‎Village Global's Venture Stories on Apple Podcasts

Conor has a big vision for collective intelligence but to get there Roam first has to focus on individual intelligence until they hit critical mass

“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

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

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

How do you help people to make a living doing knowledge work and creating elegant explanations of complex ideas?

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

Two things Conor has been thinking about:

“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