Nice to come across you on your treks to hunt and gather information in this forest we call the Internet.
You know one of the subtle ways our world is changing is to recognize the highly skilled gatherers, or as in the modern day are referred to as curators. People who are experts at managing the huge volumes of information we are all subjected to daily.
Soon, we'll be explicitly recognize people with better taste and judgement to navigate us through the forest and guide us to the best of what they consume.
And to this I say, salud. Being on the Internet, coming across some of the best works of humanity from 7-billion strong, has been a real pleasure. For what seems like forever, I have been on a quest to honor it by developing the ideal intellectual ethic to engage with content. Or to put it another way, I wish to answer the question: “How should we ideally be consuming information?”
Here, I think a new medium awaits. At Metamind, our medium is an environment where a body of content is published in a content-graph : a bi-directionally linked web of threaded, nested blocks of content, as seen in tools like Roam Research, RemNote, Tana, etc. We are creating the right publishing environment for this new medium.
You don't add content to a timeline, you add content to a structure. We have observed that when content is part of a growing content-graph, people can shape the structure to shape various explorations through content. You don't interact with content in Likes, but interact with the structure to further it's cause.
All social activities like conversations, consumption activities like note-taking and curation activities like referencing can happen over this structure. Communicating in Metamind will be working on a bonsai tree.
This is experiencing content in the mindset of a curator and I want to uphold it for all kinds of content, be it Twitter Threads, YouTube Videos, Instagram Posts, etc.
Now, here's the big news: I have designed a product to enable all of that and more. Me and my co-founder the product and the underlying protocol as Project Metamind.
But without further ado, I want you to know that Metamind is aimed at enabling you to communicate in the medium of content graphs. A medium where naturally users will mindfully consume and curate interesting ideas around your richly-connected, "digital garden", updating over time.
If say, Instagram brought out the photographer in everyone, Project PCPI will bring out the curator in everyone.
If you're interested in knowing more or helping me with this project, please send me a mail at this address: abhishek1point0@hey.com
Thank you for reading through and for thinking of helping me. I wish my product makes the world a better place.
Regards,
Abhishek.