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Michael Dean
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Architect-turned-writer, founder of Essay Architecture. Building pattern languages, software, anthologies, and community for essayists.

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Prose-based OS

· 100 words

What if the root of an OS was a place to just stream prose without too much concern over where it goes? If you only let yourself write in the context of logs, essay draft, memos, or typewriter one pagers, it’s constraining. I’m experimenting with a daily gDocs page that I use just to think out loud. It should be mostly a stream of consciousness—a way just to shift through ideas in my head. I realized that all morning I was stuck inside of a thought loop. Even though I got some stuff done, I didn’t have my head tuned right. It seems like a simple walk & location change fixed that, and now I’m moving forward