How do you make writing a more deeply social activity, multiplexed at the level of the smallest possible thought chunks? I don’t mean more hyperlinking, transclusions, or awkward collaborative-writing games. More like longform that’s social the way a twitter convo thread is. 🤔
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Code went from highly personal to very social with version control and fork/merge toolchains. That has not really happened to writing. I guess because it’s much easier with code given its hard-edged functional boundaries and potential for encapsulation and scope control.
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Hollywood writing is probably the most collaborative known to the world. Especially TV. Movies are a serial relay race, but TV is parallel+multiplexed with a series bibleand showrunner coordinating things. Like a symphony orchestra.
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I'm fine with glitchy aesthetics and uneven language. I'm more concerned with mind-melding the ideas than the surface imperfections of the language. The latter can always be outsourced to a decent editor to fix in post.
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Wait, what do you mean code went social? There is hardly anything more personal than code you wrote and care about.
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That's just your style. That's why you don't work with the big companies or tight teams.
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