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29 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
How you feel about @MightyApp is how you feel about yourself.
@Suhail is at the frontier. This is the kind of deep research Silicon Valley has promised and failed to deliver. I hope and expect they will win.
Getting a faster browser and offloading compute to the mainframe is self love in 2021.

Normalise this
Highly productive research in tech today often = taking ideas that were born in 60s and 70s, but not right for their time, and bringing them back with a vengeance.

First time I met @Suhail I was like — hell yeah, he’s cleaning up the other part of the mess Steve left us with.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🇺🇸 Profile picture
18 Apr
I was surprised to see such a negative reaction to this exchange - but I think I see something pretty useful here, and it seems worth sharing while it is fresh - so at risk of further derailing my day...

Why I said "No" to Roadmaps
And why the right response was [[Yes and]]
First - I assume that @Roamhacker did not realize they were retweeting a tweet from me pointing to a dead link

Here is the archive of the original page

As a stark reminder of the dangers of link-rot, it was a Roadmap of our design questions at the time

roamresearch.com/#/app/help-arc…
Throughout my life, I've had a lot of people tell me that they think I should have different priorities, or do different tasks (Go to college, get a job etc)

An important shifts in my life was realizing that it was almost never the right move to ARGUE with those folks

However..
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14 Apr
Just to be perfectly clear, @RoamResearch we don’t want use you private notes to learn about you - AT ALL.

Only reason normal graphs don’t have E2EE across the board is because combining that w multiplayer is

A) A hard design problem
B) A hard engineering problem

And C)...
I’m probably even worse at managing and recruiting than design or engineering!

A better CEO would almost certainly have grown our team faster, and managed the great staff we have more effectively

In that world we’d have even better collaboration and “Trust No One” security
As it stands, we have best in class security, but the class includes folks like Google, Facebook, and every run of the mill tech company that wants to mine your data to serve you ads.

We’re explicit in our terms of service that Roam will not read your notes, but code beats law.
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14 Apr
Keen observers will notice the @steak_umm style guide at play

Mi-STEAK as alternate spelling of Mistake.

Headlines of a steak company starting “BEEF”

Also their epistemology is sound, and this righteous act has won them good amount of earned media.

Hats off Brand!
If you doubt the true victor
I love that @steak_umm retweeted this
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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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11 Apr
Results are in, dog clippers FAR more effective than the beard trimmer for shearing my pandemic locks.
How it started
How it’s going

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Cost vs Benefit

Talking the talk requires walking the walk

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9 Apr
How Ruff Ryders roll

RIP 👑

I believe him.
Role model
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