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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦 Retweeted Eugene Wei

      This is critical for allowing writers to write deep thoughts using new concepts without having to re-explain themselves every time, but also not having to manually pull up a reference link for each use of a term... & ofc some people don't even try 😂https://twitter.com/eugenewei/status/1193662458835038208 …

      Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦 added,

      Eugene Wei @eugenewei
      The internet version of the illusion of transparency (false perception that everyone knows what you’re thinking and feeling) is the mistaken belief that your followers/subscribers/readers have memorized everything you’ve tweeted/blogged/newslettered.
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    2. Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      And we haven't even gotten to some of the more epic features of roam, including the ability to embed-quote nodes or entire subtrees, and to see where a given piece is quoted. This allows for remixing old pieces or drafts, producing meta-commentary, & stuff I haven't even dreamed!

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    3. Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦 Retweeted Visakan Veerasamy

      Previously the best thing for this was twitter & QTs (and it's still better along some dimensions) See @visakanv's answer to @vgr's original questionhttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1200325448313405441 …

      Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦 added,

      Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv
      Replying to @vgr
      Basically my twitter thread webs, but editable, and without character limits. (Or 1000chars or something.) A bunch of long threads would get condensed into shorter ones https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1071803092331520001?s=21 … https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1071803092331520001 …
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    4. Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      There are challenges though. People find http://meaningness.com  daunting to read because they don't know where to start. In order to ensure I read the whole thing, I chose to just go in ToC order anyway. I guess the main value is being able to publish a half-written book at all.

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    5. Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      So going back to @vgr's original point, @RoamResearch is clearly not built around a core use case of blogging and has barely optimized for it at all... and yet it's already a powerful platform for this. What's possible with a few years of further development?

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    6. Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      Here's what I'd like to see for roam to make it better for graph-based-blogs: 😍 1. Basic usability stuff: shareable page url with previews, custom header/theme/css, private drafts, commenting (block-level!)

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    7. Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      😍 2. Better ways to organize posts to point people to new content & updated-old content. Currently landing page is Daily Notes, which is... sort of appropriate for a blog... but it ends up being mostly blank unless actively updated frequently.

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    8. Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      😍 3. Subscribe-related features. One option I would like is to be able to easily export a page as HTML and pipe it straight into wordpress+RSS and into mailchimp, so that I can announce new posts to followers. Could also be more internal.

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    9. Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      😍 4. What-I've-Read tracking. This is key for nonlinear reading. Visited-links turning purple is the Web 1.0 version of this, but it doesn't suffice when pages may also be updated. It needs to be both on a page level and on a node level.

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    10. Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦 Retweeted Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦

      😍 5. Inter-roam linking/embedding. I've talked to @Conaw & this is en route but is tough & needs a new data model. 5b. Some extensible standard for doing deep backlinks & embed between completely different *sites*. Revive the blogosphere! Also science 🌎https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1199764376867102723 …

      Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦 added,

      Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦 @Malcolm_Ocean
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      I'm talking not just a citation graph on the level of papers, but on the level of specific claims & quotations being deeplinked. I think that would be really powerful, and would allow for a whole new level of following an author's thinking. https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1195150854581559298 …
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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 29 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean @vgr and

      I’ve looked at roam only briefly so far. What distinguishes it from a wiki?

      7:13 PM - 29 Nov 2019
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        2. Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 30 Nov 2019
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          Replying to @Meaningness @vgr and

          Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦 Retweeted Roam Research

          The back-links thing mentioned above is one answer, the hierarchical workflowy-like structure & ability to embed trees from one place into another is another.https://twitter.com/RoamResearch/status/1199422673102786560 …

          Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦 added,

          Roam Research @RoamResearch
          Replying to @vgr
          It's wiki that is designed for threading, and for having collections of related ideas that you filter through back-links. The soft-prompt for daily notes is that you don't need to think about what page to put an idea in, you just nest it under links to all the related ideas
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        3. Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 30 Nov 2019
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          Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean @Meaningness and

          Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦 Retweeted Conor is Hiring for Roam (DMs open) Designers esp.

          and in terms of large-scale vision... (from my perspective this will also require major changes in *culture*, which is also what I'm working on)https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1173474239069839360 …

          Malcolm  ☣️cean - check sense of smell  👃 —  🌎 🇨🇦 added,

          Conor is Hiring for Roam (DMs open) Designers esp. @Conaw
          Replying to @gordonbrander @chenoehart
          When I imagine it, I see a dependency graph with people publicly saying how certain they are of both the truth of premises and the validity of arguments It's not like Wikipedia, where you get in edit wars, more like twitter with weights vs likes https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1099182673140998144?s=20 …
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