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The way you're talking about riding sounds a lot like sex. I think any kind of live communication involves taking responsibility for (or at least awareness of)

by sdwr 4y ago

The way you're talking about riding sounds a lot like sex. I think any kind of live communication involves taking responsibility for (or at least awareness of) the other party's emotional state. There's a cost attached to that, can't gain a sense without losing something else. Have you thought about writing a blog? I know counterpoint is easier than point a lot of the time, but your comment reads substantially better than the article.

motohagiography 4y ago
A lot of riders will tell you it's as good or better, which when you think of some furtive or regretable drunk hookup vs. an epic and enlightening experience, they're not far off. Re the blog, thank you, and counterpoint is very accurate. I don't know that winning at blogging would be satisfying, and I'm sort of holding out for a new online form that captures the good parts of the long format that books like Hitchens' "Arguably," Amis' "Einstein's Monsters," and short stories like Ted Chiang or Julian Barnes did. Doom scrolling an essay muddles the ideas, and e-readers don't do it for me. The things I'd like to write are from that time, where you would spend an afternoon with a book and then have a drunken row in a pub over it with an old friend afterwards. In dispensing with the object of a book, we have lost the objective point of discussion, where we used to talk about ideas as just things that were contained in other things full of pages, but now they are expereinces from a screen, and inextricably personal. Ideas aren't things anymore, they're identities, and blogging just hasn't escaped that yet. I like a few bloggers' ideas, but I don't follow them. The only reason I read them is because their substacks show up in my inbox. I've spoken to editors, but everyone in publishing now is on reddit anyway, so there isn't a way for them add value the way they might once have. Publishing is broken, and maybe that's the real opportunity. Thanks, certainly food for thought.
- sdwr 4y ago
  Ok, sure, blogging is too self-aggrandizing, real writers dive into a topic and aren't swayed by a constant stream of feedback. I also remember the good old days when books were real books and ideas were less (were they?) about politics and identity. For almost a decade, off and on, I've wanted to make a content aggregator where links can be collected and stacked and have some kind of permanence. Seems like everything is a feed now. I want light, long-term, async communication, like community centre corkboards for everything. ampie.app superusapp.com roamresearch.com pinboard.in even steemit.com all have elements, but I haven't found anything thats really nailed it.

by sdwr 4y ago

motohagiography 4y ago

A lot of riders will tell you it's as good or better, which when you think of some furtive or regretable drunk hookup vs. an epic and enlightening experience, they're not far off. Re the blog, thank you, and counterpoint is very accurate. I don't know that winning at blogging would be satisfying, and I'm sort of holding out for a new online form that captures the good parts of the long format that books like Hitchens' "Arguably," Amis' "Einstein's Monsters," and short stories like Ted Chiang or Julian Barnes did. Doom scrolling an essay muddles the ideas, and e-readers don't do it for me. The things I'd like to write are from that time, where you would spend an afternoon with a book and then have a drunken row in a pub over it with an old friend afterwards. In dispensing with the object of a book, we have lost the objective point of discussion, where we used to talk about ideas as just things that were contained in other things full of pages, but now they are expereinces from a screen, and inextricably personal. Ideas aren't things anymore, they're identities, and blogging just hasn't escaped that yet. I like a few bloggers' ideas, but I don't follow them. The only reason I read them is because their substacks show up in my inbox. I've spoken to editors, but everyone in publishing now is on reddit anyway, so there isn't a way for them add value the way they might once have. Publishing is broken, and maybe that's the real opportunity. Thanks, certainly food for thought.

sdwr 4y ago
Ok, sure, blogging is too self-aggrandizing, real writers dive into a topic and aren't swayed by a constant stream of feedback. I also remember the good old days when books were real books and ideas were less (were they?) about politics and identity. For almost a decade, off and on, I've wanted to make a content aggregator where links can be collected and stacked and have some kind of permanence. Seems like everything is a feed now. I want light, long-term, async communication, like community centre corkboards for everything. ampie.app superusapp.com roamresearch.com pinboard.in even steemit.com all have elements, but I haven't found anything thats really nailed it.