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3 points by andsko 4 months ago · 4 comments

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skurtcastle 4 months ago

Interesting. I may not be aware of the concept, but curious. Nice work.

  • andskoOP 4 months ago

    connection grateful hopeful

    search words resonate

    learn experience underutilized

    thoughts aware rich

LE_BAGEL_DOGUE 4 months ago

I don’t get it

  • andskoOP 4 months ago

    Yeah, I might have overthought the description. Basically - it's a random word generator, with additional features to be able to extract some signal from the noise.

    First, an ability to highlight a subset of the generated words. You get a bunch of random words, then highlight which ones you want to concentrate on.

    Simply trying to select the words in your head doesn't have the same effect. Brain is too lazy for this. But when they are differentiated and combined visually - you start getting the combined associations.

    Second, a shortlist of words. These will get prioritized during a word batch generation and act as a glue. I've noticed that some words are more effective in terms of thought provokation than others.

    Take "yesterday" for example - pairing it with random words allows you to jumpstart a retrospective: "yesterday coffee", "yesterday tree", "yesterday interactions". And then you can get more specific - "yesterday interactions cynical" etc. Gives you angles which are hard to come up with on your own.

    A better description would probably be - "random word combinations for introspection".

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