Kasturi Kiri
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Kasturi Kiri
Computer Science in the 1960s to 80s spent a lot of effort making languages which were as powerful as possible. Nowadays we have to appreciate the reasons for picking not the most powerful solution but the least powerful. The reason for this is that the less powerful the language, the more you can do with the data stored in that language . If you w... See more
Al Khan • How to Take Smart Notes (A Beginner's Guide)
archival as lifestyle and organisation
The simpler the idea, the more potential it has
Instead of 'telescoping', how about 'kaleidoscope-ing' here, i.e. "To move in shifting (and often attractive or colourful) patterns." - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kaleidoscope
Adding shapes, spotting connections, meanings shifting as patterning and re-patterning continues through shapes being organised and connected in different ways. Like that ... See more
Adding shapes, spotting connections, meanings shifting as patterning and re-patterning continues through shapes being organised and connected in different ways. Like that ... See more
Kaleidoscoping vs telescoping | Are.na
Researchers & archivists build up a network of every-shifting ideas and meanings.
This process of exploring shifting patterns feels like looking through a kaleidoscope.
“At least, I'm the kind of person who when it comes to, say, something like language or just communicating on a daily basis, I feel like I'm trying to put an ocean through a straw.”
― Björk
― Björk
Björk Quotes (Author of Stories for Kids Who Dare to Be Different)
Communicating is difficult
Most of the time, “What should I do with my life?” is a terrible question. “What should I do with this tennis serve?” “What should I do with this line at Starbucks?” “What should I do with this traffic jam?” “How should I respond to the anger I feel welling up in my chest?” These are better questions. Excellence is the next five minutes, improvemen
... See moreTimothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
No memory is ever alone; it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
Kevin Horsley • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
A memory is not a singular event, but a trail of associations.
“The concept of the sacred and the archival is being lost because of the novel environment of the internet.”
-Eric Weinstein
The inundation of information on the internet means meaningful ideas get lost.
Gathering is the tender and thoughtful collection of goods for your kin, and a moment for reunion, for celebration, and for introspection around those goods.
Mindy Seu • On Gathering
Readers don’t have short attention spans—they have short enchantment spans .
Celine Nguyen • in praise of writing on the internet
In 1817, the poet John Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization. “At once it struck me,” Keats wrote, “what quality went to form a Man of Achievement … Negative Capability.” Keats explains that “Negative Capability” is “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching ... See more