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Normally I would be having a peaty single malt Scotch, but since I’m reading Graeber’s Pirate Enlightenment, I feel obligated to work on a bottle of white rum tonight. 📖🏴☠️🥃
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Someone has sent a View-Master in the post, and I can’t help but think that this is how I would love to do daily reviews of my notes via spaced repetition. How do I turn them into reels?!
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Yesterday’s progress on the 4 drawer Shaw-Walker filing cabinet. I’ve emptied the drawers and removed them along with the rollers and hardware. I’ve also stripped all the original paint and a...
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This paper by Jason Lustig on Gotthard Deutsch’s #zettelkasten was fascinating: While there’s an implication that its use didn’t make him as productive (from a writing perspective) as Niklas Luhmann or...
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A fascinating combination of office furniture types in 1906! The Adjustable Table Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan manufactured a combination table for both telephones and index cards. It was...
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In Chapter 1: American Exceptionalism of Myth America (Basic Books, 2023) historian David A. Bell indicates that Jay Lovestone and Joseph Stalin originated the idea of American exceptionalism in 1920,...
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Finally a physical zettelkasten box for your sharpest and most dangerous ideas!
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I love that the image on Old Hat Records for “Research & History” is a six drawer card index! #zettelkasten
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While looking at a #zettelkasten on Ancient Egyptian, I just ran across an actively maintained scholarly zettelkasten with over 10 million individual slips!!! One of the largest sub-sectional topics...
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Is anyone annotating the indictment against Trump using Hypothes.is? The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump, No. IND-71543-23 (New York Supreme Court, County of New York March 31, 2023).
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Zettelkasten for Dogs. Seen in the wild: An actively functioning card index (zettelkasten) used to manage a local dog grooming business.
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Check-in in time for the local #zettelkasten conference at a nearby mall?! People picking up their t-shirts and signing up, presumably to learn about bibcards and zettelkasten numbering systems!...
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A lot of discussion in the Zettelkasten space has taken place on the debate between digital and analog with handwriting being the default analog option. Why not split some of the differences and opt...
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If you use 5 x 8 inch index cards and are looking to upgrade your filing storage, this restored quartersawn oak #zettelkasten / card index file on eBay is a real beauty. I’m mentioning it because...
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I’ve decided it’s time to up my pastry 🥐 and bread 🍞 game, and I’ve found some local Los Angeles suppliers for whole grain. Anyone with experience have recommendations for their favorite grain mills?
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Acquired a copy of the Library of America’s Octavia Butler volume containing Kindred, Fledgling, and her Collected stories. While I hope to read chunks of it over the summer in Butler’s childhood...
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I finished watching Wondrium’s spectacular The Banjo: Music, History, and Heritage over the weekend. While looking up future tour dates for Rhiannon Giddens, I notice she’s just won a Pulitzer and will...
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But lo! men have become the tools of their tools. The man who independently plucked the fruits when he was hungry is become a farmer; and he who stood under a tree for shelter, a housekeeper. —Henry...
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Hugh McLeod’s original cartoon of Information vs Knowledge which was later extended by David Somerville is actually a very solid representation of much of what many sensemaking workflows look like...
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