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Glad you like it! I actually thought of this concept not via coding -- I re-taught myself beginning in my mid-40s, but by then I'd been using this writing technique for 20 years -- but via seeing someone's transcription-writing technique back in the 90s ....

They used this format to write up the words as they transcribed a document, before formally cleaning it up into prose. I found it oddly compelling to look at, and started using it not for transcriptions but for my first drafts!

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Clive Thompson
Clive Thompson

Written by Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net

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