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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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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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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.