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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Here’s my take: praxis.fortelabs.co/5-steps-to-bui
TLDR requires making packets of work Stateful, Encapsulated, Reusable, and Composable
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Isn't this just wikipedia and it's edit discussions?
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Back in the day, I bid on (but did not get) the job to create what became newyorker.com/tech/annals-of. It was supposed to use operational transformation (the tech behind Google Wave), but I don’t know if it finally did.
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