I’ve been using Bluesky quite a bit, now that I’ve deleted Twitter. And trying out what it’s like to craft micro explorations there. The following was a series of five ‘skeets’ (no, seriously, let’s not call them that), that I thought was worth sharing here too.
A thing @nicksherrard.bsky.social said this morning has been nagging me. “Maybe we’ll just write much less. Video with AI tools to edit and make look nice will take over.” This evening I picked out this from Moyra Davey’s ‘Index Cards’.
It’s attributed to Virgina Woolf, remembered by Davey…
We learn to lean into (or at least live with) that liminal state, as you wait for the right collection of words, concepts, energy and ideas to come together.
The wait, as Woolf/Davey describe it, is not a workless one. The net is not preformed on a production line. The weaving is the work.
Weaving the net happens hidden in the recesses of the brain, and as much as science has been uncovering new understanding in what might be happening in there, our inner functions remain opaque.
The ‘drop’ of the net, then, is waiting for your own work to reveal itself.
The other ‘net’ in this conversation is the Artificial Neural Net, inspired by one depiction of how we think we think.
Which is a bigger discussion that I’m getting into now, save to note that
1. Here we find the net again
2. We are no longer weaving it
What a waste it would be if we started to write less as a culture.
Instead of reaching out to feel for just the right word or two, we simply submit to system which knows all the words ever used, and statistically spits out an average approximation.
Instead of waiting for the net to drop.
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