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Conor White-Sullivan ๐ƒ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Profile picture
11 Apr
During the Islamic Golden age the House of Wisdom would pay scholars the weight of translated books in gold.

Tomorrow is the start of #Ramadan and there is knowledge from that era I would very much like to see translated into @RoamResearch

Seems appropriate to pay w #BTC

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Translation is a creative act.

It requires a deep deep understanding of the material you seek to translate, the language you are coming from, and language you are moving into.

If writing in your own words is a test of true understanding, translation takes it a step further.
The language of Roam is the language of data structures and thought patterns

The Research we conduct as a company is on the Geometry of Thought

Our goal is to build a medium that allows you to express and explore these shapes, more naturally and powerfully than you can on paper
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Conor White-Sullivan ๐ƒ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Profile picture
9 Apr
How Ruff Ryders roll

RIP ๐Ÿ‘‘

I believe him.
Role model
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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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Conor White-Sullivan ๐ƒ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Profile picture
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
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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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Conor White-Sullivan ๐ƒ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Profile picture
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.

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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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