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Writing, Technically with James Somers

Signals and Threads

CHAPTER

How Do You Approach Writing in Term of Tools?

In the end, I think Knuth is a charming writer but he just made idiosyncratic technical choices that I suspect fit his neural architecture and do not fit others nearly as well. We still use tech all day every day. Yeah. But yeah, I like being able to kind of hack on my editor. So I have a slightly hacked up text made in front of me. By the time I get to a final draft or a draft that we're editing with somebody else it's usually in Google Docs or something.

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