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Metamuse
By Adam Wiggins, Mark McGranaghanTechnology
Metamuse episodes
- 79 // Read-later apps with Tristan Homsi and Dan Doyon
How can software improve the practice of reading? Tristan and Dan are the founders of Readwise. They join Adam to talk about the history of read-later apps like Pocket and Instapaper; the difference between reading for betterment and reading for entertainment; and the cat-and-mouse game of web parsing. Plus: how the personal knowledge management explosion in 2020 affected digital reading.
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Show notes- Tristan Homsi @homsIT
- Dan Doyon @deadly_onion
- falconry
- My Side of the Mountain
- Readwise
- Anki
- Dan and Tristan meeting on Hacker News
- Reader
- Pocket, Marco Arment, Instapaper
- Mozilla acquires Pocket
- Why We’re Bootstrapping Readwise
- Alan Kay on computer science as pop culture
- Readability.js
- web standards acid test
- Reader browser extension
- RSS
- Explorable Explanations
- offline first
- JSON Patch
- Second Brain
- commonplace book, marginalia
- etymology of “document”
1 hr 6 min - 78 // Local-first, one year later
It's been a year since Muse 2.0 launched. To help commemorate this anniversary, Adam Wulf once again joins Mark and Adam Wiggins to do a technical deep-dive on Muse's sync architecture. They discuss the benefits such as less ops burden and good developer experience; and challenges such as event vs state based data, handling different app schema versions, and the tradeoffs of a content-aware server.
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Show notes- Developer Duck
- The Pragmatic Programmer
- Metamuse episode 56: Sync
- Muse 2.0
- Muse for Teams
- Local-first software
- Pingdom
- Local-first software with Martin Kleppmann
- Text blocks
- innovation tokens
- Replicache, LiveBlocks, PartyKit
- Automerge 2.0
1 hr 6 min - 77 // Writing on the internet with Francesco Di Lorenzo
Twitter has created a whole new generation of internet writers. Francesco is the co-founder of Typefully, and he joins Adam and Mark to talk about the evolution of blogging, the importance of diversifying your platforms, and how Twitter can be used as a beacon to invite like-minded people into your conversations.
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Show notes- Francesco Di Lorenzo @frankdilo
- Typefully
- Calm companies with Tyler Tringas
- Atomic writing
- Evan Williams and Blogger
- Mastodon, Medium, Substack
- Geoffrey Litt
- Platforms with Joe Wadcan
- Twitter acquisition
- So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
- Farcaster
1 hr 1 min - 76 // Leadership
Great leadership is imperative to creating a successful company. Adam and Mark talk about setting up a healthy work environment, the importance of conviction and belief, and the role models who inspire Adam and Mark on their own leadership journeys.
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Show notes- Muse for Teams
- Metamuse episode on Hiring
- Netflix Culture Deck (2009)
- Metamuse episode with Mario Gabriele
- Adam’s Heroku’s values
- Barbie and Ruth
- The Score Takes Care of Itself
- Difficult Men
- Peter van Hardenberg
- George Washington
- The story of VaccinateCA by Patrick McKenzie
- Sketching User Experiences
- Slack: The Myth of Total Efficiency
- The Principles of Project Management Flow
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
- High Output Management
- Management
48 min - 75 // Collective intelligence with Conor White-Sullivan
Better tools and techniques for collective intelligence could be a path to building a more democratic society. Conor is the founder of Roam, and he joins Adam and Mark to discuss his motivations for working on a tool for collective intelligence, why knowledge doesn’t always equal articulated thoughts, and a vision for how to program your own mind.
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Show notes- Conor White-Sullivan
- Roam Research
- Bret Victor
- Andy Matuschak on roman numerals vs arabic numerals
- Logo, BASIC
- agent-based economics simulations
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- “The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them”
- The Wealth of Networks
- Institutions and Organizations
- non-rivalrous goods, public goods
- 3D printing organs, open-source medicine
- The Centralized Internet Is Inevitable
- map-territory conflict
- micronations
- critical thinking
- “I, Pencil”
- Limits to Legibility
- Localocracy
- A Syntopicon
- Reinventing Discovery
53 min - 74 // Linking
Linking has a rich history as a way of connecting, building, and sharing—creating the hive mind of all human knowledge. Adam and Mark talk about the origins of hyperlinks, the untitled boards problem, and measuring importance by citation or backlink count. And Julia joins to talk about the technical implementation of Muse’s linked cards.
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Show notes- Linked cards
- Muse for Teams
- Citations, symlinks, Wiki backlinks
- content addressable
- Ted Nelson, coined the term “hyperlink”
- Knowledge graphs
- Roam, Notion, Obsidian, Logseq
- Branching factor
- Transclusion and excerpting in Muse
- Splunk, grep command in Unix
57 min - 73 // Folk practices with Omar Rizwan
Folk practices, such as screenshots of text, offer insight into user preferences and can be a basis for building better software. Omar is the creator of ScreenMatcher, Screenotate, and TabFS. He joins Adam and Mark to discuss the impact of Dynamicland; what it means to create “wiggly” computer systems; and the idea of trying to unlock latent demands of the end-user in order to enhance our ability to control computers.
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Show notes- Omar Rizwan, @rsnous
- Hijack Your Feed
- Metamuse episode with Jason Yuan
- Screenotate
- Screen Matcher
- the analog hole
- Mermaid
- Metamuse episode with Maggie Appleton
- Dynamicland
- A Small Matter of Programming
- Twine
- Max Kreminski on Twine projects
- FFI
- Vulkan
- Exterminate All Operating System Abstractions
- Patrick Dubroy on orthogonal primitives
- TabFS
- Dynamicland Geokit work
- Reactive database relatives: Bloom, Eve, Riffle
- Displaying graphs in terminal
- Pixel parsing: Viewpoint, Prefab
- Buttons
- Vulkan triangle
- the charisma of end-user programming
- “always already programming”
1 hr 11 min - 72 // Remote work
It's been possible to have all-remote teams for at least a decade, but in many ways this approach to knowledge work is still in its infancy. Adam and Mark talk about the pros of remote work like the ability to hire from the global talent pool and life flexibility for team members. They also touch on cons like limited tools for creative group thinking and difficulty building trust remotely.
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Show notes- Muse for Teams / demo video
- Remote-first
- Zoom stocks in 2020
- Hype cycle curve
- Messaging with Hilary Maloney
- Wise, Firstbase, Deel
- The Legal Implications of Remote Working Cross-Border
- GitLab’s approach to remote compensation
- Economic surplus
- Join the Muse community on Discord
- Dropbox founder story
- Wall Street companies back in-person
- Maker vs. manager schedule
1 hr 6 min - 71 // Programmable ink with James Lindenbaum and Szymon Kaliski
What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets? James and Szymon are researching this question at Ink & Switch. They sit down with Adam to talk about the unlikely duo of informality and coding, the future of digital ink, and the role of feelings in research.
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Show notes- James Lindenbaum
- Szymon Kaliski
- Ink & Switch
- kegging cocktails
- “there’s always money in the banana stand"
- Heavybit
- Inkbase: Programmable Ink
- Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software
- Crosscut: Drawing Dynamic Models
- Understanding Media
- Lisp
- projectional editors, Scratch, MaxMSP
- Szymon demoing at Strange Loop
- SketchUp
- Apparatus, Cuttle
- ThingLab / demo
- SAT solver
1 hr 15 min - 70 // Launchers with Thomas Paul Mann
A command line and a GUI are two completely different ways to operate a computer—but quick launchers and command palettes have found a way to bring them together. Thomas is building Raycast, an extensible quick launcher for macOS. He joins Mark and Adam to discuss the evolution of launchers from Quicksilver to Spotlight to the Chrome address bar; reasons to embed web technologies into a native app; and how voice interfaces like Siri and Alexa fit into this story.
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Show notes- Thomas Paul Mann @thomaspaulmann
- Raycast
- Spark AR
- Raycast API
- Metamuse episode on platforms
- Spotlight, iOS Search
- KDE, Krunner
- Quicksilver
- Superhuman, Linear, Notion
- Arc
- Siri, Alexa
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