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Andy Matuschak

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Hi! I’m Andy Matuschak . You’ve stumbled upon my working notes. They’re kind of strange, so some context might help.

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Work with the garage door up (2024)

One of my favorite ways that creative people communicate is by “working with their garage door up,” to riff on a passage from Robin Sloan (below). This is the opposite of the Twitter account which mostly posts announcements of finished work: it’s Screenshot Saturday ; it’s giving a lecture about the problems you’re…