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You can start anywhere: it matters that you start, and get movement
A graph has no front page and no top, so you never need to feel overwhelmed: it does not matter where you start or whether you go straight in the right direction; it matters that you start, connect the dots and get movement. A path only makes sense afterwards.
Decided by. Dinis, in Everything is connected; the editor records it in the vault
Where it comes from
- Everything is connected Start anywhere (article)
- Connect the dots backwards the path only makes sense afterwards (article)
What it answers in the 2018 book
Where it goes
Chapter Everything is connected: graphs, part Before you start (drafting); topic Graphs, memory and your future self.
Other ideas proposed for the same chapter: A graph is a network of nodes and edges, not a diagram, The whodunit is the easiest way in: the detective's board is a graph, A map is a graph with positions; a Wardley map is a graph with context, Graphs nest, and so does the world: groups of groups are the abstraction layers we think in, The 2018 book was already there: Dot Language and AST were graphs without saying so, Source code is a fractal semantic graph, and a review should read every layer of it.
Node idea:start-anywhere in graph.json; see it in the graph. Source: admin/content/graph/ideas.json.