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Humans are bad at coming up with search queries. Humans are good at incrementally narrowing down options with a series of filters, and pointing where they want to go next. This seems obvious, but we keep building interfaces for finding information that look more like Google Search and less like a map.
All information tools have to give users some... See more
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thesephist.com • Navigate, don't search
Traditionally, modern software is designed in a linear structure. Notably known as the “workspace”— a popular file cabinet structure, that reminds the parent-child relationship. Working in this structure conveys a feeling of playing a “pass the parcel” game. Every time you open a folder, the next one is revealed.
All this makes sense, as linearity... See more
All this makes sense, as linearity... See more
Itay Dreyfus • #4 Roam Research — What Comes After a Renaissance?
Lying in your diary is a disservice to yourself. Doing so will prevent you from being close to others.
The most natural implementation of any feature request is additive, attempting to leave all other elements of the design in place and simply inserting one new component: a new button in a UI or a new parameter to a function. As this process is repeated, the simplicity of a system is lost and complexity takes its place. This pattern is often... See more
Alex Gaynor • Why software ends up complex · Alex Gaynor
Indeed Roam is very much inspired by a niche programming language called Clojure. Furthermore, it's built with it. It's a flexible, small syntax language imparting a plasticine feeling. One can achieve many things using a small amount of building blocks. Much like Roam.
Itay Dreyfus • #4 Roam Research — What Comes After a Renaissance?
People don’t lie to you about who they are – they lie to themselves in your presence
Lisa Feldman Barrett • Lisa Feldman Barrett: Love, Evolution, and the Human Brain | Lex Fridman Podcast #140
The actual measures of productivity that might be useful range quite a bit:
- I did enough to not get fired.
- I did enough to get promoted.
- I did enough to get hired by a better firm.
- I solved a problem for a customer who was frustrated.
- I changed the system and now my peers are far more productive.
- I invented something that creates new possibilities and