@andy_matuschak with @eriktorenberg on tools for thinking, and especially the future of books!https://www.spreaker.com/user/10197011/designing-and-developing-new-tools-for-t …
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“You should publish this as an eBook". Duuude, what for? You're reading it on a screen now, and the experience is far richer than a bad electronic imitation of a dead tree. And still so much more is possible than the half-baked affordances I worked intohttp://meaningness.com
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eBooks are so crippled that there’s more innovation in dead trees. For example, Anne Pendleton-Jullian &
@jseelybrown’s Design Unbound has a nonlinear structure with this nifty navigational aid in the front:pic.twitter.com/KAfPKLFkaA
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In their Quantum Country textbook,
@michael_nielsen and Andy have innovated in several dimensions, most excitingly by building in Anki-style spaced-repetition reminders as a retention tool.https://quantum.country/qcvcShow this thread -
I am hoping to write a Meta-Systematicity Workbook to follow up The Cofounders. Michael and Andy’s experiment has inspired me to rethink that, with interactive features that (I hope) will deepen your understanding, engagement, and recall of principles.https://meaningness.com/cofounders-in-relationship …
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Here is a page from a beautiful, innovative hypertext book, explaining why it is NOT available as an eBook or pdf. Ironically, the book itself is about print typography! https://practicaltypography.com/why-theres-no-e-book-or-pdf.html …
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I sincerely thought all the references to the "book" meant "the paper book I will someday publish." It never occurred to me that you meant the website itself to count as a book.
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It's a lost cause. Everyone refers to http://gwern.net as a blog too, and not only is there no linear way to read it (or chronological way, period), the index doesn't even include any date-sorting. And yet! 'Blog' now simply means 'homepage'.
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I think in the year 2020 "blog" is pretty much synonymous with "personal website" in the same way that "internet" has become synonymous to most with "world wide web".
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