This newsletter lives in Roam

These are my weekly Patch Notes – a log of the mental model updates I’m making and a braindump of things I’m leaning, building, or thinking about. Subscribe on Substack here. In this release: This update lives in Roam Research Cozyroom is moving forward I want you to join Twitter I’ve been watching live DJ sets and they are wonderful A great remote coding pair is a super-IDE Personal email threads are kinda magical
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Musings on open-source notes and digital gardens

These are my weekly Patch Notes – a log of the mental model updates I’m making and a braindump of things I’m leaning, building, or thinking about. Subscribe on Substack here. In this release: Fascinating work in the knowledge sharing space I mocked up what the browser might look like in the spirit of Xanadu Reading: How to Take Smart Notes Why is everything so broken? I’m running blog club this month
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Have I become dumber since moving away from my roommates?

These are my weekly Patch Notes – a log of the mental model updates I’m making and a braindump of things I’m leaning, building, or thinking about. Subscribe on Substack here. In this release: Shared social cognition and the effect of distance on it Importing my goals and values into Readwise Something magical happened on Twitter this week Blog Club: The Curse of Xanadu I finally understand what ’the world is changing faster’ refers to
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Hyperlinks, hyperlinks, hyperlinks

These are my weekly Patch Notes – a log of the mental model updates I’m making and a braindump of things I’m leaning, building, or thinking about. Subscribe on Substack here. In this version: I did a hackathon! Hyperlinks, and making them better Thoughts on Bitcoin and Gwern’s ‘Bitcoin is Worse is Better’ Futures and options have apparently existed for much longer than I thought What is the difference between honor, shame, and guilt?
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How do we throw an online party?

These are my weekly Patch Notes – a log of the mental model updates I’m making and a braindump of things I’m leaning, building, or thinking about. Subscribe on Substack here. In this version: An exploration into virtual online parties and how we might make them happen My journey in extracting Twitter’s bookmarks Software is hard, and some reassuring quotes Cool remote tools I’ve been using Westworld thoughts Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
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