knovigator: in a remote and asynchronous world we are havin…

and yet this treasure trove of valuable insight remains untapped because we are still operating in a single-dimensional 20th century conversation paradigm

no matter how many topics we discuss and no matter how many people are participating we reduce our conversation into a single dimensional ephemeral stream that scrolls away from us never to be seen again

the solution is a synthesis of a new abstraction: streams, with an old one, hierarchical files and folders

instead of wasting our insights into an ephemeral stream we can compound our knowledge by growing a conversation tree over time

knovigator makes this possible by building an infinitely branching threaded medium that effortlessly branches to record the associative nature of your stream of consciousness

this allows you to pursue tangents in a separate but connected thread without mixing ideas. this creates a dedicated, addressable container which can be searched and referenced in other conversations making it possible to identify and re-use your best insights

being able to reference your conversations gives them a permanence missing from todays ephemeral chat stream. knov threads are part of a larger tree structure, whenever you encounter them, you can traverse the thread-tree and find insights that would be lost in other messengers

the ability to find conversations again changes your relationship to your writing. writing in a chat tree puts you into a flow state by providing a data structure which mimics the associative nature of your mind, while granting your writing potential future purpose

it is only when we know that we will see our conversation again that we can begin to value it, to literally purchase future attention by upvaling our own thought with small amounts of money, or rewarding our conversation partners for their knowledge work and insight

money is a powerful signaling mechanism, maybe the most powerful coordination mechanism devised by humanity. even small amounts as little a require a sacrifice

but to bring it to bear on information, that information has to achieve some level of permanence, otherwise your are just throwing your time and money to the wind

!quoted by metamitya