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So far... I am liking #SiYuan #Zettlekasten system. Unlike #obsidian its build for network hosting use.

Istallation was a breeze.

My major gripe, and I guess it goes to all systems like this is document conversion. But then I guess, they are NOT a document management system.

Fuck #javascript, #windows, #rust, #nixos, #vscode, #kubernetes, #serverless, #secondbrains, #zettlekasten, #obsidian, #neonlityoutubevideos, #kubernetes and...

#kubernetes

What's on your #fucklist?

https://www.cozodb.org/ - I don't know what this thing is yet, but it ticks enough curiosity boxes that I'm creating a loose thread -- #cozodb -- for me to later grab hold of and follow to insight. Eventually. It's located somewhere in my brain space that also houses other barely-to-not-understood things like graph networks (#git), databases (#sqlite), outline editors (#leoeditor, #logseq), note taking (#onenote), and general personal knowledge systems (#wiki, #zettlekasten). And hashtag salads.

@starchturrets I've certainly taken inspiration from many places, and can point to specific sources for leads that are ... unnorthodox. One was a comment I'd received on a dating profile that turned me on to an author and seminal work within a field. (I tend to disagree, strongly, with the author's views on the domain and corporate boosterism within it, but they'd assembled a spectacular history).

Another was a mumbled reference in a YouTube video (itself of a seminar presentation at the University of Vermont) which turned me on to another author, William Ophuls (a/k/a Patrick Ophuls). I'd ... probably have found him through other avenues, but his work itself is excellent and his bibliographies (one of which I'd copied out in its entierty and posted to my subreddit) are works of art themselves. (As noted, he cites both confirming and contradicting / counterargumentative sources and authors.)

I pick up a fair number of references through podcasts, and was made aware of Oreskes & Conway's latest book from an interview I'd stumbled across in my own (extensive) subscriptions.

I try to keep a somewhat broad net cast in areas outside my specific interests to see what turns up. Terry Gross's "Fresh Air" is lefty, yes, but includes a lot of cultural stuff I'd otherwise be missing. I try to catch at least some conservative/centrist viewpoints as well, without getting firehosed with refuse and filth. (That One Time I accidentally tuned in to a Sean Hannity radio broadcast was ... scarring. Especially the listening to this complete fucking idiot ranting for 15 or 20 minutes before a break came and I realised who I'd been listening to.)

What I've increasingly noticed online is that there seems to be a solidifying of camps, often vanishingly shallow depth to understanding or references (always with exceptions, mind, but in the bulk of cases), and the annoying and intrusive idiots most prone to engage frequently not even knowing the origins and provenance of their own talking points. ("Monopoly on violence" being one trope I've declared war upon, as an example.)

Another useful concept is #Zettlekasten, or just simply taking notes on index cards of salient concepts. They're a great information-capture device, offer random-sequence access, and store reasonably compactly (at the human scales you'd be using them).

I'll also recommend, strongly, Mortimer Adler's #HowToReadABook, a venerable classic.

@starchturrets I've certainly taken inspiration from many places, and can point to specific sources for leads that are ... unnorthodox. One was a comment I'd received on a dating profile that turned me on to an author and seminal work within a field. (I tend to disagree, strongly, with the author's views on the domain and corporate boosterism within it, but they'd assembled a spectacular history).

Another was a mumbled reference in a YouTube video (itself of a seminar presentation at the University of Vermont) which turned me on to another author, William Ophuls (a/k/a Patrick Ophuls). I'd ... probably have found him through other avenues, but his work itself is excellent and his bibliographies (one of which I'd copied out in its entierty and posted to my subreddit) are works of art themselves. (As noted, he cites both confirming and contradicting / counterargumentative sources and authors.)

I pick up a fair number of references through podcasts, and was made aware of Oreskes & Conway's latest book from an interview I'd stumbled across in my own (extensive) subscriptions.

I try to keep a somewhat broad net cast in areas outside my specific interests to see what turns up. Terry Gross's "Fresh Air" is lefty, yes, but includes a lot of cultural stuff I'd otherwise be missing. I try to catch at least some conservative/centrist viewpoints as well, without getting firehosed with refuse and filth. (That One Time I accidentally tuned in to a Sean Hannity radio broadcast was ... scarring. Especially the listening to this complete fucking idiot ranting for 15 or 20 minutes before a break came and I realised who I'd been listening to.)

What I've increasingly noticed online is that there seems to be a solidifying of camps, often vanishingly shallow depth to understanding or references (always with exceptions, mind, but in the bulk of cases), and the annoying and intrusive idiots most prone to engage frequently not even knowing the origins and provenance of their own talking points. ("Monopoly on violence" being one trope I've declared war upon, as an example.)

Another useful concept is #Zettlekasten, or just simply taking notes on index cards of salient concepts. They're a great information-capture device, offer random-sequence access, and store reasonably compactly (at the human scales you'd be using them).

I'll also recommend, strongly, Mortimer Adler's #HowToReadABook, a venerable classic.

@starchturrets I've certainly taken inspiration from many places, and can point to specific sources for leads that are ... unnorthodox. One was a comment I'd received on a dating profile that turned me on to an author and seminal work within a field. (I tend to disagree, strongly, with the author's views on the domain and corporate boosterism within it, but they'd assembled a spectacular history).

Another was a mumbled reference in a YouTube video (itself of a seminar presentation at the University of Vermont) which turned me on to another author, William Ophuls (a/k/a Patrick Ophuls). I'd ... probably have found him through other avenues, but his work itself is excellent and his bibliographies (one of which I'd copied out in its entierty and posted to my subreddit) are works of art themselves. (As noted, he cites both confirming and contradicting / counterargumentative sources and authors.)

I pick up a fair number of references through podcasts, and was made aware of Oreskes & Conway's latest book from an interview I'd stumbled across in my own (extensive) subscriptions.

I try to keep a somewhat broad net cast in areas outside my specific interests to see what turns up. Terry Gross's "Fresh Air" is lefty, yes, but includes a lot of cultural stuff I'd otherwise be missing. I try to catch at least some conservative/centrist viewpoints as well, without getting firehosed with refuse and filth. (That One Time I accidentally tuned in to a Sean Hannity radio broadcast was ... scarring. Especially the listening to this complete fucking idiot ranting for 15 or 20 minutes before a break came and I realised who I'd been listening to.)

What I've increasingly noticed online is that there seems to be a solidifying of camps, often vanishingly shallow depth to understanding or references (always with exceptions, mind, but in the bulk of cases), and the annoying and intrusive idiots most prone to engage frequently not even knowing the origins and provenance of their own talking points. ("Monopoly on violence" being one trope I've declared war upon, as an example.)

Another useful concept is #Zettlekasten, or just simply taking notes on index cards of salient concepts. They're a great information-capture device, offer random-sequence access, and store reasonably compactly (at the human scales you'd be using them).

I'll also recommend, strongly, Mortimer Adler's #HowToReadABook, a venerable classic.

@starchturrets I've certainly taken inspiration from many places, and can point to specific sources for leads that are ... unnorthodox. One was a comment I'd received on a dating profile that turned me on to an author and seminal work within a field. (I tend to disagree, strongly, with the author's views on the domain and corporate boosterism within it, but they'd assembled a spectacular history).

Another was a mumbled reference in a YouTube video (itself of a seminar presentation at the University of Vermont) which turned me on to another author, William Ophuls (a/k/a Patrick Ophuls). I'd ... probably have found him through other avenues, but his work itself is excellent and his bibliographies (one of which I'd copied out in its entierty and posted to my subreddit) are works of art themselves. (As noted, he cites both confirming and contradicting / counterargumentative sources and authors.)

I pick up a fair number of references through podcasts, and was made aware of Oreskes & Conway's latest book from an interview I'd stumbled across in my own (extensive) subscriptions.

I try to keep a somewhat broad net cast in areas outside my specific interests to see what turns up. Terry Gross's "Fresh Air" is lefty, yes, but includes a lot of cultural stuff I'd otherwise be missing. I try to catch at least some conservative/centrist viewpoints as well, without getting firehosed with refuse and filth. (That One Time I accidentally tuned in to a Sean Hannity radio broadcast was ... scarring. Especially the listening to this complete fucking idiot ranting for 15 or 20 minutes before a break came and I realised who I'd been listening to.)

What I've increasingly noticed online is that there seems to be a solidifying of camps, often vanishingly shallow depth to understanding or references (always with exceptions, mind, but in the bulk of cases), and the annoying and intrusive idiots most prone to engage frequently not even knowing the origins and provenance of their own talking points. ("Monopoly on violence" being one trope I've declared war upon, as an example.)

Another useful concept is #Zettlekasten, or just simply taking notes on index cards of salient concepts. They're a great information-capture device, offer random-sequence access, and store reasonably compactly (at the human scales you'd be using them).

I'll also recommend, strongly, Mortimer Adler's #HowToReadABook, a venerable classic.

@starchturrets I've certainly taken inspiration from many places, and can point to specific sources for leads that are ... unnorthodox. One was a comment I'd received on a dating profile that turned me on to an author and seminal work within a field. (I tend to disagree, strongly, with the author's views on the domain and corporate boosterism within it, but they'd assembled a spectacular history).

Another was a mumbled reference in a YouTube video (itself of a seminar presentation at the University of Vermont) which turned me on to another author, William Ophuls (a/k/a Patrick Ophuls). I'd ... probably have found him through other avenues, but his work itself is excellent and his bibliographies (one of which I'd copied out in its entierty and posted to my subreddit) are works of art themselves. (As noted, he cites both confirming and contradicting / counterargumentative sources and authors.)

I pick up a fair number of references through podcasts, and was made aware of Oreskes & Conway's latest book from an interview I'd stumbled across in my own (extensive) subscriptions.

I try to keep a somewhat broad net cast in areas outside my specific interests to see what turns up. Terry Gross's "Fresh Air" is lefty, yes, but includes a lot of cultural stuff I'd otherwise be missing. I try to catch at least some conservative/centrist viewpoints as well, without getting firehosed with refuse and filth. (That One Time I accidentally tuned in to a Sean Hannity radio broadcast was ... scarring. Especially the listening to this complete fucking idiot ranting for 15 or 20 minutes before a break came and I realised who I'd been listening to.)

What I've increasingly noticed online is that there seems to be a solidifying of camps, often vanishingly shallow depth to understanding or references (always with exceptions, mind, but in the bulk of cases), and the annoying and intrusive idiots most prone to engage frequently not even knowing the origins and provenance of their own talking points. ("Monopoly on violence" being one trope I've declared war upon, as an example.)

Another useful concept is #Zettlekasten, or just simply taking notes on index cards of salient concepts. They're a great information-capture device, offer random-sequence access, and store reasonably compactly (at the human scales you'd be using them).

I'll also recommend, strongly, Mortimer Adler's #HowToReadABook, a venerable classic.

Another new #introduction for all the fresh faces. I'm an associate professor at UMass Amherst, where I teach about #journalism and #MediaIndustries. My research focuses on media distribution and, occasionally, dysfunction in the adtech industry.

I also co-edit a book series on the civic impacts of media distribution for The MIT Press, so feel free to hit me up if you're working on a relevant project.

#commodon #MediaStudies #ScienceJournalism #linux #emacs #zettlekasten

New introduction for a new instance. I'm an associate professor at UMass Amherst, where I teach about #journalism and #MediaIndustries. My research focuses on media distribution and, occasionally, dysfunction in the adtech industry.

I also co-edit a book series on the civic impacts of media distribution for The MIT Press, so feel free to hit me up if you're working on a relevant project.

#introduction #commodon #mediastudies #ScienceJournalism #linux #emacs #zettlekasten

I'm an associate professor at UMass Amherst, where I teach about #journalism and #mediaindustries. My research focuses on media distribution and, occasionally, dysfunction in the adtech industry.

I also co-edit a book series on the civic impacts of media distribution for The MIT Press, so feel free to hit me up if you're working on a relevant project.

#introduction #commodon #mediastudies #sciencejournalism #linux #emacs #zettlekasten

👋 Another #introduction in the form of hashtags

🔤 An ABC of what matters to me: 🔤

#amwriting
#books
#Decolonisation
#DigitalGarden
#Education
#Environment
#Equity
#JoinAUnion
#Learning
#LearningMastodon
#Literature
#Notebook
#NoteTaking
#Pedagogy
#PKM
#Podcast
#Poetry
#Politics
#Reading
#Research
#RetrievalPractice
#SecondBrain
#Sheffield
#ShortStories
#Teachers
#Teaching
#Writing
#Writingcommunity
#Zettlekasten

@vortex_egg
One cheat approach to this I have is to go through the HN daily archive, where HN is a decent prefilter. Often there's a small set of the top 30 (or up to ~100) daily items which are worth a closer look. I'll read a few days behind.

On Reddit, if you've got a good subreddit, you can set a date range (day, week, month, year) and then sort by "top" to get the most highly-rated items in that period. Reddit tends not to do a great job of quality selection, but it's not completely worthless.

The third of my two tricks is to just rely on random selection to an extent. If you've got too much material to make an informed choice on, shuffle your deck and select something at random. You'll miss some stuff, yes, but you're making an unbiased rather than a biased selection. You can also apply other filters to noise sources.

#Research #ResearchMethods #LiteratureSearch #InformationOverload #CalNewport #DavidAllen #GettingThingsDone #DeepWork #Zettlekasten #BOTI

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@vortex_egg There are two techniques in particular I'd like to suggest which ... well, they don't fully work but they seem to help:

1) Time block your information-gathering phase. Whether that's on a daily or weekly ongoing basis, or as a project phase, say "I'll scan Twitter for X minutes per day, only". And do that at the end of the day, when you've taken care of high-relevance/payoff tasks first.

2) What I call #BOTI: "Best of the Interval". On a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual ... basis, review the items you've selected as noteworthy from that period as well as the top items from the next smaller intervals, and select some n number of best items. You'll probably find that a good value is 10 <= n <= 100, but do what works for you.

BOTI draws on the 43 folders / tickler file concept, or the round-robin database. Essentially you're determining that no matter how long your research goes on, you're committing to a finite set of retained data.

(This is used in all kinds of IT systems and network monitoring, especially with long-term data history.)

You end up with higher resolution in recent / near periods, lower resolution as you go back in time. But you're constantly trying to filter up the best stuff. Since assessment can take time, you'll re-scan earlier selections to see if you'd missed something of relevance (and you can always break protocol for something especially good). But you've got a structure and have set limits on scope.

You'll also start to develop a sense with time as to what actually provides usefulness, and if you track sources, which of those are most valuable. Filter noise aggressively.

A source that sometimes generates signal but usually doesn't ... is virtually always noise. Signal tends to come through, eventually.

(This is related to my "block fuckwits" advice.)

#Zettlekasten #DeepWork #GettingThingsDone #DavidAllen #CalNewport #InformationOverload #LiteratureSearch #ResearchMethods #Research

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@vortex_egg This is a core challenge and failure of any academic. (Or unaffiliated researcher.) I struggle with this constantly.

That was the subtext of this toot:
https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/106933960589722037

Cal Newport does a fair bit of writing on this, aimed at both academics and professionals. Deep Work is probably the best starting point.

A good academic programme (especially for re-entering / nontraditional students) should also address this. Talk to your advisor or department. That library-skills course you're taking is actually directly addressing this, or should (and I'd still reall like to see the course notes / outline / syllabus / readings).

David Allen's Getting Things Done is another good general time-management / goals-management guide.

Zettlekasten (or an equivalent notes-and-references-tracking system) is also very helpful.

#Research #ResearchMethods #LiteratureSearch #InformationOverload #CalNewport #DavidAllen #GettingThingsDone #DeepWork #Zettlekasten

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