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    1. Adler, Mortimer J. 1940. “How to Mark a Book.” Saturday Review of Literature 6: 250–52. https://www.unz.com/print/SaturdayRev-1940jul06-00011/ (January 11, 2023).

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      Summary

      • Marking a book helps in increasing "the most efficient kind of reading."
      • The marked (pun intended) difference between physical vs. intellectual ownership of books
      • 3 types of book owners:
          1. collector of wood pulp and ink
          1. one whose read most and dipped into some
          1. one who's annotated and sucked the marrow out of them
      • Active reading (annotating and staying awake) and engaging deeply, arguing with, and questioning the author is the point of reading.
      • A historical record of your active reading allows you to continue the conversation you've had with the author and yourself. (p12)
      • Adler's method of reading and marking:
        1. Underlining major points of importance
        2. Vertical lines for emphasis
        3. Marginal marks (stars, asterisks, etc.) (10-20 per book) to indicate the most important statements in conjunction with dogearing these pages for making it easier to find them subsequently
        4. Numbers in the margin to sequence arguments
        5. Page numbers in the margin for linking ideas across pages, ostensibly for juxtaposing them later
        6. Circling key words or phrases (unsaid here, but this is helpful for indexing as well as helping one to come to terms with the author)
        7. Marginal writing for synopsis of sections as well as questions raised by the text; use of endpapers for a personal index of ideas presented chronologically throughout the book
      • Objections to marking books:
        • Using scratch pad (or index cards, which he doesn't mention specifically, but which could be implied) so as not to destroy a precious or rare physical copy (this is a repetition from earlier in the article)
        • Marking slows you down. This is part of the point! Slowing down makes you engage with the author and get more out of the text.
        • You can't loan books because they contain your important thoughts which you don't want to give away (and lose the historical record of your thinking). Solution: Simply require friends to buy their own copy.
  2. Oct 2025
  3. Sep 2025
    1. “Our students are coming into school every day with greater needs in every aspect of their lives, including around their mental health. But the support just isn’t there to help teachers and staff,” said Bissegger.

      I found this very interesting because this is why educators need their admin to support them. If they are expected to juggle all the different parts of teaching then the support has got to be there. In many other articles I have read, I have heard that teachers feel unsupported and it begins to be a lot. It is okay that students come into school every day with greater needs, but if we need to help them, then someone has to help us.

    1. Brown, John Seely, and Paul Duguid. “A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists.” 2000. Emerging Technologies: Ethics, Law and Governance, by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, edited by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, 1st ed., Routledge, 2020, pp. 65–71.

      via: https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188_W16/Reprints/Response_to_BillJoy.pdf

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      A reprint of: <br /> - “Re-Engineering the Future: A Response to Bill Joy and the doom-and-gloom technofuturists,” The Industry Standard, John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. 24 April 2000, p.196. - “A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists,” AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2001, edited by Albert H. Teich, Stephen D. Nelson, Celia McEnaney and Stephen J. Lita, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2001.

      Cross reference: Bill Joy's paper and notes at urn:x-pdf:753822a812c861180bef23232a806ec0

    1. Joy, Bill. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” Wired, April 1, 2000. https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/.

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      Reprints available at: - Joy, Bill. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” 2000. AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2001, edited by Albert H. Teich et al., Amer Assn for the Advancement of Science, 2002, pp. 47–75. Google Books, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Integrity_in_Scientific_Research/0X-1g8YElcsC.<br /> - Joy, Bill. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” 2000. Emerging Technologies: Ethics, Law and Governance, by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, edited by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, 1st ed., Routledge, 2020, pp. 65–71.

  4. Aug 2025
    1. https://sustainingcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/02/01/4-types-of-power/#comment-122967

      Given your area, if you haven't found it yet, you might appreciate going a generation further back in your references with: Mary P. Follett. Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett, ed. by E. M. Fox and L. Urwick (London: Pitman Publishing, 1940). She had some interesting work in organization theory you might appreciate. Wikipedia can give you a quick overview. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Parker_Follett#Organizational_theory

    1. Themed logs are still more useful than daily notes<br /> by [[Eleanor Konik]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-18T09:19:49

      On ordering notes in particular ways. Presumably search and indexing are the important factors here, but potentially also has something to say about context and the immediacy of neighborhoods.

      Personal preference may be the biggest determination.

      She focuses on where she'll search for things rather than indexing them where they start and then searching and concatenating them later (or digitally).

      She uses the "everything has it's place" idea to commonplace more traditionally (or at least in an Obsidian digital context).

      She also tangentially touches on the idea of where to place the work when taking notes. Toss it into a pile or deal with it now and the work it may take to clean up later.

      Some interesting and potentially useful idiosyncratic evidence here, but nothing new or earth shattering.

    1. Portable Typewriters Today - February 2015<br /> by [[Will Davis]] on 2015-02-10<br /> accessed on 2025-08-05T16:35:48

    1. They Don’t Read Very Well: A Study of the ReadingComprehension Skills of English Majors at Two MidwesternUniversitiesSusan Carlson, Ananda Jayawardhana, Diane MinielCEA Critic, Volume 86, Number 1, March 2024, pp. 1-17 (Article)Published by Johns Hopkins University PressDOI:For additional information about this articlehttps://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2024.a922346https://muse.jhu.edu/article/922346[149.40.62.25] Project MUSE (2025-08-03 17:52 GMT)

      Susan Carlson, Ananda Jayawardhana, Diane Miniel, They Don't Read Very Well. A Study of the Reading Comprehension Skills of English Majors at Two Midwestern Universities. In: CEA Critic 86 (2024) 1, pp. 1--17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1343/cea.2024.a922346

    1. Godrej & Boyce's Milind Dukle tells the Business Standard: "From the early 2000 onwards, computers started dominating. All the manufacturers of office typewriters stopped production, except us. Till 2009, we used to produce 10,000 to 12,000 machines a year. "We stopped production in 2009 and were the last company in the world to manufacture office typewriters. Currently, the company has only 500 machines left. The machines are of Godrej Prima, the last typewriter brand from our company, and will be sold at a maximum retail price of Rs 12,000."

      The World's Last Typewriter Factory Closes in India - Business Insider<br /> by [[Gus Lubin]] for Business Insider accessed on 2025-08-01T09:26:55

      Godrej & Boyce manufactured typewriters to 2009 and were selling off their final machines in 2011.

  5. Jul 2025
    1. Whittle, Alasdair. Review of Memory, Myth and Long-Term Landscape Inhabitation, edited by Adrian M. Chadwick and Catriona D. Gibson. Archaeological Journal 172, no. 2 (July 3, 2015): 493–94. https://doi.org/10.1080/00665983.2015.1040685.

      Mediocre viewpoint of the overall research, in part because claims are not logically proven.

      I'll note that the reviewer is approaching things from a Western perspective and not that of an indigenous person whose culture relies heavily upon or(primary) orality.

    1. Opinion: This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts Education by [[Jennifer Frey]] 2025-07-17 in New York Times

      Frey argues that it's college administrators who are killing off the idea of a liberal arts education. In her experience, students are thrilled to be in these programs and participate in them.


      Me: Some of the pressure, also indicated here, is from toxic capitalism which is pressuring students to be only career-focused in their educational journeys. This pressure leaves much less space for the humanities.

      Read: Fri 2025-07-18 7:13 PM Updated: 2025-07-19

    1. choice of the right algorithm for a given dataset has become difficult due to numerous comparative reports on these different assemblers [88, 89]

      What does the choice of algorithm depend on?

  6. Jun 2025
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    1. We show that sylph’s ANI estimation is accurate and apply it to species-level profiling through a principled 95% ANI cutoff

      Read this paper to figure out why 95% cutoff is called "Principled"

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    1. Begun, George M. “Making Your Own Punched Cards.” Journal of Chemical Education 32, no. 6 (June 1, 1955): 328. https://doi.org/10.1021/ed032p328.

      George Begun used a template of "heavy galvanized iron" to drill holes into his 5 x 8" index cards to create his own edge-noted card system for use in his chemistry work. Rather than using commercially made sorting needles, he recommended the use of a ice pick with a dulled point "for safety".