I experimented with a sort of clunky google sheets experiment โ the cool thing is even now I can click on each block and there's the link to the twitter threads I wrote that day, which is a good way of managing threads. and the youtube vids i uploaded
do you see what I'm seeing? you should be able to zoom in and out, like simcity, and see your bricks at various levels of scale. you should be able to see days, weeks, months of bricks
technically you could probably kinda sorta do some version of this with google cal maybe
a big part of why I've been able to write almost 130,000 tweets is bc it feels like a game where I'm constantly building something. adding to something. I'd like to do that with my todo items. I don't just wna tick boxes, I want to build a city that I can vizualize and navigate
an important thing is this has to be blisteringly fast. twitter fast. any lag and I won't feel like using it. there are some things google sheets are difficult to make do (and maybe I just dont know the right sheets wizardry), like "show only X tasks" and so on
like, re: your current todo app: can you instantly pull out a list of all the movies you've watched, or all the books you've read, along with when you did them, + with micro-notes in each block with [[links]] to relevant material?
maybe you could work it into roam...
there was one person who I feel was developing the idea of the tiny little square as an interface... โ ollybot โ and he deleted his twitter account. here is a network graph of my tweets. you can mouseover each square to see the tweet
hurts so bad... just want ollybot back... to build me a todo app / roam interface... something
maybe somebody will figure out like a roam extension or something that does something like this, it does feel like it's not too far off
circling back โ I think I'd like this to also simultaneously function as a sort of master timeline. when you zoom out you should be able to est. things years into the future. if it takes you 1 yr to write a book, you shd be able to click-drag... and see that u have 60 books left
ok so this is a really cool example of
1. a beautiful use of lots of tiny dots and mouseovers as an interface
2. annoyingly tedious bloat in the interface, which wastes valuable seconds of time. this adds up into agony
did some stream-of-consciousness writing, I had dreamt that an old twitter friend was back on twitter (alas, they are not)
satisfied that I had done a bit of a braindump, I decided to open the bird app, and I discover that I have a dozens of replies and DMs from when I was asleep, which I am probably not going to be reply to, hence this:
I spend so much energy being sensible on twitter that on Facebook I just,
this triggers a memory โ when I was a teenager, my parents brought me to see some family friend who would go into a trance state and tell fortunes. they asked him about my schooling and he growled "butthi yengeyo poothu", which translates to sth like, "his mind roams unknown"
at the time it seemed kinda spooky and weird, but on retrospect, damn, he right, and what a badass thing to say
it's interesting โ every single one of these things is a thing I've probably said as an individual, and could be described as "representative of my values", and yet something feels strange to me about these being "the rules" of some community. not in a *bad* way, just, hm
I don't mean to knock on the founders โ I know of them from Quora, they're gd ppl and I respect that they're trying to address a very difficult challenge
I get the sense that at some level I feel like the problem is not quite solvable, not in this way, not with these parameters
When I look at these things there's a part of me that tends to initiate a simulation of a malicious actor โ how would I foil and thwart these rules to be a terrible person & ruin everything for everyone? In this case, I'd be a Genuinely Curious Person Who's Just Asking Questions
One of my favorite things about my twitter feed is how diverse it is in terms of where people are from around the world. Reply with a pic of where youโre from, and Iโll QT a thread of my favorites
Hereโs a view of Keppel Harbour from Harbourfront library, Singapore ๐ธ๐ฌ
someone quote-tweeted one of my "build an audience" tweets with a very interesting disagreement that I want to explore. they're a small account so I don't want to stress them out by quote-tweeting them in turn. but lemme break it down
1. "This craze arnd "follow & make friends in social media" "create content for social media" is the toxic madness that has kept most of humanity unhinged in today's world."
2. "I wd rather encourage scholarly pursuits for one's internal satisfaction without engaging outer world."
I always like looking for people's transformation pics and stories (Amy's shared her journey on her Instagram in the replies), mainly to study the little details about the body and facial language. There's a whole "cinematography of confidence" that you can study and learn
I can share my own transformation entirely through body language, even w/o much change in body composition. the most obvious difference is the hands, I made this whole video with my hands in my hoodie pocket the whole time. I'm "stuck", revving w/ brakes
compared to this โ obvious superficial differences are the colors and jewelry, sunlight, etc โ and then the hands โ but it's also really about the openness, expressiveness, no longer "blocked" or "repressed", no longer policing and imprisoning myself