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I am not convinced of the premise this subculture takes as its point of departure: that a single piece of software can be written, or a single process developed

I am not convinced of the premise this subculture takes as its point of departure: that a single piece of software can be written, or a single process developed, that improves upon a wide range of established and purpose-built note-taking systems. There is a craving for generality here that I suspect is rooted in an investor narrative - "the total addressable market of a good note-taking app is huge!" - rather than a good faith effort to solve the particular problems of particular users.

gjvc 3y ago
the most capable minds in computing are working in advertising or the allied trades. The notion of a universal canvas which can host multiple content types and allow the creation of new modes of interaction is the holy grail of this sort of thing, but the common platforms today are not free-form enough to accommodate this.