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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean!‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean! Retweeted Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean!

      At *minimum*, one needs accessible quick reminders of what terms mean. Roam's contextual backlink approach is even more valuable as it means you see not just the definitions but also references to what else you've said ABOUT and WITH those conceptshttps://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1134976325029113856 …

      Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean! added,

      Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean! @Malcolm_Ocean
      One model I've found myself dancing with over the past few years is called More than Cool Reason: "Withness-thinking or "systemic thinking" and "thinking *about* systems" Withness and aboutness are two very different modes of thinking! PDF: http://lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/Mail/xmcamail.2012_09.dir/pdfajAMfjg0fI.pdf … pic.twitter.com/EE81RQa4nc
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    2. Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean!‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean! Retweeted Eugene Wei

      This is critical for allowing writers to write deep thoughts using new concepts without having to re-explain themselves every time, but also not having to manually pull up a reference link for each use of a term... & ofc some people don't even try 😂https://twitter.com/eugenewei/status/1193662458835038208 …

      Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean! added,

      Eugene Wei @eugenewei
      The internet version of the illusion of transparency (false perception that everyone knows what you’re thinking and feeling) is the mistaken belief that your followers/subscribers/readers have memorized everything you’ve tweeted/blogged/newslettered.
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    3. Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean!‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      And we haven't even gotten to some of the more epic features of roam, including the ability to embed-quote nodes or entire subtrees, and to see where a given piece is quoted. This allows for remixing old pieces or drafts, producing meta-commentary, & stuff I haven't even dreamed!

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    4. Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean!‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean! Retweeted visa is working on his ebook

      Previously the best thing for this was twitter & QTs (and it's still better along some dimensions) See @visakanv's answer to @vgr's original questionhttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1200325448313405441 …

      Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean! added,

      visa is working on his ebook @visakanv
      Replying to @vgr
      Basically my twitter thread webs, but editable, and without character limits. (Or 1000chars or something.) A bunch of long threads would get condensed into shorter ones https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1071803092331520001?s=21 … https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1071803092331520001 …
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    5. Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean!‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      There are challenges though. People find http://meaningness.com  daunting to read because they don't know where to start. In order to ensure I read the whole thing, I chose to just go in ToC order anyway. I guess the main value is being able to publish a half-written book at all.

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    6. Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean!‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      So going back to @vgr's original point, @RoamResearch is clearly not built around a core use case of blogging and has barely optimized for it at all... and yet it's already a powerful platform for this. What's possible with a few years of further development?

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    7. Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean!‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      Here's what I'd like to see for roam to make it better for graph-based-blogs: 😍 1. Basic usability stuff: shareable page url with previews, custom header/theme/css, private drafts, commenting (block-level!)

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    8. Robert Haisfield‏ @RobertHaisfield May 30
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      Robert Haisfield Retweeted Robert Haisfield

      Related thoughts (though I still haven’t made the switch). I really would love to have Roam as a better publishing platform though. https://twitter.com/roberthaisfield/status/1258100527298011136?s=21 …https://twitter.com/RobertHaisfield/status/1258100527298011136 …

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      Robert Haisfield @RobertHaisfield
      I *really* wanted @RoamResearch to be my digital garden/pseudoblog, but it's not built for it. Will do something resembling @anthilemoon's digital garden. Instructions linked. Thread explains limitations of Roam/why I wish it worked for this 👇https://nesslabs.com/digital-garden-tiddlywiki …
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    9. Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean!‏ @Malcolm_Ocean May 30
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      Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean! Retweeted Robert Haisfield

      Yuppppp all of these are vital. I didn't appreciate the speed thing when I first wrote that thread because I had almost nothing on my roam and it was faster then.https://twitter.com/RobertHaisfield/status/1258100532897435649 …

      Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean! added,

      Robert Haisfield @RobertHaisfield
      -Slow load time. Casual readers aren't so patient. -Not indexed by google searches. The only way people are going to see what I write is if they are linked to it. -Can't pick a starting point for users. Sidebar helps, but doesn't fix the problem of people seeing a blank DN page.
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    10. Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean!‏ @Malcolm_Ocean May 30
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      Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean @RobertHaisfield and

      @Conaw how hard would it be to load the database into memory piecemeal, starting with only the content on the current page then recursively resolving block refs? Hm, that sounds like it might be awful actually haha. But something like that maybe needed.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 30
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      The whole point is to leverage large in-memory I thought. If you want to give up that advantage fir graph altos, you need a gain elsewhere, like machine learning for caching decisions

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        2. Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean!‏ @Malcolm_Ocean May 30
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          Replying to @vgr @RobertHaisfield and

          Yeah I just mean for the workflow of loading a page. Beyond that, keep everything in-memory for sure.

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        3. Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 🇺🇸‏ @Conaw May 30
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          Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean @vgr and

          Yeah exactly. Will be better load experience than spinner, but in msny other ways the same

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