Philosophy of an Article as a Medium

Note

• I use article as a container word to any form of text, including books, blogs, short or long.

Main distinction

• Articles that are nice to read vs. articles that are nice to ‘have read’
  • In other words, entertaining articles vs. informative articles
• In the remainder of this recursive ‘article’ I am talking about the latter, informative articles

Introduction

• I find it’s a dated belief that information should be static like in a book. It is such a shame books are still creating a wall between information needs and information supply.
  • Including the length of books that are a type of friction to getting the information
• But authors have to make a living? Receive compensation for the time spent writing and researching? My answer to that is: if authors are driven by monetary compensation, is maximum information transmission still their primary target? Shouldn’t it be to share their unique perspectives and findings INDEPENDENT of the audience’s perception?

End product

• Core information should be conveted into “consumable outputs” in any form or any length:
  • Article, long or short, fixed or one-time disposable
  • Book, long or short
  • Bpodcast, long or short, monologue or dialogue
  • Video, animated or slide based
  • Input for chat discussion
  • Other, such as tables, graphs, charts, flashcards

Living information

• Information must live. Information should be updated or decayed. Either way it should be timestamped. The world changes. The author’s opinion can change.

Bite sized pieces as the core

• I write in bullet points. Information should not be locked up in long walls of text. One should be able cherry pick the relevant pieces of information which one needs.

Adding dimensions

• People say not all things are black and white. That implicitly means that there are one or more dimensions that we are missing. This blogs hopes to explore those exact dimensions, creating more nuanced perspectives.