What’s a NeoBook?
(draft) Rethinking how ideas have sex.
If you deduced "new" and "book," you're on the right path, but you're only getting the tip of the story. You see, the "book" part is only there as bait. A NeoBook can look like a book, which is a recognizable cultural artifact. Smart people put their knowledge inside books, right?
But the book aspect of a NeoBook is just a starting point, a familiar frame of reference. From there, things get really interesting, because:
- The NeoBook is composed of "Nuggets" that live independently online.
- More specifically, NeoBooks Are Playlists of Specific Nuggets.
- Any of which might be part of a different NeoBook.
- All of which connect visitors to additional resources, plus (importantly) conversations and communities related to each nugget.
So a good NeoBook is alive, in the sense that it lives in community, which tries to improve the work over time.
One reason for NeoBooks is a belief that Books and PDFs Are Where Ideas Go to Die. We need to Help Ideas Have Sex, for which we need to Level Up Media.
This article is cross-posted on Substack here, Medium here and LinkedIn here. It's also here in my Brain.