Chad Aaron Hall
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Chad Aaron Hall
readordieaslave.substack.com
Don’t exercise to be thin. Exercise to be strong.
Annie Macmanus • Life Lessons From a 44 Year Old.
In both, many people value the output (product) more highly than the process of getting to the output. That’s a mistake. Often, the process has as much (and in the case of PKM, more) value than the final product. Let’s examine how this applies to each discipline.
The point of personal knowledge management isn’t capturing and managing information;... See more
The point of personal knowledge management isn’t capturing and managing information;... See more
Reconsidering the Role of AI: Valuing Process Over Output
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican, launched a bold occupational licensing reform effort during his annual budget address on Tuesday by promising to sign legislation that broadly recognizes occupational licenses issued by other states.
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For one, anonymity, or at least pseudonymity, is increasingly important if not fundamental to being active online in counter-hegemonic ways.
Caroline Busta • The Internet Didn’t Kill Counterculture—you Just Won’t Find It on Instagram
“ You want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you,”
Madeleine L’Engle counseled in her
advice to aspiring writers
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Madeleine L’Engle counseled in her
advice to aspiring writers
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Maria Popova • Celebrated Writers on the Creative Benefits of Keeping a Diary
Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by Ted Orland, David Bayles
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Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952 (Texas Pan American Series)
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writing as thinking or writing to understand
Borges names his essays as “inquisitions.” He is less concerned with presenting a belief and more concerned with pondering and conjecture.
for example: in “The Wall and the Books” his writing is essential guessing at the possible reasons the Shih Huang Ti ordered the building of The Great Wall and the burning of all books published before his time.
Can you imagine how your view of the world might change if you spent your time online in a place optimized for reading what you care most about, rather than just endless scrolling? What would it feel like to check a feed that’s trying to catch you up on what you deeply value rather than keeping you feeling anxious, angry, and alone?
Chris Best • An Algorithm for Quality
Slow Media are not a contradiction to the speed and simultaneousness of Twitter, Blogs or Social Networks but are an attitude and a way of making use of them.