Jun 14, 2021

Game 4 // Step 2 // Analysis of Dave's Posts

by: Jon Borichevskiy

post types

Freewrite

• x5
• native type: markdown/text
• explicit metadata
  • near people : list of people explicitly/ambently involved with conversation & ideas
  • near location: name of place conversations & thinking took place
  • date - exists in title
• observations & takeaways
  • written in first person, stream of consciousness, very flow-y
  • tag/word cloud here would be more useful than referencing sentences and paragraphs - the context matters a lot. Almost like a little story
  • one of the posts was from an archive... another metadata tag?
    • realtime vs archive
      • everything is realtime and archived at once?

Doodle

• x2
• native type: markdown/image embed
• explicit metadata
  • doodle number (ie, 101)
• observations
  • "doodlejournal entry" implies many types of journals. curious what they look like in format, and differences in their digital representations
  • doodle number implies order - would seeing more in order provide more context about each in turn?
  • very visual; little to no captioning

Youtube Annotations

• x2
• native type: markdown/youtube embed/text
• explicit metadata
  • youube embedded video
• observations
  • no timecode - likely because some of these draw from multiple points in the podcast. What time to reference.
    • would transcript be helpful for quoting?
    • lack of timecode makes it feel more like a summary than a series of highlights, a nice thing
  • post 9 had a short intro section - kind of like context metadata. post 1 went straight to the annotations
  • cool [► YouTube] visual indicator title tag - what would tags for other posts look like?

Sketchmapping

• x1
• native type: markdown/image embed
• explicit metadata
  • number
• observations
  • very cool to see, love the physicality of it
  • can imagine a map that looks like this - but for the rest of the posts and artifacts uploaded

general thoughts

• feels like I can categorize the posts into two buckets (very subjective, I may be off my rocker here; so salt accordingly!):
  • early/en route summarization
    • seen as: youtube highlights, sketchmapping, summary freewrite sections
    • requires less context to consume
    • some sort of sense-making, memory augmentation, in-the-moment processing
  • retrospective summarization/ideation/processing
    • seen as: ideation / intentions & planning freewrite sections, call meta analysis freewrite sections, doodles
    • pulling together disparate lines of thought
    • less raw, multiple concurrent themes melding and being contrast against one another
    • inherently requires more context to make sense of
• Seems to me these are flowing towards a third category: synthesis.
  • a "post type" to really distill a particular question or thread of thought into a self-contained unit that can and absolutely lean on first two types as "references" (read: augmented content / pre-requisite media)
    • perhaps framed by a question or a statement (ie, "value accrual in centralized vs decentralized markets")
  • this may be what Dave refers to by "folding" or "folded writing", but am not 100% sure
  • might be audio-first?
    • a strong narration, lightly edited with timecoded footnotes and references?
    • maybe a approximately-timecoded high level outline added afterwards for easier navigation
  • I am imagining a tiled / sectioned / windowed / transcluded interface for looking at/listening to the primary synthesis post and supplementary / referenced / related content on the side(s)
    • reading a synthesis post might be more like looking at layers of papers on top of each other