http://ayjay.org/Tending.pdf

Worth taking a look at?

https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/lifting-the-mask

https://bzawilski.medium.com/using-zettelkasten-and-obsidian-to-learn-more-effectively-333ac90d001a

Facile overview article that touches on the basics but looses sight of the longer flow of history.

Don't recommend.

https://dev.to/tmhall99/beyond-taking-notes-or-how-i-joined-the-roamcult-22k3

Lots of resources on the topic to start down a rabbit hole, but no clear outline or thesis of what is going on or why it's useful. At best a list of potentially useful links for getting started.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-steven-weinberg-dies-at-88/2021/07/24/25b2b7ec-ecc7-11eb-a2ba-3be31d349258_story.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headword

No mention here of the use of headwords within the commonplace book tradition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholia

https://dancohen.org/2018/07/12/looking-back-at-season-1-of-the-whats-new-podcast-and-ahead-to-season-2/

https://www.thecut.com/2021/07/email-newsletters-new-literary-style.html

https://theamericanscholar.org/blue-collar-brilliance/

Acknowledging the work and art that blue collar workers do is an important thing.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Alan Jacobs</span> in July Check-In · Buttondown (<time class='dt-published'>07/01/2021 09:19:13</time>)</cite></small>

Idea of John Paul II's encyclical being a form of blogging in a different era. They're all essays in form, it's just about distribution...

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Jill Rosen </span> in Team finds brain mechanism that automatically links objects in our minds | Hub (<time class='dt-published'>07/24/2021 18:07:51</time>)</cite></small>

https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/07/09/how-the-mind-links-objects/

A study that quantifies association within the brain and indicates the region where it occurs.

http://www.rollstonepigraphy.com/?p=921

An archaeological find indicates that alphabetic writing may have occurred earlier in history than we've previously known.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>John Pavlus </span> in Melanie Mitchell Trains AI to Think With Analogies | Quanta Magazine (<time class='dt-published'>07/24/2021 17:19:52</time>)</cite></small>

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>John Pavlus </span> in Melanie Mitchell Trains AI to Think With Analogies | Quanta Magazine (<time class='dt-published'>07/24/2021 17:19:52</time>)</cite></small>

https://www.quantamagazine.org/melanie-mitchell-trains-ai-to-think-with-analogies-20210714/

https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/162-minimum-viable-self

https://hackaday.com/2019/06/18/before-computers-notched-card-databases/

Originally suggested by Alan Levine. Some interesting specific examples here, but I've been aware of the concept for a while.

https://bookriot.com/twitter-book-recommendations/

A quick overview of the basics and general history of critical race theory.

fear, uncertainty, and doubt are not an argument

https://elemental.medium.com/why-your-brain-needs-idle-time-e5d90b0ef1df

This was exactly what I expected it would be. Down time for diffuse thinking...

Wish they'd included links to studies.

https://digital-lab-wp.consumerreports.org/2021/06/15/inside-the-clock-tower/

https://tracydurnell.com/2021/07/10/mushroom-mascot-design-indieweb-create-day/

https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/writing-a-life

Jacobs suggests taking the idea of "walking a mile in another's shoes" to a higher level. He takes Herman Hesse's idea in The Glass Bead Game of the Castalian community's writing a Life in which people write an autobiography about seeing themselves placed in other times/places in history.

Similar examples he includes:

• Flannery O'Connor's story "Revelation" in which a woman chooses being remade as "white trash" or a Black woman.
• Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin (1961)
• White Like Me, a Saturday Night Live skit featuring Eddie Murphy
• Soul Sister by Grace Halsell
• Rachel Dolezal passing as black because she felt it was her identity
• John Rawls' "veil of ignorance"

Jacob suggests this could be a useful exercise for people to attempt, particularly as a senior exercise for university students.

https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/witness/saints-and-beasts

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/07/06/1012409112/beware-of-shrinkflation-inflations-devious-cousin

https://gizmodo.com/a-priest-was-outed-by-his-phones-location-data-anyone-1847334277/amp?__twitter_impression=true

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people_2021

https://wordpress.com/blog/2021/07/16/popular-podcast-app-pocket-casts-joins-automattic/

Now this is an interesting looking job.

https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/07/13/alphabetic-writing-500-years-earlier-glenn-schwartz/

https://obsidianroundup.org/about/

A top down view of some learning strategies to begin teasing out which may be better than others.

Are they broadly applicable or domain specific?

What learning methods and pedagogy piece are best and for which domains.

How can we balance learning and doing an overview of theory versus practice?

Which methods are better for beginners versus domain specific experts?

Which are better for overview versus creating new knowledge?

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2021/07/13/against-the-real-thing/

Handwriting (as opposed to typing) has been shown to improve the speed at which one learns alphabets.

https://www.iflscience.com/brain/writing-by-hand-most-effectively-increases-reading-skills/

Is the effect also seen in other types of learning? What about reading and taking notes by hand versus typing them out?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_and_Reality

Apparently this book is the one that contains his quote about western intellectual endeavors being footnotes to Plato.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Bailey

https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2008/2008.12.41/

A searing review of David R. Slavitt's translation of Lucretius.

The "close enough" nature of the translation seems like the intellectual slide shown by too many moderns which decontextualizes our historical precedents. Perhaps fine for a quick view, but could be a slippery slope for taking as part of the basis for Western intellectual tradition.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth_cap

https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/nerds-of-a-feather/26749

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-07-06/what-the-delta-variant-means-for-unvaccinated-kids

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-06-15/chrissy-teigen-michael-costello-bullying-suicidal

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-07-06/gainsborough-blue-boy-loan

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-07-06/column-hertz-cleaning-fee

https://wskg.org/npr_story_post/geocaching-while-black-outdoor-pastime-reveals-racism-and-bias/

Not exactly a real scientific trial, but...

Note also that the other part was his having taken notes and actively engaged with the material as he heard it. The notes also formed the basis of his ability to do the spaced repetition.

Mnemonic methods could be used in place of the note taking for the properly trained. Visual memory just goes to expand on it.

This is an awfully fluff article that's probably too prescriptive. I wonder how many people it influences to try it out? How successful will they be without a more specific prescription?

A stunning little essay on a small section of the massive problems we face in America viewed through the lens of our teeth.

https://academic.logos.com/jonathan-edwards-organizational-genius/ by Matthew Everhard

This reads like a content farm.... ugh. Re-encapsulates content without any real valuable context.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Jonathan Zittrain</span> in The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic (<time class='dt-published'>07/08/2021 22:10:42</time>)</cite></small>

A solid overview article about the architectural deficiencies of the web for long term archival and access as well as some ideas for fixing the issue and a plea to attempt to make things better for the future.

This looks interesting upon a random Google search.

On the difference for writing for one's self and for others. Of course there's also the need to be able to re-decifer one's notes again in the future. It may be best to keep more detailed for your future self as if you're writing for the public.

I like the idea of distance in "communication space" which comes up in the comments. This is related to context collapse and shared contexts which are often too-important in our communication with regard to being understood in the far future.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Matthias Melcher</span> in Commonplace Book | x28's new Blog (<time class='dt-published'>07/06/2021 11:13:34</time>)</cite></small>

Apparently an early internet meme...

In the future, we recommend that toasters be sold in six-packs to accomodate important SPT research.

Definitely an important finding! :)

A nice starting point for those interested in digital gardens.

A great overview of some of the various definitions of small web and what it might entail.

The Swedish 18th-century naturalist Carolus (Carl) Linnaeus is habitually credited with laying the foundations of modern taxonomy through the invention of binominal nomenclature. However, another innovation of Linnaeus' has largely gone unnoticed. He seems to have been one of the first botanists to leave his herbarium unbound, keeping the sheets of dried plants separate and stacking them in a purpose built-cabinet. Understanding the significance of this seemingly mundane and simple invention opens a window onto the profound changes that natural history underwent in the 18th century.

Dug up with respect to the idea of Carl Linnaeus inventing the idea of the index card.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Wikipedia</span> in Index card - Wikipedia (<time class='dt-published'>07/03/2021 21:36:58</time>)</cite></small>

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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Wikipedia</span> in Index card - Wikipedia (<time class='dt-published'>07/03/2021 21:36:58</time>)</cite></small>

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Christian Tietze</span> in Create a Zettelkasten for your Notes to Improve Thinking and Writing • Zettelkasten Method (<time class='dt-published'>03/24/2021 11:06:20</time>)</cite></small>

I love the idea of a web document or digital garden always being considered a draft.

What if browsers could allow the user to click and choose the resolving resource for a wikilink in much the way that they allow one to choose their search provider? Then one might have the option to choose between the [[agora]] or their own personal wiki for the search?

He's going to be shocked at what's in his Facebook (shadow) profile...

A cool collection of design readings.

Great overview, but even better images!

Revisiting this essay to review it in the framing of digital gardens.

In a "gardens and streams" version of this metaphor, the stream is flow and the garden is stock.

This also fits into a knowledge capture, growth, and innovation framing. The stream are small atomic ideas flowing by which may create new atomic ideas. These then need to be collected (in a garden) where they can be nurtured and grow into new things.

Clippings of these new growth can be placed back into the stream to move on to other gardeners. Clever gardeners will also occasionally browse through the gardens of others to see bigger picture versions of how their gardens might become.

Proper commonplacing is about both stock and flow. The unwritten rule is that one needs to link together ideas and expand them in places either within the commonplace or external to it: essays, papers, articles, books, or other larger structures which then become stock for others.

While some creators appear to be about all stock in the modern era, it's just not true. They're consuming streams (flow) from other (perhaps richer) sources (like articles, books, television rather than social media) and building up their own stock in more private (or at least not public) places. Then they release that article, book, film, television show which becomes content stream for others.

While we can choose to create public streams, but spending our time in other less information dense steams is less useful. Better is to keep a reasonably curated stream to see which other gardens to go visit.

Currently is the online media space we have structures like microblogs and blogs (and most social media in general) which are reasonably good at creating streams (flow) and blogs, static sites, and wikis which are good for creating gardens (stock).

What we're missing is a structure with the appropriate and attendant UI that can help us create both a garden and a stream simultaneously. It would be nice to have a wiki with a steam-like feed out for the smaller attendant ideas, but still allow the evolutionary building of bigger structures, which could also be placed into the stream at occasional times.

I can imagine something like a MediaWiki with UI for placing small note-like ideas into other streams like Twitter, but which supports Webmention so that ideas that come back from Twitter or other consumers of one's stream can be placed into one's garden. Perhaps in a Zettelkasten like way, one could collect atomic notes into their wiki and then transclude those ideas into larger paragraphs and essays within the same wiki on other pages which might then become articles, books, videos, audio, etc.

Obsidian, Roam Research do a somewhat reasonable job on the private side and have some facility for collecting data, but have no UI for sharing out into streams.

Humument sounds interesting, particularly the descriptions of collage/manipulation

aleatory is a great word that one sees infrequently and all too randomly

Alan Jacobs seems to be delving into the area of thought spaces provided by blogs and blogging.

In my view, they come out of a cultural tradition of commonplace books becoming digital and more social in the the modern era. Jacobs is obviously aware of the idea of Zettelkasten, but possibly hasn't come across the Sonke Ahrens' book on smart notes or the conceptualization of the "digital garden" stemming from Mike Caulfield's work.

He's also acquainted with Robin Sloane, though it's unclear if he's aware of the idea of Stock and Flow.

Ha! This is almost exactly what I expected it to be about.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Alan Jacobs</span> in re-setting my mental clock – Snakes and Ladders (<time class='dt-published'>07/01/2021 14:58:05</time>)</cite></small>

I love that he uses this print of Pablo Picasso's Don Quixote to visually underline this post in which he must feel as if he's "tilting at windmills".

What a great about page. Reminds me in part of some of the underlying ethos of the IndieWeb.

A description of how George Carlin collected material for his comedy. No discussion of how he further worked on or refined it.