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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 your main argument or
... See moreAs awful as these events have been, I am no longer struck by their horror. They all seem to be the near-inevitable, direct effects of how we are running our political economies. I am more struck by our slow ability to react.
Spencer R. Scott • End the Horror, Let the Crisis Change You
"E. L. Doctorow once said that “writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” You don’t have to see where you’re going, you don’t have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This... See more
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
⌛️ Wed, Feb 26
"everyone's a little autistic" can be a trigger phrase for a lot of autistic people; it undermines or outright invalidates their lived experience.
yet the punchline is that some accomodations made by and for autistic+neurodivergent people can be and have been proven to be beneficial to allistic+neurotypical people as well.
so, from
... See moreOnly silence enables us to say something unheard of. The compulsion of communication, by contrast, leads to the reproduction of the same, to conformism:
So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop
Byung-Chal Han • Vita Contemplativa
The poet proves that language is inadequate by throwing herself at the fence of language and being bound by it.