“But knowledge-building doesn’t work that way. And saving content into some archive doesn’t either. I’m guilty of this myself. Having used Evernote for a decade I was used to saving everything I wanted to remember into the tool. I sorted and curated, tagged, and sometimes even highlighted content. But I fell victim to the Collectors Fallacy. Because you collected something doesn’t mean you learned it or are able to explain it.”
https://decidingbetter.com/?p=1657
Zetttelblogging Combines Capture, Journaling, and Reference : https://decidingbetter.com/?p=1715
Getting Rid of the Consent Popup : https://www.rioki.org/2021/12/08/no-consent-popup.html
Please don’t use Discord for FOSS projects : https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS.html
Found this Hacker News thread useful, keeping it here for future reference . . .
“Ask HN: Been writing code for 40 years and can’t get hired”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29694739
“You can do all sorts of things that are fiendishly clever, then fall in love with them because they’re fiendishly clever, while overlooking the fact that they take a great deal more work to obtain results that stupid people get in half the time. As someone who has created a lot of fiendishly clever but ultimately useless techniques in his day, I’d say this sounds like an example.”
—Bruce Fraser
https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2021/12/a-quote-from-the-late-bruce-fraser-you-can-do-all-sorts-of-things-that-are-fiendishly-clever-then-fall-in-love-with-them-b.html
The Anti-Library :
Surfacing My Anti-Library : https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2021/02/surfacing-my-anti-library/
Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books : https://nesslabs.com/antilibrary
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” — Albert Camus.
https://www.protocol.com/matt-mullenweg
Re-Re-Reminder to myself of how much of society, or market share, one needs :
“Why is podcasting still open after over 20 years? Drumroll please. The answer: there are enough users who understand how it is supposed to work. They expect to be able to listen to any podcast anywhere they want.
Most probably don’t understand why they have this ability, about the history and technology design that made it possible, but they understand that they have the ability. And it doesn’t have to be all of them or even most of them, just enough of them, whatever that means.”
This “Enough” can be
The “Enough” needs to be a Critical Mass, in a “Tail Wagging The Dog”-like market share or society reality.
The size of the Critical Mass doesn’t need to be Enough,
It needs to be Just Enough.
Where Just can be 1% as observed by The 1/9/90 Rule.
The Power of a Link
https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/the-power-of-a-link/
https://www.bryanbraun.com/2020/10/03/the-power-of-a-link/
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