Susie Conley

About Logseq: it is a tool to organize knowledge, a tool for bullet points. Not as technical as some, but much more technical than others: Emacs, Workflowy, Dynalist, Roam Research, Obsidian. Roam Research (a category defining “knowledge graph”)  and Obsidian are in similar spirit. It's an open source outliner software. Built on top of a database.... See more

Discourse and Circle are being used for more curation beyond what Discord can do. Discourse for example allows for your posted content to be indexed by Google, so you get search value.

29:33 - Do the minimum to plug the "leaks in your game" (poker term). Because you won’t be a better player by only plugging leaks, you need to focus on your strengths.

• Independent research lab, such as Inc & Switch, where they try to research for commercialization on a longer timeline by cutting off the corporation part of the equation

• 26:34 - A “big source of inspiration for me [Mark] has been the world of analog tools. We’ve been thinking about how to build good digital tools for maybe 50 years or so. We have a couple thousand years of explicit and implicit study of how to create analog work environments.” Eg: personal libraries, studies, workshops, artist studios. How can... See more

0:00 - People are drawn to you for your specific skillset that only you can fill. There’s a U-shaped hole in the universe. And you created that gravitational pull that people find you. And I think as far as careers go, the more unique you are, the more un-subsitutable you are, the better compensated you will be. And the more you enjoy your job.

50:05 - The motivation behind your “luck creation activities” matters. Outcomes are secondary to you loving the process. You'll have a worse product if you are motivated by the benefit first. Things you might love: the process, the act itself, the people you're surrounded by, the tools you’re using, or the mission. Adam's example: he was passionate... See more

54:50 - Slack created a venture fund attached to their ecosystem so they would try to be financially aligned with their ecosystem as much as they could.