Aristotle Kallis

m not saying you shouldn’t create a Mastodon account, or that you can’t enjoy fun, per­co­lating con­ver­sa­tions on that platform. I’m just saying that it does not, to me, rep­re­sent a suf­fi­ciently inter­esting exper­i­ment, because it accepts too much as settled.

it's free until you can't

live without it.

People have this aspirational idea of building a vast, oppressively colossal, deeply interlinked knowledge graph to the point that it almost mirrors every discrete concept and memory in their brain. And I get the appeal of maximalism. But they’re counting on the wrong side of the ledger. Every node in your knowledge graph is a debt . Every link dou... See more