Ha, that’s a good asessment

It’s a poorly written book: bad prose, paper-thin characters, boring exposition. IMO it’s wildly overrated.

Michael Lewis on the New Yorker, finally. A match made in heaven.

Time for Sleep hits a whole new level, man, damn. Go get a label, I want this in vinyl.

argh, @bennjordan.bsky.social

not exactly your request, but @benjordan.bsky.social is doing interesting work in this realm.

Text is very efficient for searching and sharing. Plus, we have a long history with textual mediums in which both consuming and producing accurately is internalized as personal responsibility.

These, along with many others, might just make text ideal for porous interfaces.
4/4

Many reasons for that beyond cultural artifacts. It's very hard to make a 'Manual' for visual tools. Most of time when I actually search "how to do x in Photoshop", for example, text answers are hard to follow, so I end up going for videos. But audiovisual isn't a great medium for random access.
3/4

when we work with a GUI, we expect things to be immediately intuitive. When something isn't working, our tendency is to blame the tool. Whereas when we're working with a text-based language and something isn't working, we internalize the blame. We google/stack overflow/ask AI.
2/4

I’m half-trying to convince myself :)

Maybe that’s… ok. Maybe you don’t need to change that. Maybe life is not about reaching nirvana or whatever; maybe it’s just struggle, but struggle that has meaning.