Jeremy, Can you be drawn a bit more on fractals and self similarity? I think it would be beneficial to hear about some of the abstract motivations behind your creation. This way, TW fans perhaps could understand something at a more abstract level thus enabling them to solve some of the problems that FND identified associated with stymying deeper understanding.
The everything is a tiddler - the pageTemplate, ViewTemplate, stylesheet - is to my mind kind of fractal. Each is similar but smaller to the previous but smaller. Neil, I wonder if in knowledge management there are issues relating to fractals as well. I am thinking about Godel. Alex ps. new strapline : TiddlyWiki a funky non-linear fractal knowledge management tool 2010/1/26 Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]> > I really like Måns' comment: > > > Sometimes I see TiddlyWiki as an almost therapeutic tool - > > I think of an almost unmanagable problem - break it up into smaller > > pieces - make each piece work and put them together again - and I > > discover that the BIG problem already has been solved in the > > process... - it's magic... and one of the things I've learned from > > this group. (And I'm *not* using mptwGTD - whatever...) > > That's beautiful, I love the idea of TiddlyWiki as a productive > displacement activity. > > To answer Alex's earlier question about whether all my projects are > like this - firstly, I've never had the privilege of being involved > with anything like TiddlyWiki before, in the sense of being in the > middle of a community of actual people. Perhaps the closest thing is > the software teams I've managed over the years, at BTC, Dresdner, On > Board Info, Interactive1, and now, finally, Osmosoft. When I think of > those teams I suspect that I don't really see the commonality, because > it is likely to stem rather directly from my own behaviour/values > etc., which I'm kind of blind to. Anyhow, I adore working with other > people, and building and shaping a team is one of the exquisite > pleasures available to someone with my desire to build things. > > When I was a teenager I was kind of a hippy; I remember at 19 finally > figuring out to my own satisfaction what the purpose of life is - I > decided it was to love, and be loved. Which is possibly a bit naive > from some perspectives. Anyhow, you may be able to glean better > insights from this interview when I was 17: > > http://jermolene.com/2007/06/05/young-jerm/ > > One further thought is that it feels very much to me as though this > version of TiddlyWiki is version "n" of a single product that I've > spent my life striving to design. I hope that we are all still > together in 20 years, putting the finishing touches to TiddlyWiki2030, > with support for millions of tiddlers, and some kind of funky zoomy > fractal visualisation that helps you perceive and shape connections > and links. > > Cheers > > Jeremy > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:[email protected] > http://www.tiddlywiki.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<tiddlywiki%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. > > -- http://www.multiurl.com/g/64 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
