Whereas the fundamental principle of a conventional business unit structure is to align accountability and control, the fundamental principle of a functional organization is to align expertise and decision rights.
Your brain works hierarchically but also through associations. Another way to say this is that new ideas can emerge from a top down hierarchical structure but also bottom up by mixing pre-existing ideas within your notes. Roam is able to capture both phenomena when other tools are only able to capture the hierarchal top down approach.
In the end, most of these users would likely migrate back to either free ad-supported services or to subscription services that only make you think about payments once in a while.
“The complaint of the depressive individual, “Nothing is possible,” can only occur in a society that thinks, “Nothing is impossible.”
― Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society
what’s at stake is not just the future of the internet, but the future of how we learn, communicate and connect; our right to shape the technology that, in turn, shapes us.