Rosano / Journal

22 entries for August 2020

Monday, August 31, 2020

Sunday, August 30, 2020

Write when you have a clear intention. There is no need to force a process.

How To Take Smart Notes: 10 Principles to Revolutionize Your Note-Taking and Writing

[Everyone publishing incomplete thoughts may lead to the proliferation of half-baked opinions and wild theories, but it also opens the ideas to scrutiny, testing, and debate.]

[The unwritten thought does not count for anything, whereas the shared notes, homework, emails count as public knowledge.]

[Feedback received from publishing can become a motivation to publish more.]

What advantages of non-standardized capture does the "notes as a shipping container" analogy fail to value?

The physical organization of Zettelkasten prompts you to reflect on the relationship between ideas in the moment of filing. How would this imperative be simulated in software without resorting to spatial interfaces?

[When a topic is researched extensively, a 'bird's eye view' becomes necessary.]

To make notes on what is not written. (What does the author leave out? What does it imply? What is nobody saying? What does nobody see?)

Thursday, August 27, 2020

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Monday, August 24, 2020

End-user programming

[The UNIX command line is a success story of software extensibility because it efficiently allows for infinite combinations of smaller programs to create a workflow.]

[The spreadsheet and scratch do not require mental abstractions because the workings of the program are made apparent through visual embodiment.]

[The spreadsheet and the developer tools console shorten the save/build/run loop until it no longer exists, thus allowing someone to interact with a living system that responds in real-time.]

[In-place tool-chains allow users to leverage familiar concepts from everyday use and extend their experience.]

Constantly seeking expansive experiences makes it less relevant to keep score or be petty.

Sunday, August 23, 2020

Friday, August 21, 2020

Thursday, August 20, 2020

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Realizing that the interface was always creating several layers of abstraction that wasn't necessary to express ideas, at least initially. Work directly with the material.

The word practice is used to indicate a process, a non-binary state, a working towards something, a guiding oneself through the current moment. Other activities advance through directing the body, whereas meditation through directing the mind

[Ask questions before reading the book, perhaps by turning the headings into questions.]

[Explain it to yourself or someone else after, maybe publish your own summary online.]

Monday, August 17, 2020

Sunday, August 16, 2020

Friday, August 14, 2020

Let's talk about work stoppages, generally..

[General strikes work because various industries stopping at the same time lowers the GDP and creates pressure felt by those who fund politicians.]

[It is important to have community networks during a strike so that word spreads to everyone and that the actions are coordinated.]

Friday, August 7, 2020