As I’m thinking about defining more narrow focuses for my independent work next year, one area has stood out consistently as both personally exciting and more widely important: imagining and building better ways computers can help people do their best creative, thoughtful work, and in the process rethinking the relationship creative people have with the computer as a part of their work.| thesephist.com
Humans are bad at coming up with search queries. Humans are good at incrementally narrowing down options with a series of filters, and pointing where they want to go next. This seems obvious, but we keep building interfaces for finding information that look more like Google Search and less like a map.| thesephist.com
I spent the last couple of months delving deeper into how I could integrate elements of modern machine learning with my love of building personal knowledge tools. This is a space brimming with untapped ideas and experiments to come. One open question for me is how exactly human users should interact with AI integrated into knowledge tools and creative tools.| thesephist.com