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This talk explores technological innovation and and the first periods in history when they were possible to discover.

Language persists information within communities. Writing persists information across generations.

Spoken language distinguished our common anatomical (200 Kya) from our behaviorally (52 Kya) human ancestors.

Writing requires only basic tool use — etching on a solid medium.

First evidence of writing is from 5.2 Kya.

Imagine all of the information that was lost to time, as well as innovations that were delayed.

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.

Excerpt:

You need to get good at technology, and the way to do that is to work on your own projects. [Share your projects to find like-minded people to work with you in lieu of going back to university to find co-founders].