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I’m planning to write an essay loosely titled “Hypermedia Surfing”, and it’s like a thread running through all of my internet-nerd-media thoughts. Here are the tweets I’m likely to reference in that thread https://t.co/Bef2FClTJf
My verdict: the jetpack of 2020 is a network of smart friends who care about you and will provide you with interesting and relevant information about anything you ask for. A truly social search engine. Twitter is the best place to do it as far as I know https://t.co/9BjpLiMVT2
Funny irony: hardly anybody running social media companies seems to have any real, deep understanding about what the real potential power of social media https://t.co/YxElCjRfnF
The amount of latent wealth sitting around my social graph is staggering to me. Some of you should dare and marry each other, but you don’t know it yet. Some of you should start companies together, but you don’t know it yet. Social media is still not even 1% *truly social*
We used to say “surf the web”. We don’t say it much anymore, now that we’re mostly scrolling through infinite linear feeds. But I think the future of hypermedia is a return to surfing. 🏄♀️ 🏄♂️ https://t.co/xATj6DOiay
We used to also imagine The Information Highway, which would’ve been a commute from here to there, there being InfoLand. We no longer imagine this because the commute is now instantaneous. We are all in InfoLand now. You can check out any time you like,, https://t.co/qN9vmlEBb8
Social media itself does not fully appreciate this, but users who appreciate this surf the social web with grace https://t.co/yrmG3He2sZ
I think the big secret of social life is that everybody loves to make a great introduction. If you can become someone that people love to introduce to to other people, you're "in the green" socially. Everybody loves to introduce a great hire, romantic partner, friend, co-founder
It is not necessary for you do any of this alone. I don’t think any of us can truly do this alone. Friends are the meaning of life, and if you choose them well, friends can help you investigate meaning itself. Hypermedia is a game you can play as you like https://t.co/9jjDmpPqnD
surprising to realize that I'm not exactly entirely sure what I think is the most exciting thing in the world right now if I go by my own internal compass/gyroscope, I think it's the fact that people dramatically still underestimate how much social capital you can create online
You can use Twitter to make friends with dozens of people in any major city in the world who share your interests, and they will be happy and eager to receive you when you get there. Yes, I have Skillz (you can too), but how would I do it without the tool? https://t.co/SkPZhsWJ4z
again, twitter doesn't seem to appreciate/care how valuable it would be if people could have these features for their *followers* list rather than *following* list. It would allow you to seriously leverage the social capital that you've built. Go to any city and know who to meet
The secret of the Internet is people https://t.co/nUOVm7YKZu
At any moment, you can choose to KonMari your social graph. Right now, you can go through your texting apps, following lists, FB friends, etc and let go of anybody who doesn't spark joy. And you can identify the top 1% of people in your life & strengthen those relationships
Assemble the Mindcity! 🧠🕸🌃 https://t.co/RxDCpECJOh
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