Hypertext: The medium is the message

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DRAFT

motivation

• discussion with Finn.
  • Can making content, making tools and helping others make truly be separated?
• discussion with Jonas.
  • “What is hypertext?”
  • “What is learning?”
    • Is learning practice, a process, an activity you can do?
    • Or is learning an outcome?
    • 🤔
• Interlude: the clueless middle manager.
• Interlude: skin in the game, Antaeus Whacked.

outline

1. “text” in literary theory.
2. Hypertext: the future is now. You can put any experience in someone’s pocket.
3. Writing hypertext.
4. Writing hypertext in a moldable tool.
5. Moldable tools for hypertext
6. The goal: moldable message, moldable medium, moldable creative {tools,process}

Alternative title: Moldable message, moldable medium, moldable development.

• moldable message
  • what are you communicating? how will what you are communicating change during the process of writing it?
• moldable medium
  • how can you mold the medium to suit your message? is words on paper the best presentation? text vs hypertext. the edge of hypertext: tactile, physical media.
• moldable {development,writing,tools}
  • is your current process of creating suited to create what you aim to create?
  • opinion: you should be able to shape your creative process as you create.

Clerk is a moldable tool for publishing content on a moldable medium: hypertext.