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Examining capitalism's chokepoints (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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How to Write for an Audience

When you write for an audience, you have to bring a kind of completion to bear on it. That itself is powerfully mnemonic. It helps you remember things. If you're lucky enough to have readers, they'll come along and leave comments saying hey, blockhead, you forgot this. And wow, I never thought about it this way. So you'll get some foment. You'll get some like fermentation of this culture you're putting together. And then finally, like it turns your subconscious into a kind of supersaturated solution of fragments of bigger, more synthetic ideas that will nucleate in the future.

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