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Gyuri Lajos 2 minutes ago https://youtu.be/5IfgBX1EW00?t=887 Listen go Frank Herbert for 3 minutes What he says there is perfect harmony of what you say. Thank you for saying. Top Quotes from the Frak Herbert Interview "remember that there's nothing at all wrong with saying that the Protestant ethic is full of it that it's all right to 00:14:30 enjoy your work you don't have to fight your way out of bed every morning you can get up every morning eager to go do whatever it is you do have a love affair 00:14:43 with your with your world and remember that you're not going to be able to predict every consequence of what you do" fiducary roots of science "question things I have the most fun that I'm writing questioning things that people do not question the assumptions that everybody 00:15:56 knows are true I'm going to declare a heresy for you all science if you go 00:16:07 back into its ruts saying why do I believe this well I believe this because of these tests and this this proof well why do I believe this why did I set up 00:16:21 this test why did I believe that proof all science goes back to something that we believe because we believe it we 00:16:34 believe it because we believe it and we have no proof for it it's like a religion so" And the message: Being comfortable with the unknown, as a finite human being "when you dig into the roots of 00:16:45 science a gray area at the bottom but it's like a balloon and the surfaces word the computer science has given us I 00:17:00 love this language the surface of the balloon is their face with what we do not know inside the balloon as we blow into it is what we have proved okay but 00:17:17 as we increase what we think we know we increase our exposure to what we do not know this is one of the inevitable laws 00:17:28 of our universe" as we increase what we think we know we increase our exposure to what we do not know this is one of the inevitable laws 00:17:28 of our universe no dead end, on and on and on "but isn't it more interesting to live in a universe where there are unknowns to discover new lands 00:17:43 to explore than to live in an absolute box where when you find the edge that's it baby no place to go from there I 00:17:57 I like the fact that we cannot predict everything I like the fact that we live in a universe where anything may happen because the alternative to me is a 00:18:12 constricting dead end" No End is the Ending, never Ending! Thank you Quinn. You've got it. Creating a space whaer I can share the same learnings. Anybody who got as far as Chapter House, may be on the second time of reading of it all will sure to get THIS. I believe that Show less Read more 0 0 Reply Gyuri Lajos 42 minutes ago Thank you articulating what I felt back then when I read it back then when it came out. I learned since recently that the message is "being comfortable with unknown", nay delight in it with pious awe towards the dignity of being reflected in human being

do have a love affair 00:14:43 with your with your world and remember that you're not going to be able to predict every consequence of what you do

when you dig into the roots of 00:16:45 science a gray area at the bottom but it's like a balloon and the surfaces word the computer science has given us I 00:17:00 love this language the surface of the balloon is their face with what we do not know inside the balloon as we blow into it is what we have proved okay but 00:17:17 as we increase what we think we know we increase our exposure to what we do not know this is one of the inevitable laws 00:17:28 of our universe

but isn't it more interesting to live in a universe where there are unknowns to discover new lands 00:17:43 to explore then to live in an absolute box where when you find the edge that's it maybe no place to go from there I 00:17:57 like the fact that we cannot predict everything I like the fact that we live in a universe or anything may happen because the alternative to me is a 00:18:12 constricting dead end

question things I have the most fun that I'm writing questioning things that people do not question the assumptions that everybody 00:15:56 knows are true I'm going to declare a heresy for you all science if you go 00:16:07 back into its ruts saying why do I believe this well I believe this because of these tests and this this proof well why do I believe this why did I set up 00:16:21 this test why did I believe that proof all science goes back to something that we believe because we believe it we 00:16:34 believe it because we believe it and we have no proof for it it's like a religion so

remember that there's nothing at all wrong with saying that the Protestant ethic is full of it that it's all right to 00:14:30 enjoy your work you don't have to fight your way out of bed every morning you can get up every morning eager to go do whatever it is you do have a love affair 00:14:43 with your with your world and remember that you're not going to be able to predict every consequence of what you do

Every household to get energy bill discounts of £400 this autumn

To maximize interoperability, our Linked Data should be stored using Semantic Web technologies [17], which interweave a piece of data with its meaning. That way, applications can make sense of (parts of) each other’s data, without having to agree upfront exactly what our data should look like

applications to evolve from silos to shared views.

decoupling data storage from services

deliver the technological burden of proof that decentralized personal data networks can scale globally and that they can provide people with an experience similar to that of centralized platforms.

Yet they operate under a winner-takes-all strategy, each striving to become the dominant portal instead of mutually interoperating like the rest of the Web.

Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time Ruben Verborgh, Ghent University – imec – IDLab 11 January 2019

Ultimately, decentralization is about choice: we will choose where we store our data, who we give access to which parts of that data, which services we want on top of it, and how we pay for those.

The movement to (re-)decentralize the Web

Based on reflections of a knowledge graph, apps need to reconstruct enough of the world such that people can fluently interact with it. ©2017 Theophilos Papadopoulos

Reflections of knowledge Designing Web APIs for sustainable interactions within decentralized knowledge graph ecosystems.

traditional military threat analytical methods are fused with emerging ecophilosophical concepts to produce a prototype concept of operations for how humanity could respond to the hyperthreat of climate and environmental change.

indie thinkers are making a living from conducting online research; tools are becoming more integrated; apps encourage active creation over passive collection of knowledge.

indie thinkers are making a living from conducting online research; tools are becoming more integrated; apps encourage active creation over passive collection of knowledge. This 40-page report reviews the current state of the

self-directed education, supported by intentional social relations in fluid informal arrangements

decentralized webs

"learning webs"

Deschooling Society

Tools for Conviviality

In Tools for Conviviality, I

This is a nice lens. What if this new tool-for-thought were a convivial tool? What might that look like?

like trail markers

This is a bit of a stop-gap, since we have eventual goals to build a service that can sync your notes across devices, while continuing to guarantee you credible exit and ownership of your data.

notes are saved as plain text files on your phone

transitions from primarily algorithmic (backlinks), to primarily curated content (notes), as the idea crystalizes.

note as almost like a knowledge card for that idea

they also function like tags, gathering everything related into one place.

Backlinks: Underneath every idea is a list of backlinks—other ideas that link to this idea. When you have backlinks, links not only function as links, they also function like tags, gathering everything related into one place.

This leaves you with stubs for ideas that you’re thinking about. These stubs get resurfaced in search-or-create. It’s like paving desire paths in your mind, helping you return to and develop ideas over time.

(Related notes: All you need is links, Slashlinks, What if links weren’t meant to be prose?, Knowledge gardening is recursive)

If a note doesn’t exist, tapping the link creates it, like in a wiki.

You can link to other notes using shorthand /slashlinks.

Link suggestions surface on a toolbar as you type.

URLs pasted into Subconscious will automatically become linkified

In alpha-1, the main view is a list of your recent ideas. So far so good. Nothing too fancy. But what’s that colorful button in the bottom-right corner?

Tenacity. Subconscious is alpha-quality software. That means there will be bugs. Things can go wrong, up to and including (throws salt over shoulder) data loss. Do not put anything in Subconscious that you absolutely cannot afford to lose!

small MVP app that we’ve been using as our daily driver.

a creative oracle.

Launching Subconscious Alpha

(Related notes: Knowledge gardening is recursive, Unconscious R&D, Search reveals useful dimensions in latent idea space, Outward notes, inward notes)

Search-or-create closes a feedback loop. Every time you create a new note, search-or-create nudges you toward related evergreen notes.

Creating new notes happens through a search flow.

Subconscious is a simple app for gardening ideas. Its primary purpose is to help you grow evergreen notes, from the ground-up.

Knowledge panel data

A desire path (often referred to as a desire line in transportation planning, and also known as a game trail, social trail, fishermen trail, herd path, cow path, elephant path, goat track, pig trail, use trail, and bootleg trail) is a path created as a consequence of erosion caused by human or animal traffic. The path usually represents the shortest or most easily navigated route between an origin and destination. The width and severity of erosion are often indicators of the traffic level that a path receives. Desire paths emerge as shortcuts where constructed paths take a circuitous route, have gaps, or are non-existent.

E-Prime

The web began as a tool for thought

Search is a signal of intent.

When a search becomes extremely specific, it functions like a coordinate to a specific point in latent idea space.

What if we imagined ideas as a kind of hyper-dimensional latent space?

Search reveals useful dimensions in latent idea space

Evergreen notes should be atomic

Offline is a special case of lag compensation where lag is infinite.

What we need here is probably a new query language, something like reversible SQL.

Push is about finding the affected subscriptions given the changed data.

Effect of the action should be displayed immediately.

Running exactly the same validation twice wouldn’t make data more valid.

It feels stupid.

Traditional web architectures require DB, server and a browser, stitched together with RPC and REST calls:

Server not required

I- Search as a primitive

if backlinks can be expressed as a query, we might as well allow the user to edit those queries

Blog Colophon

WebSeitz/wiki

Evergreen notes

Source: Hypertext Montage by Gordon Brander

What was at first the terrain of anarchists,transhumanists and cypherpunks is now overtakenby the techno-glitterati.Blockchains might never die, but their economicrelevance can fade to almost nothing, like so manyblack dwarf stars.

Progressive summarization of audio & video to retain more of what you hear in podcasts & watch in online lectures.

metasphere

60. Two examples. In @RoamResearch, many of its users have never used an outliner before to structure knowledge. They definitely haven't used bidirectional links before. The fact that you structure your pages through their indentation position in a block hierarchy isn't intuitive

57. Self-efficacy operates on feedback loops. When people are successful or overcome failure, their self-efficacy increases, leading them to try more things. People feel confident in their competence. When they fail to convert failure into success, they feel less competent.Quote TweetRobert Haisfield @RobertHaisfield · Dec 28, 202023. Self-efficacy (the belief that you are capable of performing some action) is one of the most important factors out there to behavioral influence in product. Does someone believe they are capable of using your app successfully? If not, they'll probably drop off right away.

I’d like digital garden to be like a bonsai tree. Carefully growing, trimming, pruning, artfully shaping a beautiful tree of resources and ideas

Right now, traditional ‘ tools for thought Tools for Thought Related: Extended Mind Hypothesis, Networked thought, interaction design Questions: How can we create tools that aid our thinking? As an extension, how do... Updated 5/26/2022 ’ are not great for this aspect, lacking the ability to publish, edit, and share notes with others.

I use Curius to keep a backlog of things that are interesting but not interesting enough for me to read at this exact moment.

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do not silo notes into categories. Sometimes, the presence of specific ‘folders’ or ’topics’ prevents us from making surprising connections between otherwise related topics (e.g. urban planning Urban Planning notes from A people-centric smart city for racial justice cities are the backbone and hope of social change either great benefit but... Updated 5/26/2022 and data structures A City is not a Tree A City is not a Tree More diagrams in Figma?node-id=0%3A1) Why trees instead of graphs Both the tree and the semilattice are ways... Updated 5/26/2022 ).

bonsai tree.

I use Draft by Slite to have a ‘scratch space’ in my new tab page where I have my running list of todos, temporary thoughts, and things to read in the next little bit. It’s my Apple Notes for my laptop.

Name notes to be as simple as possible

Link by concept rather

“[One] who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but [they] also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.” — Richard Hamming

a dash of chaos and entropy is good for new ideas.

aim for a massively multiplayer platform, to build a network of Kosmik users that can collaborate together, and where the information is never lost.

living hypertext notebook.

I- A DSL for a discourse graph with information entry, visualization, and retrieval

I- Search as a primitive

ideas are associative.

Start Here

Homebrew Website Club is a meetup for anyone interested in personal websites and a distributed web.

If you’re worried about the trustworthiness of every tweet and Facebook post you share, as well as the news stories you read, you are experiencing hypernormalisation right now.

The fate of the earth rests in the hands of JPMorgan Chase

publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.

Man cannot hope fullyto duplicate this mental process artificially

Dendrite is a second-generation Matrix homeserver written in Go. It intends to provide an efficient, reliable and scalable alternative to Synapse:

Open Tech Will Save Us #16 — Resilience

Dendrite is entering Beta!

"The Simplest Backlink-y Digital Garden app to host both your public and private sense-making." backlinks for compounding network of thoughts browser/cloud-based so can use on mobile, open multiple windows, etc. 2 spaces: 1 private, 1 public (to-read) Markdown standard

This is the publicly-readable WikiLog Digital Garden (17k pages, starting from 2002) of Bill Seitz (a Product Manager and CTO). (You can get your own pair of garden/note-taking spaces from FluxGarden.)

WebSeitz/wiki

https://lnkd.in/gDzGYfY

"If a user is viewing that HTML page while logged in, they can take any object from the page and republish it. That’s how we think people will create knowledge gardens in the future: by reusing parts of someone else’s knowledge garden, republishing them as a whole with new comments, allowing these objects to update wherever they are transferred, and tracking the ownership and versions of those objects, whether they are private or public."

"Kosmik is probably the only tool for thought currently available to run on IPFS (

1) Control the content objects you create.2) Share content objects you create with anyone you choose.3) Post your own objects in HTML on the web, and allow others to add their own annotations.

Q- How might we navigate the structure now or later tradeoffsLast updated May 22, 2022

deniz@denizaydemirReplying to @TrailMarks and @logseqThanks for the link I’ll check it out! I’m hoping to have a live demo of the structure later this summer. If you haven’t seen already, check out https://scalingsynthesis.com

become a family’s digital garden.

Digital Gardening Last updated April 7, 2022

Digital Gardening Tools and Resources

Eleventy-Garden

Rhizome Research Log

A cloud peer is not a hosting provider, it is rather a different type of a personal device.

data-persistence and identity layer for the distributed web.

fallback to a trusted server to act as a proxy but this comes at the same price of decentralization. Lots of protocols provide their own signalling and rendez-vous servers you can run but people don’t want to run/host/maintain their own servers either!

Collaborative: multiplayer gardens with ease

Interoperable: data should be first-class, not applications

Collaboration at scale while keeping local conditions in mind

Imagine a web where it is easy and normal to create vast and rich collaborative spaces that allow you co-browse the internet and collectively digital garden Digital Gardening As of 2021, this process is no longer accurate. I've embraced a much more networked form of note taking which... Updated 5/20/2022 with friends.

personal cloud

local units are composable—modular and interoperable with each other, essentially “stackable” to a more global scale—to enable decentralized systems to efficiently solve problems that may at first blush seem to require centralization for coordination

platforms should be used to support efficiency of collaboration at scale, the average person doesnt need this to talk to friends for example

vendor lock-in / agreeing to arbitrary terms of use out of ‘convenience’ at the application level?

extractive and siloed

easily portable because it gives agency to the user who has an intention of transferring data from one context to another the exact steps for them to do so

Perhaps the current episteme is best rendered as a rhizome: a subterranean plant stem that can shoot out roots that grow, hydralike, even when snipped in two… a system without beginning or end, “always in the middle, between things, interbeing, intermezzo.” –Claire Webb in Noema

infrastructure for collaborative local-first applications.

Rhizome Proposal Last updated May 19, 2022

Rhizome Philosophy

If you want to see your own on here, submit a Pull Request adding yourself to this file!

pluriverse.world

A squad is a collective identity in which I can participate to create something more intricate, comprehensive, and wonderful than with just myself.

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Public Goods Last updated February 15, 2022

cultivating and building things I find interesting.

What quick and long-term solutions would help deal with the impacts of heatwaves?

Maintaining organizing systems with long expected lifetimes mean that incremental changes to description vocabularies and classification schemes need to happen over time – even when the categories are not always explicit

No two people have the same requirements for the same information system.

Examples of emergent organization are desire paths Desire path The path usually represents the shortest or most easily navigated route between an origin and destination. The width and severity... Updated 5/20/2022 , swarm intelligence in local interactions (e.g. ants, bees, fish, etc.), or crowdsourcing. rel: emergent behaviour

Intentional Arrangement Last updated February 15, 2022

# Making your own Quartz

C- Programmable text interfaces are the future C- Programmable text interfaces are the future Authored By:: [[P- Rob Haisfield]] Programmable text interfaces are the future, not GUIs People who don’t code are accustomed to interacting with apps with Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) . In order to give instructions to a GUI app, users need... 5/24/2022 .

I- A DSL for a discourse graph with information entry, visualization, and retrieval

a trusted partner who can keep pace with us

trusted collaborator with shared context

synthesis occurs in a single mind.

distributed synthesis

making discourse graphs widely available could accelerate human synthesis work, and thereby accelerate innovation and scientific discovery

C- Synthesis is hard to do with people who don’t share context with you

The handle_links manifest entry aims to allow registration of installed web applications as link handlers, to grant them the possibility of opening links like their native counterparts.

creates the cohesive and integrated experience mentioned previously.

This document is a starting point for engaging the community and standards bodies in developing collaborative solutions fit for standardization. As the solutions to problems described in this document progress along the standards-track, we will retain this document as an archive and use this section to keep the community up-to-date with the most current standards venue and content location of future work and discussions.

Web App Link Handling Manifest Options

Introducing a new home for proposals

Web Incubator CG@wicg_·Sep 2, 2020PSA: We're changing our process for well-formed proposals and moving it to Github!discourse.wicg.ioIntroducing a new home for proposalsToday we are introducing a wicg/proposals repo, a place for well-formed ideas to start their incubation journey. Plan to use the proposals repo issue tracke

Web Incubator CG@wicg_Web platform incubations. By the people. For the people. https://discourse.wicg.iowicg.ioJoined July 20150 Following629 Followers

Web Incubator CG

This proposal gives installed web applications a way to register their ability to handle (read, stream, edit) files with given MIME types and/or file extensions. This then allows an operating system's file manager or other operating system flows to use a PWA to handle opening the file, similar to how it would open the file using a native app.

Web capabilities like share target, file handlers and link capturing can cause new instances of the web app to be opened even if an app window is already open, putting the user in a non-ideal state.

How China Is Using Artificial Intelligence in Classrooms | WSJ

Gödel'sAiming for completeness and consistency is honorable but futile - Gödel’s is a newsletter about interweaving ideas and making decisions under uncertain conditions. I talk about knowledge management, mental models, and supporting Tools for Thought.By Alexander Rink · Launched 5 months ago

SynthesisA synthesis of ideas about open science and social technology.

355,643 views355K viewsMay 19, 20187.1K I like this Dislike I dislike this Share Share Download Download Clip Clip Save Sam Johnson Sam Johnson 5.68K subscribers Subscribe The cult documentary maker explores the falsity of modern life in his own inimitable style. Though he’s spent the best part of four decades making television, Curtis’s signature blend of hypnotic archive footage, authoritative voiceover and a seemingly inexhaustible appetite for bizarre historical tangents is better suited to the web, a place just as resistant to the narrative handholding of broadcast TV as he is. He argues that an army of technocrats, complacent radicals and Faustian internet entrepreneurs have conspired to create an unreal world; one whose familiar and often comforting details blind us to its total inauthenticity.

HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis | FULL DOCUMENTARY

Structure and Interpretationof Classical Mechanics

The Road to Reality

A Reflection on Mapping ToolsI hold two conflicting views on sophisticated mapping tools.1. The tools matter.Well-designed tools can accelerate the learning process exponentially.If tools can reduce the friction of the mapping process, then more energy can be devoted to questions that matter, such as, “Why here over there?”Mapping tools with a disposition towards becoming a commodity could unleash a faster pace through the Strategy Cycle (efficiency enables innovation, after all).

OnlineWardleyMaps

What is a Trail? | Graph Theory

identify the connected components of a graph

Neighbourhood (graph theory)

Graph theory

A user agent MAY use these members to treat the web application differently as an application with note-taking capabilities (e.g., integrate with operating system note-taking surfaces).

The note_taking member of the Web Application Manifest is an object that contains information related to note-taking. It has the following members: new_note_url A user agent MAY use these members to treat the web application differently as an application with note-taking capabilities (e.g., integrate with operating system note-taking surfaces).

Creators can now monetize their expertise on QuoraAmanda Silberling@asilbwrites / 9:17 PM GMT+2•August 5, 2021

Dr. Gunn@mrgunnCreators can now monetize their expertise on Quora https://tcrn.ch/3jHWAB5 via @techcrunch Good article by @asilbwrites, picking up on the major points. I would add that @Quora's unique distribution platform and the way writers can see reader demand is what really sets it apart.

Creators can now monetize their expertise on Quora https://tcrn.ch/3jHWAB5 via @techcrunch Good article by @asilbwrites, picking up on the major points. I would add that @Quora's unique distribution platform and the way writers can see reader demand is what really sets it apart.

Dr. Gunn@mrgunn·Aug 5, 2021Creators can now monetize their expertise on Quora https://tcrn.ch/3jHWAB5 via @techcrunch Good article by @asilbwrites, picking up on the major points. I would add that @Quora's unique distribution platform and the way writers can see reader demand is what really sets it apart.

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João Rosa@joaoasrosaReplying to @joaoasrosa @AndrewPadilla1 and 5 othersit is easy to change once is in production. (Assuming proper engineering practices). I feel that organisations increase the awareness on sociotechnical systems, and the ones that are getting it, have a competitive advantage. In summary: yes we need to learn together. :) 2/2

Balisage Paper: Interchange vs. Interoperability

longevity of the digital object

longevity