Tools For Thought
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Tools For Thought
“Cheating” on homework by using ChatGPT may end up being a more important skill than anything else kids learn in school.
David Sackstwitter.comExpand the diversity of building blocks . As Goldberg puts it, diversity is a necessary condition of selectorecombinative success. The broader our ecology of notes, the greater the combinatorial possibility.
- In what ways might we increase the diversity of our notes?
Gordon Brander • Tools for thought should evolve building blocks
Sublime is part of this I think. Serious discovery is as important as serious tools for manipulation. (I think Subconcious will be interesting for manipulation, but currently I'm more excited about Heptabase.)
This “undulant interface” was made by John Underkoffler. The heresy implicit within is the premise that the user, not the system, gets to define what is most important at any given moment; where to place the jeweler’s loupes for more detail, and where to show only a simple overview, within one consistent interface.
LN 038: Semantic zoom
Really important principle here, we surely now have enough computational power to actually begin to create interfaces for humans first, rather than for the needs of the developer or the computational stack first.
it is probably a mistake, in the end, to ask software to improve our thinking. Even if you can rescue your attention from the acid bath of the internet; even if you can gather the most interesting data and observations into the app of your choosing; even if you revisit that data from time to time — this will not be enough. It might not even be wort... See more
every few months i grumble about how i still feel like google docs, twitter, my wordpress blog, roam, substack, etc all don't quite scratch an itch that i want scratched
want something like, easily-editable, selfhosted(?), url-editable, twitter-ish indexcard web
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