ok done cleaning out my gmail and so i'm going to clean out my DMs
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I should probably write a guide for people asking for help like this... actually IIRC Jimmy Wales once wrote a Quora answer that basically covers it. Yeah, here we go:
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I get a bunch of DMs along the line of something like, will you check out this idea I have
I have like, "check out stranger's idea" bankruptcy, I barely have time to check out the ideas of my friends
it's not personal, I used to ignore when he DM'd me about his idea
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actually I think we can pinpoint it to just one specific user:
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vgr is an older, grumpier, more skeptical version of me, with a larger body of work (in terms of writing and blogposts), so if he's sold on a tool than I'm pretty much sold by extension. I'm not sure what persuaded him
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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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well from the thread itself it looks like he was persuaded, at least in part, by adam
how did adam end up trying roam?
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If you want to try yourself, here's the link:
roamresearch.com
Demos / articles:
roamresearch.com/#/v8/help/page
Other resources that were helpful for the understanding what makes good notes:
lesswrong.com/posts/NfdHG6oH
lesswrong.com/posts/T382CLwA
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