tweetstorm
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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)
2×2×2s
- #tweetstorm draft
- 🧊 How to make a 2×2×2 model 🧊
Find an existing 2×2 that feels incomplete:
↕️ if it's missing a whole other plane
↳ add a third axis
💠 if it has an axis that is a false duality
↳ make that a diagonal - ↕️ Add Missing Axis approach
Tip: see if you can find two entities that should be in one box but are importantly different. Then see if other boxes have entities with similar differences.- Another way to do Missing Axis is to say "this chart is completely missing the point—I could agree with any position on this chart, or disagree with any position on this chart, based on whether or not they also held X"
- 💠 Diagonalize False duality approach
When to use: "I want both of these apparently opposing things" (or less-frequently, neither)
Tip: find another 2×2 whose diagonal already (even roughly) maps onto the limiting axis, then superimpose it like I did here:
December 8th, 2019
- Played around with 2×2×2s, including advice on how to make them. Will be a #tweetstorm eventually
- Can't decide if I want to solicit more 2x2x2s as examples first, or post the how-to-make first...
December 1st, 2019
- Started drafting some tweetstorms on nihilism & hunger
- tweeted!