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Why not just publish paper books? If we decided to publish paper books, we would have to: find money, set up logistics, and accept the loss of connection with the book.
Bureau Gorbunov • Future of the book. Manifesto of Bureau Gorbunov Publishing
The “Coupland” concept explores book discovery as a social activity by allowing readers to build shared libraries and hear about additional texts through existing networks.
IDEO • The Future of the Book | ideo.com
Ryan J A Murphy • https://fulcra.design/Posts/Obsidian-Roam-and-the-rise-of-Integrated-Thinking-Environments/
Our actual world isn’t totally broken. I do not take for granted, not for one millisecond, the open source components and sample code that made this project possible. In the 21st century, as long as you’re operating within the bounds of the state of the art, programming can feel delightfully Lego-like. All you have to do is rake your fingers... See more
Robin Sloan • An App Can Be a Home-Cooked Meal
ITEs are probably a subset of notes apps, just like IDEs are a subset of text editors. Every IDE is fundamentally a text editor. Every ITE is fundamentally a notes app. That’s because—at least for now—the best way we have of working with our thoughts is to instantiate them as notes.
Ryan J A Murphy • https://fulcra.design/Posts/Obsidian-Roam-and-the-rise-of-Integrated-Thinking-Environments/
Andy Matuschak • Reading texts on computers is unpleasant
This means it’s really easy to get stuck. Stuck in your current way of seeing and thinking about things. Frames are made out of the details that seem important to you. The important details you haven’t noticed are invisible to you, and the details you have noticed seem completely obvious and you see right through them. This all makes makes it... See more
johnsalvatier.org • Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail
You want to start with a problem or question when you’re reading. And again you want to read books together in groups, and you want one of the early books to make the whole thing real or emotionally vivid to you. If you travel to a place that’ll do it automatically, but if you’re not traveling you want the book to do it, so your early book choice... See more
Stuart Patience • Tyler Cowen on Reading Fast, Reading Well, and Reading Widely
Human beings simply aren’t equipped with the necessary bandwidth to process the explosion of information that our world has normalized.To make things worse, it turns out that the desktop metaphor underlying so much of our computing was not equipped to handle it either. In response to the increased stimuli, our Desktops simply started generating... See more