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Roam is interesting for tables in a different way than spreadsheets. It’s less powerful in spreadsheety features, but more conducive to hybrid tabular-narrative thinking. I don’t want to do complicatedops with this table and can think better with it in Roam than Google sheet.
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Here I’m trying to think through the hypothesis is that the world is going from vertical to horizontal grain at a deep level. Easier in Roam than spreadsheet.
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I score 14 horizontal, 9 vertical, 5 neutral in this list of 28 indicator items. So I am basically a horizontally oriented person, which is mildly interesting, since my successes have come from hacking vertical.
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I never liked the idea of a personal brand much, but I think I made my peace with it because it was the way of the world from like 2000-2015. I prefer to do a few things vertically, but in general, my basic personality is horizontal.
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I get the udea, but still have a tough time interpreting the distinction you’re going for I imagine it’s more valuable to be vertical in a horizontal world & vice versa
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Depends. It is also vastly costlier to go against the grain of the world, so you have to be radically more valuable to make a profit of it. Also, personal preferences grain are even costlier to violate.
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One is a ledger IDE, the other is a mental scaffolding IDE. I hope Roam does not succumb to feature bloat? It might need an extensibility layer to allow a third-party plug-in ecosystem to emerge.
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It's definitely trying to be a platform with rudimentary coverage of all features but not best-in-class for any of them. I think the hope is apps built on top of APIs provide the depth.
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The most common use of excel was always lists. The whole "lets add dimensions and explore the heck out of our list" practice gets in the way of list thinking and generation.