… the fact that it was all drawn on an Ipad clearly drastically reduced the trivial inconveniences for Abram to add small diagrams and illustrations …
I’m really not sure I buy this. What’s wrong with drawing the diagrams and illustrations on an iPad, and then putting them in as images, with the rest of the post being text? I’m not demanding any sort of “all diagrams must be painstakingly constructed in Illustrator” standard. By all means have hand-drawn diagrams!
… I … think that Abram didn’t know how much text there would be before he started …
I am not sure how to take this. Are we to understand that the OP is, quite literally, a first draft, which Abram simply started writing and just wrote all the way from start to finish without editing?
I have super wide bounds on the degree to which people use drafts. A lot of Scott Alexander’s writing is done without any editing, if I remember correctly, so it seems quite plausible to me that this is indeed Abram’s first draft, with only very minor editing.
Separately from my other comment:
I’m really not sure I buy this. What’s wrong with drawing the diagrams and illustrations on an iPad, and then putting them in as images, with the rest of the post being text? I’m not demanding any sort of “all diagrams must be painstakingly constructed in Illustrator” standard. By all means have hand-drawn diagrams!
I am not sure how to take this. Are we to understand that the OP is, quite literally, a first draft, which Abram simply started writing and just wrote all the way from start to finish without editing?
I have super wide bounds on the degree to which people use drafts. A lot of Scott Alexander’s writing is done without any editing, if I remember correctly, so it seems quite plausible to me that this is indeed Abram’s first draft, with only very minor editing.