- If people fail to connect with others today, it is because the categories we have for them are too shallow, wide in berth, and non-specific
- everyone collects things, or makes lists per se, that reflect who they are more intimately than any form of categorization modern technology facilitates
- These collections are too esoteric for people outside a person’s fundamental ingroup to understand; it is impossible to search for people in your fundamental ingroup using these collections, because they are too idiosyncratic and varied in nature— “uncategorizable”—too many different kinds of collections exist for them to be able to be gathered and organized in a way that makes sense
- Although these collections would enable people to find their people, it was impossible to index them until the advent of AI. This is the space Constello exists in