[Processed to flowershow.app/about] Why Flowershow? The Flowershow Vision
We need better collective sensemaking
Sensemaking is the ability to "make sense" of reality
We are struggling in our sensemaking
Sensemaking is especially important right now because of the complexity of our societies and the challenges we face
One part of better sensemaking is (technical) tools for sensemaking (other parts include our inner capacities for sensemaking e.g. critical thinking, open-mindedness, curiosity, questioning etc)
These range from raw data, to tools for managing that data, to analysing data and producing information, knowledge and insight
One important area are tools for organizing our (unstructured) information and knowledge -- and sharing and collaborating on that with others
wikis and digital gardens are one major way of doing that
The markdown revolution is bringing new energy and potential to "old" ideas such as wikis, zettelkastens etc
Markdown "plus" and its toolchain are becoming a power and very flexible "digital notepaper" on which rich digital notebooks can be written
History of computing shows the strength of simple, composable tools even if crude over sophisticated, complex ones especially over the long-term
Markdown will still be there in 10 or 20 years
Publishing is one important, initial area
Intelligence is collective: we need to interact on and build on each others insights and ideas
Publishing markdown is still painful. It should be as easy as publishing a facebook post.
Markdown is a great (best) basis for rich digital notes
More importantly, combined with something like git (and a link database) it is now a great basis for a digital notebook (aka wiki)
There is still a lot to be done in the markdown ecosystem to fulfil on this potential
That involves sharing content within a group or publicly.
The simplest way to do that is some kind of publishing.
It is best if that is part of an open ecosystem (not e.g. facebook or even twitter)