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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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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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 -- it totally spiraled out of control
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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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Replying to @jholbo1
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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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.
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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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I’ve been cutting and pasting actual teeet text for things I want to absorb into notes



