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293 points kaycebasques | 2 comments | 18 Oct 24 17:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.408s | source
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smokel ◴[18 Oct 24 21:04 UTC] No.41883472[source]▶
They say you should not judge a book by its cover, but I found it very hard not to [1]. After I found out the book was from 2013 I felt a slight sense of relief.

[1] https://xmlpress.net/publications/eppo/

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1. kaycebasques ◴[18 Oct 24 21:05 UTC] No.41883479[source]▶
What's even more ironic is that it's the most profound book about technical writing that I have yet found in my 12-year career.

It also inspired me to deep-dive into how the pages of my docs site relate to each other, which yielded some useful insights: https://technicalwriting.dev/data/intertwingularity.html

(Baker's book led me to Too Big To Know, which in turn led me to the concept of intertwingularity)

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2. dweinberger ◴[20 Oct 24 13:46 UTC] No.41895332[source]▶
Hi. I wrote Too Big to Know, and your post intertwingled me with this thread, these books, and you.

(Note: I'm taking Google Alerts & Ego Salve as an ironic agent of Ted Nelson's concept of intertwingularity.)