Twitter's sort of weird (in all the ways people say it is but also) in the way that it simulates being alone in a crowd of people.
— Jedd Cole (@ElectricDidact) September 9, 2015
And then you have these moments when you realize how democratic the playing field is (like when you make contact with a semi-famous person)
— Jedd Cole (@ElectricDidact) September 9, 2015
But at the same time, you get the feeling that it was an accident of fate, that really this is all just a loud party...
— Jedd Cole (@ElectricDidact) September 9, 2015
...with a million guests you don't know (but secretly admire) all shuffling, smoothly careening around you and each other in a social river.
— Jedd Cole (@ElectricDidact) September 9, 2015
But you feel that THAT's not an accident at all, that everyone is just skilled at this sort of thing: skilled at being a drop in a river.
— Jedd Cole (@ElectricDidact) September 9, 2015
Twitter's pretty cool though. Cool like that party in the movie is cool--just past the gates of the Great Gatsby's mansion.
— Jedd Cole (@ElectricDidact) September 9, 2015
When I as a writer claim to admire another, how much of that is of the substance of their writing and how much is of them as a personality?
— Jedd Cole (@ElectricDidact) September 9, 2015
@ElectricDidact And are they separate?
— Jedd Cole (@ElectricDidact) September 9, 2015