Rishita Chaudhary

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

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Are you optimistic about the future?

I am optimistic about my willingness to show up for it with the best I’ve got.

And salve it we must, yet there is no damnation greater than spending our allotted days in the catatonia of comfort and certainty, our inner lives automated by habit and halogen lit by convenience. To try to save ourselves from the despair by which we contour hope, to spare ourselves the fertile doubt and the gasps of self-surprise by which we... See more

It went where it always goes — into the totality of her person. We make everything we make with everything we are, everything we have touched that has touched us back in that tender and terrifying contact with life we call experience.

Rückkehrunruhe n. the feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness—to the extent you have to keep reminding yourself that it happened at all, even though it felt so vivid just days ago— which makes you wish you could smoothly cross-dissolve back into everyday life, or just hold the shutter

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