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I'd love to collect a list of excellent things that were originally just an unassuming part of a longer thing but that stand powerfully on their own. https://t.co/Kv17AgRXM3
@callumflack This is part of what I love so much about twitter: the ability to lift a sentence out of its original tweetstorm/conversation, while retaining context, in a way that isn't natural in any other medium. eg I retweeted just this yesterday: https://t.co/ZnPONq0eHS
My favorite example is the "Litany of Gendlin", which was reified by folks on LessWrong some years ago. It totally reads like a litany when displayed like this with the line breaks, but it wasn't originally meant as such. It was just a paragraph in Gendlin's book Focusing! https://t.co/gLt0imsZYU
Similar elevation from a book by @visakanv https://t.co/OdMGmSYq65
@visakanv See original for context; this tweet generalizes to pretty much all of human life. There's a related blog post called The Metagame is the Process of Discovering its Own Constraints, which seems to be gone, but maybe archived here? https://t.co/vp15nmwYUQ https://t.co/OCh9NeQIWt
Unsurprisingly, few players put much thought into precisely defining the game that they are playing. Most players βpick it upβ organically as they go along, inheriting the unwritten rules and norms of their peers via imitation and (limited) experimentation.
Me pulling half a sentence out of one of @vgr's threads https://t.co/bhoLhJU4TY
> It is not an argument, except inasmuch as each man's life is an argument for who he is. β€οΈβπ₯ https://t.co/e5o1PRt1eL