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12 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I tweet a lot because I’ve already tweeted a lot and have to thread my thoughts together. If all of the things I’ve tweeted were in Roam I could just thread things there and I’d probably be a lurker here. Also I like attention.
Honestly though has anyone made a single player Twitter client? Tweet and search only, no news feed or notifications? I feel a bit of a compulsion to add onto threads sometimes but I get sucked into exploratory browsing.
Anyone else catch themselves opening Twitter, checking notifications to see if there’s anything to deal with, and then OPENING THE NEWSFEED? That’s a dangerous string of behaviors if you’re cutting down distractions. Two gateway behaviors! I just wanna write thoughts & thread
Yes! My thing is that for creation I would need to have search since threading and quote tweeting is so core to the way I think. @draftsapp is fantastic for writing quick tweets that aren’t in a thread where I don’t need to QT anything I’ve written before.
Sometimes I wish that instead of a newsfeed, I just had a list of the people I followed and had to intentionally go to their profile to see what they were talking about. Fabriq (a client of mine) has a visualization that I would like for this purpose. Inner, middle, outer circles

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10 Nov
Yesterday I was given a demo of @codexeditor. Absolutely wacky, in all of the right ways. Everything is an entity on a graph that can have labeled relationships with other entities. The UX is basically creating a new desktop OS in your browser for managing all info on that graph.
When I say everything can be an entity, I mean it... text, images, video, audio, websites. Iian is leaning into workspace model, allowing saved arrangements of what you have on the screen to revisit later. Those are also graph entities you can link to.
Whether it will see broad success or not, I have no idea. It's the sort of thing where you can only wrap your head around it so much without using it. It's insanely ambitious in doing a million things, so we'll see what people will actually do with it
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5 Nov
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.
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4 Nov
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.
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4 Nov
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?
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3 Nov
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: Image
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 ImageImage
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2 Nov
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?
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