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The Good, the True, and the Beautiful

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I like how you frame it as "beauty" instead of just writing quality. Composition isn’t just a theoretical thing that craft nerds care about, it leads to beauty. I’ve been trying to map this into “the good, the true, and the beautiful.” I think Essay Architecture sits in the 3rd, but the other 2 still matter. It’s possible to write a beautiful essay that is also an evil lie. I should probably write something how you don’t want to obsess over beauty in a vacuum—you want to use composition to articulate something good (generally subjective) and true (generally objective).

Another note on this is that maybe things shift from subjective/objective as you scale in an out. It’s a subjective choice on which medium you pick (writing/music/code), but then each medium has objective constraints, but then you have subjective liberty in how you solve each constraint.