Joey DeBruin
@joeydebruin
Helping communities build public knowledge online. Founder @withBackdrop. Past/current product/advisory roles @Benchling @ResearchGate @Forefront__ @SeedClub
Joey DeBruin
When I was younger, I was never this lucky. It is partly because I was less skilled. But it is also partly because I would interrupt the nonconscious processing back then. Unintentionally, I would tell my brain to focus on something else—a conflict in a TV series I was watching, for instance. I would watch an episode before bed, and the cliffhanger... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Almost Everyone I’ve Met Would Be Well-Served Thinking More About What to Focus On
just as in physical territory, online territory starts out as default autocratic, then only can become democratic through revolt, revolution, and reform.
every.to • Twitter as a City-State
This is one of the fundamental errors of tech thinking.
For a certain class of problems caused by technology (e.g., climate change, traffic accidents, electrical fires), yes, the solution is more technology.
But for tech-induced human problems like loneliness, anxiety, depression,... See more
Nat Eliasontwitter.comKnowledge grows like species evolve. Ideas are combined to form new knowledge in a process we can call bisociation , such that new knowledge is really just a combination of existing ideas.
Oliver Hunt • Building a 21st century interface for science
By analogy, it should act like a Google search, in that users can ask questions of any part of the scientific record. However, it should be unlike a Google search in that it synthesises information across all search results to produce a systems-level understanding of the search query, accessible to the user through many kinds of rich, dynamic... See more
Oliver Hunt • Building a 21st century interface for science
On the internet, websites are like buildings, hyperlinks are like roads, traffic comes in the form of people and information. It is a complex system with many interacting parts.
Oliver Hunt • Page Not Found
You and your ragtag team of engineers likely won’t be able to create something that is competitive with any big incumbent product.
However, you can build features, seed content, and brand it in a way that is so obnoxiously relevant for a particular group of people that their only possible reaction is “Well, fuck. You... See more
Nikita Biertwitter.com