%% date:: [[2020-12-15]], [[2022-12-26]] %% # [[Microblogging reduces friction for creation and consumption]] - [[Communication]] [[Anti-marketing]] [[Learning]] [[Writing]] - Microblogging is a significantly less daunting prospect than is writing a full blog post, so it is also more likely to get done. - For readers or consumers of content, microblogging is also easier to digest. It's less likely to be filed away "for later reading" and forgotten about. - [[Everything is content]]: microblogging and other shorter-form content can be used as an effective [[Anti-marketing]] practice without losing authenticity. - [[The basis of anti-marketing is authenticity]] - Microblogging, combined with [[Learning in public]], can also be used as a bottom-up approach to creating content, where you don't yet know in advance what you're going to be making, but you let the higher level structures evolve as you go. - [[Bottom-up approach]] - [[Twitter]] relies on this reduction of friction to encourage users to post. The character limit truly is an intentional feature, not a limitation or a bug. - Related - [[Principle of Atomicity]] - [[Get your first shitty draft over as fast as possible.]] - [[The Zettelkasten method is a bottom-up approach to turning content you consume to content you create.]] - [[Make the question of willpower moot by changing your environment to remove inertia.]] -