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Conor and his team are interested in creating ad-hoc social communities where people making connections obscure connections in one area can meet and interact with other people who are also interested in that topic

“If you don’t have systems that allow you to draw new connections, it’s hard for those ideas to come into existence” – Conor White-Sullivan

“You couldn’t easily remix these notes, especially if they were originally organized by book…you can’t see all of the questions from all of the authors or all of the quotes that relate to one particular topic” – Conor White-Sullivan

How do you incentivize users to contribute to other people’s work?

“The mark of a good knowledge management system is it’s able to surprise you and it’s able to be a good conversational partner…it’s reminding you things you thought before” – Conor White-Sullivan

However, no one of the note-taking application on the market allowed Conor to remix and connect his notes from different authors and books

“It’s easy for you to roam or wander through your old notes to find nuggets that you want to reuse…you should be able to get compound interest from your past writings” – Conor White-Sullivan

Roam makes it easy to sort through multiple indexes and pulling up related documents

“I’m very bullish on just general intelligence augmentation and ways for people to think about patterns of thought and unique UIs for running algorithms where you are the compiler” – Conor White-Sullivan

Two things Conor has been thinking about: