Rosano / Journal

Friday, August 7, 2020

Thursday, August 6, 2020

Sunday, August 2, 2020

Twelve Virtues of Rationality

Curiosity seeks to annihilate itself; there is no curiosity that does not want an answer.

[Surrender to the truth in the very moment you realize you are resisting.]

As your mind becomes more silent you hear more noise.

Friday, July 31, 2020

Saturday, July 25, 2020

Friday, July 24, 2020

Saturday, July 18, 2020

Nonfiction Writing Advice

[When making a complicated point, start with an example. When making a very complicated point, start with many examples.]

[Republicans don't really care about medical marijuana for its own sake: opposing it is a way to affirm membership in their tribe.]

[Trumps Law: when convincing people who are notoriously inconvincable, use tribal signals to sound like your one of them.]

[Bring up and diffuse counterarguments before your opponents.]

[When writing for a hostile audience, evaluate each sentence for how it sounds taken out of context so as to be prepared when someone eventually does this.]

Friday, July 17, 2020

I don't need to wait for the right moment or be in a special position. Bringing myself to a state is itself the process. I can always pause, reflect, observe.

Saturday, July 11, 2020

[Use municipal infrastructure, like libraries, as hosts for technological infrastructure and points of access to federated systems.]

[Go together through every single feature and every button that can be pressed.]

[Welcome new people to the social media instance as you would at your house party: saying a few words about them, introduce them to everyone.]

[Convincing individuals to switch is nearly impossible because of network effects. Bring the whole community over instead: this way they already know many people.]

Friday, July 10, 2020

Being result-oriented puts value on finishing, and so everything not 'finished' accumulates more dissatisfaction and stress. Being process-oriented puts value on movement, and so every opportunity, even the smallest one, is cause to celebrate.

Finishing is binary.

Monday, July 6, 2020

The passage of time affords reflection, which can decrease the likelihood of following through on bad ideas.

Friday, July 3, 2020

Esa noche, en la cena, el supuesto Aureliano Segundo desmigajó el pan con la mano derecha y comó la sopa con la izquierda. Su hermano gemelo, el supuesto José Arcadio Segundo, desmigajó el pan con la mano izquierda y tomó la sopa con la derecha. Era tan precisa la coordinación de sus movimientos que no parecían dos hermanos sentados el uno frente al otro, sino un artificio de espejos.

Part of: Gabriel García Márquez: Cien años de soledad.

Monday, June 29, 2020

To say "I could be enjoying the surprise but instead I regret that its over" versus "I regret that its over but I could be enjoying the surprise".

Sunday, June 28, 2020

In the same way you can say 'Never stop listening to the language, bring yourself back' you can say 'Keep listening to what your body wants, Always be centered in the body, Follow it where it wants to go, See what it feels like doing'

Friday, June 26, 2020

Planting seeds implies working in many contexts, being patient, not sitting awaiting leaves to spawn. It's about putting things out and forgetting, moving on, allowing yourself to be surprised.

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Sunday, June 21, 2020

When it seems like the finite resources are burning slowly and the infinite resources are expanding quickly.

Friday, June 19, 2020

Thursday, June 18, 2020

[Complex questions bind information to a network of ideas rather than isolated facts. This improves memory by creating a multitude of connections between ideas.]

[Complex questions encourage problem-solving skills such as goal decomposition.]

[A teacher's role in question-driven instruction is not to impart knowledge but to help students construct knowledge themselves by seeking, evaluating, and integrating different sources of information. The teacher can model best practices without stealing the students' opportunity to engage in them.]

[Good teachers ask good questions at the right time.]

Stimulating curiosity has an aspect of listening, timing, rhythm, performance, music.

[Self-explainers generate inferences that fill missing information and connect to their own knowledge.]

[Ineffective readers take no time to interpret the text: they merely paraphrase or re-read and are learning instead of learning from.]

[Good self-explainers continuously monitor their comprehension and test whether they can explain how something fits into the larger picture.]

[How does this fit what I know and what I have read so far?]

[1) use your own words. 2) focus on how and why instead of what/where/when 3) connect incoming ideas to prior knowledge.]

[How are X and Y similar? What would happen if…? How does X connect to Z which I learned before?]

[A good questions relies on an integrated model rather than disparate facts.]

Part of: Daniel Schwartz, Jessica Tsang, Kristen Blair: The ABCs of How We Learn.

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

[At the Armadillo Technical Institute, students rotate responsibilities for cleaning the school while professional staff handle more dangerous or difficult tasks. The students ended up creating a culture of keeping the school clean.]

[The teacher asking a question to the class and evaluates their input with a brief 'yes, good, not quite' response is setting a norm that learning is about providing an approved answer.]

Part of: Daniel Schwartz, Jessica Tsang, Kristen Blair: The ABCs of How We Learn.