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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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Sage advice from Henrik Karlsson: "When you design something, a useful definition of success is... the form fits the context ā€”as Christopher Alexander argued in 'Notes on a Synthesis of Form.' This is true of relationships, and essays, and careers: you want to find something that *fits*." [...] "The useful thing about defining good design as a form-context fit is that it tells you where you will find the form. The form is in the context." "To find a good relationship, you do not start by saying, ā€œI want a relationship that looks like thisā€ā€”that would be starting in the wrong end, by defining form. Instead you say, ā€œIā€™m just going to pay attention to what happens when I hang out with various people and iterate toward something that feels aliveā€ā€”you start from the context." "The context is smarter than you. It holds more nuance and information than you can fit in your head. Collaborate with it." "If you want to find a good design... what you want is some process that allows you to extract information from the context, and bake it into the form. That is what unfolding is." [...] "The opposite of an unfolding is a vision. A vision springs, not from a careful understanding of a context, but from a fantasy: if you could just make it into *another* context your problems will go away." https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/unfolding
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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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