Author here. Wow this got a lot more attention than I had expected. Thank you all for sharing your thoughts, including critical ones.
The point about not being superficial/artificial and instead "just being yourself" sounds fair. To clarify, the copying/imitating I was referring to was much closer to the "imitate, then innovate" sense. That is, even if you make the best attempt to copy someone you admire, you end up with a mutated copy that is uniquely yours (because of your biases and life experience).
And to the point about it being shallow and simplistic — I agree, and the brevity was intentional. I treat this a mental model that is not universally correct, but is sometimes useful. To make sense of the world, I would use an ensemble of these models.
Wow I couldn't find a single comment about the app itself. And a significant portion of the comments are just so negative...
Wanted to point out that "playing dumb" is a really effective technique to get the interviewee to share their knowledge, and in a natural way.
And I have nothing but love for anyone who has the courage to have long-form discussions about technical, philosophical , and other intellectual matters in public.
Hi HN, I built Rumin as a suite of knowledge management tools to for my own needs. It includes a visual canvas and a rich text editor for linking notes.
After releasing the web clipper earlier[1], this is the remaining frontend code, for the getrumin.com web app.
I know quite a few of us are here interested in knowledge management. Hope this code can help with your projects.
