{"id":14038,"date":"2020-09-20T05:58:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T21:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=14038"},"modified":"2025-01-13T23:58:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T15:58:40","slug":"magic-junkyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/magic-junkyard\/","title":{"rendered":"magic junkyard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>just doing the thing where I coin a phrase and then track how it spreads<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I tried notion a little bit but it didn&#39;t stick for me. so i&#39;m not sure. I&#39;m guessing notion is meant to be a layer more polished and final than roam is, which is more of a magic junkyard<\/p>&mdash; Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1213111883676315648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There are two types of accounts on Twitter<br><br>1) highly polished\/curated content designed to achieve a specific goal<br><br>2) magic junkyard \u00a9 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@visakanv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Anne-Laure Le Cunff (@neuranne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/neuranne\/status\/1220849183478992897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been called everything from&#8221;the Superhuman of Notes&#8221; to a &#8220;Magic Junkyard for connecting your ideas.&#8221; \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/angel.co\/company\/roam-research\">Roam&#8217;s AngelList page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;there\u2019s a reason people call it a magic junkyard.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/RoamResearch\/comments\/i0t0km\/how_to_organize\/\">reddit comment<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mentioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@mattbrockwell\/a-taxonomy-of-notes-c6fc77aac311\">A Taxonomy Of Notes<\/a>, this Medium post by @MattBrockwell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2731 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>dec2023: i should probably expand this into a substack essay, be more descriptive. what is a junkyard, why do junkyards exist? what is magic? what is the utility of mess? connections between non-obvious, disparate things. when does a junkyard start to lose its magic? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>nov2024: a magic junkyard is a context that is messy but has animating spirit, a liveliness to it, something where things come alive seemingly of their own volition. it&#8217;s not trivial to make a space magical like that, as evidenced by the fact that arguably most built environments aren&#8217;t like that. christopher alexander would have a lot to say about this sad state of affairs. but i&#8217;m less interested right now in explaining it, than in enacting it. what can i do to make my magic junkyard more alive? 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