blogpost showtime

created 2021-01-09 · edited 2021-01-09 · open in Roam

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November 26th, 2021

blogpost showtime organization... I want a recurring weekly showtime and a weekly time to schedule the next showtime
- I'm currently thinking Tuesday publication, and maybe... Wednesday schedule-next?
- tho could also just do like late-aft Tues pub, evening Tues schedule-next
- so that there's sort of some overlap / opportunity to be working on the two in parallel a bit

May 23rd, 2021

Okay, I'm trying to figure out what next blogpost showtime to do, as part of my larger project of writing up a whole Sequence on NNTD
- One major candidate is Everyone is basically living in a dream mashup of their current external situation & old emotional meanings
  - the version of it I would want to write now... touches on a lot of NNTD-related themes
  - the case for publishing it now
    - it could be a good chance to give each of those themes a very short treatise
    - it's hot, it's got a shelf-life
  - the case for waiting to publish it
    - then I'll be able to actually cite more of those other themes
    - the post will potentially be very popular, especially since visakanv wants to link to it a bunch, and that'll be a higher-leverage thing if/when there's already a bunch of other NNTD posts
- I think I'm concluding I don't want to wait to publish it but that it would be cool to publish it like 5th, and kinda queue up the other posts beforehand
- One open question re the sequence is something like...
  - do I want to try writing a piece about where I think we're going? I mean I think that would be cool to write about the NNTD
    - I guess the the union of wisdom instead of the union of naivety bit would be about that
    - and I'd want to include something about the thing of like assuming we get there, what needed to happen along the way?
- Okay, what are the other posts I would be queuing up? How do I order these? Sequence+standalone is a weird sort of medium
- at least some a lot of the other posts would want to reference the dream mashups one
  - eg Instead of "X is Y", say "I can't tell the difference between X & Y"
  - I think the validity of projection - it's not about you but it's not not about you is a pretty core one that wants to be written before dream mashups
  - I could try making a diagram of all of these... hm
  - am I ready to write up the validity of projection - it's not about you but it's not not about you?
  - I think I want to post something I've already tweeted
  - I don't have a list of threads anywhere, hm
  - ahh I have a blindspot feedback is hard (but possible!) thread that could become a #blogpost
    - twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1391959685851324421
    - oh, it references collective blindspots, which probably should have a page - collective blindspots naturally occur in groups
      - / every entity has a blindspot at all fractal scales

January 8th, 2021

Reflection on how my blogpost showtime system is working, a few months in #tweetstorm maybe
- first couple posts were great
- then I was talking with Sarah McManus and when she heard me articulate a recent insight she asked me to schedule a showtime for that, but I didn't yet have a piece of writing I felt satisfied with—that I would genuinely rather publish than nothing. So I had nothing to readily schedule... so I kept putting off scheduling anything.
  - I did end up doing some writing on the topic, on twitter [thread] and roam: everything makes sense
- Then I posted something else that I'd already tweeted, without even queuing it up in advance, but definitely coming from the same spirit as the showtime vibe.
- But then I had another piece of writing that was kind of a follow-on to the previous one, and I sort of wanted to publish as like, the next post... but I wasn't sure if it was ready... but in the meantime I didn't publish anything else.
- Meanwhile, that broke my weekly review maybe, because I was trying to do showtime schedulings during the weekly review
  - this is a general principle which is something like if you chain a big habit to a small habit, it may break the small habit
- I tried fixing that by changing my weekly review prompt from just "schedule a showtime if there isn't one already" to multiple questions
- > Blog post showtime—status?
- > Pick a piece of writing that could be published as-is, & schedule it
- > Ideate about a few other topics that aren't quite ready to go live. Maybe make roam pages for them if you haven't already...
- yearly review mishap
  - (that was mostly problematic because I had changed the newsletter send time and didn't realize)