Granted that cross-fertilization of perspectives increases serendipity (happy accidents) and help us sharpen our train of thoughts. What are the tools we have at our disposal to “collaborate with strangers” and learn together?
Connecting digital gardens
Great thoughts have already been published online.
One-way feedback
A mean to engage in a discussion on a certain piece of writing or a blogpost is to connect it directly to a social media thread. Twitter/X seeming to be the best suited for discussion with strangers on a particular topic. LinkedIn, Instagram are other options.
The pace of social media remains counter-intuitive with regards to the type of long-thinking that we are trying to enact here.
How did they do back in the time? At the beginnings of the blog era. A comment section? Live discussions around a certain blogpost?
Thinking buddy
As suggested by Anne-Laure Le Cunff in the Ness Labs community, one of the most efficient way to get direct feedback on your idea is to expose it to a thinking buddy. For example, within the Ness Labs community you can request to be put in contact with a person sharing similar interests or creating similar content. This may enable a fruitful weekly or monthly discussion.
Anne-Laure carries on advising a session 3-2-1 structure to openly share progress which goes as follow:
- List 3 things you have learnt this week.
- List 2 things you are planning to work on for the upcoming week.
- List 1 thing you are currently struggling with.
This is a great framework to review efficiently share progress and keep each other accountable.
A list of ‘thinking’ communities
- Ness Labs (https://nesslabs.com/)
- Interintellect (https://interintellect.com/)