Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools

Build tools around workflows, not workflows around toolshttps://thesephist.com › posts › toolshttps://thesephist.com › posts › toolsAug 4, 2020 — I want to share why I build my own tools and how I think we should think ... Good tools fit perfectly around our workflows, bad tools don't.‎My tools, today · ‎Workflows > tools · ‎Tools that grow with your...

the workflow that people need or that you yourself need um and then put together a tool chain around that

talking to users about specific workflows and that is where the money is like that is where the real user value is

built a freaking programming language into a canvas

what you're trying to accomplish is a workflow um features can support that workflow but you should start with the workflow

as opposed to what we normally do which we look at a set of features that a tool has and then we're 01:14:16 like comparing features of like well this one has this ability and this one has this ability features are not what you want

understand 01:14:02 the workflow that people need or that you yourself need um and then put together a tool chain around that

Linus Lee has a post called build Tools around workflows

multimedia

having more than one view

Auto organized force-directed graphs

come up with a user interface Paradigm or a uh or some other technological breakthrough that'll kind 00:47:09 of allow us to extend the medium to handle that workflow

come up against the limits of the medium of the spreadsheet and you realize oh I need a database or oh I need you know some other medium to kind of capture things 00:46:43 in there and I'm kind of curious about uh those the edges of the medium when it comes to spatial canvases when are we actually like running up against uh like this is sort of a fundamental limit

work like a visual Wiki where you could click on on these elements and that's and link to for example documentation or stuff like that so that's possible now

Tools for Thought Rocks: December 2022 - Jakob from LogSeq, Jess Martin

figure out how to use tools like this to think better to to work better with other 00:00:38 people and to basically become a part of their workflow in their life

re-imagined to fit in with CS[m] principles and protocols.

it’s currently being re-imagined to fit in with CS[m] principles and protocols.

StigFlow is an automation tool like Zapier, but for collective sensemaking. StigFlow brings your communities’ reactions to life and bridges them across apps, by enabling you to configure a variety of flows which are triggered by reactions

Map your research rabbit holes.

TFT history

Readwise itself has become a "switching station", a Zapier, if you will, for highlights and quotes among many different tools.

StigFlow

asynchronous coordination

1 watching now Started streaming 27 minutes ago Graph TRansformation Theory and Applications (GReTA) international online seminar series 1 watching now • Started streaming 27 minutes ago • Graph TRansformation Theory and Applications (GReTA) international online seminar series Speaker: Steffen Zschaler (Department of Informatics, King's College London, UK) Abstract: Domain-specific modelling languages (DSMLs) are “little” languages that are developed for a particular domain of interest and allow capturing descriptions of problems and systems in terminology close to that domain. So-called executable DSMLs (xDSMLs) come with a high-level specification of their semantics, often as an operational semantics, so that models expressed in the xDSML can be executed directly. Graph transformations are one mechanism that can be used to capture such semantics. A challenge with xDSMLs is that a new such language needs to be developed for every new domain, making the approach potentially costly. If we were able to better reuse existing xDSMLs, we could bring the cost of language development down. One area where this is particularly interesting is in the specification and analysis of non-functional properties of systems (eg, performance properties). In this talk, I will show how such properties can be modularised into their own xDSML and how these language modules can be woven into a given base xDSML via the amalgamation of graph transformation systems. I will give an overview of the concepts and some interesting properties, and will then show GTSMorpher, a tool implementing these ideas in the Eclipse ecosystem.

GReTA seminar #39: "Composing Executable Domain-Specific Modelling Languages" 2 watching now Started streaming 25 minutes ago Graph TRansformation Theory and Applications (GReTA) international online seminar series GReTA Semina

The embedding of markup

To me the World Wide Web is an unfortunate presence

reduce people’s computer misery and quadruple the usability of computer documents.

someday vindicate me (what a pisser!

just collections of design decisions somebody made without asking you

why one dares follow the inner urgings of a project, going where its nature wants to go.

strangely and accidentally right about a remarkable variety of things.

raving, ignorant, unconscious, delusional dreamer

the true generalization of documents

Excerpts from POSSIPLEX.

Ulrich Schmitt

In Need of Personal Knowledge Management Systems

Nelson, T. (2011). Possiplex: Movies, Intellect, Creative Control, My Computer Life and the Fight forCivilization. Bookstore Edition

Possiplex, p258

Back to the Roots – Conservatism Revindicated

knowledge-work interoperability between the quadrant domains

Interoperability in a Group's Knowledge Workshop

tie these functional domains together with a flexible free-flow of information and linkages.

have found better and better software packages to support the kinds of tasks shown in Figure 1:

Interoperability Across Knowledge Domains

online "knowledge workshop,"

trend toward our doing more and more of our personal and cooperative knowledge-work online.

Knowledge-Domain Interoperability and an Open Hyperdocument System

decent(ralization) reject the very idea of "fully" Absolute Time and global consensus

There’s a long tail for software

There’s a long tail for software

organic longtail networks and conversations anchored in global networks

in a web 2 sense platform really denotes ownership ownership of the content ownership of the users

what else are people building

tools to to recognize um and 00:16:52 formalize the the membership and ownership of your community but ultimately you know it comes down to the people that you want involved and how you want to incentivize them

crowdfunding by nfts

squads are more like nature right they're cellular um and i think i think that's a that's an interesting thing is like you can build a squad and then that squad can like amalgamate with other squads

fair distribution of community ownership

draw and and then share the logos of the project you're working on or of the project you're working with

community ownership is the most powerful feature of web3 and it's what differentiates web3 from the previous iterations of the internet

ownership and participation

Web3 Communities (1 of 4) with IDEO - Web3 Community Principles 757 views 1 year ago

database

HyperBlog

ownership

TrailHub

the simplest possible [webnative] database that could possibly be built.

TrailMarks’ vision and mission with Trailhub

masters of their own personal social networks

My seed phrase restored a different account!

MetaMask does not keep your SRP: you are the custodian of your wallet.

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Non-custodial wallets eliminate this possibility by requiring that users hold private keys, meaning no one else can access your crypto wallet.

Crypto wallets 101

Writing as usual. Publishing like never before.

make graphic design easier, and solved a problem with cross-platform usability

Meaningful use of computers

Morphic Enterprise Morphic helps organizations build an inclusive digital environment.

Data Dignity

Transvestment: Value and cooperation in the digital commons economy

potential of “design global, manufacture local”

participatory and community-based methods

The P2P Lab is an interdisciplinary research collective focused on the commons.

People who like “The P2P Value Project - Promoting the Tech Commons”

The P2P Value Project - Promoting the Tech Commons

Commons-based peer production (CBPP)

Commons Based Peer Production in a Nutshell

“We shall not cease from exploration

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“Perhaps what we might need is some subtle change in perspective - something we have all missed...”

Holistic Worldview and Practice - navigating ‘edge of chaos’?

You are in control

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Your content is yours

What is the IndieWeb? The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the "corporate web".

Day Waterbury2d agoTibet Sprague Just confirming applications are open through Jan 24th and we'll be considering project candidates up through Feb 21st, yes? Tibet Sprague2d agowe havent actually shared the proposal submission form yet, we will kick off that process on jan 24 and it will be open until feb 7 when discussions of the proposals start

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The End of the Silicon Valley Mythhttps://gerd.fm/3WOdkbA

All of this expertise is in my brain. The *data base*, if you will. And the *interfac* is me. My speech, my typing, my expressions, my gestures. I can produce these outputs externally, or I can experience them in my head.

if you go to ANTLR, it is a 100 percent solution to parsing.

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Germany’s strategic timidity Washington knows Berlin might be a bad ally, but at least it’s America’s bad ally.

Join us in envisioning a future where our tech platforms are designed to work together, honor the sovereignty and privacy of every person, and enable collaboration and cooperation across the globe in ways not yet possible.

Paying it forward

IPFS Camp - Opening Keynote Presentations - Lisbon, Portugal - Oct. 28th, 2022

movement together, as a community.

move at the speed of trust

open to adapt and evolve our technology

learning and growing together as we collaborate

commit to interoperability

open

flow

platforms

technology is not neutral

trustful networks in order to mitigate the erosion of trust within and across communities

design products that are usable and accessible

We honor the privacy of our users, and never share their data without informed consent.

enshrine participants’ ownership and control of their information

enable both individual and collective agency

Before building new systems, we look for, and amplify what is already working.

weaving a deeply interconnected, interdependent, and interoperable technology ecosystem

learn to truly collaborate and cooperate at all scales

not only as users.

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Entangling Humanism By Bruce Jennings

self-owning and self-governing social graph as a platform cooperative / commons

among the platform builders

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Distributed Hashtable Technology

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The Convergence Stack

3/21: Final presentations. We will kickoff a participatory process for deciding how much money to allocate to each project. This is still being designed.

Check-point event: teams can present their work so far

2/21: Build kickoff event: Highlight projects and teams that are moving forward into the build phase

Discussion of projects

Proposals for projects can be submitted

Social interoperability

Sovereign identity (e.g. adopting DID-based login)

Agreeing on shared data schemas, to make it easy to export/import data

Technical interoperability & data portability across social platforms.

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PubHubs and Networks for Public Institutions

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So Much for the Decentralized Internet

Thought-provoking read from @ibogost So Much for the Decentralized Internet

This is an aspirational post.

And this resistance is happening…

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“map of inquiry”

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Annotate over VitalSource owned ebooks and PDFs

Crucially, the lessons from this process are informing the global efforts to create a universally-accepted set of policies and practices for DAOs.

Decentralized Autonomous Organization Toolkit

Personal Canon These are the things that have most influenced my work and thinking; the things that I return to and share with others again and again.

personal canon

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We are a creative collective that pursues meaning

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Make decisions together online

The original “Mad Professor” of cyberpunk

FrameTrail

WHAT IS TOMBSTONE DIAGRAM ?

Scalabel v0.3.0 Demo

difference between 00:03:53 the more transient um like metadata type pheromone markings in contrast with the more content like architectural modifications so there's a lot of like resonances 00:04:05 across systems and hence not exactly one ontology or way to talk about the different components

beyond' ontology