5 Minutes on The Verge: Robin Sloan
You may know writer and media inventor Robin Sloan from his writings on media and technology at Snarkmarket with Tim Carmody and Matt Thompson, or more recently from his fascinating Fish tap essay for iOS.
I love the web, but man, I look at my browser and there are like twenty tabs up there, all jostling for space and time, all framed by a mosaic of other apps, other work, other entertainment… so even when I really am paying attention to something on the web, there’s this peripheral haze.
I wanted to escape that environment. I wanted to make something that demands your full attention — something that’s maybe even a little unreasonable about its demands. Thus: iPhone app, no back button, one sentence at a time.
