What is so exciting about block-based tools for thought is exactly this – they are block-based.

Blocks are infinitely extensible. They can be datoms like index cards and kanban tasks, or composites like queries and tables.
Event, place, person ➡️ typed, atomic blocks

Application, feed, query, inbox, table ➡️ composite blocks
Interestingly, I noticed people often use similar language to describe the vision of knowledge graphs and blockchains

“New _primitives_ that enable a _second internet_”

Athens primitives: bidirectional links, blocks

Crypto primitives: NFTs, addresses, blocks
Crypto end-game: sovereign individuals and communities through new capabilities around identity and value

Athens end-game: sovereign individuals and communities through new capabilities around knowledge
But working on fundamental primitives and general platforms takes time.

We can expect winters, like 2018-19 crypto winter, or the several AI winters

It’s a sign we’re working on deep tech
(Flying brb)
And just like we need many kinds of databases, we need many kinds of blockchains and knowledge graphs.

I’m not as much of an open source guy as I am a Knowledge Graph guy. We need open AND closed source KGs, enterprise & consumer KGs, PC & mobile-friendly KGs.
But the most exciting KG is the global map of collective knowledge. Whether it looks more like Google, Wikipedia, Twitter, or Reddit, I don’t know yet.

What I can say is that this could be the place where knowledge graphs and blockchains intersect.
No one company or institution should have all that power.

So this KG should be both open-source and decentralized.

But the UX for shared knowledge graphs doesn’t exist yet (we’re pioneering it at team-scale at @AthensResearch)

Blockchain tech prolly not there yet either.

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