@August 19, 2020
I’ve always been interested in knowing things, connecting things, mapping things... Over the years my syntax and processes changed, but the goal never did. How does x work and how does it connect to y and z? The older I got the more I zoomed out and the more x, y, and zs there were. The world is a complex system composed of, seemingly, infinite actors, plots, and contexts in constant interaction. I want to capture it. My default response to all new things I encountered has mostly been to understand them. There is a delicious quality to learning things, especially in relation to other ones. I think I was an archivist in a previous life and in this one the world is my library.
Information synthesis has always been a challenge but because collection has historically been hard, the amount of information to synthesize seemed manageable. This is no longer the case. And in that vein, the process by which we make decisions today is broken. Discipline and willpower are under constant assault. Intuition and analysis are in perpetual conflict with each other when they should be in a virtuous loop.
This is a problem that I’ve come to believe, through talking to users and conducting market research, exists. I decided to work on this problem for the enterprise.
The world is infinitely interesting. Axis wants to capture it.
Infinite goals are impossible but pursuing them usually achieves more interesting results than pursuing finite ones.