technology
A structured map of entities and the relations between them, the form a Syntopic site takes: people, works, and concepts as pages, connected across episodes. In episode 01 it appears twice, as the theme of SEMANTiCS and as what Chad says the site is. Start at about 19 minutes.
Across the episodes
01
Enters as the shape of the product: ideas connected across episodes, the way a wiki connects articles
Describes the output in a reader's terms rather than an engineer's: a graph of linked concepts, not a set of show notes.
"This is like Wikipedia. You've got concepts that are connected to each other."Chad Nantais, Syntopic, Episode 1 (11 Oct 2026), 19:26
Turns the data structure into an argument about learning: the links between ideas are the knowledge, not the episodes taken one at a time.
"That's what knowledge is. It's connecting."Chad Nantais, Syntopic, Episode 1 (11 Oct 2026), 20:04
Connections
fieldSemantic Web
SEMANTiCS dealt with building knowledge graphs.