Susie Conley

Ramses Career origins to becoming community manager for Logseq, a notetaking software as "open-source knowledge base." In learning many languages, Ramses has built skills in community building and in notetaking. Language learning hugely benefits from community support. Now there are new tools in flashcards & notetaking as well. These factors all... See more

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

40:00 Support those existing communities. They put time and effort into cultivating those communities outside of the brand. Then you’ll find when it gets large, e.g. 20K at Logseq, people pop in, ask instead of search for existing answers, and then it requires moderators to manage it. Notion found themselves in a position where they blew up on... See more

32:00 Three ways to get research HCI

• Corporate R&D, usually requires commercialization on a very short timeline.

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.

Why not just apple notes? Apple notes are good for a quick jot down. But it’s not to help you refine your thinking over time like Logseq will. Notes  can be much bigger, such as writing a book, or to design software.