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1403/09/29
ANNO·​VICESIMO·​OCTAVO·​DIE·​TRECENTESIMO·​QVADRAGESIMO·​SEXTO·​VITÆ·​POVYA

I think I need to be constantly reading biographies to stay truly motivated.

I hate places where there is a focus on just a single thing. My mind craves diversity and maybe that my view towards life and work. That’s maybe the reason I work this way.

InterfaceBasedRelationsinHyperDocuments
Interface Based Relations in Hyper Documents

Interface Based Relations in Hyper Documents

  1. Web Allows for “Linking” pages. That is “Referencing” a page in another page.

  2. In the Markdown extensions exists the idea of “Front-Matter”; Or attributes that are attached to Markdown text. The product “Notion” goes further and makes this into a database with Documents as the base of what is stored.

  3. Ted Nelson believed in “Transclusion” that is quoting by referencing exact positions in the mother data and taking something out of that place.

  • I don’t want a webpage system; But 3 different things combined together:
  • A document
  • A database
  • A Software.

In the archives; I have the data living as source code in the software; in the pages of the Archive, I have all sorts of data coming and joining together.

A quote for example can reference anything “that provides the means to be a source.”

The world of software usually is all about “strictness”. There are every sort of automation in there to condition the user; that is not acceptable in the way we do our messy crafting.

Systems like Self; believed that by the notion of “Prototypes”; the user can be free from all sorts of strictness; that was as well inside the Smalltalk system that already used messaging for similar means.

In the archives; I wish to have different things: A) A document that has content and attributes. B) A document transcluded into another (quotes) C) The host system; querying info from transcluded data; say the quote requesting anything that can have “Source protocol”; so for example:

a figure showing a document layout with 'Title' and 'AUTHOR' fields. An arrow points from a drawing of a book (labeled with 'AUTHOR' and 'Title') to these fields, illustrating how a book as a 'source' provides metadata to a quote. An explanatory text to the right says: 'A book can be a 'source' and introduce its Author and Title as the source info to the quote.'

Having quotes like this requires the reference to be generic and accept anything that is exposing a certain protocol/interface.

This is radically different from the way a relational database works; and also from the ideas of Hypertext.

Certain things can have specialized views as well in this system. So; for example: Maybe a quote wishes to be programmatic.

In this case maybe it also is worth having prototypes in the system: To require certain data to be overridden and programmatically changed.

This creates a new question: How should the software look like here? How should the document?

And when thinking about the document; I think about something visually rich; like a DK book; full of amazing layouts and stunning looks; it has to be possible as well.

Quotes & Excerpts

[Tom Murphy and Dan Burke] were two of the most authentic people I’ve ever met, genuinely themselves at all times. No airs, no big egos that needed to be managed, no false sincerity. They comported themselves with the same honesty and forthrightness no matter who they were talking to. They were shrewd business people (Warren Buffett later called them “probably the greatest two-person combination in management that the world has ever seen or maybe ever will see”), but it was more than that. I learned from them that genuine decency and professional competitiveness weren’t mutually exclusive. In fact, true integrity—a sense of knowing who you are and being guided by your own clear sense of right and wrong is a kind of secret weapon. hey trusted in their own instincts, they treated people with respect, and over time the company came to represent the values they lived by. A lot of us were getting paid less than we would have been Paid if we went to a competitor. We knew they were cheap. But we stayed because we felt so loyal to these two men.

ROBERT IGER
✧ The Ride of A Lifetime

[Tom Murphy and Dan Burke] hired people who were smart and decent and hardworking, they put those people in positions of big responsibility, and they gave them the support and autonomy needed to do the job. They were also tremendously generous with their time and always accessible. Because of this, executives working for them always had a clear sense of what their priorities were, and their focus enabled us all to be focused, too.

ROBERT IGER
✧ The Ride of A Lifetime

[Roone Arledge’s] storytelling instincts were as sharp as ever. But it was such a stressful way to kick things off, and a reminder of how one person’s unwillingness to give a timely response can cause so much unnecessary strain and inefficiency.

ROBERT IGER
✧ The Ride of A Lifetime
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