What Is this?
This is an experiment inspired by discussions and posts made by @Undisciplined, @elvismercury and others regarding evergreen content on SN. I will keep it simple at first, highlighting one or two Stacker News posts from the past each week that I believe were significant. I plan to post these newsletters every Tuesday.
Here are this week’s Posts:
I know most of us have read this already, but it’s worth reading again.
AMAs are always popular. I decided to start with Matt Odell because, well, everyone likes Matt Odell. I’m sure someone will challenge me about that.
Let me know what you think about this type post. Like I said, it’s an experiment.
It's an interesting way to think about it -- you may have heard of Dunbar's number which is basically the limit number of people that you can keep good track of socially. People argue about what this exactly is, and what 'keep good track' means, but whatever, the point is there's a limit, and it has a lot to do with neural limitations in pre-frontal cortex (principally), and it's not that high, ~150 or so.
I'm thinking about your "leaky bucket" analogy here -- when community gets beyond that size, there's kind of a "fuck it" effect, as investments in those social encounters won't pay off in the same way. A kind of social fiat without introducing money into the equation at all. But subject to some of the same limitations, maybe? Like, social life gets more fiat the bigger it gets ...
Need to ponder. Thanks for the prompt. Get some sleep, brother :)