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Winter break roundup

What if links weren't meant to be prose?

Camera Roll as a tool for thought

Is web3 a Petri dish?

Subconscious Alpha

Dunbar-scale social

Network intersubjectives

Software scarcity

Saving copies of everything is like low-budget p2p

Slashlinks

Building new weblike things

Weird web3 energy

The state of the web

Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?

Notes are conversations across time

Composability with other tools

If headers did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them

A Kardashev scale for interfaces

Exapt existing infrastructure

Collapse the distinction between user and programmer

Aggregators aren't open-ended

Knowledge gardening is recursive

Search reveals useful dimensions in latent idea space

Open-ended tools for infinite games

Questions as tools for thinking

Everything Talks Email

Self-Organizing Ideas

Wiki as a Commons

Concept Refactoring

Subtext: markup for note-taking

The Knowledge Ecology

Outward notes, inward notes

Alphabets of Emergence

Hypertext Montage

Thought Legos

Unconscious R&D

Getting lost in the land of ideas

Building a Second Subconscious

The web began as a tool for thought

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