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Unbundling Tools for Thought

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Disparate thoughts on personal information management after traversing the hype cycle.

Short version: Tools for thought promise to let you centralize and hyperlink all your data. In practice 95% of the use cases can be naturally unbundled into disjoint apps, and the lack of centralization and cross-app hyperlinking has no real negative effects. There’s a joke in game development that there’s two kinds of game devs: those who write engines, and those who make games. The people who make the engines do it for the intellectual pleasure of discovering a beautiful algebra of vectors, scenes, entities, and events; and watching a beautiful, crystalline machine in operation. The actual g

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