https://madless.com/blog Thoughts on learning, compounding knowledge, and building tools for thinking. en https://madless.com/blog/why-knowledge-doesnt-compound https://madless.com/blog/why-knowledge-doesnt-compound Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Most tools treat knowledge as storage. But real understanding only grows when ideas connect. Here's why we built Madless around a graph instead of a feed. https://madless.com/blog/graph-first-not-feed-first https://madless.com/blog/graph-first-not-feed-first Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Feeds reward recency. Graphs reward relevance. We chose the graph — and it changed everything about how we design features. https://madless.com/blog/why-communities-die https://madless.com/blog/why-communities-die Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT It's not engagement. It's not moderation. Most communities fail because the platform extracts more value than it creates. Here's the pattern — and how to break it.