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Oct 3, 2020 10 tweets 4 min read Read on X
And the first [[Path to Power User]] query workshop is done! Some thoughts: 👇️🧵️

Also, #roamcult, if you're interested in staying in the loop for future workshops, sign up here: guidedtrack.com/programs/gtkgt…
You need to understand how pages are connected together in order to understand what the results of a query or linked reference filter will be. This seemed to be the most powerful thing people learned: how Roam recognizes connections. Look at the results of this query:
Seriously, none of the popular material I've seen online for Roam explicitly addresses how indentation within a block hierarchy works to say "[[page 1]] is related to [[page 2]]." Some rules of thumb:

People also benefitted from the idea of queries as custom views of your data. It's like creating saved views of a database in Notion, except you don't have to structure every page you have into metadata. Connections come from indentation, not rigid columns
I could have had a clearer structure. A lesson plan with course materials that people could copy in from a public database. I jumped around a bit. Asides were of varying usefulness. Here's a fun one - Try filtering unlinked refs for anything. Here I'm pulling in websites.
I think part of my issue there was I didn't know what page everyone was on. For future workshops, I'll probably require prerequisite material. Then we could have a more effective Q&A guided discussion under shared understanding.
I like doing live events, so an alt structure here is that I could create a package of instructional materials that people can purchase on their own, and then have a live event to discuss those materials. More of a flipped classroom approach. I like specific subjects over courses
There were some technical difficulties. Breakout rooms, some issues with the size of text on the screen, etc. In the future, I'll use a CSS that's closer to vanilla. These should be easy enough to resolve for future workshops.
For those who weren't able to make it live, you'll receive the recording in the next week! I may want to edit and reshoot a few parts of it for clearness sake and not making people rewatch technical difficulties. "Little rough around the edges" lol yup
Overall, I'm happy with how this went! I wasn't expecting nearly as many participants as I ended up with so it wasn't the "small experiment" I had in mind. I'll be making new workshops and adjusting the query one to do again with what I've learned from this experience.

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Jun 9, 2023
Feel free to reach out if your app is losing users bc they aren't accomplishing their goals.

Informed by behavioral science, game design, & a career helping over a dozen cos w/ continuous onboarding, I'm pretty good at improving adoption & retention through product decisions.
Start here and open new tabs with reckless abandon:

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My trick is focusing on user goals, guiding the user involvement required to succeed, measuring / responding to success, failure, and progress, all through lenses and interventions inspired by what I've seen from behavioral scientists and game designers.

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Nov 18, 2022
Odds are higher than I'd like that we lose Twitter, so please fill this out to stay in touch.

I don't have a newsletter or anything atm, but if I start one, or migrate to another social platform, I'll be sure to reach out so you can join me over there ❤️

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I met the love of my life, made many friends, found community, clients, research opportunities, and jobs all through Twitter. I'll stick around as it goes down, but seeing the effect the leadership is having on the morale and lives of the people who built it is making me doubt.
Mastodon I guess. @robhaisfield@pkm.social pkm.social/@robhaisfield

Farcaster: fcast.me/rhh
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Nov 16, 2022
Notion’s new AI functionality is interesting because it’s mindblowing to many while simultaneously trivial to anyone who’s played with the GPT-3 playground. Probably just a few prepackaged prompts triggered by buttons with some special effort towards using Notion formatting.
Here are some more examples of things you can do within GPT-3. It's not hard, you just need to play with it. At the top, you'll generally have a prompt that gives it a character and a scenario (sort of like improv). Then tell it what you want it to do
Notion's integration with GPT-3 is simultaneously awesome and uninspiring.

I say it's uninspiring because it doesn't take advantage of Notion's functionality or user workspace data at all. It seems to really just be prompt templates as buttons with no personalization.
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Nov 15, 2022
Quick and dirty video on how to use GPT-3 playground to generate structured data automatically to paste directly into Tana.

In this case, I give it a list of birds, tell it what fields I want for each of them, and then GPT-3 will fill them in and format.

.@cazza42 uses @tana_inc to help her with birdwatching. I thought to myself, maybe she wants to record some data about each of the bird species, but that might take a lot of manual work. GPT-3 can do it for her!

If you click on this template link and make an account with @OpenAI, you can try it out! Just give it a different set of birds. Try it with pokemon, dogs, create monsters for your DnD campain...
beta.openai.com/playground/p/q…
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Nov 12, 2022
Love this! @reneedefour uses a bunch of fields here too… that may be useful to you, but remember that fields are optional prompts, not chores! When I tag a #gift, I have fields for who it’s for and whether I’ve given it already or not.
Can be as low or high friction as you want. Here you'll see two ways I captured a gift idea for Ally and both will show up with a LINKS_TO search. LINKS_TO is a wildcard field, and will pull up any relationship to nodes that reference "Ally."

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Here's something a bit fancy - you can add this search directly to the #person supertag, so every person has a query for gift ideas that reference them. By putting PARENT in the value for the field, you make the live search dynamic. Image
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Nov 10, 2022
Every user being verified as human would be valuable to Twitter as a public good. That's not visceral to individuals. One of the problems with verification as a paid service is that most people aren't worried about impersonation, so don't experience the pain directly.
I don't like the idea of making Twitter "pay to play" by charging for reach. Fortnite, one of the most profitable games in the world, never sells players an advantage against other players... it's all cosmetic, self-expression stuff. Game itself is free.
Generally agree with the thrust of this vid that Twitter could gain greater profitability by researching what's worth paying for... most people don't need to care about impersonation. Many top creators want better analytics, better API access, etc.
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