Michael, this is such a logical, inspired, and valuable extension of your thinking and experience in music and architecture. It is a gift to writers. Thank you for sharing it with the world.
Wow. THANK YOU. I read "A Pattern Language" in my liberal arts college, in a class where we were discussing the ecological and political implications of structure and design. I can not wait to read how you break this down. I also want to revisit Christopher Alexander, since I remember how much that book opened my mind.
Michael, this is such a logical, inspired, and valuable extension of your thinking and experience in music and architecture. It is a gift to writers. Thank you for sharing it with the world.
Plus, wow. Just wow. 🙏 ⭐️🤯
The diagrams help me to understand. I like their handmade quality too. I think there's real juice in the combination of word and image.
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Wow. THANK YOU. I read "A Pattern Language" in my liberal arts college, in a class where we were discussing the ecological and political implications of structure and design. I can not wait to read how you break this down. I also want to revisit Christopher Alexander, since I remember how much that book opened my mind.
Very interesting! If you'd like to see a parallel example of teaching using a pattern language, I refer to a paper in this post, which also introduces Christopher Alexander's concept. The example is teaching video game design. https://open.substack.com/pub/goprefigure/p/how-to-think-like-a-video-game-designer
Thank you for existing.
you had me at "you don't need Rick Rubin"