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I love software.
Video games.
Web Apps.
Enterprise Apps.
Mobile Apps.
SDK's.
API's.
Open-source.
All the stack.

And, I've used hundreds of applications at this point. Really, probably over 100 personal organization apps alone - to-do lists, kanban boards, text editors, personal organizational assistants.

Inevitably, my real needs spill outside the bounds of any of these apps, and I back-fill the need with yet-another-tool. Over time, I've noticed patterns in the way I, teams, and organizations manage information, or don't, in some cases.

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# Mental Models

At work, teams are often tasked with a project or product to accomplish. A task with (hopefully) a well-defined goal that the team has shared mindset around.

Yet, the goal is but a seed, in which a project plan blooms and is borne into a coordinated entanglement of many tasks, performed by different roles, occupied by different people, across time.

In planning, I find visual diagrams to be the most effective way to build a shared understanding.
Making an idea explicit (to some extent), by drawing it on a whiteboard is a way to give something of a shape to what had previously been words, and perhaps short-term memories in the team participant's minds.

## Meta

When people disagree, I like to understand what specifically the person disagrees with.
Looking at a concept map, it is easier to ask:

Do you disagree with:

* the Object/Concept
* the Definition of an Object
* the Relationship between Objects
* the Sequencing of events

Zooming way out,

## Adaptics

Adaptics is a web application created to explore dimensional data interfaces.

Adaptics has a Canvas.
The Canvas has 3 cartesian coordinates.
The Canvas can be rotated.
The Canvas can have Orbit Controls.
The Camera has at least one Camera.
The Camera can be Zoomed.

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