Tanuj
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Tanuj
- This means it’s really easy to get stuck. Stuck in your current way of seeing and thinking about things. Frames are made out of the details that seem important to you. The important details you haven’t noticed are invisible to you, and the details you have noticed seem completely obvious and you see right through them. This all makes makes it diffi... See more
from Reality has a surprising amount of detail by johnsalvatier.org
- And my philosophy of reading is that no-one reads quickly. So someone once asked me “How long did it take you to read that book?” And I said, “Fifty-seven years.” I’m fifty-seven years old. So the way you read well is just by reading a lot, and by reading a lot your whole life. And then when you go to read actual books you’re like “I know that, I k... See more
from Tyler Cowen on Reading Fast, Reading Well, and Reading Widely by Stuart Patience
- Consequently, in its idealized form the scientific method limits freedom of the will, while technology amplifies freedom of the will. Technology is by no means derived with certainty. It is the extremely particular result of someone’s will, based on rationalizing through the concrete and contingent circumstances of the world.
from What is Technology? — Letters to a Young Technologist by Saffron Huang
- Book is a format of different level that is good for presenting a whole system of knowledge.
from Future of the book. Manifesto of Bureau Gorbunov Publishing by Bureau Gorbunov
- Web3 Is Going Great is a project to track some examples of how things in the blockchains/crypto/web3 technology space aren't actually going as well as its proponents might like you to believe. The timeline tracks events in cryptocurrency and blockchain-based technologies, dating back to the beginning of 2021.
from Web3 is Going Just Great by Molly White
- You can tune an ITE to be exactly what you need it to be for particular kinds of knowledge work. With a few different plugins, templates, and automations, one ITE can be transformed into many different specialized tools.
from https://fulcra.design/Posts/Obsidian-Roam-and-the-rise-of-Integrated-Thinking-Environments/ by Ryan J A Murphy
- Products are easier to reason about when you think of them as functions. They transform an input situation into an output situation.This lets you describe what the product does as a transformation of the user's circumstance instead of a bundle of features.
from Ryan Singer: Products Are Functions by Ryan Singer
- Sound can communicate the quality of an action just as powerfully as any visuals.
from The World's Most Satisfying Checkbox by (Not Boring) Software Inc.
- Organizable. ITEs provide methods for managing thought structure and metadata, including classifying, tagging, summarizing, and visualizing collections of thoughts.
- Transformative. ITE apps provide methods for defining and refining thoughts, and providing ways of querying, combining, and referencing that thinking.
- Extensible. A rich feature set
... See morefrom https://fulcra.design/Posts/Obsidian-Roam-and-the-rise-of-Integrated-Thinking-Environments/ by Ryan J A Murphy