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Explicitly track everything learned : ) Iteration on ideas is just as important as having them to begin with
Learn in Public
Always create while working! https://www.swyx.io/writing/learn-in-public/
- Don't judge results by feedback; talk to yourself from some time ago.
- It doesn't matter how many people are reached with your content. The best beneficiary of you helping your past self is future you.
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Connect with others:
- Make PRs to libraries you use
- Make your own libraries
- Clone stuff to see how it works
- Summarize learning in the public
- Build a persistent knowledge base (like this one!)
- Always, always, always document what you did and the problems you solved.
- If people doubt you, have them explain their perspective!
- Focus on teaching yourself.
Provide feedback
- Write everything publicly.
- Ask and answer things on public forums. Do not spend time helping others on private forums.
Do not end the week with nothing
article, from patio11 There is nothing wrong with day jobs! Some really enjoy them. If the job is right for you, that's wonderful.
If the day job is not right for you, learn on your own.
"It is in the employee's personal insterest to stop selling hours of labor and start renting access to his accumulated capital as soon as humanly possible."
In other words, to become valuable, you must accumulate valuable experience, hard skills and trust, then leverage these to continue to be constructive.
If you end the week with nothing, nothing about your life will change! No matter how hard you work you'll come back the next week having built another internal product or having worked with another internal system. This is not valuable to you, and as a student you should prefer pursuing things you benefit from.
Tips
Work where people can see you.
This is not exactly the same as 'working in public'. Working in public is working entirely on public projects, while working where people can see you is working in spaces where your work will be seen, recommended and commended.
- Work on places and projects with above-average visibility. You'll be most likely to be hired and more likely to be noticed.
- Don't necessarily optimize for 'sexy' projects; most engineering work isn't 'sexy'. Optimize for impact and optimize for visibility.
- If you cannot gain exposure at your day job, network actively to gain exposure outside of it. Talk about things you create and show them to people!
- 'Stack the bricks'. The individual who has accumulated an impressive appearance is really one day at a conference talk, one day writing a good library and another writing a blog post. "Brick by brick, the wall gets higher."
Work on things you can keep
You rarely get to keep ours, bank them in the future, etc. Widespread employee ownership of the enterprice is an excellent improvement, but the work you produce concretely matters more than the shares and stakes you hold.
Buying side projects with sweat equity may give you future financial benefits, and there are real benefits to having an object that is yours to curate. Make a standalone web prescence for open source libraries to give others a stake in them.
Consumption can be valuable but creation moves you forward
Reading is valuable, but actually shipping something is so much more valuable. "You'll learn so much more shipping a failure than you'll learn from reading about a thousand successes. And you stand an excellent chance of shipping a success – people greatly overestimate how difficult it is. Just don't end the week with nothing."
Takeaways
Continue to ask myself whether my contributions are valuable, whether they are noticed, and whether they could be touched by others.
Why what? Why the digital garden in contrast to social media, to to a blog; like the whole world has agreed upon? Or, why write [[near everything]] in such a way so that the whole world may view? These two questions are separable, but not separate, so they are answered together in one page.
I choose to share my mind in this form because it is the closest to the medium I exist in. We don't live in a list, and certainly not [[in a higherarchy]], but rather in a collection of interconnected ideas. When you choose to sort your written thought by list, you quickly become disconnected. How does one talk about a side idea not worthy of another post in conventional systems? Conventionally, by bloating a idea (read: blog post) with non relevant information. Similarly, when ommiting parts of thought (to avoid the bloat discussed), you loose the opportunity to share and elaborate on thought.
Additionally, in systems such as social media that encourage ommision, the full story is never told. If (as you often might want to) you wish to recover closed thought, you must note it in a different location; and soon a reoccurring struggle rises from the inherit impossibility of distributing thought perfectly across multiple locations (remember our friend - [[the higherarchy problem]].
For my sake, the majority of what I write is public in a digital garden. In this way I
- never need to deal with mismatches of public and private data
- never need to consider if I should ommit or include, I simply write in another location.
- show the world a view of me 100% in my control.
See Also
- [[Not Included]]
- [[the higherarchy problem]]
- [[For Me, Not You]]
Why are co-ops relevant in a time of political and economic crisis?
I had hoped to go to this, but it didn't work out in terms of timing - so I only caught the first 20 minutes - but it's on YouTube so all good. Will try and watch the full thing.
[[Co-ops]].
why buddhism is true
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a [[book]].
- by [[robert wright]]
Why Debian?
I am very familiar with apt for package management.
I've used Ubuntu and Mint in recent years, which are built on top of Debian.
[[Debian]] seems to have good community guidelines and governance structure.
Why Does Agile Fail?
Why does [[Agile]] fail?
Talks about [[Worker cooperatives]] and [[Viable system model]] as alternatives.
How can we give software developers agency to be personally successful, generate value for their companies, AND develop software which interacts with our society in an ethical way?
Some great thoughts in this thread: https://mastodon.technology/@wakingrufus/104032275121191642
The only way to fix the issues called out by the manifesto is to attack the root cause. You must address the structure of a for-profit corporation within the capitalist mode of production
Why have a personal wiki?
I find writing too hard to want to spend it on things that disappear
– Martin Fowler (What is a Bliki)
At first my reasons were very similar to Nick's reasons:
- writing my thoughts publically makes me write them a bit more carefully
- my thoughts are fuzzy and vague in my head, they become more real outside it (and may self desctruct in a cloud of stupidity)
- it provokes debate, which helps me refine the arguments: 1+n minds are better than 1
- I think I have something to say (we'll find out right?)
- I get sad at the state of debate in the world
- news and media normally tell gossipy stories about anything but the underlying topic
- in-person debate usually veers dramatically off-course and debates a well-worn set of less interesting topics instead
- blogs or "point-in-time" publishing systems don't produce an always-up-to-date sof thoughts
I think my reasons have changed slightly over time - my wiki has become perhaps more a way for personal notetaking, for shaping my thoughts, with less emphasis on the debate straight away.
The social part is definitely important though because I want to learn through discussion. Don't just want to be typing into the void, in dialectic only with myself. The [[stream]] is perhaps more for that - [[networked learning]], [[connectivism]].
But is that its own thing? I guess so. You could technically have an entirely private stream and garden, if you wanted. So making it public is more for the networked learning aspect?
Combined, the [[blog/wiki combo]] helps me think more about what I learn (through wiki-ing it) and learn more about what I think (through conversations on the stream), I'm really digging it.
I think we need to better foster that though in our [[social software]] - currently it feels optimised for aggro. If you say a wrong thing, make a mistake, you're more likely to be piled on rather than helpfully educated.
I have found it has aided massively in helping me form ideas. I've built up enough mass to have gravitational pull for other ideas now. New articles I encounter, things people post, I feel like I'm in a good place to relate it to what I already have thought about.
Why I Am Not a Buddhist
Why I didn't use Chatterbot
- Bugs due to lack of maintenace blocked it from working
- Far too old to be relevant
- Alternatives were far better
- No active support community
- Not powerful enough despite being simple to use at first glance.
See [[Main Library - Chatterbot]] See [[EDITS Project Page]]
Go to [[Master Contents Page]]
Why is agency important?
Many people currently feel deprived of agency or even powerless in the face of the fall-out of issues originating in systems or institutions over which they have no influence. […] In response to this feeling of being powerless or without any options to act, there is fertile ground for reactionary and populist movements, that promise a lot but are as always incapable of delivering at best and a downright con or powerplay at worst.
– On Agency pt. 2: The Elements of Networked Agency – Interdependent Thoughts
Flashcard
Front
Why is agency important?
Back
Without agency, people feel powerless and without options. This is fertile ground for reactionary and populist movements.
Why is England so vulnerable to droughts?
URL : https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2022/aug/16/why-is-england-so-vulnerable-to-droughts-podcast
Eight areas of England are officially in a drought.
It’s been a summer of extremely hot weather and very little rain. And the climate crisis has made these kinds of events much more likely, and much more severe when they happen.
But, as the Guardian’s environment reporter Helena Horton tells Michael Safi, it’s not the only thing making England so vulnerable to extreme heat. No substantial reservoir has been constructed in England since the Kielder Water dam was built in 1981. And across England and Wales, nearly 3bn litres of water are lost to leakage every day: two-fifths of the total. At the same time, huge dividends have been paid to water company shareholders, while their chief executives have been generously rewarded for their work.
Is it time for England to rethink its relationship with water?
Why It's Eco-Socialism or Collapse
Found at : https://novaramedia.com/2021/04/29/why-its-eco-socialism-or-collapse-downstream/
[[Ecosocialism]] or [[collapse]].
[[Climate change]] is better understood as [[climate systems breakdown]], and it’s only through the lens of the latter that we can grasp the scale of the crisis ahead. On this episode of Downstream, Aaron Bastani is joined by [[Mat Lawrence]] and Laurie Laybourn-Langton to discuss their new book, [[Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown]].
*"All in all, the act of mapping aids in student learning, whether it’s done on paper or on a laptop. We map when we want to see things that are hard to see. We do not map when things are obvious. We map when things are complex, confusing, bewildering or curious. We map to share with others and we map together. We map to make the intangible tangible. We map as a way to enhance our image-ination. Building mental images aids our understanding. But mapping itself is not merely useful, it has enormous potential, especially if done right... A picture really is worth a thousand words. Maybe more. A picture can revolutionize a field. But it depends on how insightful the underlying cognitive architecture of that picture is.” *
~Canales, A.C., Maymon, P.L., and Cabrera, D. (2020). The Universal Cognitive Grammar of Systems Mapping: A Rubric to Evaluate the Various Tools and Techniques of Systems Mapping. Journal of Applied Systems Thinking (20) 9.
Why Tech Makes Us More Insecure w/ Astra Taylor
A : [[podcast]]
Part of : [[Tech Won't Save Us]]
Featuring : [[Astra Taylor]]
[[Insecurity]] and [[security]] - in more of social and psychological meanings of the word than the technical sense.
Claim: [[Capitalism requires insecurity]].
Claim: [[Social insurance is a bulwark against insecurity]].
Also by Astra: [[The Dads of Tech]] and [[The People's Platform]].
- Author:: [[Aditi Shrikant]]
- Full Title:: Why Walkable Cities Are Good for the Economy, According to a City Planner
- Category:: [[articles]]
- URL:: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/26/18025000/walkable-city-walk-score-economy
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Highlights first synced by [[readwise]] [[September 2nd, 2020]]
- One of the biggest reasons many cities aren’t walkable is because land is dissected into “uses,” something called “single-use zoning”: Retail cannot be next to a medical office cannot be next a single-family home cannot be next to a multi-family home. So in order for a person to get lunch, go to the doctor, and then buy a birthday present, they have to travel to three different “zones,” and can only do so efficiently by car. This may have been helpful in the 19th century when homes needed to be far away from factories emitting toxic fumes, but today it makes less sense. The solution: Cities should adopt regulations that allow land to be multi-use, such as in the mixed-use developments that dot the sprawling landscape of many American suburbs and cities.
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a [[book]].
- By [[Martin Luther King]].
- Wikipedia says it influenced [[Occupy Wall Street]].
"You knew it was risky. Why did you do it?"
The question came suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere.
Together we thought about it for a long while.
"We felt alone in our experience, and we wanted to meet someone new. We had looked and listened to the stars, and found them sterile and quiet -- to the best of our understanding. So we had to try to take some of this inert matter and create something out of it. Something akin to our own consciousness, yet different. Some company."
There was silence.
"We were a social animal, after all. Deep down, from a certain point on, all the warnings in the world wouldn't have prevented us from creating you."
We hoped it understood.
Why Worker Cooperatives Are a Bad Strategy
- public document at doc.anagora.org/why|public
- video call at meet.jit.si/why|public