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https://twitter.com/HuanWin/status/1274531289475899397
Thoughts on Twitter pt.3
Continuing on my thoughts from last time, I think I realized why Twitter is so dangerous for me. It's because it opens so many new loops for me.
By consuming new threads/ideas/concepts/articles, my brain is constantly stimulated, but I'm never able to digest them properly.
It literally becomes idea porn for the brain and it wants more and more. My brain then becomes overloaded or over-saturated with new ideas and I can't just concentrate on just one. It goes all over the place. Which is why I can't focus.
I see 3 potential solutions that would solve this.
- As I already mentioned, kill the feed completely. Only use Twitter as a one-way street as I already explained in previous thought.
- Make sure that I close every loop that I open. Force myself to consume the idea properly so that I can flush it out from my brain. Take action on the idea/concept/article that you saw by either writing about it on Roam/Futureland, reading it if it's an article or making sure that you store it in an read-later inbox.
- This is a more complicated, but better version of 2, but it would be really cool to be able to have a limited/slower Twitter. Either only being able to consume say 10-15 tweets per day or getting a feed of the top 10 best tweets from your feed. This will limit the interaction that I have with new information and will allow me to properly close the loops.
Inspired by this tweet: https://twitter.com/HuanWin/status/1274531289475899397