the lie at the core of pkm

no system will save you from the hard work of sitting with the unknown

by Alex Dobrenko and · updated 3mo ago

The problem is, as achievement-subjects, not only do we burn ourselves out, but the meaning and value of our lives is always deferred. Once we have our dream job, the perfect home, a perfectly optimised life – once we are productive enough, efficient enough, successful enough – only then will we arrive at meaning. But just like the fruit that elude... See more
from The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play by Alec Stubbs
Alex Dobrenko added 6mo ago
That impulse to scour away the messiness that makes life resilient is what many conservation biologists call the “pathology of command and control.” Today, the same drive to centralize, control and extract has driven the internet to the same fate as the ravaged forests.
from We Need to Rewild the Internet by Maria Farrell
Alex Dobrenko added 5mo ago
breadcrumb thinking
7 cards · by Alex Dobrenko
Alex Dobrenko added 5mo ago
This is the messy backyard with forking paths. I plant cool stuff here without worrying about organizing it.
from Jake Weber's Website
Alex Dobrenko added 6mo ago
now this right here I like ! the chaos. “without worrying about it”
why curation is important
159 cards · by sari and
Alex Dobrenko added 6mo ago
Tl;dr: I think personal knowledge management, in many cases, is a fruitless effort and there are generally only very few cases (see above) in which note taking actually makes sense.
from r/ObsidianMD - Reddit
Alex Dobrenko added 6mo ago
It took him forty years to formulate, but in the 1960s, Richardson finally found a model for this uncertainty; a paradox that neatly summarises the existential problem of computational thinking. While working on the ‘Statistics of Deadly Quarrels’, an early attempt at the scientific analysis of conflict, he set out to find a correlation between the
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from New Dark Age by James Bridle
Andreas Vlach added 6mo ago
you can't just collect information to feel creatively and

intellectually alive you need to build a relationship with your gut you need to understand what is worth keeping what is my intention what what do I want to get out of this
from How I Build My Personal Knowledge Library W Sari Azout by Sublime
Andreas Vlach added 6mo ago
I am going to make the argument that the predominant form of the social web — that amalgam of blogging, Twitter, Facebook, forums, Reddit, Instagram — is an impoverished model for learning and research and that our survival as a species depends on us getting past the sweet, salty fat of “the web as conversation” and on to something more timeless, i... See more
from The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral by Mike Caufield
Alex Dobrenko added 6mo ago
Data vs Intuition
35 cards · by sari and
Andreas Vlach and added 6mo ago

from The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play by Alec Stubbs

from We Need to Rewild the Internet by Maria Farrell

breadcrumb thinking

from Jake Weber's Website

why curation is important

from r/ObsidianMD - Reddit

from New Dark Age by James Bridle

from How I Build My Personal Knowledge Library W Sari Azout by Sublime

from The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral by Mike Caufield

Data vs Intuition