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Danica Swanson

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I wrote about why I think system conditions matter more than individual performance in producing quality writing, and why CLPs (conversational liquidity providers) on FC are underserved. Inspired by "Quality is Systemic," a great blog post by Jacob Kaplan-Moss, and by the members of the Return On Attention group chat. Notes: - This post was published a few months ago, but I'm re-casting it because the old @paragraph preview panel image is no longer available on the original cast. The new panel looks so much better. Especially for a cast pinned to my profile. - The journal writings for my project "Deep Worth: Notes on Creativity, Labor, and Value" are no longer available on Notion, but they will soon be re-published via Obsidian. https://paragraph.com/@danicaswanson/quality-writing-is-systemic
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"...when you produce something for a community, ecosystem or network, there's no effective way for them to compensate you for the value your (public) good created for them "even if most people prefer to create for the greater good, they canā€™t do so sustainably "instead they have to produce for narrow consumer or corporate interests ā€” often at the expense of the greater good (thru negative externalities etc.) "this is unsustainable & self destructive ā€” both to individuals and to the ecosystem" @abundance summarizes this problem eloquently as usual. Thank you to everyone who's thinking deeply about this systems-level challenge and working on it in earnest. We need you! I believe the Farcaster community has the best chance of making significant progress toward mitigating the structural harm of the extractive economic patterns Mike describes, and that's one of the biggest reasons I'm excited to be here.
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"...we need to stop dancing around the subject and talk about it. [...] "If you think your engagement has gone down a lot over the past few weeks, you arenā€™t imagining it. Usually, if 2-3% of your followers interact with your casts, you are doing great. But what if most of the people who follow you never even see your casts in the latest version of the algorithm? Spoiler alert: they donā€™t." "Meanwhile, those who have not had this type of algorithmic boost feel invisible and demoralized, even if theyā€™ve consistently added value to the community." Mad respect to @pichi for speaking out about these worrisome patterns, backing them up with data, and connecting the dots so the rest of us can get a better view. She's clearly speaking out of love and care. Hope the Merkle team takes these concerns seriously.
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"Good thinking is about pushing past your current understanding and reaching the thought behind the thought. It often requires breaking old ideas. This is easier to do when the ideas are as rigid as they get on the page. [...] "As I type, Iā€™m often in a fluid modeā€”writing at the speed of thought. I feel confident about what Iā€™m saying. But as soon as I stop, the thoughts solidify, rigid on the page, and, as I read what Iā€™ve written, I see cracks spreading through my ideas. What seemed right in my head fell to pieces on the page." "Seeing your ideas crumble can be a frustrating experience, but it is the point if you are writing to think. You want it to break. It is in the cracks the light shines in." ~ Henrik Karlsson from "How To Think in Writing" https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/writing-to-think
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Slowcore Quote of the Day "The slower, self-managed approach to culture is . . . more sustainable and more respectful of culture, treating it as something important rather than ephemeral, merely fodder for brief attention spans." [...] "In his 1983 book The Gift, Lewis Hyde defines artwork as something freely given by the artist through her creative act, no matter where it ends up: ā€œA work of art contains the spirit of the artistā€™s gift.ā€ But in a way, taste can be a gift, too. It costs nothing to introduce someone to a new piece of culture that you think they might like, and the act might benefit all parties involved. Culture, after all, is not a one-to-many broadcast system but a peer-to-peer network, where we collectively determine what means the most to us by intentionally sharing it. As Hyde wrote, ā€œThe spirit of a gift is kept alive by its constant donation.ā€ [...] "What we gain with algorithmic feeds in terms of availabilityā€”having instant access to a broad range of material to be scanned at willā€”we lose in connoisseurship, which requires depth and intention. Itā€™s ultimately a form of deep appreciation, for what the artist has done as well as the capacities of our own tastes." ~ Kyle Chayka https://behavioralscientist.org/how-to-cultivate-taste-in-the-age-of-algorithms/
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