August 15th, 2020

• TIL about the [[aventine keyhole]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1294585895421718528 pull
• Will meet [[Jonathan the Utopian]] today!
• [[goblinodds]] is interested in bolos: https://twitter.com/goblinodds/status/1294371322546413569 pull
• [[Quick Capture]]

  • https://twitter.com/PanettaMath/status/1294352106569314304 pull?s=09

  • https://twitter.com/thewiseturtle/status/1294398392307679233 pull?s=09

  • https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/1294396223303102468 pull?s=09

  • https://twitter.com/MushiKachi/status/1294570764981735425 pull?s=09

2020-08-15

Reply: Two Effects From Notetaking – Interdependent Thoughts

Both those effects, new things rising because of writing about existing ones, and spending time thinking to be able to create, are most welcome ones.

Great to hear! It's nice to hear about your note notion-taking system leading to a long-form post. I haven't written a very long post from my notes yet - I think I'll have a reflect as to why that is.

Reply: On Cities and Contrast as Potential Energy – Interdependent Thoughts

I experience this potential energy when I moved

Notes -> notions -> articles

[[Ton]] wrote recently about how his note-taking system is helping him formulate new ideas and create articles. It gave me pause to reflect on my own note-taking system, and I realised it hasn't as of yet led to me writing any articles.

First reflection: I'm not actually too bothered by that, right now. It is not really currently a firm goal of mine to write articles. I don't have a thesis that I have a burning desire to push, and I don't have a target of writing for the sake of it, either. So that is most likely the biggest reason. (That said, why am I taking notes if I don't plan to do anything with them…?) An action point: reflect if regular article writing is a goal.

There's some practical things I could do, if I did want to write more long-form.

I'm currently falling in to the [[collector's fallacy]] a little bit, I think. Perhaps just thinking about my wiki as a [[commonplace book]], as I sort of do, points me in that direction.

A tiny adjustment I have started to make, is the naming of my notes. (Prefer note titles with complete phrases to sharpen claims; How to Write a Note That You Will Actually Understand). I've noticed that this does make me think more about notions, as Ton called them, not just copied notes.

I could also try to aim for a more formal [[knowledge cycle]] (research, read, take note, write). I kind of do this anyway, but it's a little ad-hoc.

Lastly, I'd like to revisit "[[blogchains]]". I think I'm motivated to write something more considered and longer when in response to reading something from a friend. It would be fun to start some open chains.