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Tools for thought

Term originated in Iverson, K. E. (1980). Notation as a tool of thought. Communications of the ACM, 23(8), 444–465

  • On funding:
    • Novel user interface ideas are public goods
    • To what extent can quadratic funding provision tools for thought?
    • To what extent can patronage fund the creation of tools for thought?
    • I don’t know how to effectively deploy large amounts of capital against tools for thought
    • My work has no model for turning marginal capital into marginal insight
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