https://thesephist.com/posts/research-community/ https://www.patreon.com/posts/ratcheting-in-47976114

Qualities that Linus wants in a good community

  • Building meaningful things for others instead of just creating toys for oneself
  • A financial model like the Ink and Switch, which is a nonprofit research lab that can then spin off into some actual for-profit products that in turn support the lab
  • Grants that stop people from focusing too short-term

Qualities that Andy Matuschak wants

Ideal Research Process

  1. Identify powerful insights that can be systematized
  2. Build systems that express those insights
  3. Observing serious use of those systems in authentic contexts
  4. Distilling generalizable insight that can produce new understanding that can help build better systems in the future
  5. Disseminating the insights