# Diagram - Diagrams are an extra dimension of the blocks in your graph. You can lay your thoughts out in a 2D infinite canvas, group and connect ideas. Every node (or group) in the diagram corresponds to a block in your graph. Any blocks used in a diagram will show up in references section for that block. - {{[[video]]: https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/firescript-577a2.appspot.com/o/imgs%2Fapp%2Fhelp%2FV_WiYRS5RY.mov?alt=media&token=161c5af3-9e45-44a8-8575-907c3abfc023}} - To create a diagram - Type `/` then search for `diagram` and hit enter - Alternatively you can type or copy and paste`{{diagram}}` into a new block - Examples:: - {{diagram: How to Do Great Work by Paul Graham (mapped by @jasonshen)}} - Superlinear returns - At least it'll be on a fascinating topic - Show up in successive versions - Develop your own taste - **Work on a project of one's own** - Don't wait for a "big break" - Have the confidence to cut - **Work hard** - Break rules - Lots of work is hard - Fear of failure - Deep interest/curiosity - Fear of hard work - Prerequisites - Avoid per-project procrastiation - Optimize for interestingness - Chase outlier ideas - Gatekeeper rejection is not great work - just try to do something amazing - Make things YOU want - Your best job → distinctiveness - Who have surprising insights - Don't worry about "style" - "If at first you don't succeed: either try again, or backtrack and try again - Learn fundamentals - Natural aptitude - doing something important so well that you expand people's ideas of what's possible - Notice gaps in the field - **Nurture your morale** - Laying the groundwork - **Great work:** - So what - Modesty - Very ambitions - **Do work that compounds** - What holds people back - Scope to do great work - Are novel yet obvious - Don't burn out - "Am I working on what I most want to work on?" - Get to the frontiers - Good ideas - No precise definition - Come from prolificness - Don't have to tell people your intentions - Extraordinary growth may justify extraordinary effort - "Stay upwind" - **Seek out the best colleagues** - **Make things people want** - {{diagram:@visakan's Memex}} - **Introspect.** If you don’t know what you want, your wants will be decided for you, by people and forces who don’t have your best interests at heart. - **Beware assholes.** Learn to identify assholes, and to lead people in coordinating effectively to diminish the costs of their actions. - **Develop your taste.** Taste is the most precious and important thing in the world. People with great taste create a disproportionate amount of value in the world, but the world we live in disincentivizes the development of taste. - **Do not dehumanize people**. People are people. Do not demonize or pedestalize them. - **Be honest about what you don’t know.** - **Be kind.** - **Own your shit and fix it.** You will never be perfect, but you can always be better than you were yesterday. - Aggressively seek out agreements, particularly with outgroup. - everything is connected - **Be more sensitive.** In every sense. It helps with everything. - If you don’t decide, you’re letting somebody else decide. - Real progress happens at the bottlenecks. - The public is insufficiently educated on how to be a good public. - **Confront your fears headon.** Most fears are outdated, obsolete, and can be dismantled with a little work - **Find out how you are fucked up.** “They fuck you up your mom and dad, they don’t mean to but they do…” You inherited all sorts of bullshit that you don’t even know. - **Appreciate incentives.** - **Recognize that your mental models are flawed.** Everybody inherits a flawed, imperfect system. - everything is a remix, so don’t worry about being “original” - Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you attempt to make it precise. - **Have stuff to look forward to.** You can’t engineer happiness, but you sure can engineer excitement. - **Learn project management.** Everything is a project. - **The main thing holding you back is the way that you’re thinking.** - **Have fun. **You were born crying. You should die laughing. - **Take notes.** Keeping a journal of your own thoughts, ideas and beliefs over time will teach you things about yourself you cannot learn any other way. - **It’s not about you.** - **Prioritize.** There’s an infinite set of things to do. What’s the most important thing? Do that. - **Do not be afraid of being sad or wrong.** - the point of strength is to nourish others. - **Strategize**. You have limited time and limited resources. - **Continue.** Life will kick your ass. Dont’ give up, don’t give in. Get up and try again. - **Be so prolific you don’t recognize yourself.** This is the most effective way to develop your ability to gratify your own taste. - **Be Economically Useful.** The world is not kind to those who cannot create value in the marketplace. - **Seek to learn & understand everything.** It can never be done, but it’s always worth trying. - **Make Friends.** It is dangerous to go alone. You heal yourself by helping others. Be kind and serve others. We can do more together than we can do alone. - **One must imagine Sisyphus LOL-ing.** Existence is absurd, and laughter is the only reasonable response to an absurd universe. - **Articulate your assumptions and question them.** If you identify a bad one, you can get rid of it and have a marginally better life, instantly - the tool should fit the user - Narcissists ruin self-love for the rest of us. - **Fiddle with it.** Mess around. It’s the most natural way of learning things. - all advice is context dependent to a degree most do not realize until they encounter a different context - **We all want to be loved.** - **Indulge your curiosity.** Following your nose will lead you to interesting places, and in the process you will become an interesting person. - safe spaces are for nurturing, not coddling. - **Ask clarifying questions.** - {{diagram:Dune Mindmap: Paul Atreides}} - Fate and Prophecy - Survival - Secondary Plots - Kaitain - Planets - Lady Jessica - Betrayal of House Atreides - Primary Plots - Baron Vladimir Harkonnen - Caladan - Themes - House Corrino - Duncan Idaho - Atreides' Move to Arrakis - Characters - House Harkonnen - Stilgar - The Spice Melange Trade - Paul's Fremen Integration - Fremen Rebellion - Jessica's Bene Gesserit Agenda - Houses - Duke Leto Atreides - Rise of Paul Atreides - Giedi Prime - House Atreides - Religion and Mysticism - Plots - Gurney Halleck - Power and Politics - Paul Atreides - House Vernius - Chani - Arrakis - Ecology and Environment - {{diagram: David Bowie: Aerial Silk Act - Moodboard}} - ![](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/firescript-577a2.appspot.com/o/imgs%2Fapp%2Froam-maya%2F2kWC_stVi3.jpg?alt=media&token=6f73cf37-983e-4a49-8804-331baa109167) - Scorpion Pose - ![](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/firescript-577a2.appspot.com/o/imgs%2Fapp%2Froam-maya%2FDXBH9ePVjN.jpeg?alt=media&token=c36faa4f-09bd-4506-8c31-f602d1bb4d4b) - No Hands Middle Split - Full-release single twist - Russian Climb - Triple Twist Open Drop - **Vibe:** {{[[video]]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZtHxP4EMV0}} - Croissant Climb - ![](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/firescript-577a2.appspot.com/o/imgs%2Fapp%2Froam-maya%2FhzWOXy0k14.jpeg?alt=media&token=f3e95937-f339-474f-84a5-f0a040e9fe8f) - Double-Sided Knee Climb - Funky Climbs - Flexible Poses - S-Wrap Bridge Pose - Helicopter - Full-release Front Salto - ![](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/firescript-577a2.appspot.com/o/imgs%2Fapp%2Froam-maya%2FXvnX0lRJYZ.jpeg?alt=media&token=be0f3cba-2c20-40da-a7cc-e147aca2ffe8) - Possible Aerial Silk Colors - Costumes - Dynamic Elements - Sequence on the Silks - Makeup - Thinner, bold lips - Pigmented cheekbones - Bright eyeshadow: orange, red, blue - **Music Choice:** {{spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZE3wv8V3w2T2f7nOCjV0N?si=2ecb0b31c20d41f3}} - {{diagram: EA Memespace}} - Cause Areas - Nuclear Warfare - Existential Risk - Global Health - Vaccine Development - Malaria - AI Existential Risk - Misalignment - Losing Control of AGI - Animal Welfare - Wildlife Welfare - Animal Abuse - Zoos - Factory Farming - Animal Testing - Biosecurity - Bioweapons - Pandemics - Poverty - Climate Change - Eliminating Conflict - EA - Short Termism - Longtermism - ITN Framework - Neglectedness - Impact - Cost effectiveness/ tangible - Policy - EA Literature - LessWrong - Do Good Better - Twitter - The Precipice - Eliezer Yudkowsky - Eigenrobot - Slate Star Codex - Gwern - Roam Team Videos:: - Archived ⬇️ (old version of the diagram feature) - Diagrams in Roam Research by [[Conor White-Sullivan]] - {{[[video]]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD_Gi8EQGVQ}} #[[Diagram]] - Articles:: - Archived ⬇️ (old version of the diagram feature) - [How to build diagrams in Roam Research](https://nesslabs.com/roam-research-diagrams) by [[Anne-Laure Le Cunff]] #Diagram - Community Videos:: - Archived ⬇️ (old version of the diagram feature) - Drawing and Diagrams in Roam Research by [[Chester]] - {{[[video]]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q5JRaZbcrA}} - Also see [[Mermaid Diagrams]]