from the workshop
Notes on work and how it travels, written while building Balladic.
Planning stops being the thing that precedes the work. It becomes the work. the bottleneck moved upstream Writing enhanced language with permanence. Smoke signals, morse and the telephone gave it nonlocality. the drama of language and technology Translation across context, skillset, subculture, field of interest and level of abstraction is a legitimately difficult task. Somebody has to do it. the translation layer The portal shows what was true when you last tended it. The project has already moved on. the client portal problem Twenty minutes pass and the structure is ready. The work it was built for hasn't begun. your project already has a shape That paragraph is already aging by the time it arrives. A photograph of a river. the reporting tax A context file captures what was true at the moment of writing, then holds perfectly still. context is perishable