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9 Apr, 6 tweets, 2 min read
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RIP ๐Ÿ‘‘

I believe him.
Role model
He is survived by 15 children.
The Struggle Incarnate. DMX.

Preacher told the truth, and it hurts that heโ€™s gone.

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Goodnight sweet prince.

Great thread from @Post_Apathy on DMX and how his death marks the passage of time.

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Conor White-Sullivan ๐ƒ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Profile picture
8 Apr
So @phonetoroam is probably the @RoamResearch js extension that has had the biggest impact on my workflow so far.

Uses a simple and elegant "hack" to do things I had not imagined possible

If you've been waiting for our backend API, you'll want to know about this

Quick thread
The problem:

Roam is still running off the local first architecture I developed in 2017 to optimize for rapid iteration and a snappy editing experience

The backend is an event stream of edits, all logic of the graphs is on the frontend

There isn't a server in traditional sense
This is one of the reasons large graphs in Roam can be slow to load initially, but consistently have snappy editing -- we optimized for the writing and collaboration experience at the expense of being a great tool for publishing your ideas (at this stage)
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3 Apr
We listened to 8 hour podcast about an actual cult on this drive... and it could not be MORE different from the values of @RoamResearch and our community

I love tongue in cheek humor and the history of #roamcult, but believe itโ€™s time we set an example [[Taking Words Seriously]]
Words matter.

Cults are real and all around us.

They seek to control and manipulate members, break bonds, isolate people from friends and family, destroy the individuals faith in themselves, and to be an unchallengeable fountain of โ€œtruthโ€ that their adherents never question.
In every way, Roam seeks to do and be the opposite of all those things.

But the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves matter - and jokes are often most funny when they are half true

And sometimes the things that are fun in your youth and just plain irresponsible as you grow
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2 Apr
Itโ€™s true, we donโ€™t have flying cars, or handheld nuclear reactors, and string theory might be a dead end... but that doesnโ€™t mean science has stagnated.

Last few decades we saw major paradigm shifts in โ€œCoordination Studiesโ€ and the scholars leading the field are very well paid
Gold
Credit @geoffanders for naming the field.

Iโ€™ve long considered Startups an interdisciplinary research project, but meta field is so real
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31 Mar
The past is in an inspiring future.

Do not forget that there was a time and place where scholars and translators were paid as much for their contributions as professional athletes are paid today.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Gโ€ฆ Image
Just to be clear - future Iโ€™m picturing is @balajisโ€™s cloud state taking this on. Not the institutions we have for funding research today
Related -seems we have to file 1099s for every #RoamGames winner we award over $600, so weโ€™ve had to slow down until we figure out how to handle payouts

Surprising how many bureaucratic barriers there are to funding a flourishing intellectual commons.
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26 Mar
A long time ago - before I had Roam -- I saw a post or thread about "the Conventional Wisdom that the Conventional Wisdom is wrong"

It argued that the folks most likely to complain about FAANG whiteboard interviews were those who did not get a job.

Ring any bells anyone?
That isn't it -- it was longer thread or post on how you should be skeptical that complaints mean there is a problem
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25 Mar
Two days ago I had the best spiritual and psychological conversation I have had in years with @haideralmosawi

Honestly felt life changing and deserves a thread of its own

Learned prayer is 27x more effective w others

Got me feeling need to get back into a live faith community
But then last night, prayed for UX inspiration - and was drawn to Library App from Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

And it provided... SO MANY ANSWERS
Iโ€™ve always been drawn to Islam.

Studied Arabic in my spare time in high school and college with help from Ahmed at the Citgo station (thanks Ahmed!), Rosetta Stone cds, and library book I never returned

House of Wisdom inspired Astrolabe as Roam Logo

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