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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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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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Also, with code there's no doubt that I had a bug and you fixed it, so I'm happy to cede some control. I don't want someone with no ear for language adding commas and "fixing" my writing.
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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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Exactly. Writing is dependency hell. Same reason why it’s hard to have many co-authors for books, esp novels. Hard to parallelize.
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Also comparison with code isn’t quite right bc code is a trnaisitonary form: not meant for consumption by end users. It produces software experiences which must be holistic. But if the code is gnarly, that can be okay.
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