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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🇺🇸

@Conaw

18 Apr

https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1383476707957493765

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]]

https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1383476707957493765

@Roamhacker

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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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🇺🇸

@Conaw

14 Apr

@RoamResearch

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)...

https://twitter.com/jevakallio/status/1379557958439333889

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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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🇺🇸

@Conaw

14 Apr

@steak_umm

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!

https://twitter.com/steak_umm/status/1381800742286209027

https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1382105711287631873

If you doubt the true victor

https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1382105711287631873

@steak_umm

I love that @steak_umm retweeted this

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1382189433038860289

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🇺🇸

@Conaw

11 Apr

@RoamResearch

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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