# Jeff Tang - Q: What do you need? - Let's talk more! - Q: would publishing Athens to web be useful? Agora - wikilinks with brackets, broadcast to all digital gardens participating - Q: How does [[Athens]] fit in the wider ecosystem? - A: unfortunately not lots of collaboration. - A: some chats with [[Foam]] and [[logseq]]. logseq have the most in common; they use clojurescript/datascript. - A: it's probably too hard to merge projects or come up with a shared vision. - A: coordination cost is high. Expected value is not very high in the immediate. We are all trying to be successful, then - A coordination problem - Civilization suffers from it. We need to believe that it can be solved, but it's unclear how to go about it. - Most recent examples of successful standards come from crypto. In the crypto space you have open protocols, a few companies work exclusively on exchanges and interop. - W3C standard: would you be happy if that happened? - Jeff: Yes! But does everyone want that? Coordination again. - [[logseq]] started one month before [[Athens]]; similar number of contributors. Wanted to partner with them, we had an agreement. First a standard, then perhaps even merging; we had similar visions, were using similar technologies. - Coordinating was considered too difficult in the end at this stage. - Hub-like standard? Periphery. Hypothesis: multiplayer is key. Hub provides multiplayer, a social graph. - Beautiful but very idealistic. - A: I'm also very pragmatic though. - Social knowledge graphs - Look up: [[Nate Liason]] -- "effortless output in Roam". More for beginners. - He has published his brain: https://www.nateliason.com/brain ## TODO - Read about [[Nate Liason]] - Check out [[logseq]] - Work on [[agora-protocol]]