Doing research for ‘Penumbra,’ I read quite a bit about the early history of printing, and the more I did, the more it sounded like… the Internet today. There was crazy competition and upheaval; there were constant arguments about new techniques, new materials, new machines; and, of course, there were fortunes to be made. Robin Sloan Read Quote
Baking and coding involve using the same parts of your brain and a lot of the same skills, like being able to follow directions or create directions in a very systematic way. Robin Sloan Read Quote
There’s just no escaping it: The half-life of media on the Internet is super short. Tweets flow and fade; pages that look great today will be gone or, at best, riddled with broken links and outmoded code in five years, tops. Robin Sloan Read Quote
Print books have an amazing superpower because they don’t disappear when you’re done with them. Books on the shelf remind you that they exist. Robin Sloan Read Quote
