Airtable, but as an open standard, could upend computing. Finder, Windows Explorer, relational databases, bookmarks, Evernote and Dropbox all feel very limited for dealing with the terabytes of information I’d like to use as a creative canvas.
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They all solve different parts of the puzzle well. But they also all dodge the desire for universally accessible standards for dealing with generic resources at varying levels of fidelity. They all feel highly in-fluid and un-moldable. They don’t encourage hacking.
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I want Lisp, but as a user interface. Instapaper, but for everything. I’d expected that we’d vastly improved how we manipulate big data sets by now. Little progress has been made in the last 15 years. I should be able to solve many new needs with old tools. It’s all just data.
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