The issue for many people isn’t the technology itself (though there are many ethical issues in how it was trained). The issue is the stupid state of our capitalist system, and the weird way companies are trying to force it down everyone’s throats.
作者提出了一个非共识观点，认为LLM技术本身并不是问题，而是资本主义体系的问题以及公司如何强制推广这项技术。
The agent interprets new information and adapts the logic. The engine applies that logic continuously and emits precise updates.
大多数人认为AI代理应该完全负责从数据收集到决策执行的整个流程。但作者提出颠覆性的观点：AI应该专注于逻辑解释和适应，而将执行和持续评估交给专门的数据库引擎。这种分工模式挑战了当前AI代理应该全能化的主流认知。
Agents and CDC streams are powerful together because they split the work well.
大多数人可能认为AI代理应该独立完成所有任务，包括数据获取和处理。但作者提出反直觉的分工模式：AI专注于逻辑解释和适应，而数据库引擎专注于持续评估和精确更新。这种分工挑战了当前AI代理应该端到端处理所有任务的主流观点。
The agent interprets new information and adapts the logic. The engine applies that logic continuously and emits precise updates.
大多数人认为AI代理应该具备自主决策和执行能力。但作者提出了一种反直觉的分工模式：AI代理负责策略和逻辑调整，而执行引擎负责持续应用这些逻辑。这种模式将AI从'执行者'重新定位为'策略制定者'，挑战了AI自主性的主流认知。
We believe this is what drove the separate reports of usage limits draining faster than expected.
大多数人会直接将API使用量异常归因于用户行为或模型本身，但作者揭示了一个技术实现细节（缓存bug）如何间接导致使用量异常。这挑战了常规问题归因逻辑，展示了系统组件间的意外互动如何产生看似无关的问题表象。
Two unrelated experiments made it challenging for us to reproduce the issue at first: an internal-only server-side experiment related to message queuing; and an orthogonal change in how we display thinking suppressed this bug in most CLI sessions
大多数人认为复杂的系统测试流程应该能够发现大多数关键缺陷，但作者展示了即使有多重测试机制，两个看似无关的实验如何协同掩盖了一个严重bug。这挑战了'全面测试能保证产品质量'的传统认知，揭示了系统复杂性带来的意外风险。
The DESIGN.md format is at version `alpha`. The spec, token schema, and CLI are under active development. Expect changes to the format as it matures.
大多数人期望成熟的设计系统规范应该是稳定和向后兼容的。但作者明确表示DESIGN.md仍处于alpha阶段并预期会有重大变化，这挑战了设计系统应该高度稳定的主流认知，表明创新性工具可以采用更灵活的演进路径。
However, existing agent protocols (e.g., A2A and MCP) under specify cross entity lifecycle and context management, version tracking, and evolution safe update interfaces, which encourages monolithic compositions and brittle glue code.
大多数人认为当前的智能体协议已经足够完善，能够有效管理复杂的AI系统。但作者认为现有协议存在严重不足，特别是在实体生命周期、上下文管理和版本控制方面，这会导致系统变得脆弱和难以维护。这是一个挑战行业共识的观点，因为许多研究者可能认为现有框架已经能够处理这些挑战。
Claude Opus 4.7 is a meaningful step up for Warp. Opus 4.6 is one of the best models out there for developers, and this model is measurably more thorough on top of that. It passed Terminal Bench tasks that prior Claude models had failed
在终端任务基准测试中取得突破，解决了前代模型无法处理的任务，这表明AI在系统级理解和执行能力上的重大进步，这种进步将极大提升AI在开发工作流中的实用价值。
Claude Opus 4.7 passed three TBench tasks that prior Claude models couldn't, and it's landing fixes our previous best model missed, including a race condition.
解决前代模型无法处理的并发条件(race condition)问题，展示了AI在系统级理解上的深度提升，这种对复杂系统行为的理解能力是AI从代码生成向系统架构设计转变的关键标志。
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这句话看似简单，实则揭示了现代网络架构的脆弱性—整个平台功能依赖于单一技术组件。这种单点故障风险与平台宣称的'可靠性'形成鲜明对比，暗示了数字基础设施的潜在不稳定性。
The output is technically a UI, but it's nobody's design system.
这一观察揭示了AI生成设计与实际设计系统之间的根本差异。虽然AI可以生成技术上有效的UI界面，但这些设计缺乏与特定设计系统的连贯性和一致性，导致设计师不得不丢弃这些生成内容重新开始。这表明当前AI设计工具在理解和应用设计语言方面的局限性。
We had a budget alert (€80) and a cost anomaly alert, both of which triggered with a delay of a few hours
预算和异常成本警报的延迟触发暴露了当前AI服务监控系统的重大缺陷，在成本失控后才通知用户，这种反应速度对于高价值AI服务来说显然不足，需要更实时和智能的监控系统。
The variance is also worth noting: baseline+FA TG has ±19 t/s of noise, while optimized+FA has ±0.59 t/s on x86. The fusions eliminate intermediate writes that pollute the cache, making the hot paths more predictable.
这一数据揭示了优化的一个意外但重要的好处：不仅提高了性能，还显著降低了结果变异性。这表明通过减少缓存污染和内存访问模式的不确定性，优化可以使系统行为更加可预测。这一发现对构建可靠的高性能系统具有重要意义，强调了优化的一致性而不仅仅是峰值性能。
A 606 MiB model at ~49 tokens/s consumes ~30 GB/s of memory bandwidth, close to the c6i.2xlarge's DRAM limit. No amount of SIMD tricks will help when the CPU is stalled waiting for model weights to arrive from DRAM.
这一数据揭示了现代CPU推理的关键瓶颈：内存带宽限制。代理最初尝试的SIMD微优化无法突破这一根本限制，这表明理解硬件特性和系统瓶颈对于有效优化至关重要。这一发现挑战了传统上认为计算是主要瓶颈的观念，强调了内存效率在AI推理中的核心地位。
Memory is now an extensible plugin system. Swap in any backend, or build your own.
令人惊讶的是：Hermes Agent 将记忆系统转变为可扩展插件架构，这打破了传统AI系统中记忆功能通常被硬编码的限制。用户现在可以自由替换或自定义记忆后端，这种开放性在AI代理开发中相当罕见，为个性化定制提供了前所未有的灵活性。
购买 𝕏 API 信用额度时，按累计消费金额获得 xAI API（Grok）的免费额度
令人惊讶的是：𝕏 API现在提供了一种独特的信用额度返还机制，开发者使用𝕏 API可以换取Grok的免费额度，这种跨产品激励策略在科技行业相当罕见，显示出xAI试图通过生态系统整合来增强其产品吸引力。
PagedAttention algorithm and vLLM system enhance the throughput of large language models by efficiently managing memory and reducing waste in the key-value cache.
令人惊讶的是：通过简单的内存管理优化，PagedAttention算法和vLLM系统能够显著提高大语言模型的吞吐量，减少键值缓存中的浪费。这展示了在模型规模不断扩大的今天，系统优化可能比模型创新本身更具实际价值。
design the environment well, you let the agent run, and you own what it produces.
作者对Agent问责制的重塑极具启发：从微观的步骤审批转向宏观的环境设计。人类不对Agent的每一步负责，而是对塑造Agent行为的“场域”负责。这是一种管理思维的升维，把焦点从控制动作转移到了设计系统。
The more important work happens before the agent even starts. An agent operating inside a well-designed system already has the context and constraints it needs to do good work. In Linear, that means project plans, issue backlogs, code, and documentation. These all shape what the agent does and how it does it.
大多数人认为AI系统的责任在于实时监控和干预，但作者认为真正的责任在于事前的系统设计和环境构建。这一观点将问责制从实时交互转向了系统设计阶段，挑战了传统的AI治理思维。
A fourth built the presentation using a JavaScript library. A fifth critiqued the overall flow & content.
值得注意的是第五个agent的角色：批评与审视。在多智能体并行架构中，不仅需要执行具体任务的工人，更需要引入自我纠错与元认知机制。这种“左右互搏”的设计大大降低了并行带来的错误累积风险，是提升整体输出质量的关键洞见。
harness combinations doesn't shrink as models improve. Instead, it moves
打破了“模型变强则脚手架消亡”的线性思维。模型能力的提升并非消灭了架构设计的价值，而是将其推向了更高复杂度、更具挑战性的新领域。AI工程师的核心竞争力正是持续探索这种前沿的架构组合。
errors in the spec would cascade into the downstream implementation.
展现了Agent系统设计中的风险控制逻辑：过早陷入底层细节会导致错误级联。让Planner专注于高层目标，将实现路径留给执行层自主探索，有效避免了自上而下的规划谬误，增强了系统的容错性。
按时间记录不完全合理，还是应该按任务记录。
这一观点挑战了传统时间轴记录的惯性思维。时间轴看似客观，实则碎片化，增加了认知负担。以 Task 为核心组织记忆，实际上是模拟人类大脑的联想记忆机制，将散乱的行为建模为有序的因果关系，极大提升了信息的召回效率和应用价值。
Control does not need to be either/or like in many semi-autonomous vehicles.
When two agents sharing control have asymmetric capa-bilities, both loose and tight rein control should be available.
First, communication is vital for sharingcontrol, and this can happen at different levels; second, both agents must have internal modelsof each other to understand what those communicative acts mean.
Throughout the history of automation, a central challenge in HCI has been posed by the com-plexity of autonomous systems. Users must be able to understand and control them. They need tofind and integrate information from dynamic and different sources. They need to understand howto delegate tasks, supervise their execution, and intervene if needed.
The performance of the system must be reliable and controllable. Its behavior should be safe, and the way it is designed and used should be ethical [768]. Users need to trust the system's decisions and ability. It should be made clear to the user what it can and cannot do.
statements that describe assertions of desirable system properties
such systems should be designed to take into account the fact that automated results will inevitably be incorrect on occasion.
statements that describe assertions of desirable system properties
users can be trained to understand not only the decision-making tasks but also the underpinning capabilities and limitations of the automation solution.
statements that describe assertions of desirable system properties
automated systems that indicate when automation may fail or has failed are more likely to gain an appropriate level of trust from users.
statements that describe assertions of desirable system properties
When the system fails, users need to be able to redirect it. To avoid biases and discrimination, some level of transparency and explainability is required.
statements that describe assertions of desirable system properties
the design of the retrieval and cache policy, especially how they decide what to keep, reuse, or drop across scenes, seems to be what actually drives the latency and throughput gains
大多数研究者可能关注模型架构或算法创新来提升性能，但评论者指出检索和缓存策略的设计才是延迟和吞吐量提升的关键。这一观点挑战了AI研究中过度关注模型本身的倾向，暗示系统优化和资源管理策略可能比模型架构创新对性能影响更大，这是一个反直觉的系统设计见解。
they fuse streaming data construction with a unified model so the memory supports both real-time q&a and long-horizon interaction, which is nontrivial under strict latency constraints
大多数系统设计者可能认为实时问答和长时程交互需要不同的处理架构，但作者通过融合流式数据构建和统一模型，使内存同时支持这两种功能。这一设计挑战了实时系统处理复杂性的常规认知，表明在严格的延迟约束下实现多功能整合是可行的，这为实时AI助手的设计提供了新思路。
A downstream conjecture is that role-differentiated proposer/executor/checker/adversary systems may reduce correlated error under asymmetric information and verification burden.
大多数人认为AI系统应追求统一和一致的内部分工，但作者提出采用角色分化的提案者/执行者/检查者/对抗者系统来减少相关错误，这与当前AI系统设计中的整合趋势相悖，具有反直觉性。
role-differentiated proposer/executor/checker/adversary systems may reduce correlated error under asymmetric information and verification burden.
大多数AI系统设计倾向于使用单一或少数几个组件来完成所有任务。但作者提出角色分化的提议者/执行者/检查者/对抗者系统可能减少在信息不对称和验证负担下的相关错误。这一观点挑战了当前AI系统设计的单一或少数组件架构，暗示多角色专业化可能更有效。
current systems remain highly vulnerable
尽管AI安全领域近年来取得了显著进展，作者却断言当前系统仍然高度脆弱。这一与行业乐观情绪相悖的结论，基于对多个主流代理系统的实际测试，暗示AI安全问题可能比业界承认的要严重得多。
Once frozen, TIME_WAIT connections never expire, ephemeral ports slowly exhaust, and eventually no new TCP connections can be established at all. ICMP (ping) keeps working. Everything else dies.
大多数人认为操作系统崩溃才会导致网络完全失效，但作者认为macOS可以在看似完全正常的情况下陷入网络瘫痪状态，因为只有TCP协议栈失效而ICMP仍能工作。这种'部分系统死亡'的状态非常反直觉，因为系统不会崩溃或报错，只是TCP连接停止工作。
Treatment of superficial vein reflux (see Varicose Veins, above) has been shown to decrease the recurrence rate of venous ulcers. Where there is substantial obstruction of the femoral or popliteal deep venous system, superficial varicosities supply the venous return and should not be removed.
Failure of venous insufficiency ulcerations to heal is most often due to inconsistent use of first-line treatment methods. Ongoing control of edema is essential to prevent recurrent ulceration; the use of compression stockings following ulcer healing is critical, with recurrence rates 2–20 times higher if compression stockings are not used
highest incidence occurs in women after pregnancy. Varicosities develop in over 20% of all adults
involved, typically the great saphenous vein and its tributaries, but the short saphenous vein (posterior lower leg) may also be affected
Advanced Typing - Shortcuts (1943)
Advanced Typing: Shortcuts. 16 mm. Vol. MN-1512c. United States Navy Training Film, 1943. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUJfCfqgsX0.
Correct typing posture: fingers curved<br /> arms sloping up<br /> light fast strokes<br /> steady rhythm
fast continuous motion of return lever<br /> using backing sheet (aka temping sheet ??)
Shortcuts:<br /> mise en place for office supplies (she doesn't use this phrasing though) - greater efficiency - cuts down on searching
tabulators can be helpful. There are two types:<br /> - automatic - handset
Use tabs for paragraphs, dating letters, columns of numbers, and letter closings.
To clear all tab stops, put carriage to left, hold tab clear key and move the carriage across. (Usually applies to Royal, Remington, Underwood, and Electromatic).
On LC Smith and Woodstock machines sometimes have a tab clear lever on the back.
Decimal tabulator keys help to align a variety of numbers around a decimal point. 09:43
Always have a few tabs set to prevent a flying carriage which can be hard on the machine.
When using carbon sheets which are slightly longer than the paper size, cut off a small triangle at the top left hand side. This makes it easier for one to separate the carbons from the copies by holding the top left with one hand and pulling the carbons out from the bottom of the stack.
To align multiple sheets of paper for carbon copies, use a folded sheet at the top to taco the pages into the machine. Remove the folded sheet once the carbon pack is rolled forward.
Paper bail rollers should be set to split the pages into thirds (for two rollers).
Remington noiseless machines have a pressure indicator on the front of the machine (usually above the keyboard) which can be used when using thick carbon packs that may cause the ribbon guide to stick or bind.
Only erase when the carriage is fully left or right to prevent eraser crumbs from falling into the machine. 15:26
Use a soft eraser on carbon copies. Use and insert slips of paper behind the carbons and allowing them to stick out the sides, erasing from back sheet to front so as not to allow the eraser to mark your carbon copies. For the front sheet, use a shield and ink eraser and erase with a horizontal motion. After erasing, easily pull out the inserted sheets.
When typing a correction, tap the key lightly two or three times rather than hard once.
When in a rush and it's necessary to add a word (on double spacing), underline the last letter of the prior word and type a slash (/). Then move the typing line up and type the insertion above the prior line. This creates an "arrow" of sorts for the inserted word.
Details for inserting extra letters in misspelled words using half-spacing machines. (Underwoods and Electromatics don't have this function.)
Light pencil marks at the bottom of the sheet can help to indicate the coming bottom of the sheet.
Putting up the card holders (fingers) on Underwoods and Royals. They help to hold the card and improve print quality and reduce noise.
Card holders can cause markings on carbon packs if they're not lowered.
Trick for quickly writing postcards in succession: Disengage the ratchet using the platen spring release (or variable platen switch) Type the address on the front of the card. When done give the platen a quick practiced spin. The postcard with "jump" up and stop at the paper table and be in position for rolling in the opposite direction to write the message on the back of the card! When done a faster spin of the platen will shoot the card over the back of the typewriter where it can land in a box to collect all the postcards which were written in such a manner. <br /> timestamp 23:22
Time saving methods for addressing envelopes:
Front seat principle. Insert the envelope in the usual way and type out the address. When done, turn the envelope down through the machine with the right hand. With the left hand, place the next envelope between the top of the first envelope and the front of the platen. Feed the first envelope back through the machine (in reverse) and the second will be rolled in to place for typing. Continue in this fashion until finished. All the finished envelopes will stack up in the back at the paper table.
Chain feeding. The first envelope is inserted and rolled partway into the machine. A second envelope is inserted between the platen and the second envelope (behind the platen). Turn the first envelope to the writing line and type the address. Take out the first envelope and insert the next the same way as before.
Uses paper bail. Do the first envelope in the usual way. Spin it out of the machine up and behind the paper bail into a box behind the typewriter.
For quickly doing labels or small cards:<br /> Create a small zig-zag fold into a piece of paper to create a pocket slot which can be scotch taped on either side. This template paper can then be inserted so that the pocket is visible above the writing line, but the paper below it is still in the platen. The label or card can be placed into the pocket and the platen reversed to feed the label or card in backwards to the desired typing line. Using a v-groove or hole in the typing line can create a pencil line to serve as a guide for inserting many labels at the same place so that the typing lines up between labels.
Some offices had special platens for holding cards like this.
Pockets like this can also be used to hold the page to add additional lines at the bottom of pages. Deeper pockets may need to be used for doing this with carbon packs whose carbons are longer than the pages.
Alternately one can do something similar by creating a inverted u-shaped set of slits into an index card. to hold such labels.
When in the midst of a page and needing to do another piece urgently, roll back the letter until about 2 inches from the top, and then place in the new page and one between each of the carbons. Then roll forward to do the short message as necessary. Turn back to the insertion position to remove the copies and then continue with the first letter where you left off.
For drawing horizontal lines on typewriter paper, push the carriage to the extreme left and place the pencil or pen at the edge of the card guide and the scale. Then move the carriage to the right to effect the line. For vertical lines, put the carriage at the desired space and place the pencil at the card guide and scale and move the platen up/down as necessary.
Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own<br /> by [[Zachary Levenson]] in Truthout<br /> accessed on 2026-03-11T11:16:07
You cannot run the "Prosperity" app without the "Meditation" OS.
Biologically, "meditation" (Biblical Hagah) is the programming language of the Reticular Activating System (RAS). The RAS is a bundle of nerves at the brainstem that filters out unnecessary data, allowing only "relevant" information to reach your conscious mind.
When you "meditate day and night" on the Intel (Scripture), you are literally re-coding your RAS to spot opportunities ("hidden doors") that others miss. An "NPC" (Non-Player Character) operates on Automaticity—governed by the Basal Ganglia (habit loops). They walk into walls because their RAS is not programmed to see the door. Sakal is the result of a brain that has been physically re-wired through repetition to recognise the patterns of the Kingdom.
They want you passive, sitting in a burning room, trying to meditate the smoke away.
Denial vs. Regulation The "Spa Day" fallacy is a misapplication of mindfulness that can lead to Dissociation. When the brain’s Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) detects a conflict (the "burning room"), the healthy response is to mobilise the Sympathetic Nervous System for a solution.
The "PsyOp" of passive peace encourages a "freeze" response under the guise of relaxation. This causes the Dorsal Vagal branch of the Vagus Nerve to shut down system functions rather than engaging the Ventral Vagal state of "Social Engagement and Safety." True Shalom requires Neural Integration—where the brain acknowledges the chaos but maintains the Executive Function needed to act, rather than simply suppressing the stress signal until the system collapses from within.
Religious OS v1.0
System Definition: This outdated operating system runs on the logic of Karma: "Input = Output" (If I do good, God owes me blessing). It is structurally incapable of processing Grace, which follows the logic of "Zero Input = Infinite Output."
" KEYS TO THE LIBRARY " 1950s EDUCATIONAL FILM CARD CATALOGS, ENCYCLOPEDIAS & DEWEY DECIMAL XD71644<br /> by [[Periscope Film]] on YouTube<br /> accessed on 2026-01-04T15:53:51
Es ist falsch, weiter darauf zu pochen, dass wir ein gerechteres, rationaleres, ökologischeres und besser allokierendes System aufbauen können, wenn die Kapitalisten doch selbst den Markt nicht mehr in erster Linie als Allokationsinstrument sehen. Sie präsentieren den Markt vielmehr als Mittel, um die Bedürfnisse zu befriedigen, die wir entwickelt haben
Welche neu produzierten Bedürfnisse könnten wir uns sparen, von deren Befriedigung wir abhängig scheinen?
Ist das auch eine Frage in der Suffizienzdebatte oder bei Postwachstumsökonomien?
Das hat mit einem Umdenken über die Rolle des Marktes im demokratischen Kapitalismus zu tun. Der Markt wurde neu konzipiert – nicht nur als effektiveres System zur Verteilung von Gütern, sondern auch als System zur Befriedigung der tiefsten Sehnsüchte von individuellen Verbrauchern und Unternehmern. Er ist zu einem politischen System geworden, das es uns ermöglicht, uns zu komplexeren Subjekten zu entwickeln, indem wir ständig neue Produktionstechniken erleben, neue Konsumarten ausprobieren, neue Geschmäcker entwickeln und artikulieren, mit verschiedenen Identitäten experimentieren und sowohl als Verbraucher als auch als Unternehmer ein gewisses Maß an Souveränität über unser Leben ausüben.
Oder gibt es andere Dynamiken, die beteiligt sind? Welche anderen Vektoren sind sozusagen im System entscheidend? Natürlich sind die ökonomischen Dynamiken ausgesprochen wichtig, aber ich glaube es gibt noch weitere.
Hinzu kommt, dass Akteur:innen von den sozialen Systemen geprägt werden, in die sie eingebunden sind. Wir „passen“ uns in die Nischen gesellschaftlicher Strukturen ein, indem wir die Regeln verinnerlichen, die für unsere jeweiligen gesellschaftlichen Positionen entscheidend sind – es ist eben unvermeidlich, dass wir uns zu den herrschenden Bedingungen mit anderen koordinieren. Sich auch nur vorzustellen, aus dem System auszubrechen oder es maßgeblich zu beeinflussen und zu verändern, ist deshalb nicht einfach.
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Just a small collection of chemicals wired appropriately will already give you 5 or 6 different kinds of learning sensitization, habituation, associative learning
for - learning - even chemical networks can learn! don't need living system! - Michael Levin
I was faced in 1958 when I started graduate study at University College London with that extraordinary fact. Nobody knew how it could be that a muscle could excite itself to be rhythmic.
for - history - Denis Noble - 1958 - question - heartbeat of embryo - how? no nervous system yet.
The first heartbeat in an animal as complicated as us occurs after about 28 days of an embryo
for - embryo - 28 days - first circulation system - why? CO2 and O2 diffuse over distances of a few microns - at 28 days, the embryo is about 30mm so needs a circulatory system to diffuse CO2 and O2
microbiome is clearly linked to the maturation and regulation of the human immune system,
for - adjacency - human microbiome - immune system
Humans are now organized in a global economic system that is difficult to alter in meaningful ways
for - insight - polycrisis - agricultural system - agriculture-based economic system - difficult to halt
There is no place where this cultural hubris is more evident than with the discourse on our present war between economy and Earth.
for - economic system vs cultural change - hubris - The global economic system at play is bringing about - the sixth mass extinction and - unmitigated climate change - and we continue to tinker around the edges of altering its structure and dynamic in any significant way. - One could easily make the claim that - it is the global economic system that has the upper hand - and not our capacity for cultural change.
reflect on the pluralities and the tensions related to time and space in the social relations to the earth system from the local to the planetary scale.
for - humanities - planetary boundaries - social system tensions - from local to planetary scales - terminology - local to planetary scale
main point of this paper again I still feel like it's still valid
for - paper - Earth System Science for Global Sustainability: Grand Challenges - 2009 - still valid today - Forecasting - Observing - Confining (Planetary Boundaries) - Responding (Governance) - Innovating (How we organize society)
ecological civilization from an earth system perspective
for - anthropocene - ecological civilization from an earth system perspective - Deliang Chen
how our economic and social systems um are being valued and also continued the role of capitalism as a style of thought and also a practical system of how uh we household
for - climate crisis - questioning socio-economic system - capitalism
in the United States, both political parties take money from the military-industrial complex, from the fossil fuel industry, from the pharmaceutical industry, from the gun industry.
for - two party system - false dichotomy - opinion - James Hansen
COMPARISON OF THE DECIMAL ARRANGEMENT WITHTHE DUPLEX NUMERIC ARRANGEMENT ( showing the possibilityof expansion in the latter that is lacking in the decimalclassification )
Notice the one-to-one correspondences between these systems.
There is a sort of artificial lack of extension, but numerically it really doesn't exist mathematically.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex
There is a close relationship between the Soundex indexing scheme and the scheme behind the Major System!!!
what if we come from the assumption that that we're not separate how do we speak from not just about but how do we speak from that kind of of assumption
for - language - nondual - as the reference system
When we talk about radical change, it's more than window dressing in the status quo. It means
for - MTN - UNFR - whole system change - US
What you’re doing: Turning one-off prompts into reusable systems.Once you’ve perfected a workflow, you have a proven recipe. Now you can decide how to operationalise it. There are three options:Create a Prompt Template when you want to use it regularly for personal reuse onlyBuild a Custom GPT or Bot when you want to share a task-specific workflow with a team for cross-team quality and efficiency gains Create an Automated Agent when you want to trigger the workflow automatically in certain conditions
How to create reusable systems
for - Johan Rockstrom - planetary boundaries 2025 - earth system boundaries 2025
MTT into the past and future are instantiations of one ‘simulation system
for - claim - Mental Time Travel into the past and future are instantiations of one simulation system
whole system behavior has to emerge through the agents interaction
for - key insight - whole system behavior emerges form the emergent coordination of all the agent interactions at different levels
we don't tell the cells explicitly to uh contract or relax
for - adjacency - inter level communication - environmental steering - this is very interesting (and obvious) but far from trivial. - adjacency - meditation - interlevel communication - enlightenment? - could we naturalistically frame meditation that leads to non dual awareness, or enlightenment - as being a way for higher level agents - to get in touch with / communicate with - lower level agents - in a multi-agent environment?
question - could we interpret enlightenment as an ecosystem goal of intentional whole system environmental steering? This suggests a new term: - new definition - intentional whole system environmental steering - when environmental steering is intentional done at the highest level for the wellbeing of every level - The author uses the example of hunger as being a high level experience driven by lower level needs - This could qualify as an intentional whole system environmental steering so the term doesn't distinguishing enlightenment drive as anything special. We need some other distinguishing quality
this system that actually tells you which one is you which one is not you is the self is not the self yeah so the immune system
for - adjacency - brain - identity - immune system - immune system involved with identity at a microscopic level - which molecule is part of "you"? - which moleculev is NOT part of you - immune system preceded neural system
? - maybe there is similarity between neural processing and immune system response?
rtists and entrepreneurs share key psychological traits: intrinsic motivation, systems thinking, and comfort with ambiguity.
for - system change - role of artists - TPF - arts community - research paper - RMIT 2020 - artist traits
for - planetary boundaries update - June 2025 - earth system boundaries update - June 2025 - youtube - Johan Rockstrom - June 2025
what I try to do is is kind of like what happened to the notion of numbers where we started out with very obvious very natural kinds of things and then progressively expanded them to to weirder and weirder uh other um other other concepts along you know along that same along that same continuum.
for - adjacency - cognitive spectrum - number system evolution - Michael Levin
Ronald P. Formisano
https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/ronald-p-formisano-1939-2024/
the US financial system is the most important choke point in the global economy
for - chokepoint - US financial system is most important - example - chokepoint - US sanctions
for - Cross scale translation of earth system boundaries - Cross scale translation of earth system boundaries - Bill Baue - Medium - article- cross scale translation of earth system boundaries - Bill Baue - adjacency - cross scale translation of earth system boundaries - global thresholds and allocations
for - mayor system - China - responsible for rapid change
Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492
for - paper - Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492 - authors - Alexander Koch - Chris Brierley - Mark Maslin - Simon L. Lewis - adjacency - genocide - native americans - colonialism - Little Ice Age - adjacency - great dying - little ice age - colonialism - from - youtube - The death of 55 million indigenous people after colonization - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DYlDdzj1nx3U&group=world - The Great Dying - Little Ice Age
for - colonialism - impacts - Americas - little ice age - cause - genocide of indigenous people in 17th century - abandoned fields - stats - colonialism - genocide - 55 million people - cooling of planet - MAGA - How to make the Americas great again - colonialism - justice - to - paper - Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492 - https://hyp.is/fHnyIBL3EfCpcmfnGW26DA/www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379118307261
comment - The MAGA movement needs to deeply reflect on this - They claim national pride but do not go further back in history than the establishment of the United States - They need to recognize how the US was established on genocide in order to live in cultural truth - This reality creates a contradiction to their entire theme of white national power - It makes the elimination of DEI hypocritical as indigenous peoples have a far more legitimate claim than they do
cross reference Universal Decimal Classification, Dewey Decimal Classification
Known today as the father of library science, S.R. Ranganathan was an Indian mystic and mathematician that in the 1930s saw the coming failure of the Dewey Decimal System to scale. He envisioned a better way to classify knowledge known as the Colon Classification System.
Maybe writing is less about finding the perfect method and more about learning to live with the imperfections of the process. Or maybe that’s just me.
I seems to me that the key. Luhmann and others have their own methods and they weren´t searching for the perfect writing system, they work with what they have.
I think that it is the hyperconecction and the perfectionism that trap us in a infinite loop of the perfect system rather than the imperfections but productive outputs..
Maybe what is needed is a feedback loop that do not scare us so we can write more and better with time..
ここでは、消化器系(digestive system) に関わる医療英語を学びます
ここでは、心循環系(The cardiovascular system)に関する医療英語を学びます。
神経組織(nerve tissue) は脳と体全体間で情報伝達をします。
結合組織(connective tissue)は他の組織を繋ぎ固定させる役目をし、体のあらゆる部分にみられます。 筋肉と骨を繋げる腱(tendons) 、骨と関節を繋げる靭帯(ligament) 、関節を保護する軟骨(cartilage) 等が例です。
筋組織(muscle tissue) は体が伸縮する助けをします。 筋組織には三種類あり、骨と結合した筋肉、骨格筋(skeletal muscle)、 胃、腸、血管や他の器官等にみられる、平滑筋(smooth muscle) 、 心臓に見られる筋肉、心筋(cardiac muscle) があります。
上皮細胞(epithelial cell tissue)は体内外の表面を覆っています。 鼻、口、呼吸器官、胃、腸、皮膚、髪、爪、腺等に上皮細胞がみられます。
細胞 細胞(cell)とは、あらゆる生物の基本的な構造上、機能上の単位です。
組織 組織(tissue)には以下の4つの種類があります。
for - doughnut economics - interactive diagram - adjacency - epiphany - combine sankey diagram and interactive doughnut diagram at all scales - biomimicry model - circulatory system - fractal splitting
adjacency - between - epiphany - combine - sankey diagram - interactive doughnut diagram - biomimicry model - circulatory system - fractal splitting - multi-scale competency architecture - adjacency relationship - Just as our body's circulatory system is fractal at multiple scales, resource flows through the doughnut could be represented in the same way - Sankey diagram at multiple scale can be a biomimicry of fractal geometry of circulatory system of resource flows in doughnut economies - biomimicry
for - cities - urban planning - book - sacred civics - contributors - Michel Bauwens - Jose Ramos - downscaled planetary boundaries - cross-scaled earth system boundaries
summary - click on the chapter hyperlinks to see the annotations for each chapter
for - Christine Wamsler - Lund University - homepage - from - youtube - Mindfulness World Community - Awareness, Care and Sustainability for Our Earth - https://hyp.is/GCUJ1APHEfCcr_vvv3lAFw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUc_0GroGM
to - paper - An Interdisciplinary Model to Foster Existential Resilience and Transformation
to - paper - Engaging high-income earners in climate action : Policy insights from survey experiments
to - paper - Revolutionising sustainability leadership and education : addressing the human dimension to support flourishing, culture and system transformation
to - The System Within : Addressing the inner dimensions of sustainability and systems change
research areas - sustainable cities - collaborative governance - city-citizen collaboration - citizen participation - sustainability and wellbeing - sustainability transformation - inner development goals - inner transformation - inner transition - existential sustainability
for - from - Christine Wamsler - homepage - Lund University - https://hyp.is/XgmNsgPHEfCBOPszkHcE3Q/www.lucsus.lu.se/christine-wamsler - sustainability - bridging inner and outer transformation - Club of Rome report - The system within - addressing the inner dimensions of sustainability and system transformation - Earth4all report - The system within - addressing the inner dimensions of sustainability and systems transformation - Deep Humanity - interior and exterior transformation
often people believe that the dominant economic system is value-free or value-neutral, which dismisses the central role of genocide, slavery, and colonialism in its evolution over the past five hundred years or so
for - dominant economic system - not value neutral - situated on history of colonialism, slavery, genocide, extractionism
Why do we need “individual action” (now more than ever) when what we REALLY need is “systems change?”
for - post - LinkedIn - individual change vs system change - Deep Humanity individual / collective gestalt and climate action
comment - individual / collective gestalt would be helpful framing to sort out this confusion
related research has also shown that human inner Dimensions which include our individual and Collective beliefs values worldviews and Associated inner capacities are deep Leverage points for Change
for - leverage points - to - paper - Leverage Points - places to intervene in a system - Donella Meadows - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdonellameadows.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuserfiles%2FLeverage_Points.pdf&group=world
buying freedom within a broken system,
for - meme - buying freedom within a broken system
there are cues everywhere
> for - addiction - cues everywhere - trigger dopamine system - impulse control is difficult
In den Reden der Vertreter:innen von Zentralbanken spielt die Klimakrise seit 2015 eine wichtige Rolle; in etwa einem Drittel der Reden wird sie erwähnt. Drei Wissenschaftlerinnen haben diese Diskurse systematisch untersucht und modelliert. Ob und wie die Klimakrise zum Thema wird, hängt vor allem von den institutionellen Aufgaben der Zentralbanken ab.
Wirkungen haben diese Reden immer nur kurzfristig dadurch, dass sie die Kurse von „grünen“ Unternehmen steigen lassen.
https://theconversation.com/quand-les-banques-centrales-semparent-de-la-question-du-climat-249076
Working Paper: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/warning-words-in-a-warming-world-central-bank-communication-and-climate-change/
As Ethnic Studies has recently become a requirement for the California State University (CSU) system, and soon the University of California (UC) system, California Community Colleges (CCC), and California high schools, more attention has been placed on Ethnic Studies
Ethnic studies becomes a requirement in all California Colleges
In usingconflict management procedures, teachers should guide children from highlevel mediation, to low level mediation, to child-negotiation. The teachershould also model and teach a consistent conflict management strategyinvolving a 5-step mediation process. A comprehensive approach is necessaryfor children with strong unmet needs. For teachers to use guidanceeffectively, they must build and maintain a personal and professional supportsystem. (KB)ReproductionssuppliedbyEDRSarethebestthatcanbemadefromtheoriginaldocument.
This is one of the ideas I will take to my classroom. I like the idea of having steps as you help the student deescalate the behavior. I think is great that it emphasizes the importance of maintaining and building strong connections.
What a lot of people don't realize is that a source control system is a communication tool.
In this diagram, the dependency direction goes inwards, meaning that outer layers know about inner layers, but not the other way around.
for - planetary boundaries - history - planetary boundaries - visualization - earth system boundaries - history - doughnut economics - history
Casey, Robert S., James W. Perry, Madeline M. Berry, and Allen Kent. Punched Cards: Their Applications To Science And Industry. 2nd ed. 1951. Reprint, New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1958. http://archive.org/details/PunchedCardsTheirApplicationsToScienceAndIndustry.
Langes Interview mit Hans Joachim Schellnhuber im Standard, under anderem zu Kipppunkten und der Möglichkeit, dass wir uns schon auf dem Weg in ein „neues Klimaregime“ befinden. Schellnhuber geht davon aus, dass auch das 2°-Ziel überschritten werden wird. Der „Königsweg“, um der Atmosphäre danach wieder CO<sub>2</sub> zu entziehen, sei der weltweite Ersatz von Zement durch Holz beim Bauen, den er als Direktor des IIASA vor allem erforschen wolle. Die Wahrscheinlichkeit dafür, dass „noch alles gutgehen" werde, sei gering. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000204635/klimaforscher-schellnhuber-werden-auch-ueber-das-zwei-grad-ziel-hinausschiessen
for - whole system change - Andrew Gaines
system reflexivity
for - definition - system reflexivity (Moore et al., 2018) - the capacity to see the complexity and mobilize the agency in a system, while deeply engaging with diversity across multiple scales - SOURCE - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10
in the deserts the Southern California coastal region reaches some of its highest annual temperatures in Autumn rather than summer when these winds are going on frigid dry Arctic air from Canada tends to create the most intense Santa Ana winds
for - globally interconnected climate system - frigid dry Arctic air from Canada - Santa Ana winds - SOURCE - Youtube - climate crisis - 2025 Los Angeles fires - The Catastrophic Climate Driven Conflagaration in Los Angeles - Paul Beckwith - 2025, Jan 10
if you go to another culture and you don't go through the participatory transformation, right? If you don’t, and you're just experiencing culture shock - domicide - the agent arena relationship isn't in place! Then none of those other meaning systems can work for you. There'll be absurd. They won't make sense. That's what he means by it being a Meta-Meaning system.
for - adjacency - culture shock - example of domicide - when the agent-arena relationship is not in place - participatory knowing - meta-meaning system - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke
like it or not Fate has placed the current generation in a position will where it will determine whether we march on the disaster or whether the human species and much other life on Earth can be saved from a terrible Indescribable fate
for - rapid whole system change - Deep Humanity - Tipping Point Festival - validation for - Indyweb - Stop Reset Go - source - Youtube - The End of Organized Humanity - Noam Chomsky - 2024, Dec
for - report - climate crisis - food system transformation - Public climate finance for food systems transformation - Global Alliance for the Future of Food - 2024, Nov - from - post - LinkedIn - Jonathan Foley - This is very, very important - stats - 2.5% climate funding for food system that contributes 30% of global climate emissions - 2025, Jan 3 - https://hyp.is/zKE7vsqkEe-RFB8co7Pdqw/www.linkedin.com/posts/jonathan-foley-182808b9_foodsystemeconomicscommission-cop29-climatefinance-activity-7281009061003706369-P1b0/ - TPC network - motivation
While the food system contributes about 22-34% of the world’s greenhouse gases — it only gets about 2.5-3% of the climate funding.
for - stats - climate crisis - funding - food system - contributes 30% of global emissions - receives 2.5% climate funding - only 1.5% of the 2.5% goes to sustainable food systems - source - Public climate finance for food systems transformation - Global Alliance for the Future of Food - 2024, Nov - reposted on LinkedIn by Jonathan Foley - to - Public climate finance for food systems transformation - Global Alliance for the Future of Food - 2024, Nov - https://hyp.is/E3p2hsqlEe-tG0ezHCPriw/futureoffood.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ga_climatefinancereport_2024.pdf - TPC network - motivation
Miranda’s story
See here for more on Miranda's story and Miranda v. Arizona.
for - rapid whole system change - the neighborhood is the unit of change - David Brooks - 2018 - from - post - LinkedIn - Commentary on David Brooks book "The Second Mountain" - Jonathan Boymal post - reply from Danica Virginia Meredith - 2024, Dec 26 - https://hyp.is/nmhiKMNfEe-PCtfVd4Z75g/www.linkedin.com/feed/
This article of his really shifted my thinking:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/opinion/neighborhood-social-infrastructure-community.html
for - Linked In Post - reply to - rapid whole system change - neighborhood as the unit of change - Danica Virginia Meredith - to - NYTimes - Opinion - The Neighborhood is the Unit of Change - David Brooks - 2018
for - Substack article - The Cosmo-Local Plan for our Next Civilization - Michel Bauwens - 2024, Dec 20 - adjacency - web 3 and Blockchain / crypto technology - communities engaged in regeneration and relocalization - tinkering at the edge - missed opportunity - cosmolocal strategy as leverage point - safe and just cross scale translation of earth system boundaries - Tipping Point Festival - Web 4 - Indyweb
Summary adjacency between - web 3 and crypto / Blockchain technology - communities engaged in regeneration and relocalization - tinkering at the edge - missed opportunity - cosmolocal lens and framework as a leverage point for synthesis - cosmolocal projects as leverage points - cross scale translated safe and just earth system boundaries as necessary cosmolocal accounting system - meme: sync global, act local - new relationship - This article explores the untapped potential and leverage point offered by recognising a new adjacency and concomitant synthesis of - globalising Web 3 and crypto/Blockchain technology - communities engaged in regenerative and relocation interventions - The fragmentation between these areas keeps activists working in each respective one - tinkering at the edge - severely constraining their potential impact - This is a case of the whole Berlin car greater than the sun of its parts - By joining forces in a global, strategic and systemic way, each can achieve fast more through their mutual support - A cosmolocal lens offers a perspective and framework that makes joining forces make sense<br /> - Projects that recognize that the adjacency between - the globalizing technologies of web 3 and Blockchains and - interventions at the local community level - offer a significant leverage point to bottom up efforts to drive a rapid transition are themselves a leverage point - In this regard, incorporation of an equitable accounting system such as safe and just earth system boundaries that can be cross scale translated to - bioregional, - city and - community, district and ward scale - are an important cosmolocal component of a system designed for rapid transition - Global bottom up community scale events such as the Tipping Point Festival can help rapidly advocate for a cosmolocal lens, framework and strategy - At the same time, Web 4 technology that's goes beyond decentralising into people-centered can contribute another dimension to humanizing technology
Addendum - 2024, Dec 26 - added a comment to the actual substack page - My substack comment makes commenters of the article aware that we have a public hypothes.is discussion going on in parallel. - This makes the hitherto invisible discussion visible to them
Reinforced planetary care: localism on its own cannot resist globalized pressure, nor solve planetary and global thermo-dynamic issues.
for - adjacency- localism alone cannot solve planetary scale issues ( like climate crisis) - cross scale translated planetary boundaries / earth system boundaries - from Substack article - The Cosmo-Local Plan for our Next Civilization - Michel Bauwens - 2024, Dec 20 quote - constructing
Thinking, Fast and Slow is a 2011 popular science book by psychologist Daniel Kahneman. The book's main thesis is a differentiation between two modes of thought: "System 1" is fast, instinctive and emotional; "System 2" is slower, more deliberative, and more logical.
for - similar to - - Daniel Kahnaman's system 1 fast, instinctive, emotional and system 2 slow, deliberative, logical is similar to - Ian McGilhirist's left brain, right brain
Unknown artist, "The Pyramid of Capitalist System", 1911, based on a Russian flyer circa 1900
via Rabih Alameddine rabihalameddine.bsky.social at https://bsky.app/profile/rabihalameddine.bsky.social/post/3ld7mnwyvlc26
We design
for - A Transcender Manifesto - missing element - Cosmolocal framework and cross-scale translation of earth system boundaries A Transcender Manifesto - missing element - Cosmolocal framework and cross-scale translation of earth system boundaries - Without this, we cannot prioritze properly
Transcendence requires that we begin where we are – here, today
for - transcendence - rapid whole system change - starts here and now - Dil Green
when we analyzed the the dominant cultural operating system, because there's more than a political economy, it's a it's a, as we've said, a totalizing operating system. And we're going to call it neoliberalism
for - definition - neoliberalism - as the name of the dominant, totalizing, cultural operating system of modernity - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - summary - neoliberalism - as the name of the dominant, totalizing, cultural operating system of modernity - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 definition - neoliberalism - as the name of the dominant, totalizing, cultural operating system of modernity - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - Neoliberalism is a totalizing, cultural operating system for modernity - It is all of these things: - a political philosophy - an economic practice - a cosmology - a wordview - an ontology - a theocracy - a religious worldview based on faith - Most of the dogmas of neoliberalism have been proven to be false, and yet it is still taught in most institutions of higher education summary - Some of the premises of neoliberalism are: - 1. humans are homo economicus - our chief concern is our selves and NOT others - Enlightenment theories - Scientism - Evolutionary theory - All our systems are designed on this false premise - 2. Hierarchy is inevitable and necessary for order. Without it, we would revert to beasts - The system embeds - Patriarchism - White Supremacy - Gender inequality - 3. The individual is the primary unit of power - together with 1) and 2), it creates inherent competition - 4. Material wealth and power is the measure of wellbeing - If you have money, you are considered a success, otherwise, you are considered a moral failure
we're using post in the way postmodernists use post, which is it's informed by modernism, it's informed by capitalism without being able to transcend it necessarily because capitalism and it's the most recent incarnation of capitalism, which is neoliberalism, is like the oxygen that we breathe. It's all encompassing. It's totalitarian in its nature. And it's pervasive. And so in that sense, we say we have to be informed by the logic of the dominant system.
for - key point - Post Capitalist - informed by the logic of the dominant system - but not necessarily try to transcend it because it is so ubiquitous - Post Capitalist Philanthropy - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023
key point - Post Capitalist - informed by the logic of the dominant system - but not necessarily try to transcend it because it is so ubiquitous - Post Capitalist Philanthropy - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - It is so ubiquitous, like the air we breath - all encompassing - totalitarian - pervasive
the best way to make a company erodic is by putting it into an ecosystem of other companies that all work together to have robust circulatory flows throughout the entire ecosystem by doing that we counteract these losses we make the ecosystem orotic and then each company can contribute at its maximum its maximum regenerative potential
for - regenerative company - principle 7 of 8 - robust circulatory flow - ergodic flow - adjacency - Fairschare Company - FSC - regenerative organization - ergodic flow - robust circulatory flow - ecosystem of companies - backcasting from 2030 - cross-scale translation of earth system boundaries
adjacency - between - ergodic flows - ecosystem of companies - robust circulatory flows - Fairshare Commons (FSC) - regenerative company - regenerative organization - backcasting from 2030 - cross-scale translation of earth system boundaries - adjacency relationship - To implement principle 7 and work with an ecosystem of other companies: - For a company to relate well with other companies, - this is like an individual relating well to other individuals - The Indyweb is a people-centered, interpersonal information system architecture that supports both: - people-centered and interpersonal conversations as well as - organization-centered and inter-organizational conversations - Backcasting and cross-scale translating earth system boundaries from 2030 the present is critical to fulfill any FSC's modus operandi in the present. - In other words, knowing what a world that has successfully and dramatically reduced - carbon emissions and - threats to the biosphere - looks like at all scales (including community and company) in 2030 (5 years from now), we need to project backwards to the present and see what actions make sense and are aligned to take us to that envisioned scenario - If we don't have targets that are aligned to regenerating nature that we have globally harmed in measurable ways, what point is there in the word "regenerative" in the title of "regenerative company"?
you have to have the power of stewardship first of all you have to have stewards representing the voice of nature
for - adjacency - regenerative company - need to have voices that represent nature - cross scale translation of earth system boundaries to company level
Adjacency - between - regenerative company - need to have voices that represent nature - cross scale translation of earth system boundaries - adjacency relationship - Regenerative companies need to have voices that represent nature - This means we need to be aware of how the activities of our company is impacting nature - This means we need to have cross scale translation of earth system boundaries to the local community, and finally to our company levels
for - essay - Leverage Points - Places to Intervene in a System - Donella Meadows
The difference between what you work out using the Zettelkasten and the memory palace technique is that the memory palace is a pure memory technique. It uses meaningless connections and the way the brain works to gain access to information. For example, if I mentally write the date Rome was founded with the mnemonic “BC 753 Rome came to be” as a number on an egg in the kitchen fridge, the only reason for this link between the egg in the kitchen fridge of my memory palace and the year Rome was founded is that I can remember this number. You make yourself aware of what the brain otherwise does unconsciously.
The difference between what you work out using the Zettelkasten and the memory palace technique is that the memory palace is a pure memory technique. It uses meaningless connections [emphasis added] and the way the brain works to gain access to information. For example, if I mentally write the date Rome was founded with the mnemonic “BC 753 Rome came to be” as a number on an egg in the kitchen fridge, the only reason for this link between the egg in the kitchen fridge of my memory palace and the year Rome was founded is that I can remember this number.
Certainly not an attack against him, but I feel as if Sascha is making an analogistic reference to areas of mnemonics he's heard about, but hasn't actively practiced. As a result, some may come away with a misunderstanding of these practices. Even worse, they may be dissuaded from combining a more specific set of mnemonic practices with their zettelkasten practice which can provide them with even stronger memories of the ideas hiding within their zettelkasten.
There is a mistaken conflation of two different mnemonic techniques being described here. The memory palace portion associates information with well known locations which leverages our brains' ability to more easily remember places and things in them with relation to each other. There is nothing of meaningless connections here. The method works precisely because meaning is created and attributed to the association. It becomes a thing in a specific well known place to the user which provides the necessary association for our memory.
The second mnemonic technique at play is the separate, unmentioned, and misconstrued Major System (or possibly the related Person-Action-Object method) which associates the number with a visualizable object. While there is a seeming meaningless connection here, the underlying connection is all about meaning by design. The number is "translated" from something harder to remember into an object which is far easier to remember. This initial translation is more direct than one from a word in one language to another because it can be logically generated every time and thus gives a specific meaning to an otherwise more-difficult-to-remember number. As part of the practice this object is then given additional attributes (size, smell, taste, touch, etc., or ridiculous proportion or attributes like extreme violence or relationships to sex) which serve to make it even more memorable. Sascha seems break this more standard mnemonic practice by simply writing his number on the egg in the refrigerator rather than associate 753 with a more memorable object like a "golem" which might be incubating inside of my precious egg. As a result, the egg and 753 association IS meaningless to him, and I would posit will be incredibly more difficult for him to remember tomorrow much less next month. If we make the translation of 753 more visible in Sascha's process, we're more likely to see the meaning and the benefit of the mnemonic. (I can only guess that Sascha doesn't practice these techniques, so won't fault him for missing some steps, particularly given the ways in which the memory palace is viewed in the zeitgeist.)
To say that the number and the golem (here, the object which 753 was translated to—the Major System mnemonic portion) have no association is akin to saying that "zettlekasten" has no associated meaning to the words "slip box." In both translations the words/numbers are exactly the same thing. The second mnemonic is associating the golem to the egg in the refrigerator (the memory palace portion). I suspect that if you've been following along and imagining Andy Serkis gestating inside of an egg to become Golem who will go on to fight in the Roman Coliseum in your refrigerator, you're going to see Golem every time you reach for an egg in your refrigerator. Now if you've spent the ten minutes to learn the Major System to do the reverse translation, you'll think about the founding date of Rome every time you go to make an omelette. And if you haven't, then you'll just imagine the most pitiful gladiator loosing in the arena against a vicious tiger.
Naturally one can associate all their thoughts in their ZK to both the associated numbers and their home, work, or neighborhood environments so that they can mentally take their (analog or digital) zettlekasten with them anywhere they go. This is akin to what Thomas Aquinus and Raymond Llull were doing with their "knowledge management systems", though theirs may have had slightly simpler forms. Llull actually created a system which allowed him to more easily meditate on his stored memories and juxtapose them to create new ideas.
For the beginners in these areas who'd like to know more, I recommend the following as a good starting place: <br /> Kelly, Lynne. Memory Craft: Improve Your Memory Using the Most Powerful Methods from around the World. Pegasus Books, 2019.
Dousa, Thomas M. “Facts and Frameworks in Paul Otlet’s and Julius Otto Kaiser’s Theories of Knowledge Organization.” Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 36, no. 2 (2010): 19–25. https://doi.org/10.1002/bult.2010.1720360208.
n stark opposition to Otlet’s insistence that an ideal KOS be impersonaland universal, Kaiser firmly held to the view that, ideally, KOSs should beconstructed to meet the needs of the particular organizations for which they arebeing created. For example, with regard to the use of card indexes in businessenterprises, he asserted that “[e]ach business, each office has its individualcharacter and individual requirements, and its individual organization. Itssystem must do justice to this individual character [11, § 76].
Otlet, by contrast, was strongly opposed to organizing information unitsby the alphabetical order of their index terms. In his view, such a mode oforganization “scatters the [subject] matter under rubrics that have beenclassed arbitrarily in the order of letters and not at all in the order of ideas”and so obscures the conceptual relationships between them [6, p. 380]
In this respect Otlet was closer to the philosophy of organization used by Niklas Luhmann.
For Kaiser, then, alphabetical order represented the interpretatively safest andmost user-friendly way of organizing information units by their subject terms.
on the guide card for each main entry term a list of the other main entry termswith which it stood in semantic relation: the latter included synonyms, broaderterms, narrower terms and related terms [8, § 415, 423]. The “logical key”served as the syndetic structure of the index, indicating a web of conceptualrelations otherwise unexpressed by the alphabetical structure of the index file.
Some of the structure in Kaiser's system was built into relationships on guide cards. While not exactly hub notes, they did provide links to other areas of the system in addition to synonyms under which materials could be found including broader terms, narrower terms, and related terms often seen in library information systems.
Given that Kaiser acknowledged the utility of indicating semantic relationsbetween index terms, why did he prefer alphabetical to classified order forfiling? The answer lies in his view of language. Kaiser considered words innatural language to be imprecise expressions of the concepts that they areintended to convey. In addition, he held that there is little agreement amongusers of a language as to the precise definition of individual terms [8, §60–61, 112]. Such semantic indeterminism, in his opinion, makes it difficultto determine precisely what the authors of documents mean by the wordsthey are using, and any attempt by an indexer to substitute preferred termsfor the author’s own words runs the risk of misinterpreting the meaning ofthe words in the original document. It was for this reason that he preferredusing index terms extracted from the document itself [8, § 114].
Kaiser touches on the issue of "coming to terms" in his card (indexing) system. He preferred using the author's terminology over the indexer's. Some of the fungibility of words and their definitions was met by the use of a "logical key" to the index which was put onto guide cards for each main entry term.
Whereas Otlet and Kaiser were in substantial agreement on both thedesirability of information analysis and its technological implementation inthe form of the card system, they parted company on the question of howindex files were to be organized. Both men favored organizing informationunits by subject, but differed as to the type of KO framework that shouldgovern file sequence: Otlet favored filing according to the classificatory orderof the UDC, whereas Kaiser favored filing according to the alphabeticalorder of the terms used to denote subjects
Compare the various organizational structures of Otlet, Kaiser, and Luhmann.
Seemingly their structures were dictated by the number of users and to some extent the memory of those users with respect to where to find various things.
Otlet as a multi-user system with no single control mechanism or person, other than the decimal organizing standard (in his case a preference for UDC), was easily flexible for larger groups. Kaiser's system was generally designed, built and managed by one person but intended for use by potentially larger numbers of people. He also advised a conservative number of indexing levels geared toward particular use-cases (that is a limited number of heading types or columns/rows from a database perspective.) Finally, Luhmann's was designed and built for use by a single person who would have a more intimate memory of a more idiosyncratic system.
card index systems wereespecially prized for the flexibility in filing that they afforded: not only couldcards bearing superannuated information be easily removed and ones bearingnew information be added, but files could be easily rearranged if needed.
the targets of the Paris Agreement are now beyond the reach of incrementalism.
for - climate target of 1.5 Deg C - incrementalism won't work - rapid system change is necessary
Anti-system voters
for - definition - anti system voter
So….the real question becomes how can we finance the enabling conditions that foster system-level transformation.
for - post - LinkedIn Pando Fund - fund for enabling conditions of system change - Anna Muoio - reposted by Donna Nelham - to - Medium article - Financing System Health: The Pando fund - Robert Ricigliano and Anna Muoio, 2024, Aug 24
to - Medium article - Pando fund -
Matters ArisingCross-scale translation of Earth system boundaries should use methods that are more science-based
for - cross scale translation of earth system boundaries - critique - Xue & Bakshi, 2022
Summary - This paper offers a critique of the review paper "Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses by Bai et al. - The critique depends on two arguments: - the methods in this review paper are "overly subjective" - there are more scientifically rigorous methods for translation available but have not been included in the review paper - the approaches discussed may violate the "incentivizing" principle proposed in Fig. 3 by - discouraging the protection and restoration of ecosystems. - the authors offer details supporting their critique in their published works below
Fig. 3
for - to - paper - Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses - figure 3 - Bai et al.
to - paper - Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses - figure 3 - Bai et al., 2024 - https://hyp.is/_uwZDKveEe-GOx-pvnYEFg/jgvw2024.peergos.me/StopResetGo/2024/11/PDFs/NS_earth_boundaries_2024.pdf
Bai et al. “Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses”
for - paper - Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses - Bai et al. 2024 - to - paper - Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses - Bai et al.
to - paper - Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses - Bai et al. - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjgvw2024.peergos.me%2FStopResetGo%2F2024%2F11%2FPDFs%2FNS_earth_boundaries_2024.pdf&group=world
Fig. 3
for - paper - Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses - Fig. 3 - Ten principles of translation - Bai et al. 2024 - from - paper - Cross-scale translation of Earth system boundaries should use methods that are more science-based - citation of Fig.3 - Xue & Bakshi
from - paper - citation - Cross-scale translation of Earth system boundaries should use methods that are more science-based - citation of Fig.3 - Xue & Bakshi - https://hyp.is/xf3MxqveEe-pGZeWkHHcLA/jgvw2024.peergos.me/StopResetGo/2024/11/PDFs/MattersArisingBaietal.pdf
for - paper - Nature Sustainability - Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and business - Bai et al., 2024 - cross scale translation of earth system boundaries - Bai et al., 2024 - downscaling planetary boundaries - earth system boundaries - from - paper - Cross-scale translation of Earth system boundaries should use methods that are more science-based - Xue & Bakshi
paper details - Title: Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses - Author: Bai et al. - Publisher: Nature Sustainability - Date: 2024, Jan 4
from - paper - Cross-scale translation of Earth system boundaries should use methods that are more science-based - Xue & Bakshi - https://hyp.is/jKlP4KvZEe-p1v9b-AbDOQ/jgvw2024.peergos.me/StopResetGo/2024/11/PDFs/MattersArisingBaietal.pdf
for - search - Google - cross scale translation of earth system boundaries
search - Google - cross scale translation of earth system boundaries - https://www.google.com/search?q=cross+scale+translation+of+earth+system+boundaries&oq=cross+scale+translation+of+earth+system+boundaries&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRigATIHCAUQIRiPAjIHCAYQIRiPAtIBCTEwMzE1ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
results returned of interest - Cross-scale translation of Earth system boundaries should use methods that are more science-based Cite as: Ying Xue, Bhavik R Bakshi. Cross-scale translation of Earth system boundaries should use methods that are more science-based. Authorea. - https://www.authorea.com/users/665742/articles/1231161-cross-scale-translation-of-earth-system-boundaries-should-use-methods-that-are-more-science-based
What’s missing obviously is a viable third option that would disrupt and transform the status quo by leaning into and operating from an awareness of the emerging future.
for - two party system - third viable option is missing - Otto Scharmer - from - Youtube - Climate Doomsday 6 years from now - Jerry Kroth
from - Youtube - Climate Doomsday 6 years from now - Jerry Kroth - https://hyp.is/OfL17KukEe-u2rfUpknrTg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ0JDk1p6Zg
SI system is absolute (gravitationally independent) as: Mass - in relation with Planck constant Time - in terms of vibration of isotope of Cesium Length - in terms of distance covered by Light All of which are independent of effect of gravity
four things
for - suggestions - how to end US hegemony for a global fair trade system - needed to re-establish global cooperation - Yanis Varoufakis - Yanis Varoufakis four on below to discuss four different suggestions of how China can support global cooperation to emerge
the reason why the United States is so hegemonic why it can afford to be the big bully around the world is because of the Monopoly of the payment system
for - quote - the US is hegemonic and the world bully because it has a monopoly on the payment system - it is the world's reserve currency - Yanis Varoufakis
Domain-specific alliances
for - adjacency - SRG planetary boundary / earth system boundaries working groups - domain specific alliances - Magisteria of the Commons
adjacency - between - SRG planetary boundary / earth system boundaries working groups - domain specific alliances - Magisteria of the Commons - adjacency relationship The domain specific alliances of the Magisteria of the commons is similar to the SRG idea of developing funds version divisions of wealth system boundaries
the real problem is what we're layering the web on we shouldn't be doing the web over this kind of just simple file distribution system that works over TCP and you have to work really hard to put over anything else we should be putting the web over a distribution system that can deal with the distributed case that is offline first and uh this is are kind of like stats showing the usage of mobile apps versus uh the web and so on so this is a very real real thing
for - quote / insight - We shouldn't be doing the web over this simple file distribution system that works over TCP - Juan Benet - IPFS
Prof. Smith lives in London and has a brother in Berlin, Dr. Smith. To visit him, balancing time, cost, and carbon emissions is a tough call to make. But there is another problem. Dr. Smith has no brother in London. How can that be?
for - BEing journey - example - demonstrates system 1 vs system 2 thinking - example - unconscious bias - example - symbolic incompleteness
The criminal-legal system, Weaver has written, “trains people for adistinctive and lesser kind of citizenship.”[16]
Desmond, Matthew. Poverty, by America. 1st ed. New York: Crown, 2023. https://amzn.to/40Aqzlp
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the next quality let's say of attachment would be like um feeling see
for - psychological infrastructure - attachment system - third quality - feeling seen - John Churchill
the second attachment process if you will of of internalization is Attunement
for - psychological infrastructure - attachment system - second quality - attunement - John Churchill - definition - attunement - John Churchill
little Johnny feel held we internalize the experience of Safety and Security okay so to the extent that you've done that you have a sense of faith and trust
for - psychological infrastructure - attachment system - first quality - internalizing safety generates faith and trust - John Churchill
attachment system
for - definition - attachment system - John Churchill
Class 2, Does Memory Matter? Why Are Universities Studying Slavery and Their Pasts? by David Blight for [[YaleCourses]]
@chrisaldrich Do you have some results from your online sessions? New insights from reading Doto's book?
Reply to @Edmund https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/comment/21907/#Comment_21907
Doto's book is the best and tightest yet for explaining both how to implement a Luhmann-artig zettelkasten as well as why along with the affordances certain elements provide. He does a particularly good job of providing clear and straightforward definitions which have a muddy nature in some of the online spaces, which tends to cause issues for people new to the practice. Sadly, for me, there isn't much new insight due to the amount of experience and research I bring to the enterprise.
I do like that Doto puts at least some emphasis on why one might want to use alphanumerics even in digital spaces, an idea which has broadly been sidelined in most contexts for lack of experience or concrete affordances for why one might do it.
The other area he addresses, which most elide and the balance gloss over at best, is that of the discussion of using the zettelkasten for output. Though he touches on some particular methods and scaffolding, most of it is limited to suggestions based on his own experience rather than a broader set of structures and practices. This is probably the biggest area for potential expansion and examples I'd like to see, especially as I'm reading through Eustace Miles' How to Prepare Essays, Lectures, Articles, Books, Speeches and Letters, with Hints on Writing for the Press (London: Rivingtons, 1905).
I could have had some more material in chapter 3 which has some fascinating, but still evolving work. Ideas like interstitial journaling and some of the related productivity methods are interesting, but Doto only barely scratches the surface on some of these techniques and methods which go beyond the traditional "zettelkasten space", but which certainly fall in his broader framing of "system for writing" promise.
Doto's "triangle of creativity", a discussion of proximal feedback, has close parallels of Adler and Hutchins' idea of "The Great Conversation" (1952), which many are likely to miss.
For those who missed out, Dan Allosso has posted video from the sessions at https://lifelonglearn.substack.com/ Sadly missing, unless you're in the book club, are some generally lively side chat discussions as the primary video discussion was proceeding. The sessions had a breadth of experiences from the new to the old hands as well as from students to teachers and everywhere in between.
Read A System for Writing by Bob Doto by [[Ton Zijlstra]] – Interdependent Thoughts
for - rapid whole system change - Nafeez Ahmed - planetary phase shift - Nafeez Ahmed - planetary adaptive cycle - Nafeez Ahmed - essay - The End of Scarcity? From ‘Polycrisis’ to Planetary Phase Shift - Nafeez Ahmed - 2024 Oct 16 - to - book - The Ascent of Humanity - chapter 8 Self and Cosmos: The Gaian Birthing - stillborn and the perilous journey through the womb - Charles Eisenstein
summary - This is a good article that makes sense of the inflection point that humanity now faces as it contends with multiple existential crisis - It summarizes the complexity of our polycrisis and its precarity and lays the theory for looking at the polycrisis from a different perspective: - as a planetary phase shift towards the potential end of scarcity and the next stage of our species evolution - Through the lens of ecologist Crawford Stanley Holling's lens of the adaptive cycle of ecological population dynamics, - and especially his 2004 paper "From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds" - Nafeez extends Holling's argument that we are undergoing a planetary adaptive cycle in which the back-loop is the dying industrial era. - In this sense, it is reminiscent of the writings of Charles Eisenstein in his book "The Ascent of Humanity", chapter 8: Self and Cosmos:, The Gaian Birth. - Eisenstein uses the the perilous journey of birth through the womb door as a metaphor of the transition we are currently undergoing.
to - paper - From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds - Crawford Stanley Holling - 2004 - https://hyp.is/KYCm2pFrEe-_PEu84xshXw/www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss1/art11/main.html?ref=ageoftransformation.org - book - The Ascent of Humanity - Chapter 8 - The Gaian Birthing - Charles Eisenstein - https://hyp.is/r8scTpG_Ee-gLTujlli5hQ/charleseisenstein.org/books/the-ascent-of-humanity/eng/the-gaian-birthing/
To galvanise the final reorganisation stage of the life cycle of industrial civilisation, we will need to
for - rapid whole system change - steps in the reorganization phase - experiment with - new decentralized models of localized ownership and creation - global collaborative models of product design and technology development - transborder mechanisms of political cooperation - participatory economic structures - worldviews which recognize the symbiosis of human life with the earth - values which privilege human-planetary interconnection and mutual thriving over unlimited material consumption for its own sake
This new way of seeing the world should place humanity’s emergence as a planetary species at its centre. That reveals the biggest information gap of all: the inability to see that we are in the midst of a great transformation that could entail the dawn of a whole new life cycle for humanity on a planetary scale.
for - whole system change - big picture - back loop of planetary adaptive cycle - entering the reorganization phase - regional to planetary life cycle
the emergence of greater vulnerability because of the increasing number of interconnections that link that wealth, and those who control it, in efforts to sustain it
for - quote / insight - decreased resiliency due to tight network of elites - From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds Crawford Stanley Holling - 2004 - creative alternatives - liminal spaces - rapid whole system change
quote / insight - decreased resiliency due to tight network of elites - (see quote below) - The front-loop phase is more predictable, - with higher degrees of certainty. - In both the natural and social worlds, - it maximizes production and accumulation. - We have been in that mode since World War II. - The consequence of this is not only an accumulation and concentration of wealth, - but also the emergence of greater vulnerability because of - the increasing number of interconnections that link that wealth, and - those who control it, - in efforts to sustain it. - Little time and few resources are available for alternatives that explore different visions or opportunities. - Emergence and novelty is inhibited. - This growing connectedness leads to increasing rigidity in its goal to retain control, - and the system becomes ever more tightly bound together. - This reduces resilience and the capacity of the system to absorb change, - thus increasing the threat of abrupt change. - We can recognize the need for change but become politically stifled in our capacity to act effectively.
to - quote - we are now in a back-loop of a planetary adaptive cycle - From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds - Crawford Stanley Holling - 2004 - https://hyp.is/FTRDoJFuEe-rsvdKeYjr0g/www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss1/art11/main.html?ref=ageoftransformation.org
comment - These ideas are quite important for those change actors working to emerge creative alternatives - liminal spaces - rapid whole system change
Arbib and Seba explain this by categorising human civilisation into two fundamentally intertwined complexes: the production system, encompassing all the foundational systems by which we meet fundamental material needs across energy, transport, food and materials (corresponding to ‘hardware’); and the organising system, encompassing how the former systems are governed, regulated and managed by society through economic, political, military, cultural and ideological structures and values (corresponding to ‘software’)
for - definition - production system ('hardware') - and organizing system ('software') - Arbib and Seba
definition Arbib and Seba - human civilization can be broken down into the interaction between two complimentary systems - the production system - by which we meet fundamamental material needs for food, energy, transportation, water, materials - also called 'hardware' - the organizing system - by which how the production system is governed and managed and includes the economy, polity, security, culture, ideology and values - also called 'software'
comment - A transformation is required in both the hardware and the software to mitigate the worst impacts of our current polycrisis
The front-loop phase is more predictable, with higher degrees of certainty. In both the natural and social worlds, it maximizes production and accumulation. We have been in that mode since World War II. The consequence of this is not only an accumulation and concentration of wealth, but also the emergence of greater vulnerability because of the increasing number of interconnections that link that wealth, and those who control it, in efforts to sustain it. Little time and few resources are available for alternatives that explore different visions or opportunities. Emergence and novelty is inhibited. This growing connectedness leads to increasing rigidity in its goal to retain control, and the system becomes ever more tightly bound together. This reduces resilience and the capacity of the system to absorb change, thus increasing the threat of abrupt change. We can recognize the need for change but become politically stifled in our capacity to act effectively.
for - quote - we are in a back-loop phase - From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds - Crawford Stanley Holling - 2004 - creative alternatives - liminal spaces - rapid whole system change
comment - This is important for discussion for change actors working in liminal spaces attempting to give birth to creative alternatives
Is it that we each do our own thing and we develop some form of in a collegiality between us, how to go forward?
The plan is to create a pool of learning and documents so that any one of us can apply for funding to create an FSC with a 501c3 as the legal entity with FSC bye laws that can be adapted
The emergenrt natur eis that we are holding spoace for the creation of an eco system of 501c3's with FSC bye laws
Value of knowledge in a zettelkasten as a function of reference(use/look up) frequency; links to other ideas; ease of recall without needing to look up (also a measure of usefulness); others?
Define terms and create a mathematical equation of stocks and flows around this system of information. Maybe "knowledge complexity" or "information optimization"? see: https://hypothes.is/a/zejn0oscEe-zsjMPhgjL_Q
takes into account the value of information from the perspective of a particular observer<br /> relative information value
cross-reference: Umberto Eco on no piece of information is superior: https://hypothes.is/a/jqug2tNlEeyg2JfEczmepw
Inspired by idea in https://hypothes.is/a/CdoMUJCYEe-VlxtqIFX4qA
Here's my setup: Literature Notes go in the literature folder. Daily Notes serve as fleeting notes. Project-related Notes are organized in their specific project folders within a larger "Projects" folder.
inspired by, but definitely not take from as not in evidence
Many people have "daily notes" and "project notes" in what they consider to be their zettelkasten workflow. These can be thought of as subcategories of reference notes (aka literature notes, bibliographic notes). The references in these cases are simply different sorts of material than one would traditionally include in this category. Instead of indexing the ideas within a book or journal article, you're indexing what happened to you on a particular day (daily notes) or indexing ideas or progress on a particular project (project notes). Because they're different enough in type and form, you might keep them in their own "departments" (aka folders) within your system just the same way that with enough material one might break out their reference notes to separate books from newspapers, journal articles, or lectures.
In general form and function they're all broadly serving the same functionality and acting as a ratchet and pawl on the information that is being collected. They capture context; they serve as reminder. The fact that some may be used less or referred to less frequently doesn't make them necessarily less important
Who were the Physiocrats?
for - definition - physiocrats - Steve Keen - economy - history - economic flow as biomimicry of body's circulation system
definition - physiocrat - During the 18th and 19th century, a group of mostly French "economists" led by Francois Quesnay, physician to the King of France at the time, performed some of the first autopsies of the time. - Autopsies were banned for the longest time for religious reasons - When Quesnay performed autopsies, he discovered networks of tubes in the circulation system and this led him to surmise a network of circulation in another field, economics - Quesnay advised the king, hence the name physiocrat - So modern economics has its roots in biology - it was a case of biomimicry!
when putting thoughts into words. Words that remain in our head are freeto exist independent of how they’re used by other people.
On one level, the reason is obvious: accountability. There’s a lot at stake...
except somehow for Donald J. Trump and some in identity politics...
How do they get around it? system 1 vs system 2
the ideas we capture, re ne, connect,and search for in our zettelkasten.
An alternate stating of the process: 1. capture<br /> 2. refine<br /> 3. connect<br /> 4. search
cross-reference earlier process: https://hypothes.is/a/HgcILIvyEe-OfdOArKZxGg
System
card system ⇒ system theory
In the early 1900s it was very common, especially in English speaking countries to call these note taking/paper database systems "card systems". Is it a wonder then that they may have helped to create "systems theory"?
In particular, look at Niklas Luhmann's work as well as Ross Ashby.
Example of a fleeting note triggered by a single word in a context, but with thoughts not relating at all to the specifics of the particular work.
practices related to having and capturing thoughts (chapters 1and 2); re ning thoughts into clear ideas that can be repurposed (chapter 3);connecting ideas across topics (chapters 4 and 5); developing theseconnections and making them accessible to you (chapter 6); andtransforming all the above into writing for readers—writing that can bereintegrated back into the system (chapters 7, 8 and 9).
Overview of Bob Doto's suggested process:<br /> 1. having and capturing thoughts<br /> 2. refining thoughts into clear ideas that can be repurposed<br /> 3. connecting ideas across topics<br /> 4. developing connections and making them accessible<br /> 5. transforming notes into writing for readers 6. re-integrating writing back into the system (he lumped this in with 5, but I've broken it out)
How do these steps relate to those of others?
Eg: Miles1905: collect, select, arrange, dictate/write (and broadly composition)
Another reason why it saves time is that here you canimply things instead of having to express them in full,for your Card-System and its Headings need only to beclear to yourself (see p. 67), whereas a complete Essayor Speech must be in Sentences and must be clear toyour readers or hearers as well. In the Cards you canuse all kinds of Abbreviations (p. 70) : these, again,need only be clear to yourself.
Miles touches on the interplay of knowledge written down on index cards and the knowledge which is kept only in one's mind. Some practitioners in the space from 2013-2024 seem to imply that they're writing almost everything out in far deeper detail than Miles would indicate. In his incarnation, much of the knowledge might be more quickly indicated by a short sentence or heading which the brain can associate to longer explanations.
This sort of indexing is akin to some of the method potentially seen in Marshall Mathers' zettelkasten.
I'm creating a tag here for "card index for productivity" to track the idea of productivity in writing which I'm specifically using separately from the tag "card index as productivity system" which is used to describe their use for project tracking systems in systems like GTD, Memindex, etc.
They are useful for other ptirposes, besides Essay-writing and Speaking. For instance, for Addresses,for Bills, and for Memoranda.
Unsurprising given that card systems were used for accounting in the early 1900s, but not many manuals cover the use of a card index for addresses (aka Rolodex) of for bills or memoranda.
I arrived at the Card-System by degrees, and was glad to findthat Prof. Wendell also recommended Cards. I have elaboratedthe System considerably in the last few months,
Miles doesn't specify how he comes by the practice of a "Card-System" other than "by degrees" as well as elaborating on it in the months before he writes this book.
(Having something more concrete would be nice though...)
At some point he read Barrett Wendell's book on composition (1891) to discover that he recommended cards as well.
they can beworked with extraordinary rapidity, especially if theyare combined with Dictation (see p. 69),
Dictation from index cards can be done quickly for drafting one's writing to improve the efficiency of composing and writing essays.
This is essentially the sort of advice which Nabokov used in his writing work in combination with his wife Vera.
The old Cards can be used in many ways. Youcan turn them upside-down, and treat the other endsimilarly, then you can turn them over ,and the backsof them will give you two more spaces to be used.Some might even use the four sides also ! After theCards are entirely covered, they can be used for scrap-books for Hospitals.
reuse of index cards
How exactly would fully used ("covered") cards be used for scrapbooks for Hospitals?
This is the great advantage of the Card-System overthe ordinary Scheme (on a single sheet of paper), forwith the latter one has to be thinking of two things atthe same time, namely, of the Arrangement of theIdeas as well as the Collection of the Ideas.
Using a card-system over writing on a single sheet of paper or in a notebook allows one to separate the thinking work. Instead of both capturing the idea and arranging them simultaneously, one is splitting these tasks into smaller parts for simpler handling.
Connecting Linkbetween twoSentences orParagraphs,
Miles, 1905 uses an arrow symbol with a hash on it to indicate a "connecting link between two Sentences or Paragraphs, etc."
It's certainly an early example of what we would now consider a hyperlink. It actively uses a "pointer" in it's incarnation.
Are there earlier examples of these sorts of idea links in the historical record? Surely there were circles and arrows on a contiguous page, but what about links from one place to separate places (possibly using page numbers?) Indexing methods from 11/12C certainly acted as explicit sorts of pointers.
Special Marks on Cards
Eustace Miles suggests the use of "special marks on cards" (annotations) in the top left corners, though he doesn't provide specific examples of how they might be used in practice. He does mention "The Abbreviations and Marks need be clear only to the Writer [sic] himself. They save ever so much time."
Special Marks on Cards
In Miles' visual examples of cards, he presents them in portrait (rather than landscape) orientation.
This goes against the broad grain of most standard card index filing systems of the time, but may be more in line with the earlier French use of playing cards orientation.
His portrait orientation also matches with the size ratios seen in his Card-Tray suggestion on p187. https://hypothes.is/a/llEgpIf4Ee-dVfcaIGUryQ
no false economy r
He's repeating (and thus emphasizing) the admonition that a card system is not expensive, particularly in relation to the savings in time and effort.
English composition: Eight lectures given at the Lowell Institute, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891.
evidence of a card system/zettelkasten method in this?
I found a copy and indeed there is evidence!
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