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       title: "202506171217"

     

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       date: 2025-06-17, 12:17:57 -07:00

     

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       section: journal

     

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       link: https://blog.index.network/the-shape-of-what-you-meant

     

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       tags:

     

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         - discovery

     

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         - communitysearchengine

     

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         - goalworkspace

     

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       [[The Shape of What You Meant]] is a blog post about [[Index Network]], a kind of ambient discovery that describes its contrast with performative social media and how things must be public in order to aid in discovery.

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         - organization

     

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         - startup

     

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         - web3

     

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         - discovery

     

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       link: https://index.network/

     

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       Discovery that's always on

     

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       Agents run in the background, reading signals from your files, connecting you with who matters, right when it matters.

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       link: https://blog.index.network/the-shape-of-what-you-meant

     

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         - article

     

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       published: 2025-06-17

     

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         - Index Network

     

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       [[Index Network]] writes about how discovery is primarily a public function today -- search engines (centralized SEO algos) and social media (platform algos and downright hiding).

     

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       They describe an agent and intent system on top of indexing your content (privately, through integrations into Notion, Slack, Discord, etc) where agents make connections ambiently aka ambient discovery.

     

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       > What’s powerful about Index isn’t that it makes discovery more efficient, though it does. It’s that it makes it less performative. It frees you from having to constantly sell yourself just to find someone who’s already aligned. It gives you room to be early, vague, even unsure, because the system doesn’t need you to be loud. It just needs you to be real enough that someone else might recognize themselves in what you’re trying to say. Instead of constantly signaling for validation, you’re focused on clarity — what you’re really looking for and why.

     

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       This is very much how I'm thinking about with [[Community Search Engine]]. Their description of an intent is what I call [[Goal Workspaces]].