TL;DR: the psest is a new form of creative writing, duets for text, made possible by web3. Find an example of a psest here. ~ I. Author’s note I’ve produced this essay, following years of thinking on the subject of digital-era literature, primarily for two reasons. First, to debut my idea for a new literary form, founded on the mechanics of the web, which I’ve named the ‘psest’. The web’s latest iteration, web3, enables this form to move from the conceptual realm into actuality—a cause for ce...