sortakasten

sorta lika zettlekasten.

that's the vibe sublime gives me anyway, a public zettlekasten.

pick a related card, add your note, keep it moving.

The artist is distinguished from all other responsible actors in society — the politicians, legislators, educators, and scientists — by the fact that he is his own test tube, his own laboratory, working according to very rigorous rules, however unstated these may be, and cannot allow any consideration to supersede his responsibility to reveal all t

Maria Popova • James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society

notes/on notetaking, notemaking and research

> status: #notes #livedoc

book/ "How to Take Smart Notes. One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking"

be open in research

- confirmation bias harms more than helps

- when researching aim for \*any relevant\* info, indiscriminately

- especially if the source opposes yo

fleet/re: Metaverse; or How can you colonize the intangible?

Companies have been successfully working on this for two decades but when the prospect of "owning" land in the Metaverse surfaced— and was subsequently swallowed up by the few, it became immediately obvious what the playbook was:

You'll own nothing out here, and nothing in there.

It wa

Those responsible for the worst treatment of the world and its human occupants continue to do so because we don’t make things hard enough for them: a little hardship and directed hostility toward the rich is long, long overdue. At the same time, though, we know very well why such a mass uprising and tidal shift remains difficult. Those who most fee

Evan Calder Williams • Combined and Uneven Apocalypse

the darker implication of the malaise is the reality that it is all by design. a few hundred years ago certain powers aligned against the people. overloading from birth to the point that it is a luxury, a privilege, to even consider the state of the world. in thinking about all of this i can't help but drown in a kind of survivor's guilt mixed with impostor syndrome— i can(t help but) think about these things when, outside my window, there's someone that's negotiating with themselves on whether to feed themselves now or pay bill later. and somewhere, someone even more educated and in an even more privileged position considers the same for me.

but at some point up that ladder i want to hope someone with some weight will think about the rest of us all the way down and throw a wrench in the system that stacked us in a vertical maze to begin with.

It is an old compulsion to try to impose a narrative on our lives, especially when looking for meaning in our existence. But life does have a natural progression, a natural flow that Millennials ought to have simply participated in, and many feel it’s not flowing as it should.

Many felt there were certain things that should have fallen into place by... See more

Bride Jabour • ‘A late blooming into misery’: why Millennials are unhappy

amongst the reasons i've theorised, the ubiquity of media (specifically, nostalgia-driven and self-referential media), where no one seems to age or "mature”(whatever that means). the other side of the theory involves, of course, capitalism. the oppressive conditions that might lead us to turn inward, seek distraction and perform a "simpler” time perpetually— to willingly blind ourselves to the crippling realization that we grew into a world much more hostile than any previous generation had to face. i miss vine, btw. dab and all that.

Faced with a name like the Terrible Twenties, many people might point out that humans today are in some ways far better off than they’ve ever been: life expectancies are up, on the whole, compared with a century ago (though they dipped during the pandemic); extreme poverty has sharply declined. It seems possible, though, that both interpretations a

Kyle Chayka • The Terrible Twenties? The Assholocene? What to Call Our Chaotic Era

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