Legibility in Work and Fiction
Reflecting on revisiting a favourite book, and how fundamentally it shaped my mental model of “work” in the startup world. Also on forming community, opportunity, and divides between personal and professional efforts.
Legibility in Work and Fiction | andrewlb.com blog
Interaction Design and writing
Meta
Per last issue, I spent a few evenings re-writing my site as a nextjs app that renders out a chunk of my main obsidian vault. I’m loads more comfortable with Next than any other framework, so glad to be back.
This format reflects how I write these days using Obsidian with sets of markdown files around a gradually ossifying topic. It should support my writing more focused essays with more hyperlinked “stems” to fill in the context I struggle with editing out properly. I’m writing for the internet, after all. Here are my working notes on it:
Rethinking the blog | andrewlb notes Markdown
Interaction Design and writing
There’s at least two small projects worth doing that I can’t find alternatives for: an Obsidian.md plugin for arbitrary filename management, and a markdown plugin (rehype) to render the json-canvas format inline. The latter is more pressing (for me), and I’ve a pretty solid starting point. If you’re interested to follow, collaborate, or contribute: I’ve started the project here with a companion development app here. This’ll be my first proper npm package and plugin, so any advice is appreciated.
Some Links
I love this post about early 80s Hypertext on the fibery blog, with a lovely little synthesis at the end around knowledge management.
A digestif for the link above. Losing interest in the organizing things is a sentiment I share, though it manifests differently for me. Respect this guy’s determination to reject it.
Finally, my friend Alex reminded me of this article which was worth revisiting: Everyone is Totally Just Winging It
I have standing “office” hours for mutual sparring, tangential discussions, and fun. Some of you are making use of this already and I’m loving it. calendly.com/alb/social