(It’s funny how some of the passages I was retyping were about the lost art of retyping.)
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And now I’m using my keyboard to write keyboard automation scripts to help me file notes for my book about keyboards.pic.twitter.com/bSBAywr1ju
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Laying out my book’s table of contents for the first time and feeling like a troubled conspiracy theorist.pic.twitter.com/h5SC8YeebP
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Feel like the most complex puzzle. Sequencing just this – everything that happened between typewriters and PCs – will be a great challenge.pic.twitter.com/W8L3JDWj2A
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“We’re gonna need a bigger wall.” *aide leans in to whisper about housing situation in S.F.* “We’re gonna need smaller sticky notes.”pic.twitter.com/4GkIDNIiO3
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This is my book, laid out for the first time, in forty-seven chapters/themes.pic.twitter.com/l3Z7IO5q8u
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This feels petrifying (I’m basically looking at 47 blank pages instead of the usual one), but also I’m incredibly excited about it.
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I can see it all, now, for the first time ever. I see a chronological spine, interspersed with excursions in all sorts of fun directions.
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Tell me you wouldn’t read a book with chapters named: “Mr. Kildall goes flying” “Sixty monkeys per second” “Accidental Vulcan nerve pinch”
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Writing, writing, writing… It’s like the biggest puzzle I ever tried to solve. This is example metadata for a chapter I just finished.pic.twitter.com/onbkSoUpj2
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The chapter about arrow keys has Moon landing in it. The one about keylogging will start with Sully landing the plane in the Hudson.
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This has been of my favourite parts of writing so far – making the kinds of connections I suspect no one’s made before.
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