What is Compression? Before I get to prompts, a quick detour into the past. Six years ago, I wanted a Nintendo Switch. My father bought me Steve Jobs's biography and said he'd give me the Switch if I finished the book. I was in third grade at the time, and the biography ran to roughly 800 pages. Spellbound by the promise of that Nintendo, I started reading with no plan at all, and it still took me six months to finish. For a third-grader, it was a brutal lift. Four years later I was in middle school and had to submit an assignment on Apple. Embarrassing as it is to admit, I did it by reading Namuwiki. That is the point: Namuwiki 1 was the compressed version of Steve Jobs's biography. There are things you only get from reading the full book, details from Apple's early years, for instance, or the anecdote about spending a full forty hours developing the ability to overlap windows. But none of that mattered much for the assignment.…