A URL is a radical act… I love these presentation notes on museums, the cultural sector and the web. Lots to mull over:
Love this surprisingly insightful and useful theory of “step-by-step-ism” from Venkat:
Tagging an interesting microtrend that also looks important: a “step-by-step” ethos developing momentum. A general interest in break-king illegible learning processes into their component steps and refining them. A kind of process skill mindfulness. Like 6-sigma but for learning.
— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) May 26, 2022
In particular:
I have a theory in this. I’m very fond of the notion of “threshold concepts”. It’s the idea that there are crucial concepts in any discipline that have a paradigm shifting impact on the mind. They’re take you over a threshold that changes your perspective. pic.twitter.com/L5TbaP9akF
— drnick 🗳️² (@DrNickA) May 26, 2022
This morning in our house we read this poem and talked about it.
— RanaAwdishMD (@RanaAwdish) May 26, 2022
What is the opposite of a gun? pic.twitter.com/XBIpcSd00h
Good reminder and guiding principle if you’re writing a business book. What people want isn’t the same as what they enjoy:
Some nice reflections on working at Github - I especially love this meditation on working on a big project that got cancelled:
Interestingly - print on demand only unlocks the first layer of value creation (more people making books), but there’s still PLENTY of room for the second layer of value creation (services on top of POD that make books as a service)…
Are there any productized services out there that package creator content into books and take care of distribution etc? https://t.co/XGOj6UWQFj
— Sari Azout - sariazout.eth (@sariazout) May 5, 2022
Libraries and the future of social infrastructure…
Thinking about the role of libraries in the future of social media…
These are the five core principles of the Brooklyn Public Library. Feels like you could certainly support these efforts with some kind of social space… pic.twitter.com/XGU789dawe
— Tom Critchlow (@tomcritchlow) April 26, 2022
Found this paper from 2006! “In the new digital libraries, users are not only consumers but also producers of information”
Why do learning and play seem locked in opposition sometimes? When it’s through play that we do our best learning…
Lonliness is a real threat.
This kind of insight is validated by this long Harvard study. In particular, it’s not just that relationships matter - but the quality of relationships in midlife…
One way out is to strengthen our trust in institutions and communal care. Not to give people support but to ask them for support:
Love this collaborative reading experiment! Printed out essays! Spiral designs! Co-reading!
how do you make reading more visceral and social? @maxkriegers and I ran a lil experiment…we got pals to together to nominate favorite essays, printed them on big posters, & crawled, walked, scribbled til we had layers of marginalia to share and discuss ❤️
— Mishti (@m1shti) April 18, 2022
some fav bits: https://t.co/OI7Xbyyqyy pic.twitter.com/k8BXfTYFWK
Mmm. This Sane app looks pretty interesting. Graph/table/grid view of a set of texts. Has hints of a syllabus? Hints of arena? Hints of Electric Tables? Something interesting emerging here
Lovely little meditation and exploration on custom workflows, software and tools to enable high level research:
Shitposting and memes as essential digital infrastructure. Very interested in Jonathan’s new startup Antimatter that creates learning experiences through memes…
I talked about questions as scaffolding here, and I like this idea of a learning question:
Ooh - live cursor comments?! Might have to install this on my blog……
introducing… cursor-chat! a lightweight (31.8kB) library for cursor chat à la Figmahttps://t.co/W6LvnxIqb8
— Jacky (@_jzhao) March 25, 2022
playing around with ideas for digital co-existing + presence and built a library which you can add to your website in just 5 (!!!) lines of code :)) pic.twitter.com/V6hCh7WTOg
What a lovely project:
But most especially because it’s about close reading - about using the internet to lean into a specific work / author / niche / community. Is there a word for this kind of close attention, because sometimes the internet is amazing at this (and other times, not so much)…..