Tools For Thought
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Tools For Thought
it is probably a mistake, in the end, to ask software to improve our thinking. Even if you can rescue your attention from the acid bath of the internet; even if you can gather the most interesting data and observations into the app of your choosing; even if you revisit that data from time to time — this will not be enough. It might not even be wort... See more
"We choose to build a second brain because it lets us garden our thinking over days, months, and years. Where social media is compulsive, tools for thought are reflective. Where social media is here and now, tools for thought dwell in the long now. Tools for thought slowly build compounding momentum through low, slow feedback loops that point us in
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Expand the diversity of building blocks . As Goldberg puts it, diversity is a necessary condition of selectorecombinative success. The broader our ecology of notes, the greater the combinatorial possibility.
- In what ways might we increase the diversity of our notes?
Gordon Brander • Tools for thought should evolve building blocks
Sublime is part of this I think. Serious discovery is as important as serious tools for manipulation. (I think Subconcious will be interesting for manipulation, but currently I'm more excited about Heptabase.)
Expand the diversity of building blocks . As Goldberg puts it, diversity is a necessary condition of selectorecombinative success. The broader our ecology of notes, the greater the combinatorial possibility.
- In what ways might we increase the diversity of our notes?
- How might we connect notes laterally, across topic boundaries?
Gordon Brander • Tools for thought should evolve building blocks
Even with obvious deficiencies, large prompt-commanded multimodal models are proving to be flexible cognitive tools representing an unprecedented generality. But the directness, diversity, and degree of user interaction create a distinctive “human-centred generality” (HCG), rather than a fully autonomous one. HCG implies that —for a specific user— ... See more