John Hoang

The problem isn't that your notes are messy. The problem is that clean notes can still do nothing.

@xwanyex i don't trust the regulators to regulate us into happiness either. the best way is for each of us to make our own decisions individually.

I’m sorry, I know this bums a lot of you out, because you’ve built your personality on being to pro-market, pro-technology guy, but technology is just very clearly making us less happy

A knowledge system should not start with search. It should start with a question.

@pmarca A man is what he prompts all day

“A man is what he thinks about all day.”—Emerson

@pranav_ae @a16z this is good

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Question for heavy note-takers: When was the last time an old note changed what you wrote, decided, or said? Not found. Used.

@mcuban Ai is the printing press of automation. Automation increases the need for expertise.

I’m coming to the conclusion that the biggest challenge for Enterprise AI, and AI in general , as of now, is that it’s still impossible to make sure that everyone gets the same answer to the same question, every time. Which is a great response to the doomers. AI doesn’t know the consequences of its output. Judgement and the ability to challenge AI output is becoming increasingly necessary, and valuable. Which makes domain knowledge more valuable by the second. Am I wrong ?

The lonely part of learning alone: no one knows enough to push back.

Reading gave you the feeling. Retrieval gives you the sentence.

You screenshot things all the time. It's the fastest way to save something. They have no names. No tags. No context. Finding one means scrolling through six months of thumbnails. Our AI understands what's in your screenshots. Describe what you saved and it finds it.

Your notes should age into insight. Most age into clutter.

I'm looking for 5 people with a dead Notion, Obsidian, or Readwise setup. Not beginners. People with hundreds of saved ideas and no reliable way to use them.

claude usage rate limits are too low on the 20$ tier that it looks like i won't be able to finish one task before it runs out.

You see the outdated note. You know what needs to change. You leave it. Because fixing it means opening the original and navigating to the right section for a three-word change. So you skip it. That's how you get stale notes. Notes you don't fully trust. We made transclusions editable. See it, click it, fix it. Your notes stay accurate because updating is effortless.

A note app should create resistance. Not comfort.

Self-study gets weird when no one can tell whether you're getting sharper or getting familiar.

The worst feeling: knowing you read something useful and having nothing to say when it matters.

You don't have 4,000 notes. You have 4,000 tiny promises you never collected on.

You can search every word you've ever typed. But you can't search a picture. Whiteboard photos, screenshots, diagrams — some of the most important stuff you capture is invisible to search. Our AI understands what's in your images. Describe what you're looking for and it finds the picture.

So, to apply technology to the commons, you need to be able to be detailed oriented enough to solve problems directed at a moral vision. if you only had the analytical side, you'd have edtech. if you only had the top down thinking, you'd have taxing the billionaires for free education.

so you need another leg which is the ability to think big. but even that is not enough because the goal might not be good, and so the third stool is character.

personally, i would be aiming the middle of the venn diagram for culture and technology. i would apply technology at the commons. essentially whatever the politicians are promising for free, i would apply technology to it.