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27 Apr, 6 tweets, 2 min read
I wish I had minored in comp or data sci. I’m learning some of this stuff now but it would have been nice to start this in a formal setting when learning stuff was my only job
Now I’m learning how to program but really I’m more interested in the comp sci behind it lol I’m not trying to get a job as a programmer or anything
I don’t really know, I’m figuring it out. I will say that I’m really enjoying learning from a textbook since I am more interested in that academic take. I want to be able to write the answers others Google, and I need an underlying mental model of how things work to get there
I’m still pretty happy with my choice to create an interdisciplinary behavioral economics major... that has worked out very well for me and lead to a view on the world that’s fairly uncommon...
But it’s that entrepreneurial streak in me that makes me want to build stuff and the nerdy streak that really wants to understand how it works.
One of my basic goals here is to understand what sorts of tools and general processes programmers use to approach software problems because that will help me communicate with them better when I suggest functionalities and design changes

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21 Apr
FigJam is a little underwhelming in its current form but I can see the potential. Being able to bring in components built in Figma will make it great for facilitating workshops and handling team meetings with workflows customized to the team. Copy-paste from Figma is also huge.
If FigJam were totally compliant with my personal taste, then it would probably have a more direct escape hatch to normal Figma functionality, using the FigJam defaults as a safe way for beginners to participate.

But I haven't tried it yet with people. And it's beta.
I would love to see more affordances for workshop facilitation. In particular, the ability to set a timer and let participants do stuff without seeing each other's work. That would allow for a divergence and convergence pattern to avoid groupthink.
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21 Apr
This is a beautiful tile layout.

You ever notice how a lot of websites are just long scrolls, with giant headers and a tiny amount of text?

I wanna see more websites like the screenshot. It's way easier to grasp the big picture that way.
It's hard to put words to it, but I guess my problem with long scroll websites is that it makes me have to remember all of the other messages above and below it. It's like an increased cognitive load from me having to put it together in my head vs having it all in front of me
I also don’t doubt that this is one of those things where my personal taste might conflict with metrics. It probably got this way for a reason.
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19 Apr
Fantastic note writing session today. @obsdmd is pretty good at mental stack management once you set up keyboard shortcuts to navigate between panes and split them horizontally and vertically. This theme is Atom. #SnipANote Image
Not me! I created this starting from one page, splitting and creating new pages as I went. If anything, it allows me to spread thoughts out to jump between them more easily than if I had to deal with one large scroll. I create and destroy a lot of windows

Some people like to keep their focus on one note at a time. That doesn't really work for me - I jump between thoughts a lot, and I don't want to ignore those because I don't believe anything I think is inevitable.
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15 Apr
Working on the onboarding questionnaire for new @GuidedTrack users (written in GuidedTrack, ofc). Not sure how I feel about the Vileplume @obsdmd theme but it's kind of pretty #snipanote
Mmm I think Solarized Dark is prettier. Subtler.

This is an interesting example where most of the notes open (except for the big one where I'm just documenting my work as I go) are reference material to support work in another app.
Okay this is a less busy view, more immediately useful reference. I love tiling UX.
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8 Apr
If all transactions were run on @ethereum with smart contracts, wouldn't that just mean that the rules (taxes, conditions, etc.) are transparent and compliance happens by default?

Why would I need to talk to my accountant if everything were already accounted for?
My point is couldn't following the rules be largely automated?
There would definitely be roles for people who can interpret the terms of contracts for you. Some weird combo of people who understand Solidity and policy making. Lawyers who code and communicate well.
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5 Apr
Assuming you're not using aliases, a plain text search in @obsdmd for "[[page]]" within quotations pulls up the backlinks for that page. Searching for ".png" will pull up all of your pngs. There's a lot of flexibility that comes from searching strings when everything is in markup
Here I have an embedded query to find all my notes directly dealing with DSLs (domain-specific languages). I get this by searching for file names that have DSL in them. In Roam I might have had [[A [[DSL]] speeds up the author and gives them the ability to write from anywhere]] ImageImage
Here I'm trying out using namespacing in a @dendronhq style. I have an embedded search looking for pages that have Clojure and function in the title. It's not officially supported in Obsidian, but with searches embedded on pages, I'm able to do it quite flexibly ImageImage
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