Matthew McDowell-Sweet
@msms
New @paragraph post enumerating the reasons for the unreasonable effectiveness of email digests. Three of my personal favourites... https://warpcast.com/msms/0xd104b8c1
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet
@msms
Attention shaping: "An email digest shapes how one pays attention. It acts as an attentional brace, guiding the flows of one's perception. Even if the digest's scope is everything the producer is interested in, the act of production looming in the future refactors the present. It compels attentiveness in a compassionate, non-coercive way. And because attention, like energy, is curiously non-zero sum, the more you use it, the more you have to deploy and the better your ability to use it becomes. Once that loop begins to hum, then one's improved attentional capacity flows over to other aspects of one's life."
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Matthew McDowell-Sweet
@msms
Serendipitous encounters: "When something's included in a digest, the producer is signalling that X is sufficiently interesting. As a result, there'll be instances of recipients responding to that signal of interest. Sometimes it'll be agreement. Sometimes it'll be disagreement. Sometimes it'll be recommendations to other similar things, or queries about the context you provided. Those serendipitous counter-responses are one of the most valuable outcomes of email digests because they lead to unexpected relationships and opportunities."
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Hmm wonder if @yak could send out digests
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