7 tweets · February 2020 · 17 likes · 0 retweets · read on Twitter
Had an xch with @fortelabs 2y ago 👇 where he talks about his need to finish everything he works on, and I lament the intertwingularity. I feel like my roamblog is now basically solving this issue: I instantly create stub-pages while writing publicly. #roamcult @conaw
I now think "I need current block [A] to be finished to be able to build on it [in block B]" is only true in a world where all of the following are true: 1. B makes no sense without A 2. everyone who wants to read B will read A first if you tell them Unfortch, #2 is rarely true.
In practice, what you actually need is the ability to let people know "this term/phrase is a placeholder for something I have more thoughts about" & then to be able to expand on those thoughts as you feel drawn to do so. Roam is fucking perfect for this.
The lack of ability to edit on twitter is one of the things that makes it most limiting for this use-case.
Referring in one tweet to other thoughts of mine requires me to first tweet those other thoughts, & then I can't edit them easily. In my meta-thread re McGilchrist's brain hemisphere model, I made the first link be to an "intro" ...yet to be written!
Anyway, this 2min section starting at about 52mins of the Tiago/Conor interview/debate highlights the shift that Roam is making. Transcript of this section in next tweet. youtu.be/Hw2kJF_kxjE?t=…
Tiago: I'm working really hard to say "the tool doesn't matter." Conor: You were right, 2 years ago. You were completely right 6 months ago that the tool doesn't matter. The thing is, now the tool matters because now there's a better tool! Soundbytes 👆 Full transcript👇
