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  1. Nov 2025
    1. Resumability is not a word, but it’s an important concept to me. When I say Resumability, I’m talking about the ability to quickly interrupt and later resume a task.

      [[Steven Garrity]] coining 'resumability' , where a device just continues on where you were previously. Mentions e-readers as such devices (and paper books with a bookmark), a smartphone and apps like Slack. The latter is not true I think, it scrolls fwd to newest.

      Thinking about resumability in terms of notes / pkm. Obsidian is always where I was previously e.g. A type of ratchet for task execution.

    1. Lynch's idea that "ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper". To Lynch, going deeper means experiencing a deeper, more expanded state of consciousness, a transcendental or fourth state of consciousness,[2] an experience he has during meditation but believes is rare in ordinary daily life.[6] According to Lynch, this experience expands artistic capacity.[4]

      Source of title Catching the Big Fish. Aside from the meditation angle, this points to practice / reflection, ratchets, and [[Holding questions 20091015123253]] etc.

  2. Oct 2024