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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Conor White-Sullivan‏ @Conaw 29 Nov 2019
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      Evolution, Predictive Processing, Christianity, Psychedelics, The Simulation Argument, Clojure, The Memex, Post-Capitalism, FOSS, Startups... @paulg , @richhickey, Julian Jaynes, Doug Engelbart... All of em are connected in my head

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    2. Conor White-Sullivan‏ @Conaw 29 Nov 2019
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      The trouble for me has always been, how do I lay out this tangled web so that others can FOLLOW IT ADD to it CRITIQUE it IMPROVE it

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    3. Conor White-Sullivan‏ @Conaw 29 Nov 2019
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      When I tried to do even a tiny portion of this in college -- connecting ideas around political legitimacy, moral psychology, web-based collective intelligence, and the startup I was doing @Localocracy -- it totally spiraled out of control

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    4. Conor White-Sullivan‏ @Conaw 29 Nov 2019
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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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    5. Conor White-Sullivan‏ @Conaw 29 Nov 2019
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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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    6. Conor White-Sullivan‏ @Conaw 29 Nov 2019
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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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    7. Conor White-Sullivan‏ @Conaw 29 Nov 2019
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      Conor White-Sullivan Retweeted Ben Hoffman

      On reflection though, I think @vgr's totally right. And @RoamResearch 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 theorieshttps://twitter.com/ben_r_hoffman/status/1131079009989742593 …

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      Ben Hoffman @ben_r_hoffman
      Replying to @jholbo1
      yEd is OK: https://www.yworks.com/products/yed  @Conaw's Roam is supposed to be good for some related problems: http://roamresearch.com/ 
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    8. Conor White-Sullivan‏ @Conaw 29 Nov 2019
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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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    9. Conor White-Sullivan‏ @Conaw 29 Nov 2019
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      There are a lot of different ways to use Roam, mine is among the messier ways, but enough people have asked that I decided to just do a full work session in our public help database tonight, the same way I do writing sessions in our team Roam.https://roamresearch.com/#/v8/help/page/vdtDghsCG …

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    10. Marcin Ignac‏ @marcinignac 30 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @Conaw @RoamResearch and

      Your struggles with tweets in Roam sound very familiar. A command to replace tweet link with text contents would be fantastic. Until then: Share to Bear as Markdown.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @marcinignac @Conaw and

      I’ve been cutting and pasting actual teeet text for things I want to absorb into notes

      12:35 PM - 30 Nov 2019
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        1. Igor V.‏ @codeic 8 Dec 2019
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          Replying to @vgr @marcinignac and

          that sounds painful

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