Anirudh Badri

• A [[person]].
• [[twitter]] twitter.com/anirudhbadri
• [[go]] https://roamresearch.com/#/app/ImaginarySolutionsForWeirdFutures/page/v_7J3bv0Q
  • [[good opinions]] vs [[lazy opinions]]
• [[computer science]] background
  • [[dell]]
  • [[rolled dice]]
• [[math]] [[game theory]]

[[2021-01-20]]

• [[project]] [[rome.works]]
  • exploring market fit
  • high level [[goal]]: build a knowledge economy
    • the platform ([[knowledge graph]]) should be self-sustaining (economically)
    • let people engage in [[commerce]] to address their needs
    • first target for [[books]]
      • trade-off between (how the medium is supposed to be consumed) and (how to integrate information ideally)
    • "[[book]] as a [[linear medium]] is perfect for [[storage]] but not for [[consumption]]"
• [[example]]
  • [[book]] [[the expanding circle]]
  • our thoughts while we read are like a [[forest]] even though the book is linear
  • you could [[jump]] to other places that reference the same idea
    • [[topic]] [[nlp]]
    • [[topic]] [[book club]]
    • you could suggest highly relevant "[[branches]]" -- other books that touch on [[family]] and then [[tribe]]
  • "writing [[reviews]] seems like an artificial way to talk about a book"
    • [[topic]] [[dialogue]] format
  • [[goal]] reduce [[cognitive load]]
• [[recommendation]] [[frode hegland]] [[augmented text]]
• [[engagement graph]]
• [[gamification]] can be used for [[good]]
  • [[goals]] just need to be aligned with what the users actually want
  • same goes for [[personalization]] / [[filters]]
• [[push]] [[book club]]
  • they work better when they are smaller, one common mistake is that they grow too fast
  • [[abstract fairy]] [[jonathan the utopian]] will be interested
• [[ought]] https://ought.org/updates/2020-11-09-forecasting
• [[topic]] [[aliases]]