Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
@readordieaslave
Edgewalker
Elon Musk learned to “know your business from A to Z,” surprising experts by recalling deep technical details about parts and costs in other people’s specialties.
The zimbaldoni (which sound very much like commonplace books were effective at increasing the visibility of an author and helping to spread their work.
People would copy passages, share them with others, and they would in turn copy them.
I'm reminded of:
- social media (on a good day)
- ripped CDs
- mixtapes
- PDFS
- photocopies
- file-sharing like Napster