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Have you ever wanted to move to the country, buy a farm and live off the land?
It seemed for a time, the latest digital gold rush would be fought over social media platforms and virtual acres on some metaverse. And that the narrowing gaps of attention and seconds of eye-ball time . To carve out a successful life one simply had to rent where everyone else was.
Which isn't a bad thing, everyone needs to live a thriving life and have a chance at changing the world. Though it is good to get out into nature once in a while.
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I'm interested in ways to make long-form content easier to digest and skim while still keeping it long-form.
I've long been fascinated by long-form content's ability to convey things that short-form cannot. A thirty-second Tik-Tok summarizing a book will inform you, but to truly understand the meaning of it to some deep level you need to spend time reading it. Like marinating or stewing your thoughts.
However long-form typically takes a one-size fits all approach. You read at the pace and manner of the writer and the words set in stone. The format means we skim or brush over sections of text in order to speed though something that goes too dense for our liking.
This is the format you see here, is it helpful?
I wondered what it would mean to divide long form into layers - one that caters to those who want to zoom out, or zoom into the text.
Inspired by headings and text formatting, I wanted to organize text into a repeatable pattern l;ike you see here. Does it lead to an experience of reading that helps summarize long form content, without taking away its ability to help you marinate?
Importantly, can these act as headings, without it feeling like headings that seperate text into discrete categories of information.
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