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18 Mar, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Al-Khwarizmi is often referred to as the father of algebra – a word we owe to him, from the Arabic al-jabr, “the restoring of broken parts”

THE RESTORING OF BROKEN PARTS

THE RESTORING OF BROKEN PARTS

ALGEBRA

bbc.com/future/article…
Luke 12:48
Matthew 13:12
The astrolabe is a gift that KEEPS ON GIVING

So much beautifully appropriate history, and quite a lot to live up to
Timeless tattoos
“Space Gadgets” is in fact an appropriate label for the category

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14 Mar
So - pretty sure I just figured out a way you could get End to End Encryption for some or all of your @RoamResearch notes - as an open source #roamjs plugin - right now.

I'll sketch the idea out in this thread, and in 2 weeks, will award 10k to those who push the idea furthest
I'll also share another big decision we've made -- this week (if God wills it, inshallah, 🤞) we'll be shipping the first version of #roamdepot - an easy way to discover and install themes, javascript plugins, and community developed features that have been vetted by Roam team.
The obvious move would be to have #roamdepot be a marketplace - but we want to make sure the folks building free plugins are rewarded too - so to start we'll be distributing a portion of our revenue back to plugin authors based on installs and reviews.
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13 Mar
Idea Friction

The time between having an idea and converting it to a shareable form.

[[Key Term]] from @jordanmoore

jordanm.co.uk/2019/04/13/ide…
I know this is tongue in check - but does annoy me a little when I see folks act as though writing things down is a barrier to action

Big plans, big questions require collaboration (at the very least with your past & future self)

and THAT requires getting ideas out of your head
When you are faced with a question you had no previous opinion on, and two authors who disagree on the answer - who will you believe?

The one who can “muster on the spot the larger number of well aligned and faithful allies”

ht @worrydream for the paper

dropbox.com/s/ude8vgd5yscw…
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12 Mar
Anyone in #roamcult played with @huggingface yet.

Kinda biased but I think @wolfejosh tends to have good taste in startups
Also they look esoteric AF
The big question I have here is - If we want to allow a user to

A) Identify related blocks in their Roam graph (maybe using something like W2V)

B) Summarize a page or chapter they have imported

C) Get 4 additional suggested movies, based on a list of movies they entered

Etc.
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10 Mar
Throwback to [[June 24th 2016]] - playing with @TheTedNelson's zzStruct demo

Would be incredible to navigate twitter threads like this
A few days later - trying to design a visual interface for a youtube filter that could express -- Videos about chemistry, favorited by accounts I follow, created by a user who is followed by 3 friends....

and you think my design was bad in 2018 :)
Two years later, starting to look almost like @RoamResearch
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9 Mar
Roam is general purpose thinking environment:

the goal is to build a tool that helps everyone express and explore thoughts better than they can in prose...

but there is a reason we put so much effort into supporting the hacker community

In this new language devs write grammar
“Conaw! What is best in Life?”
Conan’s answer is also acceptable - and my enemies are ignorance and stasis.
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7 Mar
How @RoamResearch solves the problems that Google hasn't - ironically, my oldest recorded pitch is probably only thing out that talks about our long term vision.

Long long long long way still to go.

Good news is, we're profitable and we're hiring.
Not touched in the video - how the layer on top of the web we're building is end-user programmable, an environment for @worrydream style Explorable explanations, and written in #clojure

Many more roles open than listed here

angel.co/company/roam-r…
If you think you should work at Roam, email support@roamresearch.com with your pitch on why we should hire you now. We might not get back to you for a while, and if we do @MikejNorman might be pissed that we didn't have job spec written for the role first, but shoot your shoot.
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