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.