Malcolm_Ocean
2019-07-14
@visakanv @Twitter @jack Ofc, QTs are being one way among our peeps, but my impression is that elsewhere they have a a bad rep? https://t.co/i0dZXep2Fh
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-07-14
@Malcolm_Ocean @Twitter @jack https://t.co/bmSzgcxbx6
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Malcolm_Ocean
@Malcolm_Ocean
2019-07-14
@visakanv @Twitter @jack This is of course because people don't understand that amplifying something you disagree with is still amplifying it. (See this thread of Visa's on this topic) https://t.co/ydb8Xi8NPM
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-07-14
@Malcolm_Ocean @Twitter @jack https://t.co/maay5XJPls
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Malcolm_Ocean
@Malcolm_Ocean
2019-07-14
@visakanv @Twitter @jack Oh! I am realizing that the first 3 times I read that tweet by PG I misunderstood what he was saying and thought he was saying the QT feature was bad. Seems he's just saying it's bad for giving feedback, which is basically true.
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Malcolm_Ocean
@Malcolm_Ocean
2019-07-18
@visakanv @Twitter Another thought I wanted to add to this thread for reference: For QTs to assume their rightful role as killer feature, their text needs to be embedded in full, not sometimes (and inconsistently!) truncated. https://t.co/P0HTCHjvMW
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-07-24
Please add a tab for QTs @jack Maybe only after you have 1,000 followers, if it would be too confusing for beginners Or suggest it when a user first gets a tweet quote-tweeted more than 10 times https://t.co/1bjHqVzH6p
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-07-24
https://t.co/CW2bmbi43Q
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Malcolm_Ocean
@Malcolm_Ocean
2019-07-31
@visakanv @Twitter Oh! I think this has improved with the new twitter UI. Embeds are much more often (even always?) displayed in full. Does that match your experience @visakanv?
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-07-31
@Malcolm_Ocean @Twitter Haven’t really been paying super close attention but seems about right
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visakanv
@visakanv
2019-12-28
The growing popularity of @quotedreplies validates this hypothesis IMO
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visakanv
@visakanv
2020-08-06
beautiful https://t.co/HtlldoPB19
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QiaochuYuan
@QiaochuYuan
2022-04-11
@visakanv this is one of my favorite threads of yours fwiw, seriously underrated
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visakanv
@visakanv
2023-09-13
thus apparently ends the golden QT era of Twitter (2020–2023) https://t.co/zzIG0xVz2d
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Malcolm_Ocean
@Malcolm_Ocean
2023-09-13
@visakanv I would be so curious to know whether this was intentional or just oversight like did a bunch of people made a bunch of decisions and not realize that they severed connections that are vital to the collective consciousness on here? https://t.co/81LegWkBCS
elonmusk
@elonmusk2023-08-18
𝕏 as humanity’s collective consciousness
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IaimforGOAT
@IaimforGOAT
2023-09-13
@visakanv for now we can still do it, hopefully they don't remove this too https://t.co/3f8Yb5TZq3
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Root: 2020-04-26
Targets: 1254457781085589506
visakanv
@visakanv
2020-04-26
I figured out the mindgraph noderunner game both inside my own head, and in my body of work (notes, blog, twitter). On Twitter I began to really appreciate that this is a multiplayer game. We can connect our brightest nodes to each other's: https://t.co/zOu5v9vYCL
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visakanv
@visakanv
2020-04-26
I don't know how people function without progressive summarization I've always done it as long as I can remember, at every scale, on every front it's almost a coping mechanism for dealing with information overload – if I couldn't do it I'd just be drowning all the time
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visakanv
@visakanv
2020-04-26
my guess is that people who don't need it probably are less sensitive to information to begin with, ie they probably have relatively fixed-ish boundaries around what they know and what they don't, what they care about and what they don't my boundaries are almost non-existent
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visakanv
@visakanv
2020-04-26
which is to say that I am *extremely* susceptible to an "attack" by anything interesting. anything interesting can "hijack" my entire apparatus and potentially throw me off my whole day there are pros and cons to this; and in ordinary life the cons can be debilitating
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visakanv
@visakanv
2020-04-26
my way of mitigating the cost was to get good at "compressing" the interesting thing (often big and complex) into something simple and memorable it must remain interesting in compression, because otherwise I get inert junk clogging up my space. headspace, deskspace, digitalspace
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visakanv
@visakanv
2020-04-26
20 years of practice with that, and I have a very useful skill – which I developed primarily to stop being so goddamn overwhelmed by everything all the time: I have the ability to identify what is interesting (to me) about literally anything delightfully, this extends beyond me
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visakanv
@visakanv
2020-04-26
it's almost like this there's a whole universe of material around me, precious and fleeting each item has been sentenced to death (in my working memory), and the only way I can rescue each one is to argue compellingly why it deserves to live ;_;
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visakanv
@visakanv
2020-04-26
once I got good at doing this, magic started to happen slowly, over the years, I'd start to identify the brightest nodes in my mind-graph each time I connected those nodes directly together, it would set off a chain reaction, which would illuminate the whole graph, and beyond h...
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visakanv
@visakanv
2020-04-26
when I say "my boundaries are almost non-existent" – here's an example of how I was thinking about things in 2011 what's hard to convey is how exhilarating and agonizing the experience is, to have all ideaspace converge without knowing how to manage it https://t.co/s61EBl7Aa9
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visakanv
@visakanv
2020-04-26
hypothesis: a sufficiently luminous mindgraph has an irresistable pull effect on other light-seekers – which is how you create scenes a sufficiently luminous scene creates [X] a sufficiently luminous [X] = golden age, history-defining https://t.co/6zEMW75HP4
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JimmyRis
@JimmyRis
2020-04-26
@visakanv manual myelination
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visakanv
@visakanv
2020-04-26
what is [X]? πŸ€” the sterile-sounding answer might be "eco-system". but that's so dull. in practice people probably say something like "a lively city". any thoughts/suggestions? serendipity, surprises, cross-pollination, crossovers...
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JimmyRis
@JimmyRis
2020-04-26
@visakanv A culture?
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visakanv
@visakanv
2020-04-26
@JimmyRis mm it's in the right ballpark
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visakanv
@visakanv
2020-04-26
btw this is exactly what I'm talking about re: progressive summarization I have trained myself to do this because it's the only way I can really remember things https://t.co/9AEWoU7zin
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JimmyRis
@JimmyRis
2020-04-26
@visakanv https://t.co/9hTumoogS9
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JimmyRis
@JimmyRis
2020-04-26
@visakanv tilling, refinement rings true
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JimmyRis
@JimmyRis
2020-04-26
@visakanv a vibrant megascene of scenes
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JimmyRis
@JimmyRis
2020-04-26
@visakanv a movement?
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JimmyRis
@JimmyRis
2020-04-26
@visakanv maybe "scene" is scale-independent
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visakanv
@visakanv
2020-04-26
@JimmyRis yeah there are tiny scenes and bigger/broader scenes but I'm thinking of something like a meta-scene, or a scene-of-scenes. the cross-pollination part is important
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