the place to talk about books
Process and distill your reading experience
Collect resonant ideas from the books you read
Process ideas into (reusable and composable) insights
Organize insights from books into constrained logs
Share your summaries to enrich thought clouds around books
Expand your summaries by connecting with what others have shared
Expand your understanding by diving deeper into other summaries
Discover insights shared by other community members
Share perspectives and experiences to create deeper interpretations together
Add new perspectives to your logs and expand your understanding
Form deeper understanding of the books you read
Grow together by creating idea labs
Curate your experience by following people, clubs, and books
Chronologocal anti-algorithmic feed — as it should be
Organize books into problem-centric collections
Highlight ideas and arguments that resonated with you
Collect summaries for future reference or just because they are awesome
Whenever re-reading the book, update your logs, and maintain versioning
Connect your insights with those of others to create networks of ideas
Conenct with those ready to pusrsue curioity and go beyond summaries
coming soon...
Enrich your reading experience by collecting your ideas while reading
Most modern social networks focus on highlighting differences: "here's what I like" and "I only see what I agree with." Social networks create echo chambers that also emphasize and enhance social (and virtue) signaling. They don't help build bridges.
Modern culture, amplified through popular social media, focuses on turning everything into easily digestible content. This content often becomes a source of conflict and disagreement. Opinions, concepts, ideas, books, movies, and photos are used to signal one's status and opinions while also creating divisions between different groups.
They dehumanize. Because of this, people often choose exclusion over empathy, judgment over understanding, and giving answers instead of asking questions. They also tend to prioritize short-term hype and ease rather than long-term commitment and mindful presence.
Rhízōma is here to create positive change by rethinking how we interact with books and engage with others. It focuses on nurturing slow thinking, intentionally detaching from and not identifying with ideas, enabling mutual enrichment, and sharing thoughtful experiences in a more meaningful way.
Enrich your reading experience by collecting your ideas while reading
We do things differently here
I am not going to ask for your email to then bombard you with stuff you are not going to read anyway.
Drop me a line if you're interested in joining the platform: . Use the subject so I don't miss your message.
I'll get back to you when the project is ready to welcome new members.