Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Dec 13, 2021The harder somebody works at anything the more their writing resembles documentation1217239
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Dec 13, 2021In the case of writers, it’s their writing-about-writing that resembles documentation.2248
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Dec 13, 2021This is not a good thing. I fact I avoid working hard to avoid this effect.5246
Venkatesh Rao@vgrOne reason I like Asimov is he managed to avoid this curse somehow. Wrote vast amounts of fiction and nonfiction, including explainer nonfiction which is dangerously prone to documentationitis, but avoided sounding like a Manual of Life5:53 AM · Dec 13, 20212 Retweets36 Likes
Deep Fates supercomputer@deepfates·Dec 13, 2021Replying to @vgrwhat does documentationitis sounds like12
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Dec 13, 2021Replying to @deepfatesYou can’t learn except through the kens of future teaching1