Editability and findability --> higher quality over time
Editability
Code being easier to find and easier to edit, for example,
if it’s in the same live environment where you’re working, or if it’s a simple hotkey away, or an alt-tab away to a config file which updates your settings without having to restart,
makes it more likely to be edited, more subject to feedback loop dynamics.
Same applies to writing, or anything where you have connected objects that influence each other, where the “influencer node” is editable and visible.
configs : program layout / behavior informal rules about how your relationship is to your friend : the dynamics of the relationship layout of your desk : the way you work underlying philosophy of ideas : writing ideas ideas “going viral” in social media : people discussing them (think about Luigi Mangione triggering notions of killing people you don’t like (this is bad!! and it’s done under the memetic shield of “big corpo bad”), or Elon x Trump’s doge thing having all sorts of people discussing efficiency of organizations and bureaucracy (this is amazing) )
(not sure if the last one is a good example)
Imagine if when writing this Quick Take:tm:, I had a side panel that on every keystroke, pulled up related paragraphs from all my existing writings! I can see past writings which cool, but I can edit them way more easily (assuming a “jump to” feature), in the long term this yields many more edits, and a more polished and readable total volume of work.
Findability
If you can easily see the contents of something and go, “wait this is dumb”. Then even if it’s “far away” like, you have to find it in the browser, do mouse clicks and scrolls, you’ll still do it. What in fact determined you editing it, is that the threshold for loading its contents into your mind, had been lowered. When you load it, the opinion is instantly triggered.
Editability and findability --> higher quality over time
Editability
Code being easier to find and easier to edit, for example,
makes it more likely to be edited, more subject to feedback loop dynamics.
Same applies to writing, or anything where you have connected objects that influence each other, where the “influencer node” is editable and visible.
(not sure if the last one is a good example)
Imagine if when writing this Quick Take:tm:, I had a side panel that on every keystroke, pulled up related paragraphs from all my existing writings!
I can see past writings which cool, but I can edit them way more easily (assuming a “jump to” feature), in the long term this yields many more edits, and a more polished and readable total volume of work.
Findability
If you can easily see the contents of something and go, “wait this is dumb”. Then even if it’s “far away” like, you have to find it in the browser, do mouse clicks and scrolls, you’ll still do it.
What in fact determined you editing it, is that the threshold for loading its contents into your mind, had been lowered. When you load it, the opinion is instantly triggered.