Bless the toolmakers →
Robin Sloan:
So I wish more people were making tools for a specific creative purpose rather than for general consumer adoption. I wish more people were making tools that very intentionally do not scale—tools with users by the dozen. Tools you experience not through a web signup form, but through pathbreaking creative work.
Building tools for our small (but growing) stable of bloggers has been a primary focus in the early months of the StateImpact project I work on at NPR. We are striving to make the production of data-rich content as frictionless as possible for our writers.
