https://diggingthedigital.com/abonneren-op-aantekeningen/
I like the idea here of being able to watch over someone's shoulder quietly to see what they're working on and how they're doing it. There's some interesting anthropology hiding here.
Have to say I'm a bit flattered that it's me that's being watched...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/23/travel/john-jay-paris-abigail-slavery.html
A wonderfully written short essay about the scant history of an African American slave owned by John Jay and her time in Paris.
https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.edutopia.org/article/social-annotation-digital-age
a teaser article for social annotation. only scratches the surface.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/09/04/opinion/20090908_opart.html?_r=0
We recognize letters in reading much better by reading the top of letters rather than by reading the bottom of letters.
As a result of this, closing the tops of letters properly is important in writing.
An alternate method of holding one's writing instrument between fore-finter and middle finer with the thumb near the tip can alleviate forearm, wrist, and thumb pain.
http://countryoftheblind.blogspot.com/2011/10/product-review-remembering-traditional.html
Review of Remembering Traditional Hanzi, by James W. Heisig and Timothy W. Richardson which is related to Heisig's similar Japanese book.
While Heisig's book in Japanese is interesting, it's interesting and feels less useful than a similar and more contextualized book by Kenneth Henshall.
http://countryoftheblind.blogspot.com/2012/01/mnemonics-for-pronouncing-chinese.html
The Marilyn method is a means of creating associated characters and places to sounds/tones in Chinese for memorizing kanji.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Lynne Kelly</span> in Foreign Languages – a call for opinions – Lynne Kelly (<time class='dt-published'>11/22/2021 12:44:51</time>)</cite></small>
https://asiasociety.org/china-learning-initiatives/radicals-reveal-order-chinese-characters
Article about the importance of radicals in Chinese (and by extension Japanese) with hopes that pedagogy will change to make the teaching and remembering of kanji easier.
https://thedispatch.com/p/a-note-to-our-readers-from-steve
Center-right journalists Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg of The Dispatch have severed ties with Fox News over a misinformation campaign from Tucker Carlson based on the January 6 events.
Kudos to them for drawing a line on this issue.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Lynne Kelly</span> in Aboriginal education and The Memory Code (<time class='dt-published'>11/21/2021 15:32:45</time>)</cite></small>
Too many people on the far right as well as some on the conservative religious spectrum feel it's their right to dictate what is taught in schools and are attempting to legislate against it. Sadly that isn't how this all works....
In Bound to Read, Jeffrey Todd Knight excavates this culture of compilation—of binding and mixing texts, authors, and genres into single volumes—and sheds light on a practice that not only was pervasive but also defined the period's very ways of writing and thinking.
This looks interesting with respect to the flows of the history of commonplace books.
Making the Miscellany: Poetry, Print, and the History of the Book in Early Modern England by Megan Heffernan
https://site.pennpress.org/material-texts-2021/9780812224955/bitstreams/
Something about this seems related to the ideas of archiving and saving digital and physical culture.
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/twitter-smarter--twitter-harder-with-twitter-blue
Meh... This looks like a play which will have them buying up smaller subscription apps that do these sorts of services separately and putting other competitors out of business.
Watch out Readwise, ThreadReaderApp, etc.
https://www.edge.org/mihaly-csikszentmihalyi-1934%E2%80%932021
Saddened to hear that Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi passed away in late October.
This overview on Edge.org looks like a good overview of some of his work and personal thought.
Martine Robbeets et al have used linguistic, archaeological and genetic evidence to show that millet farming communities in north-east China 10,000 years ago may have given rise to the Transeurasian language families that became Japanese, Mongolian, Korean, and Turkish.
Journal reference: Nature, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04108-8
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/11/new-findings-on-jordanian-megaliths/141965
New megaliths found in Jordan in various stages of construction which helped archaeologists suggest a method for their construction by carving the stones from the ground and then supporting them with smaller ones.
Worth checking to see if standing stones may have been found at these sites as well.
A list of useless filler phrases and softeners that are generally unnecessary. including the word "just". Worth exploring these in more depth.
I'm not sure I believe the "think"/"believe" one.
“I think this would ...” What to say instead: “I believe this would …”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1459547762517688327.html
Anthony Baker experimenting with ideas from Necromant and Eleanor Konik to cross link digital notes with physical paper notes.
I've thought about doing something similar to this with my physical notebooks in the past, though hadn't done block level linking as a means of potentially pulling in and linking pieces in the future.
Often for more important linked things, I'll simply import the physical version into my digital copy at the time of first use/reference, but this could be interesting for large bodies of notes which aren't digital.
https://infohist.fas.harvard.edu/news/information-cultures-series-john-hopkins-university-press
This looks like a fascinating series and who could go wrong with Ann Blair, Anthony Grafton, and Earle Havens?
Also interesting to see what sorts of things they will find interesting at the cutting edge of all these disciplines.
https://collect.readwriterespond.com/readwriterespond070/
As always, some great tidbits hiding in here. Some new and reminders that I ought to look at a few things I've put off, but bookmarked when I saw them myself.
https://collect.readwriterespond.com/antennapod/
I feel your pain here Aaron.
Perhaps it helps, perhaps not, but I've been using AntennaPod for a few years now. In particular I love it on Android because I can use the share functionality to share to a custom email address which posts to reading.am for an account that aggregates everything I'm listening to. Then I port the RSS feed of that back into my site. It's a stupid amount of manual work, but it mostly works.
Alternately you could share material you listen to to Huffduffer and pull data out that way as well. My problem here is that Huffduffer is more of a bookmark service than a "listened to this" sort of service, though you could always add a "listened" tag to the things you've heard in the past.
The tougher part of all this is that podcasts have "canonical" links for the podcast episodes (sometimes) and an entirely different link for the audio file which has no meta data attached to it (presuming you can even find the URL for the audio file to begin with.)
AntennaPod allows you to pick and choose what you want to share, so usually I default to the audio file to get that in to the workflow and finding/adding the data for the particular episode is a bit easier.
I will say that this is one of the ugliest and most labor intensive workflows I've got for social posts, so I'm usually only doing it and posting publicly for things that I really think are worth the time that make for interesting notes/observations that go along with the post.
I'm curious to see what others come up with for this workflow.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29115696
Read through comments for the fun of it.
Nothing beyond the extraordinary here.
https://danallosso.substack.com/p/help-me-find-world-history-textbooks
Dan Allosso is curious to look at the history of how history is taught.
The history of teaching history is a fascinating topic and is an interesting way for cultural anthropologists to look at how we look at ourselves as well as to reveal subtle ideas about who we want to become.
This is particularly interesting with respect to teaching cultural identity and its relationship to nationalism.
One could look at the history of Reconstruction after the U.S. Civil War to see how the South continued its cultural split from the North (or in more subtle subsections from Colin Woodard's American Nations thesis) to see how this has played out. This could also be compared to the current culture wars taking place with the rise of nationalism within the American political right and the Southern evangelicals which has come to a fervor with the rise of Donald J. Trump.
Other examples are the major shifts in nationalism after the "long 19th century" which resulted in World War I and World War II and Germany's national identity post WWII.
“(T)he 2020 election revealed that, at least with respect to an administration’s senior most officials, the Hatch Act is only as effective as the White House decides it will be. Where, as happened here, the White House chooses to ignore the Hatch Act’s requirements, then the American public is left with no protection against senior administration officials using their official authority for partisan political gain in violation of the law,” it reads.
Why can't it act and prosecute with the new administration?
I like that the underlying idea behind the design here is "calm" as well as attempting to get an 80% solution rather than get-it-all.
https://www.jetpens.com/blog/The-Beginner-s-Guide-to-Fountain-Pens/pt/927
A simple, but reasonable primer. Didn't learn anything new sadly.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Yusufa</span> in Improving how universities teach science (<time class='dt-published'>11/04/2021 13:26:34</time>)</cite></small>
After 30 Years of Breeding Condors, a Secret Comes Out ‘Virgin birth’ might be more common in animals than we thought. by Sarah Zhang https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/california-condors-are-capable-virgin-birth/620517/
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-puritans-mob-justice-canceled/619818/
Anne Applebaum looks at the ideas of public humiliation and cancel culture as a potential slippery slope toward authoritarianism. She provides numerous examples of people experiencing forms of cancel culture without any arguments for or against them, but instead explores the cultural space around it and what its consequences might possibly be.
Many of her examples focus on spaces related to academia rather than broader life, a space which needs further exploration as the scope and shape for those may differ dramatically.
She also brings up the broad phenomenon of "university justice" (my descriptor) and generally secret tribunals and justice administered by them rather than traditional governmental means.
This brings up some excellent avenues for thought about who we are as a country and a liberal democracy.
Highly recommend.
“keeping students safe” means you must violate due process?
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Anne Applebaum</span> in Mob Justice Is Trampling Democratic Discourse - The Atlantic (<time class='dt-published'>11/07/2021 13:41:11</time>)</cite></small>
Skimmed opening paragraphs in physical newspaper. Want to revisit. This sounds like the sort of "pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps" that actually works.
A brief review/interview with a book author who eschews many new technologies and why.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/logging-off-facebook-what-comes-next-tickets-201128228947
Not attending, but an interesting list of people and related projects to watch.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/books/review/hearing-homers-song-milman-parry-robert-kanigel.html
Short overview of Parry's biography. One could do better reading the Wikipedia article.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/books/review/hearing-homers-song-milman-parry-robert-kanigel.html
Could the Blackfoot Wisdom that Inspired Maslow Guide Us Now? by Teju Ravilochan (contributing editors: Vidya Ravilochan and Colette Kessler) https://gatherfor.medium.com/maslow-got-it-wrong-ae45d6217a8c
Apr 4, 2021
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>David Dylan Thomas</span> in Come and get yer social justice metaphors! (<time class='dt-published'>11/05/2021 11:26:10</time>)</cite></small>
"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" and "Some Notes for Facilitators" by Peggy McIntosh https://via.hypothes.is/https://nationalseedproject.org/Key-SEED-Texts/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsack
"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" first appeared in Peace and Freedom Magazine, July/August, 1989, pp. 10-12, a publication of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Philadelphia, PA.
The Classicist Who Killed Homer How Milman Parry proved that the Iliad and the Odyssey were not written by a lone genius. By Adam Kirsch https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/14/the-classicist-who-killed-homer June 7, 2021
Someone mentioned this in class today
Web Browser Engineering by Pavel Panchekha & Chris Harrelson https://browser.engineering/
A Web Browser Built for Me by Robin Rendle https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/a-web-browser-built-for-me/
Contains the visions fro the pioneers on the field.
Merging distribute knowledge is an excersize on the abstractness of ontologies vs the practicality of schema-less graph knowledge.
Maybe a bit vague (the article), maybe re-read it. But i really appreciate the boldness [[agora]] try to solve the same problem.
You have to interpret your sources and then rely on your own thoughts henceforth to get the maximum benefit. Collecting information does not increase your knowledge.
Useful tip about personal notes.
Journalistic video about NSU neonazis and links with Golden Dawn criminal political party.
Anything by Chuck Klosterman.
https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/slip-box-after-a-year/
Tomas Vik discusses the path he took in looking at zettelkasten software to end up at Logseq. He specifically highlights (rightly) how much work/time is involved in doing it well, but as a result indicates he's seeing the value in the process.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1re3lYaALScZ49189XIGqUVjQlMPe9uOfLEyz8y7mJuE/edit#
Some better in-depth examples of how Niklas Luhmann used his zettelkasten as well as some of the problems he would have faced and how they were solved (or weren't).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessed_salt_in_Christianity
Looked up in relation of mention of a blessing of salt and water in LJS 418, a manuscript about Saint Blaise: https://bibliophilly.library.upenn.edu/viewer.php?id=Oversize%20LJS%20418#page/12/mode/thumb
Jeremias Drexel,Aurifodina artium et scientiarum omnium: Excerpendi sollertia, omnibuslitterarum amantibus monstrata(Antwerp, 1638), pp. 68–69; hereafter abbreviatedA.
Spin-offs from Drexel include Kergerus,Methodus drexeliana succinctior(1658) and P. Philomusus[Johannis Jacobus Labhart],Industria excerpendi brevis, facilis, amoena(Konstanz, 1684).
A,as discussed in Helmut Zedelmaier, “Johann JakobMoser et l’organisation e ́rudite du savoir a` l’e ́poque moderne,” inLire, copier, e ́crire: LesBibliothe`ques manuscrites et leurs usages au XVIIIe sie`cle,ed. Elisabeth De ́cultot (Paris, 2003), p. 54.
references
Some updates in the note taking space with respect to Logseq.
https://hackernoon.com/how-i-use-zettelkasten-and-obsidian-to-keep-my-notes-organized
Nothing new to the conversation. This is more of a note that links zettelkasten and Obsidian and nothing more.
An interesting overview of Niklas Luhmann's zettelkasten and how it was digitally archived with some potential ideas about how this might be done for other such systems or for ideas for those building and designing their own digital gardens.
https://fermatslibrary.com/s/perfect-numbers
Apparently Terry Tao's first paper
Adrienne LaFrance outlines the reasons we need to either abandon Facebook or cause some more extreme regulation of it and how it operates.
While she outlines the ills, she doesn't make a specific plea about the solution of the problem. There's definitely a raging fire in the theater, but no one seems to know what to do about it. We're just sitting here watching the structure burn down around us. We need clearer plans for what must be done to solve this problem.
https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/1327-Some-thoughts-on-comments-and-interaction
Some interesting commentary on comments and problems within social media.
Smith, Chen, & Harris, 2010; Smith & Harris, 2012;Vaish, Carpenter, & Tomasello, 2011; Wellman, Lar-key, & Somerville, 1979
Read further
A modeling study based on kinetic annealing confirmed this notion (23).
Read
Various algorithms are available for this process2
https://greyzonepages.com/2019/03/29/how-to-use-the-hobonichi-cousin-daily-layout/
I haven't been logging them all since they've been so repetitive and fluffy, but this is one of the more interesting and thorough takes I've seen for the Hobonichi Cousin Daily Layout
The Bruniquel cave, in southwest France, is believed to be a Neanderthal dwelling 100,000 years before humans in Europe. Stalagmites in the cave may have been arranged as walls, and possibly as a fireplace. Charred bone found in the walls date to 175,000 years ago.
This cave is apparently fairly deep. Cross reference this with deep cave fires and asphyxiation research.
Is it possible that such a place was used as a memory palace? Being secluded away and the play of fire inside would certainly fit some of Lynne Kelly's criteria from Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies. More evidence would be needed however.
Μακρυ άρθρο στα Ελληνικά για τη κατασκευη του Ουκρανικού Λιμού το '30, Γολομοντορ (όχι το 1921).
A very prescient article by Annie Murphy Paul from 2011. It doesn't review Davidson's book, so much as to take to task some of the underlying optimistic views of the magic of technology. If only we were able to better adapt and evolve to create the sort of changes in humanity to take advantage of the potential benefits that were assumed. Instead, much of the tech sector adapted instead to hijack our slowly evolving attention to benefit themselves.
I wish we as a culture had had more of this sober sort of outlook about technology at the time.
I'm now even more intrigued by Paul's new book: The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain, which is already in my reading queue.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Annie Murphy Paul </span> in "@ChrisAldrich @amandalicastro @CathyNDavidson Chris, you may be interested in this review of "Now You See It" that I wrote . . . https://t.co/TnnbQ3NHWf" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>10/17/2021 10:25:52</time>)</cite></small>
Visual and auditory brain areas share a representational structure that supports emotion perception https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)01283-5
This portends some interesting results with relation to mnemonics and particularly songlines and indigenous peoples' practices which integrate song, movement, and emotion.
Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/254961v4
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Across the world, people express emotion through music and dance. But why do music and dance go together? <br><br>We tested a deceptively simple hypothesis: Music and movement are represented the same way in the brain.
— Beau Sievers (@beausievers) October 12, 2021
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Beau Sievers </span> in "New work published today in Current Biology Visual and auditory brain areas share a representational structure that supports emotion perception With @ThaliaWheatley @k_v_n_l @parkinsoncm @sergeyfogelson (thread after coffee!) https://t.co/AURqH9kNLb https://t.co/ro4o4oEwk5" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>10/12/2021 09:26:10</time>)</cite></small>
https://www.myglendale.com/manoukian-responds-to-mohills-lies/
Rafi Manoukian provides inaccurate quotes from Mike Mohill and rebuts them.
A satirical and ironic take on information theory, but also subtly about cultural memory.
Great set of resources and links.
Downloaded a copy to work through them. Some I've run across in the past.
[[Cynthia Turner Camp]]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiated_initial
I wonder if these still exist in the new spaces of productivity porn in within journaling? Perhaps the application of stickers in peoples' planners sort of serves some of this functionality, though I'd consider them to be more in the drollery family.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Cory Doctorow</span> in Pluralistic: 29 Sep 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (<time class='dt-published'>09/30/2021 09:17:09</time>)</cite></small>
The latest installment of Propublica's essential IRS Papers reporting shows how the richest Americans abuse a bizarre loophole to avoid ANY tax on indescribably vast estates:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1442414902761689088.html Problematic is "problematic". This meta discussion does what it advises.
I feel like that is a very broad generalization but I would agree that most people have read something about technology. I'm also not sure if I agree that learning devices enhance learning outcomes for kids. I know there have been studies done that say if you use pencil and paper to write your notes, you are more likely to remember information.
https://tracydurnell.com/2021/09/26/getting-more-women-involved-in-the-indieweb/
Some great questions here and it's a difficult problem.
My personal solution is to do my best to provide personal invitations to people I think would enjoy participating and then trying to provide some space and support for them once they've arrived.
I do remember a self-named DrupalChix group of women around 2008 who banded together and created their own space within the Drupal community. Their leadership from within certainly helped to dramatically move the needle within Southern California. (cross reference: https://groups.drupal.org/women-drupal)
I love this outline/syllabus for creating a commonplace book (as a potential replacement for a term paper).
I'd be curious to see those who are using Hypothes.is as a communal reading tool in coursework utilize this outline (or similar ones) in combination with their annotation practices.
Curating one's annotations and placing them into a commonplace book or zettelkasten would be a fantastic rhetorical exercise to extend the value of one's notes and ideas.
playing house
This is how I feel about most people's personal websites. Few people have homepages these days, but even for people who do, even fewer of those homes have anyone really living there. All their interesting stuff is going on on Twitter, GitHub, comments on message boards...
Really weird when this manifests as a bunch of people having really strong opinions about static site tech stacks and justifications for frontend tech that in practice they never use, because the content from any one of their profiles on the mainstream social networks outstrips their "home" page 100x to 1.
Inside the cult of crypto Debate? No thanks. Doubts? Not welcome. How the world of cryptocurrency diehards really works
https://www.ft.com/content/9e787670-6aa7-4479-934f-f4a9fedf4829
https://briansunter.com/blog/five-minute-journal/
Lists of prompts for writing/journaling:
For a potential template:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1439615491174141965.html
Apparently Chuck Todd has been captured by Republican Party PR?
Ebooks Are an Abomination: If you hate them, it’s not your fault. by Ian Bogost in The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2021/09/why-are-ebooks-so-terrible/620068/
Ian Bogost has a nice look at the UI affordances and areas for growth in the e-reading space.
Summary:
"What has time done to us?"
https://dev.to/einargudnig/building-my-second-brain-with-obsidian-pt-i-4oc2
too basic; Tiago Forte disciple; pass
https://zettelkasten.de/posts/no-categories/
There's lots of advice for categories, tags, and other taxonomies out there. This isn't as opinionated as some, but takes the approach to allow things to come organically so that one can grow, expand, and (possibly most importantly) change.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/opinion/brain-mind-cognition.html
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Joel Chan</span> in on Twitter: "@RoamBookClub next book? Extended Mind draws on distributed cognition, which is a powerful theoretical perspective for understanding #toolsforthought and #BASB" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>09/14/2021 10:01:01</time>)</cite></small>
Likewise, the notes and sketches of artists and thinkers over the centuries bear testament to “that wordless conversation between the mind and the hand,” as the psychologist Barbara Tversky puts it in “Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought.”
This is the theory of the extended mind, introduced more than two decades ago by the philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers. A 1998 article of theirs published in the journal Analysis began by posing a question that would seem to have an obvious answer: “Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?” They went on to offer an unconventional response. The mind does not stop at the usual “boundaries of skin and skull,” they maintained. Rather, the mind extends into the world and augments the capacities of the biological brain with outside-the-brain resources.
https://icds.uoregon.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Clark-and-Chalmers-The-Extended-Mind.pdf
Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?
There seems to be a parallel between this question and that between the gene and the body. Evolution is working at the level of the gene, but the body and the environment are part of the extended system as well. Link these to Richard Dawkins idea of the extended gene and ideas of group selection.
Are there effects to be seen on the evolutionary scale of group selection ideas with respect to the same sorts of group dynamics like the minimal group paradigm? Can the sorts of unconscious bias that occur in groups be the result of individual genes? This seems a bit crazy, but potentially worth exploring if there are interlinked effects based on this analogy.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Annie Murphy Paul</span> in Opinion | How to Think Outside Your Brain - The New York Times (<time class='dt-published'>09/13/2021 19:58:53</time>)</cite></small>
Turn your Aeropress upside down (using the inverted method pictured below) so that the plunger is rested on your countertop and the brewing chamber is at the top.
James didn't include a photo here, but oddly I've never thought of using my Aeropress upside down like this. I'll have to give a try this week.
https://jamesg.blog/2021/08/24/ordering-espresso-at-cafes
This reminds me that I ought to be more adventurous in cafes myself. Of course the pandemic ending could help in that area as well.
https://jamesg.blog/2021/09/13/new-social-pages
Some awesome looking progress here.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Suzanne Conklin Akbari</span> in Growing a Research Network: Approaches to Global Book History | Penn Libraries (<time class='dt-published'>09/12/2021 21:11:23</time>)</cite></small>
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Suzanne Conklin Akbari</span> in Growing a Research Network: Approaches to Global Book History | Penn Libraries (<time class='dt-published'>09/12/2021 21:11:23</time>)</cite></small>
Code that is needed to create the output and the output itself is hard to read because of all the workarounds we have to use, especially around shadowed variables and control flow
https://via.hypothes.is/https://finiteeyes.net/pedagogy/extending-the-mind/
A well written review of Annie Murphy Paul's The Extended Mind. Matthew Cheney has distilled a lot out of the book from his notes with particular application to improving pedagogy.
I definitely want to read this with relation to not only using it to improve teaching, but with respect to mnemotechniques and the methods oral and indigenous societies may have either had things right or wrong and what Western culture may have lost as a result. I'm also particularly interested in it for its applications to the use of commonplace books and zettelkasten as methods of extending the mind and tools for thought.
https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/how-do-you-call-these-techniques-on-the-art-of-memory-forum/67030
It would be nice to have a comprehensive list of techniques and canonical names for them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_group_paradigm
Worth looking up the relationship of this to the creation of institutional racism and potential means of dismantling it.
Book review (and cultural commentary) on Alex Beam's A Great Idea at the Time, (Public Affairs, 2008).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confession_album
Interesting historical personal document type. This feels like it has some influence within the realm of the commonplace book tradition.
Is there a way to revive these in an internet age and nudge them along with webmentions?
https://nesslabs.com/eisenhower-matrix
The Eisnehower matrix is a means of helping one to implement the Pareto principle.
Seen this basic idea so many times before and have it generally implemented in the bullet journal portion of my digital commonplace book. I should spend more time gardening in there regularly though.
https://nesslabs.com/plus-minus-next
The big benefit of this is that it tacitly gets you focused on planning the next thing instead of dwelling on the past.
https://jamesg.blog/2021/09/02/micropub-social
A solid overview for folks interested in implementing Micropub on their own websites.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/3/22656196/godaddy-texas-right-for-life-abortion-whistleblowing-site
Good to see GoDaddy paying continued penance for those dreadful ads a decade or so ago.
https://jrdingwall.ca/blogwall/25-years-of-ed-tech-blogs/
JR writes about some of his journey into blogging.
I appreciate some of the last part about the 9x9x25 blogs. For JR it seems like some smaller prompts got him into more regular writing.
He mentions Stephen Downes regular workflow as well. I think mine is fairly similar to Stephen's. To some extent, I write much more on my own website now than I ever had before. This is because I post a lot more frequently to my own site, in part because it's just so easy to do. I'll bookmark things or post about what I've recently read or watched. My short commentary on some of these is just that, short commentary. But occasionally I discover, depending on the subject, that those short notes and bookmark posts will spring into something bigger or larger. Sometimes it's a handful of small posts over a few days or weeks that ultimately inspires the longer thing. The key seems to be to write something.
Perhaps a snowball analogy will work. I take a tiny snowball and give it a proverbial roll. Sometimes it sits there and other times it rolls down the hill and turns into a much larger snowball. Other times I get a group of them and build a full snowman.
Of course lately a lot of my writing starts, like this did, as an annotation (using Hypothes.is) to something I was reading. It then posts to my website with some context and we're off to the races.
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