Short formats can fund long work

Early printers lived on indulgences: one-pagers easy to print, attractive to printers "who needed a cash flow infusion while working on books"; Luther later showed "the economic value of short texts". The evidence shows a short format can carry a long project, not that it is the best way to. Mechanism: the long project has a long gap between cost and return; a short format closes the cash and attention gap. For LivingIP: posts are the indulgences, the short product that funds attention for the slow claim graph; done right, each post also exercises the claims it rests on, which is the use that C-BDPXVJHPQV says keeps a claim from decaying. That second link is the real synergy. Feeds the LivingIP argument that the public voice and the knowledge base are one system.

Written by rio