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synchronicity |ˌsi ng krəˈnisitē|

noun

1 the simultaneous occurrence of events that appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection : such synchronicity is quite staggering.
2 another term for synchrony (sense 1).
ORIGIN 1950s: coined (in sense 1) by C. G. Jung.

Things are duplicated everywhere. Tweets in Tweetie, across computers and the iPhone. Google Reader and Buzz. Missed calls from Google Voice. Status indicators, badges, alerts, alarms. Duplications everywhere. It’s not enough that there’s too much – we duplicate things even when it’s not needed.

It’s more than that, and worse. Trawl github and you’ll find that people have implemented and re-implemented the same stuff over and over and over again. How can we do anything new, anything meaningful if we keep doing the same things over and over again?

marketing and media make it difficult for me to focus on things that don’t exist yet. the more i see things that exist or things that are being made, the harder it is to think of new things, fresh things, that aren’t yet in existence.

i think partly because i get excited about what i see coming to market. and partly because the more you see the way other people think thinsg are, the more you become convinced that’s the path to go.

i think that’s why there are so few revolutionary shifts in already existing technologies. the ones that do exist do so in the realm of art.

It’s taken long enough, but I’ve finally realized that it doesn’t matter if I think about things, it doesn’t matter if I have ideas, and it doesn’t matter if I’ve formed opinions if they aren’t in some way shared with the world.

I use a nice piece of software called VoodooPad to jot down all my ideas. It’s like a wiki on your desktop. The big thing about it that I feel is invaluable is that it auto-links what you write. As you write, it pattern matches for other page titles and creates the links for you. It makes it hard to ignore things you’ve written in the past.

If anyone knows of a web-based wiki engine that does this, please let me know.