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The constraints and expectations of the medium strongly influence the content. If I had an idea and wanted to communicate it, then I did so by recorded video,
by a-priori 6y ago
The constraints and expectations of the medium strongly influence the content.
If I had an idea and wanted to communicate it, then I did so by recorded video, by live video, by blog post, by Twitter thread, and by HN comment, the same idea would be presented in very different ways.
In the same way, a writer who publishes something by HTML (blog post, etc.) will produce a very different document than if they intend to publish it by PDF (ebook, etc.). They tailor their message to the constraint and expectations of the medium.