Files are the future

what kinds of files qualify? Does it have to be human readable?

when is a file not enough?

What about collaboration?

Seems like files are good because there are at least multiple readers?

It’s less about the file itself than the code to read/edit the file

• “Incredible journey” startups that give you a json dump

files as interop

• Multiple readers / writers and use the file system as the sync layer and read/write layer

feels like he’s cheating because text files are encoded! They are ansi text

What about automerge documents as “files”? You can save them to the file system, they are richer and have history and all

what he’s really saying is “use plain-text as the encoding for all data” and “use a file on the file system as the container”

Separate the principles from the implementation...

Files got their asses kicked

desirable properties are places not things

• key to a place where you can go to a collaborate

have a place

qualities of materials