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Anita Ilango
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highlight reel of an otherwise private are.na gal

things i think about:
-enabling creativity
-content discovery & navigation
-creative tools
-how we learn, how to learn
-history, culture, innovation
-product and process

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as people productize, ideas will evolve on:

-AI agents/assistants/copilots/companions as products
-UI's for visual workflow builders that decouple LLM tasks
-understanding the cognitive distinction between software creators and consumers

"My problem is not finding something. My problem is understanding something. That can only happen if search engines understand what a person is really looking for, and then guide her toward understanding that thing, much as experts do when mentoring a student"

Danny Hillis

Most of the time, a person sits down at her personal computer not to create, but to read, observe, study, explore, make cognitive connections, and ultimately come to an understanding. This person is not seeking to make her mark upon the world, but to rearrange her own neurons. The computer becomes a medium for asking questions, making comparisons, and drawing conclusions—that is, for learning.

Magic Ink
Wanted: Smart Generalists
Wanted: Smart Generalists
lol but same
lol but same

hmm the core of it all seems to be

how do we create better tools for information retrieval that enable and augment exploratory learning?

lol took me too long to get here
big lil foreshadow
big lil foreshadow
Claire Hughes Johnson
Claire Hughes Johnson

"Process, by definition, is variance reducing. You're introducing it, because you worry that the variance in your org is too high. You want people to sort of meet a certain standard.

And the cost of that is obviously, while you are reducing the standard and bringing folks up to the average, you're also bringing other folks down to the average. And oftentimes, the folks you're bringing down are your highest performers, your most creative thinkers. The folks who, I think actually don't really need process to do their best work."

Eeke de Milliano

agency is granted in a few ways

-financial empowerment: grants or teaching how to make money
-expanding worldview: through education, information (!! what i want to work on)
-faith from people: validating one's worth, self confidence

ways to increase agency
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