[FRIAM] efficacy? effectiveness?

[glen]

Text is King
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/text-is-king

The post is good. But I'd argue not great. There's some missing category to which "text" and "books" etc. belong. And the reason "Text is King" despite any decline in "reading" is because that deeper category is the reason it all matters. He starts to get at it when talking about memory and recording, especially "the billionth stream of 'Golden' is exactly the same as the first".

I don't really have a name for the category. I've heard it called "effective" in the sense of an "effective procedure". There's FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, & reusable) ... and the "+" in FAIR+, including computable. The oft-abused "algorithmic". Etc. *This* is what keeps me coming back to *things like* text.

But I no longer read books, really, wiggling about whatever "read" means. I still buy/download them. And I read parts. But I almost always have to re-slice the thing, reading the parts in a different order, some parts re-read multiple times, others once or never. I'm just no longer willing/able to be a thrall to the writer's design. So his identification of "text" with books seems pretty flawed. Still worth the read ... >8^D

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