Fantastic article from @hpadkisson about how to use @RoamResearch for qualitative research! An excellent capstone from @nateliason's Effortless Output course. My process has slight differences, but is mostly similar! 🧵👇assumes you read the article ️uxdesign.cc/roam-research-…
One alt approach to her way of capturing data during user interviews uses block references for the questions, and capture each interview on an individual level in daily notes. You can filter the block references for each question in the same way you can filter page references:
Imagine in the above screenshot I made it so instead of saying P01 it said template. Then I could block reference that, apply children as text, and I have the whole user interview script below. Easy templating with block references, see QT
Then I just change the parent node to call out which participant I'm interviewing and everything is sortable through linked references to pages and blocks in the same way as she described in the article! I can filter responses to questions by who said them and how they are coded
What I love about taking notes on user interviews in Roam is that all of my notes related to what users say are on the same workbench as my notes about behavioral science papers. It's easy to code a user's responses to questions so they interact with my broader knowledge base.
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Reading @DellAnnaLuca’s excellent book “Ergodicity” in its Roam form right now. The book’s content is excellent, but that’s not the focus of this thread. Since it’s pioneering the Roam book form, I wanted to give some thought on how the transition from paper to Roam is handled.
First I’ll point out the positives. It is really cool having the full text accessible in my own database. Annotating directly within Roam allows me access to my full knowledge base, and being able to reorganize its structure as I see fit is a treat.
I love that he made certain Roam/css improvements to augment the reading experience. For example, the styling to allow for footnotes was an excellent choice. Also, having pages built for quick definition lookups is great.
For anyone looking to distract themselves right now, I ported about half of @Thinkwert's "Principus" choose-your-own-adventure story into GuidedTrack, a product where I'm working on the onboarding. Will you become the next emperor of Rome? guidedtrack.com/programs/kqgtv…
I only wrote out ~half of the original megathread, up until the point where you succeed at becoming the emperor. There were about 40 outcomes after that, so I decided to wrap up there. You can find the initial megathread here:
I have no idea how long it must have taken him to write this initially with quote tweets to many tiny linked threads. With GuidedTrack it basically felt like I was just typing the thing out, there weren't extra implementation steps coming from a GUI that isn't made for this.
What impact do you believe competition generally has on a person's performance? When people feel competitive social forces, do they step up their game or do they crack under the pressure?
In a meta-analysis of 474 studies on the relationship b/w competition and performance, @KouMurayama & Elliot found an overall effect size of .03 of competition on performance. So basically no effect on performance. But there's more to the story here... psycnet.apa.org/record/2012-28…
Intuitively, most of us would feel that competition has some impact on performance. Maybe it works better for some people than others, or there are some characteristics of the competitive situation that lead people to be effective or ineffective?
Money and fame are a possible result of my ambition, but they aren't "the" ambition. I want to create a world where people are able and willing to do hard but necessary behaviors, mainly fueled through hyper learning engines like consulting/startup studios robhaisfield.com/notes/hyper-le…
Dan Ariely phrased it interestingly here. The world we have created was by 8 billion irrational people for 8 billion rational people. Given that, we have a lot of room for improvement! Rationality debates are a bit of a distraction but the mood is right
Imagine if we didn't have problems coordinating collective action on long-term issues that go beyond our immediate self-interest, like climate change and public health? Imagine if when people wanted to look like an athlete they would just put in the exercise to make it happen?
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: