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2 days ago, @SarahAMcManus tweeted an idea I'd had of a Star Wars fanfic where the Jedi council is Tantric (nondual, wild, sexually-integrated) instead of Sutric (renunciate, ascetic, celibate), etc Just over 24h later, @Timber_22 starts laying out a sketch of how this might go https://t.co/UlD2vK9TQP
See a second chain, which begins here, and is largely actually a reinterpretation of the exoteric meanings of the sutric version (which of course IS a chunk of the basis of tantra) https://t.co/RBppJrZVmN
This whole thing feels like such a lovely example of this kind of upward spiral positive feedback in the space of ideas, that Joanna Macy writes about on p99 of Mutual Causality. I mean, I had lots of examples already, but more are always welcome. https://t.co/0rdocuFwzR
In the shower today, I was thinking about various projects I might take on, and I found something clicking into place like: https://t.co/5rm1jjoH0L
For a long time I was getting myself to write using Beeminder, and while that worked & produced some brilliant pieces, it was *pushing*, rather than removing obstacles. Both Roam & Twitter remove obstacles, creating a positive feedback loop where writing begets more writing!
This thread itself is part of the positive feedback loop that happened from my Star Wars Tantra Jedi idea getting released & Tim building on it. In the process, I had an internal positive loop, writing a whole thread about the showerthought above.
But before I even got either of those threads published I got distracted by other tweets. Then over in this convo w @QiaochuYuan re evolution of twitter... I went to quote one of the above tweets in this thread... ...only to realize it was still in drafts https://t.co/56SaXU3hET
the custom search engines really do make a gigantic difference, for me opening up twitter search on desktop takes exactly five keypresses (cmd, t, t, w, space) so i can search for tweets as fast as it occurs to me to try, on mobile i have to navigate to search and it's agonizing
QTs (Quote Tweets) allow for a kind of CONVERGENCE that otherwise isn't possible. With almost all other media, things only diverge: chat, threads, tree-shaped nested replies, comments You can never pull it back together.
Twitter has a lot of room for improvement here too, to be clear. The convergence is still very sparseβonly one QT at a time, no easy way to explicitly juxtapose 2+, to show parallel or paradox. Here's a hacky example of me doing it with screenshots https://t.co/UI45X28oQZ
My notes on designing such a feature into a convo platform: https://t.co/socWhymTXx If you're designing such a thing, consider yourself welcomeβencouraged!βto incorporate my ideas! Credit is appreciated & moreover helps amplify the feedback loop! https://t.co/FiQjGZJ3En https://t.co/1hMk6lMswk
@QiaochuYuan I think that comment from @Conaw was incredibly visionary and also amplified the very shift he was pointing at, by causing us to recognize what was happening more clearly and explore it more consciously. (cc @visakanv) Positive feedback loops! https://t.co/1CubXqqwF2
Further discussion of the huge impact a single tweet can have π https://t.co/oyp87MJsSk
I now have a blog post outlining a proposal for multi-quote-tweet / MultiQTβI think it'll be totally game-changing: https://t.co/YBxuEfIfxl
also QC has a thread about this here, which he came up with in parallel: https://t.co/HXN3PisqxE
Muahaha I have now solved this! TL;DR = I schedule a paragraph/draft/outline to go live at a date/time, then however much I edit it beforehand is how much it gets edited. Pulls the writing out of me by removing ambiguity about when to write. But no force! https://t.co/ngsAS2Y4IC
@Malcolm_Ocean @SarahAMcManus @Timber_22 Aand some 6 months later, I tweeted this: https://t.co/S6p1WL7j93
@Malcolm_Ocean @SarahAMcManus @Timber_22 https://t.co/fR5UiX7Jd6