aaron5

haha! I try to keep myself to one complaint or less per day, and ten cuss-words or less per day. The days I break my cuss-word quota are the days I use the microwave.

I've earned paychecks teaching and presenting for more than ten years, and the powerpoint is just passive, as you said. You sit back. Your brain lulls as you wait to be fed information. I'm not necessarily opposed to it, but...

Anything that can be manipulated - blackboard, open .doc file projected that you type into, or (maybe best) The Prop - gives a sense of the living tool. It's not the finished product; it's not your Auntie's knick-knacks. It's the living tool. And everybody wants to play with a new tool, even if it's just by asking a question so you'll modify a cell and re-run.

Also, the real-time interaction of changing things in front of people gives them something more: a chance to glance around and take in social cues that are lost while everyone's passively staring at a powerpoint.

Don't know why I wrote all that. Guess I'm preaching to the choir, and maybe I'm just spurring myself to move away from some of my own bad practices... or maybe, I'd love a little experiment, since my money's on #2. Ask a lecturer to give the same presentation, once with a blackboard, once with a powerpoint. And take a survey before and after both lectures (different participants of course) and see if there really is a difference.

Anyways glad you've had some luck with your Jupyter notebooks! (Just looked them up - they seem really cool!)

And writing that piece for The Atlantic is a fine accomplishment, too.

I read somewhere (or internalized) something like: great mythologies are full of good humor. I love how his opening paragraph is of angst so relatable (social group) and so laughable (here's my consulting partner, Rabbit).

You get 2 or 3 free looks at Creator X's stuff each day; you pay 10¢ for all Creator X's stuff for 24 hours. In return, no ads, no tracking, etc. Hopefully will help journalists, web-artists, writers, musicians, educators, and other smart creative people like you.

The history of writing is in ink. The static page encloses the writer to his audience. But what if his audience is broader, wittier, funnier, smarter, or sexier than its central mass? Alas they are sacrificed to the writer's stomach.

But by nested writing, now he can write for all. Those who want to delve can click the end of his paragraph; those who don't can just continue.

Especially in technical writing this has use. For example, about 50% of Github readme information goes right over my head; another 40% is boring slog that I already know. It's the same for you. In a knowledge community we only actively learn from a sliver of the enlightening rays, and to find that sliver we bumble through a spectrum we can't see. Yet, by nesting paragraphs, a single writer can communicate on each wavelength: from specific to lay.

But who wants this tool? I don't know!

As far as UI, I really don't know much in that direction either. So, I just went for simple simple.

Anyways, thank you so much again for having a look! My first post on HN and you commented on it. Very gracious of you.