Presenting the Foldable Tractatus

I made a thing: the Foldable Tractatus, a free and open-source web app designed to make reading Wittgenstein's famous first book only hard (as opposed to really hard without it). I'm quite proud of this! First, you can check it out now. Then read below why I decided to make this multi-level meta-experiment that no one asked for. A few months ago I had the incredibly brave idea of reading Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. It's famous, it's short, and Wittgenstein's awesome, so why not? In retrospect, I was braver than I could afford. I knew the book was going to be dense, but boy, was it hard to go through. In part it's because of the large array of technical terms scattered all over it, in part because it's a sequence of assertions with little or no justification and zero concrete examples. These things I can't really complain about, because the author is trying to convey very abstract, fine points while preserving the underrated virtue of conciseness: his aim is…