teach a man to fish/ people are capable

Composing data from multiple sources in this way is harder to do in the conventional app model. For example, if you open Google Calendar and pull up the weather forecast in another tab, there is no way to combine these two data sources in a single view. This is possible in Embark because the weather forecast and the time information live in the sam

We believe that rather than forcing people to adapt to rigid, one-size-fits-all interfaces, our software environments should adapt to each person’s needs, context, and mental models. With a proper set of new primitives, the digital realm could support more thoughtful engagement with the things that matter most to each of us

ick says if it's a single best thought you have ever had in your life it needs to dominate everything because you're not going to get many insights like that and

if it's your single best Insight your single best idea then obviously it's what you should spending all your time on

FLORA is a process tool. Like I said before, at it’s best it feels like creatively ice skating. And process tools are meant to be a springboard and sifter. Springboard-ing thoughts I didn’t know were laying dormant or around a corner from the idea I was working on. Excavating those ideas, manipulating and sifting through the winners and losers.

You can look at these things as games and dismiss them, or you can look at them as very simple simulated learning environments. So, as an example, in a simple Pong game, the game is constantly telling you how well you’re doing by how well you score. And so the more you learn the underlying principles, the better you score.

The underlying principles

We found that being able to freely write notes anywhere in our planning tool provided a graceful fallback for any situation: we could write down anything as text if a more ideal structured data format was not available. We frequently found ourselves mixing mentions and formulas together with freeform text notes and annotations to capture thoughts i