words are the worst :(
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but yeah, i really wish there were better patterns for how to talk about these kinds of domains. “superimposed distributions” kinda gets at it.
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I often think in terms of trying to decompose a high-dimensional space into ~principal components, and then describing the principal components in isolation. E.g. in social situations, there’s the prestige component, the dominance component, the coalition politics component, etc.
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Each is best understood by thinking about it by itself, as a pure vector unadulterated with the other components. But then any real-world example is a data point that mixes everything together. And of course the vectors aren’t orthogonal, and they mix chaotically....
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This is what hypertext was supposed to be for—“everything is deeply intertwingled” was Ted Nelson’s slogan. I persist in writing hypertext books even though no one can make sense of the format. His vision had level-of-detail sliders and other mechanisms not yet available.
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Wow, thanks, great to read
@andy_matuschak's original thread and also the replies! I was going to mention@hypothes_is but I see someone beat me to it (cc@mtraven)1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
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Awesome thread. It's not this, but it reminds me of the Zettelkasten. http://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/luhmanns-zettelkasten.html?m=1 … Isn't it a bit like hypercard? Fun stuff here https://www.mondo2000.com/2018/06/18/the-inspiration-for-hypercard/ … IIRC Douglas Adams was obsessed by it...
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I often wonder why we can’t have a modern HyperCard equivalent. The web is so NOT that. There are HyperCard clones still available, but so much more is possible. (Who wants to help start this company? :)
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ahh, this whole essay! Encapsulates why I hate the app-ification and shift to crappy browser-based versions of software I used to *control*, to consumption instead of co-creation, to point solutions instead of integration, to shadow work updating versions instead of creativity.
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