jeff talked about how writing leads us to see connections between our ideas that we weren’t aware of before.
these kinds of connections are what i want the computer to help reveal.
it’s related to triggering discoveries that we wouldn’t have found otherwise, like the experience of scanning a library shelf for one book but then finding better ones because the books are grouped together in a meaningful way. when we root around in our email, if related messages (in several senses of “related”) are near each other, our odds of tripping over useful stuff will increase.

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