Long form content is like Legos

If you smash a lego collection you get blocks you can reuse to build new things. It's what makes it fun. It's the same with books or articles: break them down into smaller, reusable blocks.

Most written documents are made up of something like a series of smaller “idea chunks”, usually paragraphs. What if we blew these documents apart, so that each “idea chunk” became a thought lego, a block we could address?

Working with blocks of knowledge is what tools like Roam or apps like Deepstash are enabling.