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"[W]e don’t necessarily have to make books work. We can make new forms instead. This doesn’t have to mean abandoning narrative prose; it doesn’t even necessarily mean abandoning paper—rather, we can free our thinking by abandoning our preconceptions of what a book is."
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Excellent, important piece by @andy_matuschak: andymatuschak.org/books
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I am really humbled by how wonderful this piece is, and hope everyone will read. And I would have a lot to say, especially about this part: -- how might we design mediums in which “reading” is the same as “understanding” -- and generally the idea of breaking up texts is my 🧸
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