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Why does color matter?

Deleted another social media platform from my phone today.

After observing how I work for more than 25 years, I’ve come to realize that I really don’t like needing to create a new file, name a new file, etc. Especially for shorter form things.

Discovery should be easy enough.

I woke up today with an idea for a thinkpiece[1] to write for my personal website, but as I was doing my research, I discovered a legitimate color-related topic[2] for the Colorphilia newsletter to be written, and now I’m trying to decide if I should split it into two separate pieces or leave it as one.

[1] it may be called a post, an essay, or a screed [2] I can obviously make anything into a color-related topic, if I try hard enough, but this is quite literally regarding a term which contains a color-word

In Praise of Purple Prose

I just read a line in an essay by George Orwell which made me cry in this cafe.

The Oxford comma debates are a product of (proxy for?) prescriptivism, partisanism, and Puritanism.

It reminds me of the FBI handbook for infiltrating and disrupting organizations by introducing meaningless debates.

It sounds smart.

And the branding enforces that. No one calls it the “serial comma”, which evokes the same pathos as “serial killer”.

It takes a single (extreme) use case as proof why it’s always required. Which is a straw man.

It is a semiotic signaling of identity, akin to the supposed ichtus in the market.

It’s a logical fallacy and sophistry.

I really do not like technology.

When people are incentivized to post every time in the same optimized format, it helps the first time, but is annoying every additional time.

If we are designing a marketplace, there should be options for more than just basic sales.

Design repository of formats?