Rudi seitz story
From Anything Goes Wiki
Intention
I intend to help people feel understood.
Belief
I believe people speak more naturally when they feel understood.
I believe words are easier to understand when you know the intentions behind them.
I believe words are easier to understand when you know their background.
People
My people are struggling to be understood.
My people love to read and write but they get stuck.
My people love words but are frustrated with words.
Invention
My invention helps people share what they are thinking and feeling about what they are writing.
My invention helps writers reveal their intentions.
An evolving essay about (and using) my invention is here: reprose.org
Personal Stories
I helped a friend understand a difficult piece of writing
I helped a stranger discover a calming sound
I helped word lovers have fun
I helped single people meet through their favorite words
I helped my mom think about my brother's resume
Exploring My Beliefs
writer's block
I believe writer's block comes from the fear of being misunderstood
I believe there is structure in what anyone says, even when they ramble
I believe working with prose is harder than it needs to be
software prose analogy
I believe writing software and writing prose are similar as creative processes
I believe writing prose today is too much like programming in assembly language
how we read
I believe reading requires concentration
I believe readers need help concentrating
I believe writers can do more to help readers concentrate
I believe readers concentrate more fully when they understand the author's intentions
what writers waste
I believe writers don't often share what they know about own their words
I believe that what writers know about their own words can help readers understand those words
how we help each other
I believe it is easier to help someone when you know their intentions
I believe it is easier for readers to comment on a writer's work when they understand the writer's intentions
Invention Details
I am starting a conversation about writing and reading
I am building a simple system for marking up prose documents with the author's actual or possible intentions
I am building a system for displaying marked-up prose in a way that is fun to read
I believe the concepts of comment, annotation, and assertion from software programming can help writers
I believe a markup system must be natural or writers won't use it
I believe specifying what we know about a document can help us work with it
Update: 9/3/2010
I believe entrepreneurs are trying to express something with their inventions
I believe inventions do more than solve a problem, they carry a message
I believe entrepreneurs are often misunderstood
I believe inventions often fail to convey an entrepreneur's true message
I believe entrepreneurs can express themselves in multiple ways
I believe entrepreneurs can express themselves through inventions and through words
I believe messages are clearer when they are encoded and shared in more than one way
I believe words and inventions go hand in hand
I believe entrepreneurship involves human language as well as the language of inventions
