PKM thoughts
Culture is moving from productivity to creativity: I think there will likely be a pushback against AI slop by some members of the populace. AI makes content cheaper to create, but users will need new tools to help them build a sense of taste, of knowing what to create
Evan Armstrong • What’s the Bet: Sublime
Zie ook Rip: A Remix Manifesto uit begindagen social web, Napster etc
Can a tool that treats notes as creative fuel (not storage) turn every saved idea into a potential starting point for discovery and creation?
What’s the Bet: Sublime
Kern: Notes als creatieve brandstof in plaats van opslag
Writing a diary made me happier; keeping things-to-do lists made me more reliable (which, in turn, made those around me happier), and I learned never to go to a doctor’s appointment, or a meeting of any kind, without taking notes of what I heard. But there appeared to be creative benefits too. Every artist I met seemed to have a sketchbook to hand,... See more
Roland Allen • Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era
“Better note-taking” misses the point; what matters is “better thinking”
Lots of people write about solutions to the problem that Note-writing practices are generally ineffective. The vast majority of that writing fixates on a myopic, “lifehacking”-type frame, focused on answering questions like: “how should I organize my notes?”, “what kind of... See more
Lots of people write about solutions to the problem that Note-writing practices are generally ineffective. The vast majority of that writing fixates on a myopic, “lifehacking”-type frame, focused on answering questions like: “how should I organize my notes?”, “what kind of... See more
Andy • §Note-writing systems
One: You have to train yourself to notice things. It's not 100% natural at first – it certainly wasn’t for me – but raising those antennae is a very worthwhile thing to do. And it snowballs: once I got started taking notes, I ended up taking more and more of them.
Two: Be very liberal about what you keep. If you're going through your notes, cross... See more
Two: Be very liberal about what you keep. If you're going through your notes, cross... See more
Robin Sloan • Tasting Notes With Robin Sloan
As Stewart Brand pointed out, in what would soon become a famous formulation, information-based products embodied an economic paradox. "On the one hand," he said, "information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the
... See moreFred Turner • From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Like the hyperlinked texts of Engelbart's system, the Whole Earth Catalog presented its readers with a system of connections. In the Catalog, no text stood apart from every other; each was part of an informational or social system, and each offered a doorway through which the reader could enter one of those systems.
Fred Turner • From Counterculture to Cyberculture
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