White-Sullivan: Writing enables compound interest on human thought
Conor White-Sullivan · 20VC: How Roam Research Analyse Product Design, Team-Building, The Future of Collaboration Tools & Applying Tesla Go-To-Market To Roam with Conor White-Sullivan, Founder & CEO @ Roam Research · May 8, 2020 · at 6:11
Conor White-Sullivan, founder and CEO of Roam Research, explains the underlying cognitive philosophy behind networked note-taking tools.
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“Writing is a tool for thinking, and if you can't get compound interest on your thoughts, if you can't build up a thought structure over time and continually go back and revisit it and revise it, you're limited to just what you can hold in your head.”
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