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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

twitter is a sprawling working garage blog posts are self-contained bits of reading digital gardens theoretically span the distance; in practice leave me confused and unhappy

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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the way they attempt to cross public-private boundaries, cross “self-contained readable unit” vs “bits of stuff scattered everywhere” doesn’t feel smooth to me

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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it reminds me of this half-sprawling essays, that never properly begin their half-hearted entry into a domain of discourse https://t.co/TGfRBGXNf1

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

note-taking apps are where people’s 50 half-formed essays that will never see the light of day go to die twitter is a place where they may breathe https://t.co/kiKef9ZgFQ

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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to be clear: discourse is the point discourse simply means it exists in a pattern of circulation with something real 🔁

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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what is the real here? that is the question for this digital garden to answer for twitter, the real was - friends - replies - scenes of discourse - being witnessed https://t.co/MEJais7gkU

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

One year later: It got me a scene, friends, relationships, mentors, most of my leading-edge ideas, a base of people ready help, work with, and love me, a base of work I can point people to and build on for the rest of my life. I was languishing before, I have to admit it.

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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for blog posts, the “real” was: i can link other people to these now, they are long and coherent narratives about a thing im trying to ask myself: why did i start this garden in the first place?

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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i just wanted to share this little mini-essay with my phenomenology reading group https://t.co/fgJcybA3Fg

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

Trying out this digital garden thing. Here’s a note on why we need phenomenology. https://t.co/5zTFK0BRHd

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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i didn’t want to write it on twitter; the formatting felt confining i could have put it up on my https://t.co/cG2YyzpPtT blog. but obsidian felt nicer. my tools and formatting were there. i could connect it and link to other mini-essays easily

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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noticing something here— when i wanted to write note on phenomenology, i did so in the context of something real: wanting to share it with a group that made it worthwhile, it imposed a norm on it, it made presenting it narratively make sense https://t.co/gmPkp8mseV

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

I’m tempted to write in this style that’s narrative/presentational, but . . . It feels useless. Who the fuck am I talking to? https://t.co/s4GnyiQIlI

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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i think that’s it i don’t want to talk into a void when i tweet something, there is an immediate audience when i wrote that phenomenology note, there was an immediate audience

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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[against talking into the void] i don’t want to waste time presenting narratively for some imagined audience there is where lifetimes are wasted

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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without any sense of the real. without any sense of whom im writing for. a kind of going crazy maybe one day someone will discover those archives and marvel at them, im skeptical. also ill be dead

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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so here’s the rule: - feel free to write notes in my digital garden - but if do, do it either with the idea in mind of sharing it with a specific person, or with sharing it to twitter immediately this creates that audience and a sense of participation in the real

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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it avoid the crazy-making of https://t.co/gmPkp8mseV

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

I’m tempted to write in this style that’s narrative/presentational, but . . . It feels useless. Who the fuck am I talking to? https://t.co/s4GnyiQIlI

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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“put out things to whatever degree you have the time for” having an idea of “sharing it with X” (even if it’s sharing with twitter afterward) offers that sense of working in the real https://t.co/y4TRxok1t2

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 4 years ago

rephrased otherwise: always put out content to whatever degree of quality you have time for right now

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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

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this is maybe too abstract of a connection, but: “isolation is the meta-danger of all dangers” without feedback in the world, things become increaingly unhinged and neurotic https://t.co/ykeFBOYenc

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 4 years ago

the problem with relating to everything as a state of mind is its vulnerable to goodharting when you goodhart on the state of mind, it can feel increasingly disconnected and closed isolation is the meta-danger https://t.co/hLcK5nHlnr

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