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I found a definition for love this year that made the concept of unconditional love coherent to me. Love is a pattern of attention . In every person/place/thing/idea there is some reflection of βthe goodβ. When you love something, you orient towards whatever glimmer of good is in.
Nobody knows what "unconditional love" means. They say they love their partner unconditionally and then you're like "would you still love them if they cheated on you and raped your children" and they're like "no, of course not" and then you have to explain what a condition is.
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In a single image this is why I hate Reddit and all it stands for
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We voted!. God bless New Hampshire where you can carry your baby and your long gun into your polling place without issue. Live free or die!
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"Balaji was right" might be the most terrifying phrase in the English language.
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The meme is very true, and represents the Epistemic reformation weβre in midst of right now. Many still make the move of trusting βthe pope of scienceβ aka the Harvard/Yale/NYT/NGO consensus of experts . They go to bed, ignore the decentralized βshow me the dataβ analysis of.
Anyone who has a technical profession knows that this is basically true.
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Home safe and sound!
No setbacks or surprises during the night, he finished all of his feeds and he managed to bring himself out of his oxygen dips without the cannula. Really feels like we're going home today! . It's also my birthday. π₯³ Might be the best one ever!
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Our son was born late evening on the winter solstice of Dec 21st 2024, arriving at 8lbs 7oz. His mom was insanely impressive. Unmedicated natural birth, which may well have killed her in the Iron Age, fortunately she had a wonderful team of midwives and the miracles of modern
OK, I'm definitely in labor.
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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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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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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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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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I take back all criticisms Iβve made about the current state of culture and art. Weβre doing great. This is amazing.
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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.
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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βFuck around and find outβ is a noble virtue in truth-seeking civilizations. Few seem to know this.
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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. .
π 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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I was wrong. You guys were right. Having a native mobile app for Roam is actually fucking awesome.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing wrong. Only way to start.
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Water broke early this morning, waiting for contractions to start. Pray for us and the baby.
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Update: @RoamResearch launching End to End Encrypted option for graphs tonight. Itβs a major feature - verifiable technical assurance of privacy. Means you donβt 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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Hereβs 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 youβre infatuated with and there is absolutely nothing in the world youβd rather do than just hang out with them and just.
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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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. β.
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A brief rant on note-taking apps and the structure of thought. Or "Why Evernote is a terrible second brain.".
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@devonzuegel Marcel Mauss talked about this in βThe Giftβ, in a gift economy the transactions are as much about the escalation of intimacy as exchange of material goods. The ideal situation is that when one party pays the other back they overpay at least a bit, thus continuing the debt bond.
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The risk is not desensitization, but sensitization, and not sex but love and bonding coupled with narrative collapse that is greater danger. When youβre bonding with a person in emotionally heightened state, neuroplasticity off the charts, new memories forming, anchoring to.
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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Wow. I take the past for granted. Reminder that someone invented this stuff.
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@jbendery Did you read the bill? . Itβs 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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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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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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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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Single purpose hardware is the future.
Ash is a pocket AI nature guide for kids inspired by Ash's PokΓ©dex. It helps children connect with and learn about the biodiversity around them. I absolutely adore the simplicity of Ash. π
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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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Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama β and very few others β designed their organizations to get them maximum [[Return on Attention]]. I knew about Bezosβ silent meetings. π to @samhinkie for showing me Obamaβs [[multiple-choice presidential briefs]]. 10/10 EXCEPTIONAL INFORMATION DESIGN
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The Zettelkasten. "It's like the GTD for intellectual progress" What it is, and why you want one. (thread).
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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.
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 π.
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Not a joke. Roam Mobile for iOS is in the App Store
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I was wrong about the war in Gaza.
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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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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Reminder that expertise is real, good experts make counterintuitive non-consensus predictions that turn out correct. Balaji was right.
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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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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This applies to EVERYTHING . Get into flow, if the work is triggering anxiety, ease off, itβs itβs boring, turn on the gas.
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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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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Update: Patrick Collison, our beloved goat, has given birth to twins.
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Something you should pay attention to if youβre watching @DustinPoirierβs post game interview. He just knocked out Conor McGregor, and says he βfeels good but. β 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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Big news. Weβve built an App Store for Roam where extensions will be reviewed for security by the Roam team, developers can charge, and where weβll be sharing some % of our top line revenue with extension maintainers. Weβre calling it #roamdepot . Follow @hashbrown490 for details.
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Donating blood is the only way to rid your body of toxic βforever chemicalsβ. For many reasons Iβll thread below it is incredibly healthy. To the point that Iβve looked into paying someone to come to my work to take my blood, I must dig into this.
In the U.S., you are legally permitted to sell your blood plasma for money, but it's called "donation". In recent years, the numbers of places set up for donations has skyrocketed, and the amount they're compensating donors has followed suit. Let's dig in.
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@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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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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@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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If you donβt admire RFK JR. for taking his young daughter and a chainsaw to the beach to collect the scull of a beached whale and drive it 5 hours back on the roof of a minivan. Youβre a plebeian and I renounce you.
Thatβs why theyβre aristocratic and youβre not. You arenβt collecting free trophies that generate family power
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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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Has anyone ever seen a phone or computer in a dream?. For how much of our waking attention they get, surprisingly absent. I canβt recall ever seeing any screen in any dream.
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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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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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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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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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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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Only way to start is wrong. This was @RoamResearch 5 years ago.
Anything worth doing is worth doing wrong. Only way to start.
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We're pushing up a change in that will let you install Roam on your phone's home screen, which will allow you to π₯π₯π₯. Share tweet via. @RoamResearch
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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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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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The good ones cross the chasm - and then we just call it culture.
You Roam Research people know how most cults end right?.
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Men in tech. if youβve got 50k in savings and you arenβt willing to give your girlfriend kids THIS YEAR if she wants them. grow the f**k up, stop wasting her time.
Something you should pay attention to if youβre watching @DustinPoirierβs post game interview. He just knocked out Conor McGregor, and says he βfeels good but. β 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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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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Spirits are patterns of thought that live in your mind, reproduce through memes, and shape the world through the people they possess. Embody Santa.
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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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.
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The Variable Schedule Reward Zettelkasten. A strategy for Memexing Twitter (to get better ideas, and build new relationships).
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Happy 4th of July!. America is in many ways the first and most successful start-up society, but if we're lucky it wonβt 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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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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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. π§΅.
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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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Never forget. They lied and people died.
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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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In other news @azlenelza is starting at @RoamResearch next week.
"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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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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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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Interesting 𧡠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.
You know what? Start the car already. Iβll open the garage door after a little while. I promise!.
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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 theyβll 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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Most expert knowledge is vibes. Most verbal reasoning is lies
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