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+# agora tree example
+
+- [[christopher alexander]]
+  - [[wrote]] 
+    - [[notes on the synthesis of form]]
+    - [[the timeless way of building]]
+    - [[a pattern language]]
+    - [[the oregon project]]
+
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 - You tell the [[agora]] about a [[tree-structure]] and communicate an intent and the [[agora]] tries to reflect the tree in a medium.
   - You tell it the shape of your nested tmux, vnc, ssh, i3 sessions and it tries to serialize/deserialize/execute as needed to replicate across boots.
   - You tell it a [[taxonomy]] and it associates the terms in [[agora]] terms (links them in the graph with a pull/push/annotated relationship).
+  - [[agora tree example]]