5 Matching Annotations
- Nov 2024
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boffosocko.com boffosocko.com
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No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and then finding the connections. There are always connections; you have only to want to find them.
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- Sep 2024
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world.hey.com world.hey.com
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In the valiant effort to combat imposter syndrome and gatekeeping, the programming world has taken a bad turn down a blind alley by celebrating incompetence.
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- Sep 2023
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takingnotenow.blogspot.com takingnotenow.blogspot.com
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There are no privileged places in the note-card system, every card is as important as every other card, and no hierarchy is super-imposed on the system. The significance of each card depends on its relation to other cards (or the relation of other cards to it). It is a network; it is not "arboretic." Accordingly, it in some ways anticipates hypertext and the internet.
Niklas Luhmann's zettelkasten system doesn't impose a heirarchy upon it's contents and in some ways its structure anticipates the ideas of hypertext and the internet's structure.
Also similar to the idea from Umberto Eco: https://hypothes.is/a/jqug2tNlEeyg2JfEczmepw
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- May 2022
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3stages.org 3stages.org
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No piece of information is superior to any other. Power lies in having them all on file and then finding the connections. There are always connections; you have only to want to find them. -- Umberto Eco. Foucault's Pendulum p. 190.
This is a stunning quote with respect to the idea of note taking and creating connections between pieces of information or knowledge.
It's highlighted to an even greater degree that this quote appears in someone's online digital commonplace book!
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- Sep 2021
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sakai.duke.edu sakai.duke.edu
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