People thinking about the future of Twitter: ribbonfarm, LM Sacasas, and Robin Sloan, who brings the bon mot:
Wishful descriptions of Twitter as “the de facto public town square” or “the closest thing we have to a global consciousness” sound, to me, like Peter Pan begging the audience to clap and raise a swooning Tinkerbell.
You don’t have to clap.
I’m going to leave this with a short bit by Alexander Chee on staying organised while writing, because I’m up early because I have about 14 hours of thinking to do.