Thread by @brandontoner

What’s happening in #RoamBookClub feels like a breakthrough in collaboration.

It’s exciting to watch the chaos evolve into order. Structure and convention taking form.

I just keep thinking of how profound this will be once the conventions take place and large communities can become aligned in pursuit of a common goal.

Imagine getting 100 experts on a topic together, and giving them a format to collaborate both synchronously and asynchronously.

In a medium that encourages elaboration and nuance.

One where time is not a factor because you’re not competing for “air-time”

Where assertions and facts could be presented, countered, supported and discussed efficiently by all.

This sounds like a tool and a process that could effectively allow us to pursue *truth*. Real truth.

Think what this could do for public discourse.

If people could effectively contribute to discussions in a lasting and non-fleeting way.

One where quality outweighed recency.

And truth outweighed attention-grabbing.

There are bright futures I’m starting to see with stronger tools for collaboration.

@RoamResearch is pushing and defining those boundaries.

And I’m happy to be a part of the journey.

Or what this could do for big societal problems.

Think of how we could reinvent “summits” and “conferences”

By removing collaborating in large groups is hard. So much knowledge in the room, yet, many connections unmade.

Many discussions missed. Many insights slipped by.

What if we could bend time?

What if a live session was complimented by an asynchronous and compounding collaborative database.

One that could create the space and circumstance for insight and cumulative understanding.

Block by block.

Whoops — omit “by removing”