A human being lives alone in their head. Humanity brings them together.
They grow up individually so they can learn how to fit into the collective. It’s the antidote to loneliness. Everyone wants to survive.
The difference is how much of your individuality remains after growth.
Understanding this, people articulate what the world expects of them to say, only to fit in. Their head = humanity.
The Individual recognises the head and observed humanity as two different universes, translating between both what the world truly needs.
They are twice as alone.
Oh how lonely ideas can be when they’re not translated between each other
Oh how cold The Individual feels after they are misunderstood by humanity
Oh how frustrating it is to move the world atop your own mountain, alone, fighting on the peaks when humans desire only the earth
It must be tragic to feel our only ways of communicating with each other, through written word or the voice, are flawed by the distance between our real and true selves
Yet, The Individual carries on. They strive on that altitude, serving those who would move the world with them
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Everything is a conversation. That's a firm belief I've always had for a very long time.
Every question has an answer, and every response a stepping stone to another discussion.
There are intonations, emotions, accents, and more that can never be captured in a blogpost.
A conversation *feels* different. In a podcast, you capture the content AND context.
But it's rigid. It's hard to get atomic unless you timestamp a specific part of the episode. You STILL have to refer to the whole episode (think of this as page vs. block-level referencing)
What's the difference between knowledge workers of the past and present?
In Medieval times, it was in the pursuit of God. Cato explains more here:
Giving us an overview of the other apps that he's tried, Cato details on the angles, differences and more on what is available for us lovely note-takers 🤩 shoutouts to @WorkFlowy and @ScrapboxApp for the mention and their amazing work here!
To be fair, I know @Conaw is already thinking about networks and messaging anyway - we have to overhaul that if we want comms in a knowledge graph context
For example, if you manipulate the global filter feature to only feature blocks directed at you (author) via notation = DM?
What's the Roam42 of other apps? What other tools have Jumpnav, SB features, etc.? #roam
I've had problems with some of my general toolstack lately (eg. calendar/booking problems, tasklists) and am on the prowl for that mouseless productivity 👀
(Shoutouts to the one who designed the keyboard shortcuts for Twitter, I love blazing through this site quickly at times 😂)