Riccardo Volpato
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my threads on twitter
- Riccardo Volpato saw my Work With Me page and reached out to get more involved with my work, and I suggested he make an index of all of my twitter threads.
- His threads are here: my threads on twitter, as indexed by Riccardo Volpato mid2021, but I need to merge them or something.
- Riccardo Volpato's summary (he has a meta-meta-thread with about 6 meta-threads by topic)
my threads on twitter, as indexed by Riccardo Volpato mid2021
- Index created by Riccardo Volpato
- See also my threads on twitter
June 14th, 2022
- call w Riccardo Volpato
- R > improv becomes good when people get a collective mind going
March 29th, 2022
- Twitter identity game with Riccardo Volpato
- take a couple minutes to think of ways you try to show up on twitter
- I work to be seen as...
- I expect myself to be...
- my list
- very nuanced & precise
- respectful / accommodating of others
- reflective
- original / insightful
- frank/real/authentic
- non-salesy
- insightful
- conscientious / responsible
- helpful
- good scary opposites
- make you feel anxious when you imagine being that way
- good when you find things that feel at least 10% attractive
- opposites of my list
- brief/pithy/hottake vs very nuanced & precise
- letting others be upset vs respectful / accommodating of others
- unfiltered opinion vs reflective
- dramaturgical vs frank/real/authentic
- good-at-marketing vs non-salesy
- selfish vs helpful
- Ric's feedback watching me try to tweet in these ways
- I like that it's simple, I don't have to do any mental gymnastics
- closing reflection bit
- question: where did you pick up that this was bad for you? / scary?
- whole other part of this: how can you design an async experience of this?
comments by others
- Comments on Open Letter to Twitter re Conversational Design
- Another powerful feature of MultiQT is the ability to see which other tweets one tweet was quote-tweeted with
- Imagine that tweet A multi-quotes tweet B and C
- But I reach tweet B directly
- I can now see that B relates directly to C
- For example
- if C was an update about B, I can easily find it, even if C didn't quote B directly
- if C is a different take on B, I can acquire more context on B and hold a more nuanced perspective
- While writing the above, I asked myself "could it be that facilitating convergence of conversation would also help with content moderation and conversation health?"
- if C is a different take on B, I can acquire more context on B and hold a more nuanced perspective is already an example of that
- But if my guess here is correct then we have one more incentive to ask What are other features that can facilitate convergence of conversation?
- What are other features that can facilitate convergence of conversation?
- Search is hard. I often struggle to find the tweets I want to find
- I would like to search within the tweets that I liked
- not just about now — QTs & search allow deep history fascinates me. How do we allow the archaeologists of the future to make sense of all this?
- the worst thing of all from this perspective are deleted tweets and accounts
- perhaps there is an "okay" to handle this, something like the text of the tweet is preserved but it's decoupled from the author
- My read is that a lot of these would increase engagement, certainly among the kinds of people you most want #unfinished is very important. As a community, we need a good articulation on why this stuff is broadly beneficial for everyone. Everyone that has used Twitter in this way knows it and can tell you why it has helped, but I feel we could benefit from more articulations of it as a collective narrative and how it is a win-win-win for everyone (the user, the community, the platform). Visa has done some work in this regard (good reply game, golden age, etc) but that maybe also has to converge somehow?
- Some of us are pioneering a new experience of Twitter that's amazing, *: 🤩, juice is here, tell me more
- Here is an attempt at declining with using Twitter in this way is empowering and valuable to me
- I regularly stumble upon thought-provoking tweets which makes me think for a while, discover more sides of me and imagine things I didn't dare to imagine before
- I feel like I am learning faster than I have ever been in my life, because I am learning from a highly dynamic, fun and social context, which encourages me to learn playfully and spontaneous
- Another feature I like is that I regularly see tweets that I disagree with but because they are from people I admire and respect (since I agree with many other tweets they wrote before) I have a greater incentive to stop and consider what if their tweet was true
- Yet another positive aspect is social accountability and motivation. Is great when people task you with something on Twitter or you set a public intention because it makes it easier to be motivated to do it
September 28th, 2021
- he made a summary of all my tweetstorms
- he transcribed a thing
Open Letter to Twitter re Conversational Design
- convo w Riccardo Volpato October 19th, 2021
- I'm asking about what I see that Packy doesn't see
- R > the collective intelligence stuff
- we want ideas to converge, and progress to be made on the basis of progress converging
- not just about the creator but about how their ideas are allowed to intermingle
- allow timeline algo control
- R > timelines are left to machine learning to maximize click through rate
- fix the API
- requires monetizing not through ads
- monetize the API ??
- allow users to have up to X apps on the API for free
- (not counting apps that are just using twitter for authentication etc etc etc, maybe need a whole v2 API and only those apps are counted)
- if you want to have more than X apps on the API, you pay a flat monthly subscription rate of $10-20/mo
- (maybe 2 tiers or something, like $2/mo for X+1 apps, $10/mo for ∞ apps)
- then some % of that could actually go to the developers as well, ranked by <something>
- R > also there's 2 types here
- 1. ????: working with the raw data that is the tweets etc: building own client or viewer
- 2. plugins: better tools for hacking on top of twitter
- Cons to this idea:
- if someone made a brilliant API feature, twitter would be disincentivized to add those features to the core app
- R > could monetize the API in the opposite direction, having developers paying for (better) API access
- which combines better with Packy's thing
- R > building features for ideas, not for users — monetize the knowledge
- conversation converging
- R > do you have a story / use-case / anecdote of when multiquote tweet would be a gamechanger?
- M > well it's so basic, like, "utterance: this utterance contradicts/supports/etc that utterance"
- or "these relate"
- R > Visa wanted me to write a thread contrasting his & your takes on things
- and I was like "that would be so ugly without multitake"
- metaphor of hallways in a video-game
- right now we only have nodes, but we want hubs
- R > what's the relation between what you & packy are saying about API monetization & convergent conversation
September 7th, 2021
- convo w Riccardo Volpato
- (I have a thread or two on this)
- R > to me it feels a bit like number zero
- it's another number, but it doesn't have a shadow (a negative version of itself)
- M > or a number 1, which doesn't have an inverse
- R > maybe there are multiple Selves, but only one can show up at once?
- M > I feel like since the Self is integrative, these multiple ones would integrate with each other
- M > and now I'm like "maybe as mediator/space-holder, if you don't have an external person for that"
- is Self an additional item here? or is it actually covered under McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model + flashback/blindspot stuff?
- maybe since both hemispheres are always active
- default mode network ~= right hemisphere running the show
- task-positive network ~= left hemisphere running the show
- (this is a very straw handwavy guess though)
- see research described by Loch Kelly on different kinds of meditation having different effects on these networks though
August 24th, 2021
- Riccardo Volpato > I spent some time diving into @Malcolm_Ocean threads. Over the past few years, Malcolm shared some fascinating thoughts that join together many of the internal and external tensions of present-day humans. Here's a compilation of his most fascinating threads, summarised by me
July 20th, 2021
- (from call w Riccardo Volpato)
- themes of my tweets that don't have threads yet
- both/and
- every experience real / what does anything imply
- R > "it was a lot of fun"
- M > NNTD is basically attempting to answer the question "given emotional coherence & memory reconsolidation, what does that imply about human relationships and how we would go about forming highly workable relationships for life and love and learning and working?"
- R > do you have a thread on your take of the emotional coherence framework?
- M > no, I mostly refer people to Book summary: Unlocking the Emotional Brain
- but I could write up implications
- R > how do you work towards doing NNTD with people as a goal?
- M > very responsively
- "we're in a situation where it's a matter of consideration what our trust is of each other... how do I navigate that situation skillfully?"
- always doing it, whenever trying to find mutual understanding
- M > "you don't have the data you would need" as a basic NNTD response
- (not necessarily verbally)