https://thesephist.com/posts/browser/
Intro
Even the wording of this community has promoted a focus on building tools. But we shouldn’t be stopping at tools. We should be building mediums. Tools tend to be small and specific changes to broader workflows. Mediums redefine and expand the way we can think and work.
In general, mediums are composed of core primitives with high upside. Notion, Google docs, Microsoft Excel, Figma are all like this.
This is why End-user programming is such a powerful idea, and many of the recently popular tools have been taking this idea more and more seriously.
Important to note that: The best mediums for thought will live outside any particular apps
Ideas
- Medium for a new style of spaced repetition system
- New medium for note-taking as described in Serendipitous Idea-Formation