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@nixcraft Would! Even without the extra pay!

@Longlius @nixcraft Exactly! I don't even care about the extra pay as much.

Looking at it now, it's a kind of LLM next-token simulator for humans 😂🤪

@iannuttall On the upside, hitting the wall means you're now one of three experts in the field of applied context management, world-wide.

@readswithravi 100% agreed, that's exactly what worked for me - I restarted my reading with the two books that made me fall in love with reading as a kid: Enyd Blyton's "The Island of Adventure" and Jules Verne's "The Mysterious Island"

@starter_story 👋🏻 I am - on my trusted old MacBook Air doing pretty deep ASO research with @TryAstroApp

I think it took me almost 20 YEARS to figure out Twitter.

I remember going to this podcast conference in 2006 at Hotel Pennsylvania. And one of the companies there was called Odeo. They were nice guys and I thought that was a really good name but podcasts were kinda whack.

A few weeks later they launched Twitter and I registered soon after. I made the mistake to pigeon-hole it along the lines of Dodgeball (probably because of the SMS part) though and didn't think much of it since. LOL.

Anyone remember the discussions we had when this landed in our orbit in... 2007? Over lunch 🍝 at Manganaro's up on 9th Ave?

And this was a few months before the iPhone came out.

For me, it was these four lines that resonated, and still resonate, with me:

there are notes in boxes that are empty
every room has an accessible history
you can search for sadness in new york
paths compete to offer themselves to you

Okay, posting like this - without fear of what others may think - feels better than any note-taking tool I've ever used. I love Obsidian. And Notion. And even my own DIY apps. But this here, this Twitter-thingy. Wow. What a thrill.

@signulll Found it!

I understand we have vocabulary, like NKS, that helps us understand and wonder that complex behavior can absolutely emerge from simple rules. For example Rule 11: t.co/jGocYRI8RH

Now, what about the opposite, converging, direction?

What do we call when things start messy and chaotic and, through say human intervention, end up ordered and genuine?

Yesterday, while preparing the AppStore submission for Pudding, I wanted to illustrate the gradual decrease of chaos towards a final, ordered result. I imagined what process Shakespeare may have gone through from first draft to the final "To be, or not to be, that is the question:"

And it's kind of a converging and messy process that starts with a lot of real-world noise ("Overheard on broadway: The cat is both alive or dead. WTF?") and then, by whittling and caring and putting in the time, gets cleaned and refined to its essence.

Does anyone know what vocabulary or research or models exist around this type of process?

What do we call the mess that we start with? What do we call the mess we make while trying to make it cleaner?

I have so many questions.

Hey Greg! What's been triggering me is definitely 2), 3) and 8).

Yet, against those odds, Twitter feels completely fresh and, you know, "real" again.

On a whim I decided to question what Twitter means to me two days ago.

I basically said to myself

"Okay, this place is kind of a shit-show. I can't change the bots, the grifters, the slop machines. So, what if I used it in another way? What if I use it to my pleasure and whims? What if, from now on, I treat it as my (somewhat) unfiltered notebook? What if I share what's on my mind without much editing or concern or fear of what others may think? What if, instead of down-regulating myself, I assume we're all adults here? If you don't like my stuff, please unfollow right away."

This is probably so obvious to you but I feel like I just discovered this whole new liberty and, dang, I haven't felt this alive in years! Honestly, it feels as electrifying as walking down a street in Manhattan on a early-June afternoon. Totally unexpected.

"The Law of Two Feet"

While I take the liberty to ramble freely here, please always feel free to unfollow me at any time. No need to explain. I do I and you do you!

If my ramblings are just not what you need right now, PLEASE unfollow me immediately! Really. No hard feelings at all.

I've intentionally unfollowed (and then re-followed later) quiet a few authors here on Twitter in the past 6 months.

"Breaking up" with people, even for good reasons, can be hard or may even feel taboo.

I'm here to say to you: "No." is a complete sentence and is always, always, always an option.

I learned about this "law" when I participated in and co-organized BarCamps in the early 2000s.

"The Law of Two Feet" was, as far as I remember, the inoffical 10th rule of BarCamp:

All participants are responsible for their own experience and learning. If you find yourself in a session where you cannot contribute or learn anything, you may leave the room and switch to another session that is more interesting to you or initiate a spontaneous discussion outside of the sessions.

PS: If you haven't seen the other 9 rules, here's a quick reminder from web.archive.org/web/2008041300…

The Rules of Bar Camp

• 1st Rule: You do talk about Bar Camp.
• 2nd Rule: You do blog about Bar Camp.
• 3rd Rule: If you want to present, you must write your topic and name in a presentation slot.
• 4th Rule: Only three word intros.
• 5th Rule: As many presentations at a time as facilities allow for.
• 6th Rule: No pre-scheduled presentations, no tourists.
• 7th Rule: Presentations will go on as long as they have to or until they run into another presentation slot.
• 8th Rule: Presentations promoting specific comercial products or companies are discouraged.
• 9th Rule: If this is your first time at BarCamp, you HAVE to present. (Ok, you don't really HAVE to, but try to find someone to present with, or at least ask questions and be an interactive participant.)

I'm loving it. After a day of posting practically anything that comes to my mind. Publicly. On Twitter. With almost no filter. Feels crazy liberating and energizing.

Is this what people do here? Is that what Twitter was all along??

@sporadica Slop that slaps! Love it :)

PS: Here's the missing playback slide: