I was suddenly struck today by how this idea was in some sense incubating in the back of my mind since last fall when I first wrote about the self-energizing meta-team meta-vision like "but what was I doing that catalyzed the clarity here?" the answer: DMing w @nibrasibn
Tracing the barn-raising idea back through DMs and goal data
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which was downstream of this reply...
to @utotranslucence asking "What is your plan?"
Which means I think I've just converted one of my middle dominos from a "???" to a specific!
@CompliceGoals helped me track this down. I looked at my data for my meta-team goal on the day I tweeted the original barn-raising tweet, and saw "more messages w Nibras" and was like "RIGHT!"
The barn-raising tweet literally started as a DM. I wrote to Nibras: > in my ideal world, once a month I'm helping run a hackathon for someone who has an app/business idea and a—welp, apparently I decided this thought wanted to be a tweet:
It feels important to track this sort of thing down, because otherwise I could forget that there was a causal chain at all to this great idea. But clearly I wouldn't have had it if I hadn't been being active on twitter, both in tweets and DMs!
So yeah, if you want to trace my thinking on this back even further, you can check out the self-energizing meta-team meta-vision thread: