Tools for thought

Term originated in Iverson - 1980 - Notation as a tool of thought

• 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