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    1. metamitya‏ @metamitya 15 Oct 2018
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      From this knowledge base I should be able to aggregate all platforms, recombine information, and broadcast back out to all of them simultaneously if I want while keeping a curated repository of what ive learned/done.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 15 Oct 2018
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      I built a product very similar in concept to your knovigator back in 2009-11 at Xerox: trailmeme (google images should still have views). HTML5 visual "trail" (== quest) maps compiled via search results and a browser extension.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 15 Oct 2018
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      It deadpooled in part (this is my analysis) that only a very tiny fraction of potential users have the curatorial drive to use meta products. A competitor to trailmeme at the time, pearltrees, is still limping along. This is an uncanny valley zone in product design space.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 15 Oct 2018
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      You can either add specialized vertical toolchain bits for sectors like education and healthcare to go niche, or you can get really ambitious and try to invent a native social medium around your quests. We tried both with trailmeme. Neither worked.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 15 Oct 2018
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      The specialized direction is basically an enterprise product direction and needs to be imagined with specific sector in mind, not skinning overlaid on to a generic platform. The generic direction needs to be built around social connection rather than knowledge (we realized late)

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 15 Oct 2018
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      I've personally concluded this is product badlands for now. Needs another breakthrough insight to reopen this category for further development. There have been like literally dozens of failed attempts going back to things like hypercard

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 15 Oct 2018
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      The vision goes back to Vannevar Bush's 'As We May Think' and has been a chimera/mirage ever since. That essay even mentions ideas like "trails" which is where we got inspiration. Don't mean to discourage you, but the idea maze here is deep. All the best.http://cdixon.org/2013/08/04/the-idea-maze/ …

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    8. Jeff Tang‏ @tangjeff0 Jan 31
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      Didn't see any of your tweets reference "idea mazes" in particular, @conaw. Now thinking about the relationship between graphs and mazes🤔

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    9. Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸‏ @Conaw Jan 31
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      Replying to @tangjeff0 @vgr and

      Would love to see @balajis publicly map an idea maze in @RoamResearch, especially in the crypto or news/trust landscape. Exactly what we built the tool for. Startups are interdisciplinary and collaborative phd theses. Have to be right about many things others are wrong about.pic.twitter.com/64HSZEW8pL

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    10. Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸‏ @Conaw Jan 31
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      Replying to @Conaw @tangjeff0 and

      Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸 Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

      Thanks for bringing back this old thread @tangjeff0, points still relevant. Especially as we think about twitter import. Sounds like we renewed your optimism on the space @vgr. Connecting these threads. Singing "Badlands" in my head.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1199508000194433024?s=19 …

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      Venkatesh Rao @vgr
      Tentatively, I think this deserves hype it’s getting. If they solve intake, it will be a genuine paradigm shift. They’ve managed to actually do what we tried valiantly to do with trailmeme at xerox a decade ago. I can spot all the things they’ve done right that we got wrong.
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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 31
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      Replying to @Conaw @tangjeff0 and

      Indeed. I'd kinda lost hope for this product category. Kudos.

      2:18 PM - 31 Jan 2020
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