On Blocks and the Future of Collaboration and Productivity

Virtual LEGOS and more collaborative documents will make Google Docs look quaint by comparison.

members-only post Oct 21, 2021 2-min read

Updated: December 8, 2022

Looks like Canva's all aboard this train.

In 2014, I overhauled my website. I saw the promise of visual editors like Divi by Elegant Themes and went all in. Since that time, it has served as my WordPress theme—and I have stayed with it despite a few bumps along the way. I'm wise enough to know that no application, system, or software is perfect.

As a constant tweaker (no, not the meth kind), Divi just made sense for me. Here's a screenshot of this post:

Note the block-based nature of the Divi Builder. Adding text and video, changing column structure, and creating reusable elements requires zero coding knowledge. (That's not to say that you can't go nuts with your own JavaScript, JQuery, CSS, HTML, and more.) #foreshadowing

Fast-forward to 2021

Today modular website themes are all the rage. (As of now, Elegant Themes sports more than 800,000 customers.) Even WordPress has doubled down on block editors, although plenty of folks hate Gutenberg.

And websites aren't the only tools that are in the early innings of a design revolution.

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