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muizz
@ayokanme
We come and go, like ripples in a stream
Well-crafted things are laborious endeavors. A lot of the inputs and thought put into it will likely never be seen or understood. It might seem like a waste. The process improves not just the thing being crafted, but the crafter as well.

coordination and Infrastructure Tales
So beautiful

Mathematics is a an abstraction and it is best broadcast using mathematical notation (a form of writing).
The permanence of sand drawings seem to be the limiting factor here.
Excerpt: “To appreciate how revolutionary Ascher’s perspective was, consider that before her work and that of her contemporaries, scholars generally assumed that only societies with writing could truly practice mathematics. They constrained their investigations of mathematical knowledge to textual sources and ignored many other practices seen in societies with oral traditions that did not use a written language.“

hate to admit it, but this tracks. ui design starts becoming more important the moment you have a sufficiently capable data structure/model in place
users will ask for features when what they actually want is a specific view
this probably explains notion » coda
notion has very good views and is adding automations after the fact
coda has very good automations and is adding views after the fact
my hunch is most people are visual learners. they prefer to have information laid out the right way and only then can they reason about it.
automations are reasoning before seeing
this is also why cli tools, chatbots, and other text based ui paradigms are niche or quickly fall out of favor. too much reasoning without the requisite framing.
"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski
Say less, hear more.