How can software improve the practice of reading? Tristan and Dan are the founders of Readwise. They join Adam to talk about the history of read-later apps like Pocket and Instapaper; the difference between reading for betterment and reading for entertainment; and the cat-and-mouse game of web parsing. Plus: how the personal knowledge management explosion in 2020 affected digital reading. Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes Tristan Homsi @homsIT Dan Doyon @deadly_onion falconry My Side of the Mountain Readwise Anki Dan and Tristan meeting on Hacker News Reader Pocket, Marco Arment, Instapaper Mozilla acquires Pocket Why We’re Bootstrapping Readwise Alan Kay on computer science as pop culture Readability.js web standards acid test Reader browser extension RSS Explorable Explanations offline first JSON Patch Second Brain commonplace book, marginalia etymology of “document”

It's been a year since Muse 2.0 launched. To help commemorate this anniversary, Adam Wulf once again joins Mark and Adam Wiggins to do a technical deep-dive on Muse's sync architecture. They discuss the benefits such as less ops burden and good developer experience; and challenges such as event vs state based data, handling different app schema versions, and the tradeoffs of a content-aware server. Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes Developer Duck The Pragmatic Programmer Metamuse episode 56: Sync Muse 2.0 Muse for Teams Local-first software Pingdom Local-first software with Martin Kleppmann Text blocks innovation tokens Replicache, LiveBlocks, PartyKit Automerge 2.0

Twitter has created a whole new generation of internet writers. Francesco is the co-founder of Typefully, and he joins Adam and Mark to talk about the evolution of blogging, the importance of diversifying your platforms, and how Twitter can be used as a beacon to invite like-minded people into your conversations. Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes Francesco Di Lorenzo @frankdilo Typefully Calm companies with Tyler Tringas Atomic writing Evan Williams and Blogger Mastodon, Medium, Substack Geoffrey Litt Platforms with Joe Wadcan Twitter acquisition So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed Farcaster

Great leadership is imperative to creating a successful company. Adam and Mark talk about setting up a healthy work environment, the importance of conviction and belief, and the role models who inspire Adam and Mark on their own leadership journeys. Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes Muse for Teams Metamuse episode on Hiring Netflix Culture Deck (2009) Metamuse episode with Mario Gabriele Adam’s Heroku’s values Barbie and Ruth The Score Takes Care of Itself Difficult Men Peter van Hardenberg George Washington The story of VaccinateCA by Patrick McKenzie Sketching User Experiences Slack: The Myth of Total Efficiency The Principles of Project Management Flow Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman High Output Management Management

Better tools and techniques for collective intelligence could be a path to building a more democratic society. Conor is the founder of Roam, and he joins Adam and Mark to discuss his motivations for working on a tool for collective intelligence, why knowledge doesn’t always equal articulated thoughts, and a vision for how to program your own mind. Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes Conor White-Sullivan Roam Research Bret Victor Andy Matuschak on roman numerals vs arabic numerals Logo, BASIC agent-based economics simulations Choose Your Own Adventure “The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them” The Wealth of Networks Institutions and Organizations non-rivalrous goods, public goods 3D printing organs, open-source medicine The Centralized Internet Is Inevitable map-territory conflict micronations critical thinking “I, Pencil” Limits to Legibility Localocracy A Syntopicon Reinventing Discovery