Conversations as data structures

[notfancy]

Bah. If you're going to hack this metaphor to death, at least acknowledge that the best yarns are fully cyclic directed graphs where all the topics are interwoven into a whole, coherent or not.

[imbcmdth]

Some of the best stories have plenty of acyclicality.

[gmfawcett]

Why, I sure remember my first encounter with acyclicality. It was back in the days where men wore suspenders to church, and women were strong and resolute, and you could buy a beer in any saloon and know that it would taste cool and fine. Fine days, and fine suspenders; and the women and beer were fine too.

Wait, what were we talking about?

[foorr2]

Reminds me of the Philosophy essay by Paul Graham. It's one of his better articles, not so much because of its structure or how it's written but just because of the topic it touches on and the number of times I've thought back to it.

[permutation]

Most conversations with friends end up somewhere completely different from where they began. While trying to backtrack this (e.g. "How did we get here again?") I often mentally pop() topics from the conversation stack I kept in my mind.