5b: OL throughput necessary for good feedback ∴ necessary for improvement, and also scary if fear of failure or if goals are conflicted
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Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean
What is the object you're referring to? The objective (vs. process)?
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Replying to @fortelabs
Yeah. eg I asked
@Meaningness about site tech (hover-glossary) & he said he had to keep from tweaking it (PL) instead of writing (OL)1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean @fortelabs
Fortunately web tech maintenance is only maybe 10% of total effort. That might be 10% too much, though!
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Replying to @Meaningness @fortelabs
The other option is to actually form an OL project around the system. eg my livelihood comes from https://complice.co , which I also use.
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Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean @fortelabs
I have thought about making a business out of book-on-the-web tools.
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Chicken & egg: are there so few hypertext books because no tools to create them, or are there no tools because no one wants hypertext books?
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I think hypertext has cool potential for writing the big picture without that violence you were talking about. But traditional publishing
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still seems to have a strangle hold on "books". Monetizing is one issue.
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Yeah, I believe Amazon deliberately killed the ebook market by dominating it and then deliberately crippling the technology.
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Recently I decided I would start converting chunks of Meaningness into dead trees anyway. People simply don’t grok a web hyperbook.
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Nonlinear writing may gradually gain appreciation, but linear writing does force focus on narrative that helps many readers.
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For me the messy, nonlinear, asynchronous stuff is research, then the static version is the final product that scales
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