(2021-05-05) Matuschak The Early Mnemonic Medium Offers Readers Little Agency

Andy Matuschak: The early mnemonic medium offers readers little agency. Readers of the Mnemonic medium (as deployed on Quantum Country and initial versions of Orbit) are put on quite a rigid track: they’re expected to interact with all questions:

These factors… discourage/prevent many valuable active modes of reading, e.g. skimming for gems, reading with a specific narrow purpose in mind, reading non-linearly, etc

I’d like to swing the vibe aggressively more in the reader-centric direction.