trees vs. networks

your brain is a network.

ideas don’t line up neatly. they collide, branch, loop back.
one thought triggers five more. webs, not trees.

but for decades we’ve been using software built like filing cabinets.
folders inside folders. one path per idea.

that’s not thinking.
that’s storage.

software isn’t neutral.
it trains how you think.

hierarchical tools train hierarchical minds.
eventually, you stop seeing connections because your tools taught you not to look.

then i found Roam Research.

no folders. no forced structure.
just bidirectional links—ideas talking to ideas.

it felt uncomfortable at first.
that was the point.

five years later, it’s open most of my day.
it didn’t make me smarter. it stopped making me dumber.

your mind is a network.
why are you still forcing it into trees?