- Last 7 days
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www.jerrymichalski.com www.jerrymichalski.comHOME1
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https://www.jerrymichalski.com/
2024-08-21: JM indicates that he's revamped his personal website.
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- Mar 2024
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photos.google.com photos.google.com
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Jerry Michalski's trip to Bahrain in Feb 2024 for Meta and Formula 1
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- Feb 2024
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forum.eastgate.com forum.eastgate.com
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vimeo.com vimeo.com
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Tinderbox Meetup 2023-06-10 featuring Jerry Michalski and The Brain
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Make sense of your messy world. Kumu makes it easy to organize complex data into relationship maps that are beautiful to look at and a pleasure to use.
tagline:
The art of mapping is to create a context in which others can think.
Tool mentioned on [[2022-06-02]] by Jerry Michalski during [[Friends of the Link]] meeting.
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- Dec 2023
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hypothes.is hypothes.is
- Nov 2023
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chat.collectivesensecommons.org chat.collectivesensecommons.org
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Jerry Michalski's zoom account for Friends of the Link and related meetings.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4154650256?pwd=Zm5DWGRJcmFmZGtBMmI1Wkx2WUQyZz09
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- Sep 2023
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wiki.openglobalmind.com wiki.openglobalmind.com
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https://wiki.openglobalmind.com/what%E2%80%99s_a_neobook_
Conference calls at 10:30 AM on Mondays. Search YouTube for past occurrences.
Relationship to wikis and zettelkasten for accumulating knowledge as a ratchet.
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www.jerrysbrain.com www.jerrysbrain.com
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Jerry Michalski says that The Brain provides him with a "neighborhood perspective" of ideas when he reduces the external link number for his graph down to 1.
This is similar to Nicholas Luhmann's zettelkasten which provided neighborhoods of related notes based on distance from any particular note.
Also similar to oral cultures who relied on movement through their environment for encoding memories and later remembering them. [I'll use the tag "environmental memory" to track this until a better name comes along.]
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- Aug 2023
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement_hand_signals
Reminded of this by The Newsroom (HBO) "First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All the Lawyers" (S2 E1)
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app.thebrain.com app.thebrain.com
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Why doesn't politics focus on deep relationships?
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forum.eastgate.com forum.eastgate.com
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- Jan 2023
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app.thebrain.com app.thebrain.comTheBrain1
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Friends of the Link calls in Jitsi in Jerry's Brain
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Friends of the Link playlist: <br /> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCzxFRR8zIM&list=PLreQNsM8LqWCR67m7pgdF2ApHzOo_m9SC
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feeei.substack.com feeei.substack.com
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The Compass of Zettelkasten Thinking.
The Brain in some of its views (see for eg: Jerry Michalski's default brain view) instantiates this sort of directional semantics for ideas.
Note too, that The Brain makes it much easier to help create connections between multiple ideas as a basic functionality.
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app.thebrain.com app.thebrain.comTheBrain1
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wiki.rel8.dev wiki.rel8.dev
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https://wiki.rel8.dev/bigger_goals
Much like Richard Feynman, Jerry Michalski has 12 big/broad problems he's working on.
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app.thebrain.com app.thebrain.comTheBrain1
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wiki.rel8.dev wiki.rel8.dev
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https://wiki.rel8.dev/tools_for_thinking_podcast
see also: https://www.betaworks.com/media
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- Oct 2022
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www.betaworks.com www.betaworks.com
- Aug 2022
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www.betaworks.com www.betaworks.com
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https://www.betaworks.com/event/render-tools-for-thinking
Video: <br /> https://vimeo.com/739652984
<iframe title="vimeo-player" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/739652984?h=ecdefd58ba" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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betaworkss-fabulous-project.webflow.io betaworkss-fabulous-project.webflow.io
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render.betaworks.com render.betaworks.com
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to networked commonplace books
Alright Jerry, you got me, I'm in!
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www.kevinmarks.com www.kevinmarks.com
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https://www.kevinmarks.com/memex.html
I got stuck over the weekend, so I totally missed Kevin Marks' memex demo at IndieWebCamp's Create Day, but it is an interesting little UI experiment.
I'll always maintain that Vannevar Bush really harmed the first few generations of web development by not mentioning the word commonplace book in his conceptualization. Marks heals some of this wound by explicitly tying the idea of memex to that of the zettelkasten however. John Borthwick even mentions the idea of "networked commonplace books". [I suspect a little birdie may have nudged this perspective as catnip to grab my attention—a ruse which is highly effective.]
Some of Kevin's conceptualization reminds me a bit of Jerry Michalski's use of The Brain which provides a specific visual branching of ideas based on the links and their positions on the page: the main idea in the center, parent ideas above it, sibling ideas to the right/left and child ideas below it. I don't think it's got the idea of incoming or outgoing links, but having a visual location on the page for incoming links (my own site has incoming ones at the bottom as comments or responses) can be valuable.
I'm also reminded a bit of Kartik Prabhu's experiments with marginalia and webmention on his website which plays around with these ideas as well as their visual placement on the page in different methods.
MIT MediaLab's Fold site (details) was also an interesting sort of UI experiment in this space.
It also seems a bit reminiscent of Kevin Mark's experiments with hovercards in the past as well, which might be an interesting way to do the outgoing links part.
Next up, I'd love to see larger branching visualizations of these sorts of things across multiple sites... Who will show us those "associative trails"?
Another potential framing for what we're all really doing is building digital versions of Indigenous Australian's songlines across the web. Perhaps this may help realize Margo Neale and Lynne Kelly's dream for a "third archive"?
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- Jun 2022
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openglobalmind.com openglobalmind.com
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thebrain.com thebrain.com
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Initially came across this via Jerry Michalski who has an extensive personal mind map of over 24 years (as of fall 2021).
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app.thebrain.com app.thebrain.comTheBrain1
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A fantastic example of an extensive mind map from Jerry Michalski using The Brain.
There are lots of interesting links and resources, but on the whole
How many of the nodes actually have specific notes, explicit ideas, annotations, or excerpts within them?
Without these, it's an interesting map and provides some broad context, but removes local specific context of who Jerry is and how he explicitly thinks. One can review the overarching parts to extract what his biases may be based on availability heuristics, but in areas of conflicting ideas which have relatively equal numbers of links within a particular area, one may not be able to discern arguments from each other.
Still a fascinating start and something not commonly seen in the broader literature.
I'll also note that even in a small sample of one video call with Jerry sharing his screen while we talked about a broad sub-topic it's interesting to see his prior contexts as we conversed. I've only ever had similar experiences with Bill Seitz who regularly drops links to his wiki pages in this sort of way or Kevin Marks (usually in text chat contexts and less frequently in video calls/conversations) who drops links to his extensive blogging history which also serves to add his prior thoughts and contextualizations.
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9dK76BqKJ4
Jerry has been using The Brain for 24 years as of ~November 2021.
In October 2021 he had approximately 484,000 thoughts in his graph.
Ideas to explore: Lessons from My Brain
We Are an Amnesic Society
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