Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸 @Conaw Twitter profile

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

5 years

A brief rant on note-taking apps and the structure of thought. Or "Why Evernote is a terrible second brain."

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

1 year

Just stop drinking

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

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What are the load-bearing posts of our time? Obviously 'facing god and walking backwards into hell' and 'miette' are up there. Does Ed Balls still count? PS if you can parse this you should probably log off

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

"Balaji was right" might be the most terrifying phrase in the English language.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

7 months

The meme is very true, and represents the Epistemic reformation we’re in midst of right now Many still make the move of trusting “the pope of science” aka the Harvard/Yale/NYT/NGO consensus of experts They go to bed, ignore the decentralized “show me the data” analysis of

Andrew Stratelates ⚓️(Traditional Anglican Church)

@AStratelates

7 months

Anyone who has a technical profession knows that this is basically true.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

Every time I try to design a process for our team in Roam, keep coming back to this. Complex systems that work ALWAYS emerge from simple systems that worked first

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

I'm a big fan of writing down what I plan to do, and how I plan to do it (in detail) before I get going. Why? Because sometimes I realize as I am halfway through writing things out that there is a fundamentally better approach then I can skip a ton of needless work!

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

Like this tweet if you would pay $500 for a 5 year subscription to @RoamResearch With - Priority support - Offline only mode (all data stored locally only, not sent to server) - Quarterly group video-call with the leadership team. - Your name on a page of true believers.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

2.75M ARR Over 40% Month over Month rev growth Still no marketing No native onboarding No real desktop app No mobile app Early adopter market for @RoamResearch might be bigger than even I predicted.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

2 months

I take back all criticisms I’ve made about the current state of culture and art We’re doing great. This is amazing.

Turner Novak 🍌🧢

@TurnerNovak

2 months

Love whatever genre of video this is

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

2 years

Friday

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

We applied to YC many times Never got an interview Even when we had six figures of revenue pre-launch from the AI researchers who paid us for feature requests on the alpha When got coaching from former YC partner, discovered "Notes app" category gets u flagged for trash bin.

Will Fry

@williamrfry

4 years

Schools should publish a list of startups that are tried every year during student orientation. Would save a bunch of students a lot of heartache trying to recreate an "events near me", "match me with a fitness trainer" or "meet up with friends" app.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

Brings me back to winter 2019 - when @RoamResearch had less than 5k in the bank and no leads on investors. @NotionHQ was famously turning $$$ away, so gave @ivanhzhao a demo, offered to share our research if he would invest or help us raise. "We have enough ideas" he said...

Notion

@NotionHQ

4 years

👀 Backlinks are finally here!! Now whenever you make a link to another page, a backlink is created automagically, so you can see the connections between your thoughts & pages. And there's lots of new shortcuts to [[link]] and +create pages as you type.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

2 years

I was wrong. You guys were right. Having a native mobile app for Roam is actually fucking awesome

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

“Fuck around and find out” is a noble virtue in truth-seeking civilizations. Few seem to know this.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

Anything worth doing is worth doing wrong. Only way to start.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

2 years

Water broke early this morning, waiting for contractions to start. Pray for us and the baby.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

2 years

Update: @RoamResearch launching End to End Encrypted option for graphs tonight. It’s a major feature - verifiable technical assurance of privacy. Means you don’t have to trust us (or the tech giants we use) to secure your notes for you. Tradeoff is: Lost password = lost graph

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

2 months

Here’s a concrete example Perhaps you know the feeling of the first time waking up on a Saturday morning next to some beautiful hilarious fascinating person you’re infatuated with and there is absolutely nothing in the world you’d rather do than just hang out with them and just

delian

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Fatherhood is truly life's greatest experience Choosing to delay it or not experience it at all is just depriving yourself of the most otherworldly joy Prosper, colonize the galaxy, make babies Everything else is a distraction

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

Just shipped our biggest new feature in a very long time. Makes Anki style SRS flashcards a first class feature of Roam, solves repeating tasks, continuing a project across multiple days, an overflowing backlog of TODOS, and much more. Will demo to believers this weekend ∆

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

8 months

We did it!

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@Conaw

9 months

The risk is not desensitization, but sensitization, and not sex but love and bonding coupled with narrative collapse that is greater danger. When you’re bonding with a person in emotionally heightened state, neuroplasticity off the charts, new memories forming, anchoring to

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ppl be like "sex with a bunch of people desensitizes you to sex and makes it less special" but ignore the fact we expect ppl to bang the same damn person for 30+ years and this is magically supposed to be immune from that same problem??

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

Wow. I take the past for granted. Reminder that someone invented this stuff.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

Announcement 1: after months and months of hard work from @hashbrown490 and our eng team, we've built the new back end that allows for API and Multiplayer. Next week 20-30 users who have plans to build off API, or have multiplayer experiments they want to run will get 1st access

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

@jbendery Did you read the bill? It’s literally the opposite of that. Lists the history as essential knowledge, bans saying one race is superior to another, or saying individuals are inherently racist or oppressive because of their race. Wonder why folks could be losing trust in news?

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

How many companies have hit $1M ARR within 2 months of starting to charge? I know at least one, but curious if there are others.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

Last time I bought a vehicle it was for under $2,500 and I lived in it for a year. Pretty sure that was less than 6 years ago.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

8 months

Single purpose hardware is the future

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Ash is a pocket AI nature guide for kids inspired by Ash's Pokédex. It helps children connect with and learn about the biodiversity around them. I absolutely adore the simplicity of Ash. 🔗

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

After incessant demands - we have changed the @RoamResearch loading icon to be an SVG instead of a PNG. To the 50 people who will be able to tell the difference - you're welcome.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama — and very few others — designed their organizations to get them maximum [[Return on Attention]] I knew about Bezos’ silent meetings. 💕 to @samhinkie for showing me Obama’s [[multiple-choice presidential briefs]] 10/10 EXCEPTIONAL INFORMATION DESIGN

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

5 years

The Zettelkasten. "It's like the GTD for intellectual progress" What it is, and why you want one. (thread)

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

5 years

Thread of threads on @RoamResearch and general thoughts on knowledge, notes, and collective intelligence Best place to start is with one we didn't have any part in writing

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I've been trying @RoamResearch for a week now I was not expecting this, but it's completely changed my interactions with the entire *world* Quick review 👇

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

5 months

@culturaltutor The partially covered crucifix is another interesting detail

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

2 years

Not a joke. Roam Mobile for iOS is in the App Store

‎Roam Mobile

‎As easy to use as a document. As powerful as a graph database. Roam helps you organize your research for the long haul.

apps.apple.com

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

[[Intermediate Deliverables]]

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

5 months

I was wrong about the war in Gaza

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@RnaudBertrand

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I rarely praise the Guardian but this is a extraordinary visual investigation of the sheer level of destruction in Gaza: Absolutely crystal clear when you look through it that the objective is to render the place utterly inhabitable, and destroy

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

Three times I've written drafts of this thread in my Roam, and three times I've failed to publish it. But Feynman is right So for next 4 hours: one like one tweet on difficult lessons and painful mistakes I made as CEO in 2021 In the words of Bill O'Reilly "We'll do it live"

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

Reminder that expertise is real, good experts make counterintuitive non-consensus predictions that turn out correct Balaji was right

Balaji

@balajis

4 years

Going viral What if this coronavirus is the pandemic that public health people have been warning about for years? It would accelerate many pre-existing trends. - border closures - nationalism - social isolation - preppers - remote work - face masks - distrust in governments

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

2 years

Therapy: an expensive conversation with a highly credentialed progressive about how other people hurt you. Confession: a free conversation with a highly credentialed conservative about how you hurt other people.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

Big news. We figured out how to make Roam available to folks who don't want data stored in the cloud. (Though you'll eventually definitely want that for some notes at least) Stay tuned.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

8 months

This applies to EVERYTHING Get into flow, if the work is triggering anxiety, ease off, it’s it’s boring, turn on the gas

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@vanjajaja1

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I think about this moment frequently, it changed the way I train & eventually the way I think about life "training should be addictive"

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

2 years

Update: Patrick Collison, our beloved goat, has given birth to twins.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

5 years

In the spirit of Christmas, I'll do a @vgr style ratchet of one tweet per like on the intersection of Jesus Evolution The Simulation Argument Julian Jaynes & Predictive Processing No cap. No deadline either though.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

1 year

This past weekend I was baptized and confirmed into the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints. One of the witnesses recorded my testimony after @cayblood and I came out of the lake. You can watch it here

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

Something you should pay attention to if you’re watching @DustinPoirier ’s post game interview. He just knocked out Conor McGregor, and says he “feels good but..” just wants to get home to his daughter. SO MANY PEOPLE our age completely missing how much better life is with kids.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

2 years

Big news. We’ve built an App Store for Roam where extensions will be reviewed for security by the Roam team, developers can charge, and where we’ll be sharing some % of our top line revenue with extension maintainers We’re calling it #roamdepot Follow @hashbrown490 for details

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

5 years

100 Opinions on this -- prompted by @vgr Will have to break for a call any minute, but will do best to free associate in meantime.

Venkatesh Rao ☀️

@vgr

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@Conaw Programming languages

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

Official @RoamResearch pricing. Very close to opening the waitlist for those ready to put down a card. Everyone already in the beta will have at least a month more of free usage - but will need to upgrade if you want multiple graphs/workspaces or to try out offline-only mode.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

@NotionHQ backlinks give you seriously NONE of the benefits that backlinks give you in Roam. They're links to pages, not blocks, no inheritance or intersections, clearly stapled on to try to catch the wave. 20 months of watching Roam's rise and this is all you've got to show?

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

5 months

Has anyone ever seen a phone or computer in a dream? For how much of our waking attention they get, surprisingly absent. I can’t recall ever seeing any screen in any dream.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

Yeah I’m long Costco

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

1 year

Have been working with the door closed for the past few years. @nikitonsky and I agreed yesterday that it's about time we kick it down. Goal for the next 6 weeks: 30 tweet sized demos of small improvements and experiments shipped to @RoamResearch Threaded here. Wish us luck!

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

@ActivateLearn @rosiesherry @RoamResearch You don't need to learn anything besides writing a few words you think are important in [[these brackets]], and hitting tab. The rest is just folks getting excited and building on that foundation. Very easy gateway, and many very capable people never feel need to go beyond.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

Was burning out on emails today - so I took an hour or so off to make a new hidden feature for @RoamResearch {{mermaid}} * text nested beneath this get's interpreted as instructions for generating diagram using mermaid lang

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

Cool hearing @pmarca cite “Never Eat Alone” by @ferrazzi Rather that worrying about how to break into “the network”, flip the problem, and be the person who connects people. Be the network, doesn’t matter what stage you’re at. One of most important books in my career.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

Will be doing some more work on the Roam Mobile App this weekend, thinking about something @micsolana and @webdevMason said in a clubhouse chat earlier today. A twitter for just yourself. There is something about the twitter UI for writing blocks that seems really interesting.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

Inspired by @Malcolm_Ocean - made a little Pomodoro timer for @RoamResearch tonight {{POMO}} will give you button that when you press, starts a 25 minute timer - then gives you a 5 minute break. Have used this system a bunch in the past

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@Conaw

3 years

Started learning more about the golden era of American motor companies, and it dawned on me. SF is the new Detroit.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

Ideas don't belong to us. We don't "have them" - we're just the vessel they flow through. Ideas find their way through you when you're living at the edge of their [[Adjacent Possible]] This is how Newton and Liebneitz both discovered Calculus independently. Living on same edge.

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@meshachthomas Wow I've actually never seen that tweet by @Conaw This is just something I just felt using the tool and had a Galaxy Brain moment as I have highly sensitive mind.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

Only way to start is wrong. This was @RoamResearch 5 years ago.

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@Conaw

4 years

Anything worth doing is worth doing wrong. Only way to start.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

Well.... Turns out @obsdmd is fucking gorgeous. Damn fine job Shida and Erica. Seriously impressed.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

Block references are about to get a LOT more powerful Hold onto your f*ckin hats #roamcult

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

We're pushing up a change in that will let you install Roam on your phone's home screen, which will allow you to 🥁🥁🥁 Share tweet via... @RoamResearch

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

Round was quite oversubscribed, and very grateful to investors who took lower allocation than their normal minimum. We felt like 10M was a good round number, and saved last 1M for the #roamcult - starting w Believers We expect to create a lot of value before IPO. Want you w us.

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Please give Believers a chance to easily invest in @RoamResearch equity too 🙏 @Conaw #roamcult

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@Conaw

5 years

Twitter as a company is culturally oriented around NOW. Product reflects this. The Twitter users who search their own and others timelines for building webs of threads are hacking the platform to build a collaborative Memex (memory extension) Eventually those users will migrate

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@Conaw

4 years

The good ones cross the chasm - and then we just call it culture.

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@loganbartlett

4 years

You Roam Research people know how most cults end right?

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

Happy Friday y'all Quality of life improvement for @RoamResearch , shift-clicking "Daily Notes" will now open today's note in your sidebar.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

Men in tech if you’ve got 50k in savings and you aren’t willing to give your girlfriend kids THIS YEAR if she wants them... grow the f**k up, stop wasting her time.

Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

Something you should pay attention to if you’re watching @DustinPoirier ’s post game interview. He just knocked out Conor McGregor, and says he “feels good but..” just wants to get home to his daughter. SO MANY PEOPLE our age completely missing how much better life is with kids.

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@Conaw

3 years

Mason got me a hat!

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@Conaw

2 years

Spirits are patterns of thought that live in your mind, reproduce through memes, and shape the world through the people they possess. Embody Santa.

Fr Matthew P. Schneider, LC

@FrMatthewLC

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Santa is actually St. Nicholas. We know saints have had the power of bilocation. Once, we have bilocation, there is nothing to stop trilocation, quadlocation or billion-location. So Santa can simultaneously deliver many presents.

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@Conaw

4 years

We earned more in the first 48 hours of offering the True Believer plan than we earned OR raised in the first two years of @RoamResearch Thank you citizens of Roam. We'll be here for long haul.

Kyle Harrison

@kwharrison13

4 years

“Civis roamanus sum” #RoamCult

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@Conaw

5 years

The Variable Schedule Reward Zettelkasten. A strategy for Memexing Twitter (to get better ideas, and build new relationships)

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

2 years

Happy 4th of July! America is in many ways the first and most successful start-up society, but if we're lucky it won’t be the last. Celebrating our past today by reading a roadmap from @balajis to our possible future. God Bless America, and God Bless the coming Network States

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@Conaw

2 years

Big day today

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@Conaw

3 years

During the Islamic Golden age the House of Wisdom would pay scholars the weight of translated books in gold. Tomorrow is the start of #Ramadan and there is knowledge from that era I would very much like to see translated into @RoamResearch Seems appropriate to pay w #BTC 🧵

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@Conaw

3 years

The biggest danger in Capitalism is that people with Money invest large amounts of it into convincing you to give them more Biggest danger in Democracy is that people with Power invest large amounts of it into convincing you to give them more Neither system helps you seek truth

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@Conaw

3 years

Never forget. They lied and people died.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

Every time I've posted a job for @RoamResearch publicly this year, we've had huge flood of applicants and its been overwhelming to try to parse signal from noise. Sense there were strong candidates from unconventional backgrounds we were passing up. Trying something new.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

In other news @azlenelza is starting at @RoamResearch next week.

Chris Paik

@cpaik

4 years

"Mod" culture in gaming is an incredibly powerful, creative force that is responsible for nearly all popular games today. It allows non-technical users to tinker, create, and distribute to an engaged, pre-installed user base. A list of notable examples: (1/7)

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@Conaw

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Willpower is at best a short term solution, whenever you reach for it, consider it a signal your systems need changing. Image credit @haseebinc

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

2 years

It’s a girl!

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@Conaw

4 years

Announcement 3: We've committed 1M from our balance sheet, and 1M from our option pool to a [[Roam Fund]]. For makers building Tools for Thought generally... And founders building new products/experiences via our API, or content businesses off Roam multiplayer specifically.

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@Conaw

4 years

Wat

Dave Lu

@daveludavelu

4 years

Spatial Graph Roam Extension... it actually works! Code (work in progress): #roamcult

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

Interesting 🧵 here: a communist podcaster who makes $65k per month on @Patreon , who I have now learned is dating the campaign manager for an SF district supervisor... tweets about murdering @micsolana a few days after twitter asks him to run for local office Tech sure is evil

TrueAnon

@TrueAnonPod

4 years

You know what? Start the car already. I’ll open the garage door after a little while. I promise!

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

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The people who spend 60+ years with their high school sweetheart EXPECT the person will change so much they might be unrecognizable, they expect they’ll change too in that change, there is bound to be novelty 1000 different versions of your soulmate, some great, some not, each

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

Most of the productivity discourse seems to be about top-down planning Most how we think and talk about project management is in that paradigm too My focus is on bottom up project management: Breaking things down into ever smaller pieces - then exploring how they fit together

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

Strongly strongly considering closing signups to @RoamResearch and putting up a waitlist.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

1 year

Most expert knowledge is vibes. Most verbal reasoning is lies

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 months

Interesting prompt from @sama ’s interview with @lexfridman If someone handed you a laptop and said “it’s done, this here is the AGI” - what would you ask it?

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 months

This might be one of the best Kanyisms ever told. I love this

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@0xDesigner

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ok i know we cancelled him but he just instantly changed my mind about what i want to aspire to

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

A lot of people ask for templates in @RoamResearch - and they'll come soon enough. More interested in "Algorithms of Thought" though sequences of actions where you use the answers to previous questions as inputs to new ones Example: @byronkatie 's Judge Your Neighbor Worksheet

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@Conaw

4 years

Announcement 2: We're starting a fellowship program where we are giving grants to researchers to explore the space of [[Tools for Thought]], [[Collective Intelligence]], [[Augmenting The Human Intellect]]. @dhrumilwbc is our first "Roam Fellow", more to come on that front later.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

Ancient Rome had ancient history museums, yet there is no Medieval SciFi. When did the future start, and why did it take so long?

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

This may be the best thread I have ever read. TLDR: The Hindenburg was fake news. Build back blimpier, make blimps great again.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

Ideal work environment.

swami

@C8257877

4 years

[Video: a construction worker shoveling dirt as children on the other side of the fence yell “YAY!” every time dirt is moved.]

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

MVP of Templates in @RoamResearch Create a "trigger" writing on the [[roam/templates]] page Or by tagging block with [[roam/templates]] Fire the trigger by typing ;; A copy of blocks beneath your template will be inserted beneath where trigger fired

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

I made about 150k when @Localocracy was acquired in 2011 I put 10k into Bitcoin, 10k into Tesla, 30k into helping family, and the rest into @RoamResearch (roughly) I bought a van for ~2.5k and lived in it for a year to keep my rent costs down

John Pompliano

@JohnPompliano

3 years

Elon Musk made $180M when PayPal was acquired in 2002. He put $100M in SpaceX, $70M in Tesla, and $10M in Solar City. He borrowed money for rent. Now, he's worth $190 billion. The greatest entrepreneurs aren't driven by money; it's a byproduct of success.

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

3 years

Happy Birthday Dad!

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@Conaw

4 years

@Thibsquillard @RoamResearch @ByronKatie The DSSS system for rapid learning from @tferriss is one of my favorite "Algorithms of Thought" Deconstruct - break skill into component pieces Select - what 20% of pieces give 80% of value Sequence - what order to learn them Stakes - make learning high priority at gut level

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