#📚Collection#🗣EphemeraLingo#🛸Meta #〄Language
Language and Writing Series
- Writing and Storytelling - how to write
- Words & Language - favorite words & language concepts
- Concept Handles - unique names for important concepts
- Neologisms - new words
Naming Things Series
- Naming Things - challenges in naming across fields
- Nominative Bias - bias toward named things
- Concept Handles - concept handles I’ve come up with
- Neologisms - new words
- How language changes meaning - different types of change
- True Names and Mediums - finding the perfect name or medium for an idea
These are Concept handles that I’m defining & using here in Ephemera.
Knowledge & Creation
⭐️ Knowledge Pool ⭐️ Knowledge Load Knowledge Audit Knowledge Scales and Good Enough Knowledge Specific Knowledge Shaping Knowledge - between creator and reader is the need to mediate and shape knowledge for maximal impact Low Information Zone Medium Hunting ⭐️ Reflection Accelerator Reflection Windows
Product
Information Treadmills - social apps like Slack that keep resurfacing the same information over and over Load Bearing Features - core features that all other features revolve around Horseshoe Thinkers - people who are very abstract or very detailed, but lack the ability to connect them Product Feel - the way a product impacts us when we use it Fighting the controls - when we struggle with the tool instead of the problem Digital Disarray - when computers see life differently from how we see it Digital Impermanence - computers favor the present, ignore the past Cultural Features - when features exist to change culture vs add utility Intention-Oriented Interfaces - UIs that rearrange around our intents
Culture & Psychology
⭐️ Connection Sickness - the effect of the internet on the extremely online Emotional Grey Goo - how we feel after high dosages of social media Psychoavailability - how much information is psychologically available for thinking and recall after initial exposure ⭐️ Necessary Friction - the optimal level of effort for any given context to maximize quality of output Value Tagging Priesting - camping in a discourse to gain political influence ⭐️ Incentive Bubbles - places where incentives are suspended The Outsider Trap - outsiders go to their own communities and rot there Badgood - the self-contradictory nature of politics and culture Time Panic - panicking about how long something will take Unboxing Lived Experiences ⭐️ Discourse Whales - people who spend too much time in discourse Small Room Effect The Workshop of the Mind Meme dilution Give up Guy - guys that give up on life Newsbait - news articles that are intentionally incorrect to bait users into engagement
Patterns & Universe
Time Gravity Jigs Compression Brain Radio
Sci-fi
Various
Treeclimbing Legending Splatter method of creative expression Perceptual Naming Augments ⭐️ Dream Cartography
Related
Naming Things ⭐️ Nominative Bias
Having fun
Concern Fluffs - reality is surrounded by a fluffy layer of concern and anxiety. If you just hold on tight to reality it will both feel very nice and be less fluffy.
Environment Ennui - the feeling of stuckness and low motivation in your work from home setup (see Neologisms)
On Deck
What I need concept handles for From Opine Research Questions, when AI gives us self awareness and feedback such as in Conversation Mirrors.
Reality Erosion
Concept Handles I like
- Opposites attract
- Feral technology - Feral Technologies: Our Fear of the Future, from Genevieve Bell (2023)
- Parasocial aesthetics (artnet ) - art in the tiktok age
- Glimmers - the opposite of triggers, little micro moments of joy, happiness, peace, freed and liberated
- Zeitgeist weapon - “I’m scared what scorched earth musk in charge of a zeitgeist weapon like twitter will do.” - jamiek88
- Confusopoly (wikipedia) - like the healthcare system or anything Byzantine and too complex that prevents informed decisions.
- Digital nightclubs - swipe-based dating apps. Seen in The Tyranny of the Marginal User (2023) via HN
- Enshittification (see UX Erosion)
- Junkification (DLVermeer )
- Idea colliders (Nick Milo)
- Enacted Experience (via Andy Matuschak)
- Emotional trainwreck
- Private Realities, Monothematic Personalities
- Brain arthritis Pireeni
- Wonders of the Web (from juliusdavies on HN)
- Effort Shock (Venkat)
- Information metabolism (wikisocion, related to Psychoavailability)
- Semantic arbitrage (waxpundit “It’s just ‘The Secret’ in a different getup. Manifestation via thought has been around for a long time. Semantic arbitrage ensures each generation thinks they have precisely their own brand.” re meme warfare not creating ideas, via sterlingcrispin)