The author spent a month exploring how to create better workflows that combine human intuition with machine intelligence, focusing on the significance of designing better notations for understanding ourselves, the world, and our place in it. The post delves into the diversity of notations, including writing systems, mathematical notation, dance notation, and music notation. The article discusses the power of notation to make abstract ideas concrete and examines the desirable properties of good notation, emphasizing unambiguity, expressiveness, suggestiveness, and natural transformation. Additionally, the piece explores computable notation in programming languages and its potential to revolutionize how we work with knowledge.
https://thesephist.com/posts/notation/