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Historically I've tended to think of myself more as a Hedgehog. For at least the last 12 years, I've tended to put a huge amount of intellectual effort into trying to figure out and articulate my "Grand Unified Theory of Everything"
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Evolution, Predictive Processing, Christianity, Psychedelics, The Simulation Argument, Clojure, The Memex, Post-Capitalism, FOSS, Startups... , @richhickey, Julian Jaynes, Doug Engelbart... All of em are connected in my head
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Result was that I never got to a thesis I was comfortable permanently attaching my name to in the university archives So I chose to drop out - even though my advisor was happy with the draft.. was basically formatting changes away from degree.
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Viscerally remember the months and months of cut up drafts laid out on the table, circles and arrows drawn on the whiteboard, trying to make the pieces fit. Same pain again when putting together conference talks for Aol/HuffPost after startup was acquired
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Still, always thought I was a hedgehog with inability to clearly see and articulate the unifying theory I felt intuitively was there (always missing 1 LAST thread to tie it all together) Never saw myself as a fox trying to reverse engineer a worldview from distinct observations
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On reflection though, I think 's totally right. And as a product totally has that bias built in. One of the first times we were mentioned on twitter was a recommendation for someone looking for an app to map out conspiracy theories
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yEd is OK: yworks.com/products/yed @Conaw's Roam is supposed to be good for some related problems: roamresearch.com
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I've had a bit of trouble when people ask for use cases for Roam, because to me, team, and a lot of early adopters, it's useful for pretty much everything Projects / Tasks / Project Management Meeting and Reading Notes Journaling and Writing Thing is... we're mostly all insane
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