Thanks for writing this up! I think postmortems are great, and now I’m imagining what having a specific section on the site dedicated to postmortems would look like… You’d be able to browse through and see how projects like yours, MetaMed, Arbital, etc. all ended and see if there were lessons learned across them, etc.
Anyway, I think this one part:
Perhaps an interested reader would like to take a couple hours and reassemble the most useful parts of Hammertime into a cleaner subsequence. As a resource on instrumental rationality instruction at most half of the posts in Hammertime are of high value.
is quite interesting to note. Especially the bit about cleaner subsequences. I’m wondering if there’s ample post-processing happening to blog posts written, as efforts to crystallize and clarify / distill feel like they could be quite high value for pedagogical purposes.
Also some stuff from Kuhn about field-building, but those thoughts are still percolating right now.
Might I suggest that rather than have ‘a special section’ dedicated to many things which the dev team would have to create interfaces for, we bring back tagging but do it in the style of delicious.
Crowdsourced tags, that are saved in a users profile so they have an incentive to do it (and perhaps some karma reward), which are aggregated/ranked by popularity to get the right tags for an article. Then you make a page showing articles by tag and you could get a ‘section’ for postmortems, another for surveys, etc.
Though now that you mention it, I should probably add a “postmortem” section to my Diaspora Project Map.
I think postmortems are great, and now I’m imagining what having a specific section on the site dedicated to postmortems would look like
The simplest way to do this using the current set of tools on the site would be to create a sequence. (Note: anyone can create a sequence and add anyone’s posts to it).
I think I roughly agree with Hypothesis that longterm, some kind of tagging solution is preferable so that anyone can easily add to it, although I can imagine a good execution of a Postmortem sequence that actually adds a fair amount of context and infrastructure beyond just listing the articles.
Thanks for writing this up! I think postmortems are great, and now I’m imagining what having a specific section on the site dedicated to postmortems would look like… You’d be able to browse through and see how projects like yours, MetaMed, Arbital, etc. all ended and see if there were lessons learned across them, etc.
Anyway, I think this one part:
is quite interesting to note. Especially the bit about cleaner subsequences. I’m wondering if there’s ample post-processing happening to blog posts written, as efforts to crystallize and clarify / distill feel like they could be quite high value for pedagogical purposes.
Also some stuff from Kuhn about field-building, but those thoughts are still percolating right now.
Might I suggest that rather than have ‘a special section’ dedicated to many things which the dev team would have to create interfaces for, we bring back tagging but do it in the style of delicious.
http://idlewords.com/talks/fan_is_a_tool_using_animal.htm
Crowdsourced tags, that are saved in a users profile so they have an incentive to do it (and perhaps some karma reward), which are aggregated/ranked by popularity to get the right tags for an article. Then you make a page showing articles by tag and you could get a ‘section’ for postmortems, another for surveys, etc.
Though now that you mention it, I should probably add a “postmortem” section to my Diaspora Project Map.
The simplest way to do this using the current set of tools on the site would be to create a sequence. (Note: anyone can create a sequence and add anyone’s posts to it).
I think I roughly agree with Hypothesis that longterm, some kind of tagging solution is preferable so that anyone can easily add to it, although I can imagine a good execution of a Postmortem sequence that actually adds a fair amount of context and infrastructure beyond just listing the articles.