This episode is better in video, as we demo the Roam tool. The video can be found here: https://youtu.be/9znmODSYDwA

Learn what Roam Research is and how it makes writing and thinking easier. It's a bit like Evernote, but with a *very* different user experience that has inspired cult-like devotion from early users. This is an interview with Conor White-Sullivan, the founder of Roam.

Antipessimist is a peer-reviewed podcast that only publishes episodes that have been highly-rated by a hand-selected audience of early reviewers. Here are some of the quotes from the peer-reviewers on this episode:

- This is the deepest I've ever seen anyone go with Conor, the combination of tool review and philosophical exploration about why it matters is incredible.
- This is fascinating, I love the idea of opinionated software and creates “compound interest for thinking."
- The concept of Roam is AMAZING and I’m obsessed and excited to explore it more.
- Conor is a far more wide-ranging and philosophically interesting thinker than I thought he would have been.

Here are some additional great links on Jason's work:

• Jason giving a laundry list of progress: https://rootsofprogress.org/progress-studies-a-civic-duty
• The closest thing Jason has to a manifesto: https://rootsofprogress.org/progress-studies-a-moral-imperative