• By limiting the number of characters, Twitter made it impossible to write long sentences and lowered the psychological cost of information dissemination.
  • Scrapbox does not restrict, but encourages rough drafts such as bullet points.
  • Technical knowledge undergoes obsolescence, and StackOverflow has made it possible to discard outdated knowledge by introducing down vote.
    • A ship that has sailed a long voyage washes the shells off the bottom, or she will lose speed and maneuverability. Otherwise, speed is reduced and maneuverability is lost” (Drucker.Management in Turbulent Times”) # even if
  • In Incremental Reading, fragments are presented in an interval repetition method; a post on Twitter is presented after a time delay, depending on the actions of others; on Facebook, one’s own post from a year ago is presented; on Scrapbox, a post with the same link is presented; on Twitter, a post from a year ago is presented; on Scrapbox, a post from a year ago is presented; on Facebook, a post from a year ago is presented. Scrapbox presents the same links.
  • Scrapbox is easy because the cost of my writing is low, and the cost of my reading it back is not too bad, but I seem to get lost when reading what others have written. I wonder if the “literacy” of reading things written in this type of format has not yet developed in the human race.

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