7 tweets · June 2019 · 19 likes · 2 retweets · read on Twitter
JITRRs, now available on TWITRR! This thread has lots of great suggestions so far (thanks @uberstuber, @RivalVoices, @made_in_cosmos!) and it could really benefit from more in-depth examples of a detailed situation/problem not just an "I want to learn about Topic X"
I'm actually going to go a step further and say, as the person who coined the term JITRR, that if the trigger is just a topic then it's not a JITRR, it's just a "top books organized by topic" list.
Ex: @uberstuber had "get rid of shit"→MarieKondo. Which... ok. But some ppl have issues (hoarding or procrastination) that MK probably won't address. Meanwhile, *I* might recommend MK to someone who expressed "I feel like I can't access my internal sense of what I deeply want"
(Reason for my rec is that the best way to learn something is to practice and the KonMari method gets you to practice asking "does this spark joy in my life?" about every single item you own! Throw out enough objects you don't really like & you finally notice you hate your job🤔)
My trigger is much more specific of a feeling (which isn't even well-captured by those words there) and is also much more counter-intuitive—something you can't find just by googling. Qiaochu, who inspired the original thread, replied to it like this:
Qiaochu's pointing out something that I hadn't fully realized when I made the thread, which is... that it's kind of asking a paradoxical question! 🙃 You can't provide a JIT Reading Recommendation out-of-context. Just-In-Time for what?
So maybe the thing to do to collect JITRRs is to look for examples in the wild, then come back to this thread or the other one and report in on them! New prompt! "once, someone said <weird specific thing> and I told them to read <unusual suggestion>" (& it helped? hopefully?)