July 13th, 2020

edited 2020-07-13 · open in Roam

I need a new page like scientism or something for talking about something that's also related to McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model...
- as a claim it would be something like
- things like energy healing probably work somewhat but their explanations for how they work are mostly garbage
  - and the reason for them being mostly garbage would be in part because they've been forced to come up with science-sounding explanations so they say things like "it's electromagnetic waves"
    - (iirc I have an an article saved somewhere (from my pre-roam days) that is about this)
- anyway, a related tweet
  - twitter.com/pdawes89/status/1282751905282748416

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★ Redesigning Twitter

updated: July 13th, 2020

Comment July 13th, 2020
- I've been collecting these thoughts since mid-2018, and originally I was framing this as #TwitterReplacement. I'm now somewhat more encouraged towards Twitter itself making some of these improvements, in part because it already has!
  - Anyway, this is why there are sections like this one: Thoughts for changing actual Twitter
  - One of the biggest things Twitter itself could do is fix their incentives by allowing users to actually be the customers, instead of advertisers. Various ways to do this.
  - A recent concrete monetization proposal by Packy McCormick
- Some of this doc is wiggling its way out of date, which is cool.
  - For instance, Twitter now counts QTs in the RT count and displays "Retweets and comments" if there are some QTs not just RTs. This is one of the biggest things that many of us have been asking for! No idea to what extent our tweeting loudly about this influenced Twitter's design decisions.
  - The next main thing I'd suggest is better notifications.
    - It's important that they don't include a "mark unread" option because that's the road to becoming an inbox/todo list and would be awful.
    - But they need to bundle all notifications from a given conversation together.
    - Here's a link to some other suggestions lower down in this doc: Notifications
  - The other thing I think would be a huge gamechanger but it's much less obvious how to do it, is to have some way for Twitter conversations to converge, not just diverge.
    - Currently each reply is only a reply to one tweet, and you can only QT one tweet at once. This means it's hard to bring stuff together & come to a conclusion, and I think is partially responsible for twitter feeling chaotic & sprawling.
    - Read more about this here: tweet G brings tweets Ga,Gb,...,Gg together
- This design doc is still not very well-organized, but I've tried to clean it up a bit today because I wanted to tweet about it.
- Things I'd like to do to improve this
  - More clear prioritization of Feature Ideas & Issues with Twitter
  - Integrate this tweetstorm (which is honestly a pretty good condensed summary of much of this page atm—I had forgotten about it until after I did the reorganizing today)
  - Think more seriously about design metaphors