r/socialism reading list - go through this

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An incredibly short, but dense essay on annotating books, but one which doesn't go into the same sort of detail as he gets in his book length treatment in How to Read a Book.

Missing here is the social aspect of annotating a book. In fact, he actively recommends against loaning one's annotated books for fear of losing the details and value in them.

https://lindylearn.substack.com/p/lindylearn-reflections-roadmap-and

Some interesting ideas to watch here.

I remember a Twitter app service that was built around Twitter lists that I was an early user of, but I'm not able to find it now. I'm not sure if it's even still around after Twitter killed off a lot of their API access years ago.

https://lindylearn.substack.com/p/lindylearn-feed-beta

https://xkcd.com/2566/

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1479163197798027267.html

From Twitter, starting with https://twitter.com/thephilosotroll/status/1479163197798027267

https://www.goedel.io/p/tft-performance-logseq

https://www.goedel.io/p/tft-performance-roam-research

https://www.goedel.io/p/tft-performance-obsidian

https://pauljacobson.me/2022/01/11/learning-vim/

Thanks for this Paul. I've heard the learning curve is relatively steep as well. It certainly helps to have some clear and useful tutorials, so thanks for sharing the best of what you've found. Maybe I'll make the same jump you've done as it's always something I've wanted to tinker around with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Morris-Jones

https://roam.elaptics.co.uk/posts/lfr-letters-from-a-roaman-letter-XXXIV

https://soatok.blog/2022/01/12/dont-dunk-the-gunk/

Clever way of making the internet a nicer place.

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/reminders-in-obsidian/8850

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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'> Alexander Wang </span> in Alexander Wang on Twitter: "After discovering the idea of "A Meta-Layer for Notes" (https://t.co/EioyyptzCb), I started to try reading in this way ↓. https://t.co/lOhRyeytXZ" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>01/11/2022 09:15:59</time>)</cite></small>

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-hut-where-the-internet-began/277551/

Original paper that became The Atlantic article As We May Think (1945).

https://notebook.wesleyac.com/how-to-pirate-ebooks/

http://www.focaalblog.com/2021/12/22/chris-knight-wrong-about-almost-everything/

Chris Knight is a senior research fellow in anthropology at University College London, where he forms part of a team researching the origins of our species in Africa. His books include Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture (1991) and Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics (2016).

Another apparent refutation of Graeber and Wengrow.

https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-flawed-history-of-humanity

David A. Bell teaches history at Princeton and is the author, most recently, of Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020).

Critique of Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything

Where is he right? Wrong? How does this dovetail with the evidence within the book?

https://www.thenational.scot/news/19494171.major-web-browser-first-available-scots-language/

https://www.thenational.scot/news/19808278.eemis-stane-new-magazine-giving-scots-outlet-write-language/

https://web.archive.org/web/20210628030444/https://marak.com/blog/2021-04-25-monetizing-open-source-is-problematic

Read in relation to marak being kicked off of Github today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/09/opinion/culture/jeremy-strong-new-yorker-careerist-striver.html

https://jon.bo/posts/can-blogging-be-simple/

Syndicated copy: https://twitter.com/jondotbo/status/1475581785874612234

Has some hint of the IndieWeb space here. My first thought is of micro.blog---for a reasonable subscription price it's relatively easy for folks to get started and allow customization and flexibility if they want/need it.

It also tries to meet users where they're at, so if you've already got a site you can still participate and it can provide services one may not want to self-host like a social reader, webmentions, micropub, etc.

To encourage people to write its UI starts out with short Twitter like notes, and if you keep writing, it provides you with a "title" field to turn a post into an article.

https://snarfed.org/2022-01-08_happy-10th-birthday-bridgy

Congratulations Ryan! Thanks so much for all your work on Brid.gy and for/on behalf of the bigger community. I'm sending my reply directly from my own website to underline some of your point, but I'm going to have send a like using Twitter with hopes that it feels some of the love as well. 😁

Thanks again!

https://www.writersdigest.com/publishing-insights/how-much-should-writers-charge-per-word-or-per-project

https://eleanorkonik.com/its-not-just-a-pretty-gimmick-in-defense-of-obsidians-graph-view/

https://eleanorkonik.com/obsidian-replaced-games-now-prolific/

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Medicine-meets-emotion-UCSF-COVID-expert-shares-16760310.php

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https://nesslabs.com/interstitial-journaling

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https://maya.land/responses/2021/09/17/altweb-indieweb-squabble.html

This week on soap operas in the small web....

https://maya.land/monologues/2021/09/21/illegal-fox-picture.html

https://maya.land/responses/2021/12/20/333-covers-last-christmas.html

Oh dear!

https://maya.land/latin/

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-01-06/elmo-rocko-video-viral-twitter-sesame-street

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/06/peter-bogdanovich-dies-acclaimed-writer-director

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/02/johann-hari-interview-drugs-book-independent

https://anaulin.org/blog/book-notes-how-to-take-smart-notes/

A brief book review of Sönke Ahrens' How to Take Smart Notes with highlights.

https://t73f.de/blog/2020/zettelkasten/

Sounds like Detlef Stern actually saw the Marbach exhibition on "Machines of the imagination".

He's also got a fairly large list of software that is commonly used to create a digital zettelkasten.

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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1477714767854850049.html

original thread: https://twitter.com/garwboy/status/1478003120483577859?s=20

This takes a part Johann Hari's Guardian article Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen, but it does so mostly from a story/narrative perspective. Burnett is taking the story as a science article (it was labeled "psychology") when it's really more of a personal experience story with some nods to science.

Sadly the story works more on the emotional side than the scientific side. It would be nice to have a more straightforward review of some of the actual science literature with some of the pros/cons laid out to make a better decision.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/02/attention-span-focus-screens-apps-smartphones-social-media

Thread from neuroscientist refutation of portions of this article:

https://twitter.com/garwboy/status/1477714767854850049

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jan/05/text-appeal-ceefax-recreated-by-20-year-old-northern-irish-man

https://hypertext.monster/2021/07/17/no-social-media.html

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https://pimoore.ca/2022/01/05/on-quitting-social.html

http://cdevroe.com/2022/01/05/bye-social-media/

A reference here to https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/02/attention-span-focus-screens-apps-smartphones-social-media which I'd bookmarked to read later today.

https://www.manton.org/2022/01/05/ive-updated-microblogs.html

I've been waiting to see plugins appear for micro.blog!

https://www.noemamag.com/the-other-invisible-hand/?utm_source=indieweb&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=indieweb

Raw capitalism mimics the logic of cancer within our body politic.

Folks who have been reading David Wengrow and David Graeber's The Dawn of Everything are sure to appreciate the sentiment here which pulls in the ideas of biology and evolution to expand on their account and makes it a much more big history sort of thesis.

Human ultrasociality and the invisible hand: foundational developments in evolutionary science alter a foundational concept in economics

December 2014

Journal of Bioeconomics 17(1)

DOI: 10.1007/s10818-014-9192-x

by David Sloan Wilson and John Malcolm Gowdy

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269637211_Human_ultrasociality_and_the_invisible_hand_foundational_developments_in_evolutionary_science_alter_a_foundational_concept_in_economics

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Jag Bhalla</span> in The Other Invisible Hand - NOEMA (<time class='dt-published'>01/05/2022 12:12:29</time>)</cite></small>

Cross reference: https://hyp.is/g3DHAm5jEey8o3NhnLbsew/www.noemamag.com/the-other-invisible-hand

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/style/chaste-marriage-church.html

“It was what we had to do to be together. It wasn’t so bad.”

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/david-graeber-dawn-of-everything.html

https://cogdogblog.com/2022/01/could-not-stop/

https://jamesg.blog/2022/01/04/simple-taxonomies/

Keeping things simple is a useful thing, particularly when there aren't any consuming applications that use that sort of complexity. A simple note with some tags can be incredibly versatile.

https://cogdogblog.com/2021/12/claiming-reclaiming-pbwiki/

https://diggingthedigital.com/een-alternatief-voor-post-kinds/

I know some of your pains Frank. I do wish that someone might come along and help David Shanske convert the plugin for Gutenberg use.

The thing I love the most is that the plugin does its best to provide excellent reply contexts.

https://www.ft.com/content/83a14261-598d-4601-87fc-5dde528b33d0

https://darntough.com/blogs/the-alternate-stitch/how-to-wash-merino-wool-socks

https://danallosso.substack.com/p/maps-of-content

https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/critique-of-zettelksten.html

archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20201021193157/https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/critique-of-zettelksten.html

Manfred Kuehn looks at Karl Kraus' criticism of the idea of a zettelkasten as a tool which can be misused.

Of course this begs the question of what one is using their index card catalog for? Are you using it as a rhetorical thinking and creation device or simply a second memory?

We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us. —Winston Churchill

Life imitates art. We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us. — John M. Culkin, “A Schoolman’s Guide to Marshall McLuhan” (The Saturday Review, March 1967) (Culkin was a friend and colleague of Marshall McLuhan)

Seneca on Gathering Ideas by Manfred Kuehn on Monday, December 24, 2007 https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/seneca-on-gathering-ideas.html

archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20201021191724/https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/seneca-on-gathering-ideas.html

A quick look at how some of the ancient ideas of rhetoric may affect one's note taking and thinking. I love that this is one of his first posts on a blog on note taking. Too many miss this history.r

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1307111816250748933.html

https://tim.blog/2007/12/05/how-to-take-notes-like-an-alpha-geek-plus-my-2600-date-challenge/

Tim Ferriss discuses some of his take on his note taking process. Nothing new or interesting here, though he seems to focus more on to do lists and follow up material for productivity purposes rather than remembering or connecting details after-the-fact and in the long term.

He does outline and highly recommend having an index, but his version has a quirk of number pages as 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5 instead of a more straightforward whole number system. Presumably this save the time and effort of putting a number on each page, though one could just number either the even or odd pages this way if necessary and presume the missing numbers.

Nothing really mind bending here.

https://web.archive.org/web/20081030052305/http://www.solutionwatch.com/368/fifty-ways-to-take-notes/

Mostly an historical list of online tools for note taking.

No discussion of actual functionality or usefulness. Sounds more like for making to do lists and passing notes rather than long term knowledge management and upkeep. Nothing about the benefits of centralizing data in one place.

meh...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/14/business/media/ankler-janice-min-richard-rushfield.html

https://theankler.com/p/hello-ankler-family-from-janice-min

https://theankler.com/p/michael-wolff-on-random-houses-cancelation

https://infocult.typepad.com/infocult/2020/09/a-book-which-kills.html

A short piece about the book Shadows from the Walls of Death by R. C. Kedzie to highlight arsenic in wallpaper.

Future Reading: Digitization and its discontents. By Anthony Grafton October 29, 2007 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/11/05/future-reading

https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/luhmann-on-learning-how-to-read.html

archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20201021193426/https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/luhmann-on-learning-how-to-read.html

Nothing notable here...

https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/grafton-on-future-of-reading.html

archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20200925225654/https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/grafton-on-future-of-reading.html

https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/planning-for-unexpected-discoveries.html

archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20201021185408/https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/planning-for-unexpected-discoveries.html

Manfred Keuhn reflects on serendipity in note taking and how Niklas Luhmann's system helped to produce it.

This general thesis is similar to that of Raymond Llull's combinatorial thought which forces the juxtaposition of disparate ideas to shake out new ones.

Neo Alphasmart by Manfred Keuhn https://web.archive.org/web/20201021190716/https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/neo-alphasmart.html

St. Bonaventura on "Making Books"

https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/st-bonaventura-on-making-books.html

archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20201021200415/https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/st-bonaventura-on-making-books.html

https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/faithful-electronic-version-of-luhmanns.html

archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20201021194758/https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/faithful-electronic-version-of-luhmanns.html

What we Remember by Manfred Kuehn https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/

archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20201021192005/https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/

Dutch psychologist Wilem Wagenaar conducted memory related experiments on recollecting what, where, who, and when for the most interesting experiences of his days. It turned out that the "What?" was most useful followed by where? and who?, but that "when?" was "useless in every instance".

p.116 of Stefan Klein, The Secret Pulse of Time: Making Sense of Life's Scarcest Commodity, Marlowe & Company, 2007, New York.

Despite this, timestamps might serve other functions within a note taking system. The might include conceiving of ideas, temporal order of ideas presented, etc.

https://getpocket.com/collections/a-guide-to-the-great-resignation

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/20/can-distraction-free-devices-change-the-way-we-write

A surface look at writing and writing interfaces, but one which misses part of the point of what writing tools should facilitate. Perhaps there's a different mode of creative writing that Julian's getting at and mentions tangentially, but I feel that given the context of non-fiction writing, it's missing the boat. My framing of non-fiction writing also meshes into the creative versions as well.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/20/can-distraction-free-devices-change-the-way-we-write

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Aaron Davis </span> in 📑 Can “Distraction-Free” Devices Change the Way We Write? | Read Write Collect (<time class='dt-published'>12/27/2021 14:09:33</time>)</cite></small>

https://luhmann.surge.sh/learning-how-to-read

Learning How to Read by Niklas Luhmann

Not as dense as Mortimer J. Adler's advice, but differentiates reading technical material versus poetry and novels. Moves to the topic of some of the value of note taking as a means of progressive summarization which may have implications for better remembering material.

https://luhmann.surge.sh/communicating-with-slip-boxes Communicating with Slip Boxes: An Empirical Account by Niklas Luhmann (transl. Manfred Kuehn)

https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/interlinking-wikis

https://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/134228/reid-byers/private-library-the-history-of-the-architecture-and-furnishing-of-the-domestic-bookroom-the

THE PRIVATE LIBRARY: THE HISTORY OF THE ARCHITECTURE AND FURNISHING OF THE DOMESTIC BOOKROOM. Byers, Reid.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2021. 7 x 10 inches cloth with dust jacket xii, 540 pages ISBN: 9781584563884

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/24/realestate/why-do-people-keep-books.html

Two Iron Laws of College Reading https://crookedtimber.org/2021/12/22/two-iron-laws-of-college-reading/

Hiding in Plain Sight: Democracy’s indigenous origins in the Americas by David Graeber and David Wengrow in Lapham's Quarterly https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/democracy/hiding-plain-sight

https://crookedtimber.org/2021/12/17/the-dawn-of-everything-part-2/

Not as solid as the opening of her review, or much of a review so much as a brief summary of the broad take-aways of the book.