trying to make peace with the idea that maybe my ideal writing format is the field guide (informing while informal, beginner-friendly, less about how cool I am and more about getting people excited about stuff)
@ingrid I was thinking the other day about how some of my favorite books are different in format from standard nonfiction, especially in being more straightforwardly (and sometimes elliptically) pedagogical, and I just think there’s a ton of value in that
