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\n\n\n\n","content_hash":"sha256:b60251ee22bcaae368928265d0cfe258c462404b94beee7c528dcc34503f2ff3","media":[],"transclusions":[{"id":"5gaytep72qsves6nj8t4ngk7tp","version":1,"origin":"https://www.msweet.net/notes/","cited":{"source":"Notes | Matthew McDowell-Sweet","author":"Matthew McDowell-Sweet","excerpt":"It’s handy to have a default way to signal, to yourself and others, that you thi…","url":"https://www.msweet.net/notes/136-coral-frogs","retrieved":"2026-10-23T22:21:56Z"}}],"stub_of":{"origin":"https://www.msweet.net/notes/","id":"5gaytep72qsves6nj8t4ngk7tp","version":1,"cited":{"source":"Notes | Matthew McDowell-Sweet","author":"Matthew McDowell-Sweet","excerpt":"It’s handy to have a default way to signal, to yourself and others, that you thi…","url":"https://www.msweet.net/notes/136-coral-frogs","retrieved":"2026-10-23T22:21:56Z"}},"changelog":[{"version":1,"at":"2026-10-23T22:21:56Z","note":null}]}It’s handy to have a default way to signal, to yourself and others, that you think something about X but aren’t sure what. “Hmmm” is becoming that for me. This yields a surprising boon to the economics of noticing: it lowers the bar for what gets registered. More things snag, without a matching rise in the energy it takes to capture them.
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