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And Yet Here We Are 🚀

Aneesh Sathe

You Cannot Found A Thicket, And Yet Here We Are

In response to
Venkatesh Rao's Blyg · Venkatesh Rao · “One of the things I’m finding, re: message of the medium of blygging, is that mo…” · item 0qqybbn2715mk4qhw9mghvz6b4, v1 · <https://venkateshrao.com/blyg/f/0qqybbn2715mk4qhw9mghvz6b4/> · retrieved Oct 13, 2026

One of the things I’m finding, re: message of the medium of blygging, is that most of the time I don’t want to title my thoughts. The titled vs untitled distinction may be more psychologically fundamental than thread vs fragment. Both can be titled or untitled, though I think there is some correlation between threads and titles. I think adding a title adds functional fixedness to a thought, declaring it to be “For X” and subtly suppressing associations to “not X”

I suspect in general you don’t want to title things you expect to transclude. Leaves them stem-celly. Stem-celliness is a big theme in blygger design ethos. Don’t make things mean things until the last possible moment, and only if you have to.

from Venkatesh Rao's Blyg ↗ · snapshot of v1

The term pluripotency or even stem-nesss is probably useful, if less descriptive as compared to stemcelliness

Created: Oct 13, 2026