Links
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
- Identify powerful insights that can be systematized
- Build systems that express those insights
- Observing serious use of those systems in authentic contexts
- Distilling generalizable insight that can produce new understanding that can help build better systems in the future
- Disseminating the insights