I can definitely recommend engaging with Robin Sloan’s essay: “Fish”. It’s a thought provoking and fresh look at the difference between li...

Fish: A Tap Essay

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I can definitely recommend engaging with Robin Sloan’s essay: “Fish”. It’s a thought provoking and fresh look at the difference between liking and loving something on the internet. And it’s a tap essay, housed inside an iPhone app. You can download it free from the app store.

What I love about it is that once you start reading it, you can only go forwards through the essay, not back. Which makes you pay more attention, funnily enough. And the pace of the essay is just too lovely, and for once, it’s nice to let go and read a thought piece exactly the way it was intended to be read, instead of skipping and skimming, as is quite typical of the my reading style at the moment. At various points, you can tweet out the main points from the essay – and a wonderful thing happens when you do – I’ve been delighting in long and valuable discussions with my followers on twitter about it.

There are some great mentions in the essay to other thought pieces, but you don’t get given the links – you are rewarded at the end of the essay with a secret code, that you type into his website and VOILA. Pandora’s box is, er, open so to speak.

The whole experience takes about 10 minutes, depending on how long you ponder over the points made, but I have done it 4 times already. Michaela likes loves this.

 By Michaela MacIntyre (@mich_maci)


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