The thicket is a maze-like oriented space, not a graph

A strong suspicion i have is that the RSS/feed style blyg reading might be the wrong UI. I think it needs something more geographic but I can't even think of what to ask the AI to build. Maps and terrains, and pixel art like interactions all feel wrong.

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Definitely feels like the wrong UI. I find myself struggling to find past posts I've written or stuff from others. I feel a bit like a drunk waltzing through a charming carnival, not sure what is a two bit puppet show and what's a palace of knowledge. At this scale it's just a few people and is serindility inducing though something to mull.

Riffing on vectors towards a solution, what about:

• trying the smart feed? I feel that having summaries of a bunch of stuff that's happening and then the ability to dig into the raw stuff of something more substantial is worthwhile. Let the AI do the heavy lifting of sifting signal from the noise
• some sort of predetermined maps of the thicket since you last blygger or people interacting with path your stuff and other stuff you've interacted with feels like it might be helpful. There's network graphs which are a graph and not a map.
• for myself, one idea I've been playing with is having blyg.pioneeringspirit.xyz be where I riff and then have pioneeringspirit.xyz be a weekly AI generated synthesis that I review for sharing out to an email list. This may just be me being lazy / wishful thinking

Some more spatial ideas courtesy of Claude riffing on bret victors concepts:

""" Meaningful axes. Place each post on a 2D plane where both axes carry meaning, such as concrete to abstract on the vertical axis (his ladder of abstraction) and near-term to long-term on the horizontal axis. A reader can then see the shape of your thinking without opening a single post. Swimlanes over time. Put time on the horizontal axis and give each theme its own horizontal lane, so that bursts of attention and long dormant stretches become visible. This keeps the chronology of a feed while adding the structure of an index. Semantic zoom. Start with a zoomed-out view of themes as large regions, and reveal titles, then summaries, then full text as the reader zooms in. This is the most direct translation of his ladder of abstraction into a layout, and it comes from the older Pad++ tradition he often cites. A watershed layout. Treat themes as tributaries that merge into larger ideas downstream, with individual posts as points along each stream. For a writer in the water world this makes the layout itself a metaphor for how small ideas feed bigger ones. Strata. Stack posts in layers with the oldest at the bottom, so the archive reads like a cross-section where long-running themes appear as continuous bands. This rewards a reader who explores the whole column instead of only the top. A connection graph. Draw posts as nodes and the links between them as edges, with position determined by how strongly they relate. The risk is that force-directed graphs often become hairballs, so it works best when you curate the links by hand instead of generating them from tags. A tabletop. In the Dynamicland spirit, scatter posts as cards on a surface that the reader can drag, group, and pile, so that arranging the material becomes the reader's way of understanding it.