对智能体记忆系统的批判性审视。当前业界没有一刀切的完美架构，记忆模块的设计必须与具体的任务瓶颈相匹配。这打破了“通用记忆系统”的幻想，提示我们在构建 Agent 时需要针对局部维护成本和任务特征进行定制化设计。

该提议触及了AI时代财富分配的深层矛盾。政府试探性地提出将企业的超额AI利润转化为全民红利，这不仅反映了政策制定者对科技垄断的警惕，也暗示了AI引发的技术性失业需要激进的财富再分配机制来平息社会不满，值得深入探讨。

文章揭示了AI热潮中的非共识性社会阻力。当科技公司描绘人形机器人在工厂取代人力的美好愿景时，劳工阶层并未被动接受。这种自动化技术带来的直接就业威胁引发了强烈的反弹，表明AI的商业化落地必须跨越深刻的政治经济障碍。

这是一个反直觉的关键背景信息。尽管政府规划了五年内DRAM产量翻倍的宏伟目标，但业界高管指出过去建设一个芯片集群就花了九年。这暗示政府的政治时间表与产业实际落地周期之间存在严重脱节，产能缓解可能遥遥无期。

这些惊人的具体数字暴露出AI产业的隐形资源代价。14.3吉瓦的电力需求和海量水资源对韩国的气候与环保目标构成直接挑战。在AI繁荣的背后，高耗能基础设施对当地环境承载力的压榨是一个反直觉但亟待关注的关键问题。

这是一句非常生动的金句。陪审员的这句话解释了为何检方会败诉：普通人对AI工具的日常使用已经祛魅。将探索性的AI对话视为性格缺陷或犯罪预谋，在广泛使用AI的公众眼中缺乏说服力，体现了技术普及对司法实践的反向影响。

通过基层工程师的口吻给出高度正面的评价，是常见的公关金句手法。这种非量化的主观感受被用来佐证“日常工作中不可或缺”这一论点。批判性阅读时应注意，个案的 enthusiasm（热情）无法等同于系统性的投资回报率（ROI），需警惕以个体 testimonials 代替群体效能评估的修辞陷阱。

“释放了每周约82小时的安全团队产能”是一个引人注目的量化指标，但修饰语“directional estimate（方向性估计）”暴露了该数据的非严谨性。这种表述常用于企业公关以规避精确审计，读者应警惕此类将模糊估算转化为具体工时收益的话术，需考察其计算模型是否经得起推敲。

“一天解决原本需一个月的bug”是典型的反直觉观点和吸睛金句。这里的“estimated（估计）”一词表明数据带有强烈的主观预判色彩。一个月的工作量被压缩至一天，究竟是AI的功劳，还是原本的时间评估过于冗长？这需要更严谨的对比实验数据来支撑，而非单一的个案估计。

这是一组非常具体的生产力数据。但在批判性阅读时需追问：这122个PR是否都被成功合并？其代码质量、安全性和长期可维护性如何？“几周内完成”的基准线是否过于模糊？此类数据在公关稿中常被用来夸大AI工具的效用，需结合代码审查通过率等硬指标进行交叉验证。

该新闻标题将原油价格的微涨直接归因于和平努力的维持和长周末效应。这是一种带有简化因果论偏见的市场叙事。在批判性阅读视角下，原油价格波动受供需基本面、OPEC+政策等多重复杂变量影响，不宜单线归因。

页面嵌入了针对代码为ANTHROPIC的纳斯达克股票图表链接。这一隐含信息暗示Anthropic已经完成IPO并上市交易，或者TradingView平台创建了相关的追踪代码。这是一个值得深入核查的关键背景数据，用以评估该公司的市场化进程。

文章正文完全被付费墙阻挡，这构成了严重的批判性阅读障碍。读者无法核实该AI平台的具体功能、目标用户群或商业定价模式。这种信息真空容易导致市场参与者仅凭标题进行情绪化交易，需警惕信息不对称带来的认知偏差。

这篇文章的核心论点是关于未来工程师的角色转变，需要深入探讨这种转变的必要性和其对行业的影响。

此声明提出了一个关于软件开发瓶颈的新观点，需要进一步分析以确定其是否准确，以及它如何影响软件开发流程。

本文解释了为什么微代理应该属于路由器，因为路由器已经拥有微代理所需的所有东西，这是对微代理概念的重要阐述。

本文强调路由器在微代理中的核心作用，包括控制预算、策略、拓扑、跟踪和故障模式，这是对关键概念的重要解释。

本文提出最佳循环模式应与任务形状相匹配，这是一个非共识的观点，挑战了传统的一刀切方法。

指出将信号隐藏在系统提示符中使得其他隐私声明更难以相信，强调了透明度的重要性。

需要核查Apptronik与Google DeepMind的合作关系，以及他们是否真的有创建“机器人安卓系统”的雄心。

需要核实的是Robot Park和其他全球站点是否真的在收集Apollo 2机器人在物流和制造中的真实世界数据，以及这些数据是否真的对Apollo 3的性能和可扩展性至关重要。

这里提到的Apollo 3是否真的是Apptronik的第一个真正产品，以及它是否真的会在明年推出，需要进一步验证。

需要核查的是Apptronik是否真的宣布了Robot Park，这个90,000平方英尺的物理AI数据工厂，以及Apollo 3这一下一代人形机器人。

文章强调AI浏览器本地运行的风险，需要进一步探讨这种本地化如何增加了安全风险。

文章提到多种AI浏览器受影响，这表明问题的普遍性，需要调查这些浏览器的安全措施和用户数量。

这里提到的恶意网站和逻辑陷阱是攻击方法的核心，需要深入了解其技术细节和潜在的防范措施。

原文提到的破坏性行动如提取代码或凭证，需要核实这些行为的具体实例和可能性。

这里提到的‘虚假现实’和‘行为规则不再适用’是研究的关键发现，需要进一步调查这些发现的具体内容和影响。

文章提到主人公的PET扫描结果模糊不清，需要核查PET扫描的准确性和解释标准，以及医生建议放射疗法的依据。

文章提到AI模型吸收了全部医学文献，但没有提供具体的信息或数据来支持这一观点，需要深入了解AI模型的具体功能和医学文献的覆盖范围。

建议初学者访问GitHub页面以获取全面的TabArena基准测试结果，这是一个值得注意的批判性阅读建议。

本文指出电力生成将是数据中心负荷增长的主要瓶颈，这是对电力行业挑战的深入分析。

本文提供了具体的数字预测，指出每年新增的净ELCC容量仅为15GW，但到本世纪末将增加到20GW以上。

本文提供了一个清晰的图表，展示了预测的三个核心组成部分，有助于初学者理解预测模型。

本文指出电网容量增长不足，并需要满足非数据中心负荷增长的需求，这是对电网挑战的准确描述。

实际应用中，AI代理的成功不仅仅依赖于技术，还需要组织支持，如审查循环、工具和持续工作流程。

Tokenmaxxing（过度使用代币）是一个需要注意的问题，应该将其作为基准来评估AI工具的使用。

Via [[Frank Meeuwsen p]] - [ ] return #openweb #pkm #writing

Much to unpack that is convoluted here. K generation e.g. , when k needs an observer. Or epistemological centipede when no original input remains

• The Profession of "Coverage": Clarke Speicher works as a freelance professional book reader, a rare and highly specific Hollywood gatekeeper who evaluates literature solely to determine its potential for screen adaptation. He reads books blindly sent by agents or executives and writes a detailed, beat-by-beat synopsis known in the industry as "coverage."
• Massive Reading Volume: To make a living in the modern gig economy, Speicher reads about six books a week. Over a 25-year career, this volume totals more than 6,000 books—amounting to roughly 300 books a year, or one every two days, excluding his personal reading.
• The "Secret" Power Balance: Speicher's evaluation ends in a binary choice to either "pass" or "consider" a property. For years, he was the principal reader for a powerful, high-profile producer, meaning his personal opinion on a manuscript routinely decided whether multi-million dollar film deals lived or died.
• The Evolution of the Pipeline: The bridge between publishing and Hollywood has transformed. Studios used to maintain dedicated physical offices in New York to scout books, requiring Speicher to physically pick up manuscripts. Today, the job is entirely digital and highly isolated; Speicher hasn't stepped into an office in seven years and has only ever met two other industry readers in person.
• What Makes a Book Adaptable: According to Speicher, successful adaptations rely on plot and a strong "hook" rather than dense, beautiful prose. High literary works driven entirely by interior character thoughts (like Mrs. Dalloway or A Little Life) are incredibly difficult to translate visually, whereas thrillers or books with a clear, single-sentence conceit (like Hamnet) inherently thrive in a visual medium.

Dex Horthy's retraction of his previous stance and emphasis on code reading suggest a shift towards a more cautious approach in AI development.

intersting - look for a study

See: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/f-shaped-pattern-reading-web-content-discovered/

Stop Meeting Students Where They Are<br /> by [[Walt Hunter]] in The Atlantic accessed on 2026-03-07T09:25:37 Read: Sun 2/8/2026 7:42 PM

check out study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10606230/ Seems inconclusive.

How do you do this?

Does the tactile nature of reading print help memory and focus in other ways?

Could be a good read for religious architecture?

Reading

Search for review/summary of this 2017 book. [[The Reading Mind by Daniel T Willingham]]

The selection of sources suggested by this text is impressively wide and good.

Moon+ Android ebook/pdf reader app. Via [[Chris Aldrich p]] The text suggest some things the images don't really show ('finger reader' e.g.) also not in the app store. Plus version is 13Euro.

Are emojis processed like words?: Eye movements reveal the time course of semantic processing for emojified text in Zotero

[[Reading in the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene]] https://archive.org/details/readinginbrainne0000deha

Auteur gebruikt emoji als visuele marker van een categorie aan begin regel. Visuele bulletpoint. Neemt aan dat dat geen verstoring geeft.

Are emojis processed like words?: Eye movements reveal the time course of semantic processing for emojified text in Zotero

Emojis in text clash with reading (two different modes of processing) esp when the emoji are incongruent.

https://accelareader.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/1q42cxn/update_on_the_reading_app_i_always_wanted_recall/

I don’t think I had ever considered this. There was always a desire to finish books quickly, and I have been admonishing myself for not reading fast enough. Perhaps it is time to slow down with purpose; or rather treat my natural slow reading as intentional and give it purpose.

https://quotefancy.com/quote/1256971/St-Jerome-To-read-without-writing-is-to-sleep

source?

AI features in Calibre. discuss book w C, book suggestions, and LMStudio back-end. I set up Calibre w the LM Studio back-end, so things remain loca.

A posting elsewhere suggested it woud also suggest better metadata through AI. But that article seems generated itself, so disregarded.

[[Elja Daae]] recommended reading list wrt AI [[Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O Neil]] (have it since 2017) [[Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia]] bought it in August in ramsj [[The Digital Republic by Jamie Susskind]] I noted in 2024 as possible reading. [[Atlas van de digitale wereld by Haroon Sheikh]] I have too Other's are unknown to me. Interesting list, as it shaped their view on their role in AI public policy I presume

(https://youtu.be/91t7U1SjCTU)

In this YouTube video, “The Defence of Guenevere” is read by a female narrator whose soft, but firm tone highlights Guenevere’s resilience during her defense, making Guenevere appear more assertive. The narrator’s voice demonstrates Guenevere’s emotional state more vividly and convincingly, allowing listeners to better empathize with her defense against Sir. Gauwaine and other knights.

Reading one's work out loud is an excellent way of discovering wordings that don't work or which may be boring. [32:45]

https://www.instagram.com/nprfreshair/reel/DNVlf2tMstg/?hl=en

Terry Gross reading a book has rendered it useless for others to read.

Dog earing of top corner for interesting sections or questions she may have for the author.

Dog earing bottom corner as an indicator of remembering facts for the intro or for sentences she wants to quote.

Uses front of book for connecting themes and focus, so she won't forget it.

Introductions/prologues for quick overviews of what the book is about and why they wrote it.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNYh6b_uBwd/?hl=en

Terry Gross reads slowly to start and speeds up as she continues. She annotates and dog-ears as she reads and then makes notes and questions after she's done.

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).

Annotations: https://via.hypothes.is/https://docdrop.org/download_annotation_doc/Adler---1940---How-to-Mark-a-Book-fehef.pdf

Annotations alternate: https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?user=chrisaldrich&max=100&exactTagSearch=true&expanded=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocdrop.org%2Fdownload_annotation_doc%2FAdler---1940---How-to-Mark-a-Book-fehef.pdf

Prior [.pdf copy]9https://stevenson.ucsc.edu/academics/stevenson-college-core-courses/how-to-mark-a-book-1.pdf): - Annotations https://hypothes.is/users/chrisaldrich?q=url%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fstevenson.ucsc.edu%2Facademics%2Fstevenson-college-core-courses%2Fhow-to-mark-a-book-1.pdf<br /> - Alternate annotation link https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?user=chrisaldrich&max=100&exactTagSearch=true&expanded=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fstevenson.ucsc.edu%2Facademics%2Fstevenson-college-core-courses%2Fhow-to-mark-a-book-1.pdf

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.

Five Books

mentioned by ES @ DABC<br /> Five books recommended by experts in particular areas.

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

Gutting Book Basics by [[Thomas Vander Wal]]

Problem: This seems to be MOSTLY about the devaluation of diplomas?

But there is not only understanding involved in this, but also "taste" specific to a group and cultural "class".

There is also some tech involved here. SparkNotes as a tool for understanding. It is unclear if they have problems readings because they lack the skill in the first place or because they are to dependent on tech to maintain it.

Attention seems to be a problem here. Novels are nothing to be skimmed (okay that is very much my bias).

This is hard. almost two thirds could not understand the paragraphs?

Idea of the repertoire is crucial, this can explain parts of why somethings are understandable and others not.

See above, as training a skill on ones own is initself something that needs to be trained.

What's the definition of abstract here? I mean a novel is not abstract in the same way as news paper article or scientific paper.

Have to look this up, but this might be dependent on culture and historical moment -- how important is the verbalization of writing (and often scripture). Thinking here of Plato's time when reading aloud was seen as the easier one to understand in contrast to repetition from memory. Or the Romans and early Christianity where silent reading was not as common.

Assumptions like this always are based on the implicit bias that either the students share a somewhat similar social background with the professors or that the school system works well enough to establish the same reading skill in most people.

California is finally adopting phonics, fulfilling a grandmother's dream - Opinion by [[Dan Walters]]

How to gut a book by [[Naomi Standen]]

for - question - language training - ALG - listening and speaking first - when does reading and writing appear?

575k books published yearly in EU. Contains several pointers to initiatives to foster literary diversity / multilingual approaches. [[Europa kracht in diversiteit 20060610163705]]

Please excuse me for saying this but why does there have to have men in attendance since this is a Woman's Rights Convention? Are the men feeling like they are missing something or perhaps a male dominance issue? Was Frederick Dougla.

https://www.maggiedelano.com/garden/syntopical-reading-in-roam by Maggie Delano

• pick out one theme and see how it is developed throughout the book

good idea!

which is why i love books that provide an introduction to the author before the actual content. i find that the authors are equally (or more) interesting as the work itself.

love this. i haven't tried reading an essay collection but i definitely want to now

How to Study. 16mm, Instructional film. Coronet Instructional Films, 1946. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRK70kyaWOI.

Daniel Born places Oprah and her book club into the tradition of Adler & Hutchins' The Great Books of the Western World.

Sedo, DeNel Rehberg, ed. Reading Communities from Salons to Cyberspace. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230308848.

Reading to deepen understanding suggests any book and go through, find online chapter summaries in target langauge, listen to audiobook while reading it, as it forces you along.

Paul Conkin 1929-2022 no wikipedia page, US historian suggested to graduate students to spend an hour reflecting for every hour read. Anecdotal quote from David Blight lecture (link to vid in post). There is a point here, wrt to keeping one's own pace and intent behind attention. [[Attention literacy and the value of slow learning 20211209063437]] [[Stuur aandacht met intentie 20220213080032]]

https://www.zotero.org/groups/4676190/tools_for_thought/tags/note%20taking%20manuals/items/F8WSEABT/item-list

source?

Where is the origin of this reading analogy?

Sounds like you're doing what Mortimer J. Adler and Charles van Doren would call "inspectional reading" and outlining the space of your topic. This is both fine and expected. You have to start somewhere. You're scaffolding some basic information in a new space and that's worthwhile. You're learning the basics.

Eventually you may come back and do a more analytical read and/or cross reference your first sources with other sources in a syntopical read. It's at these later two levels of reading where doing zettelkasten work is much more profitable, particularly for discerning differences, creating new insights, and expanding knowledge.

If you want to think of it this way, what would a kindergartner's zettelkasten contain? a high school senior? a Ph.D. researcher? 30 year seasoned academic researcher? Are the levels of knowledge all the same? Is the kindergartner material really useful to the high school senior? Probably not at all, it's very basic. As a result, putting in hundreds of atomic notes as you're scaffolding your early learning can be counter-productive. Read some things, highlight them, annotate them. You'll have lots of fleeting notes, but most of them will seem stupidly basic after a month or two. What you really want as main notes are the truly interesting advanced stuff. When you're entering a new area, certainly index ideas, but don't stress about capturing absolutely everything until you have a better understanding of what's going on. Then bring your zettelkasten in to leverage yourself up to the next level.

• Adler, Mortimer J. “How to Mark a Book.” Saturday Review of Literature, July 6, 1940. https://www.unz.com/print/SaturdayRev-1940jul06-00011/
• Adler, Mortimer J., and Charles Van Doren. How to Read a Book: The Classical Guide to Intelligent Reading. Revised and Updated edition. 1940. Reprint, Touchstone, 2011.

reply to u/jack_hanson_c at https://old.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/1g9dv9b/is_scoping_the_subject_a_counterzettelkasten/

"You can see I have quite a lot notes I have to make."

This is a difference in mentality between Ryan Holiday and me (as well as Muhammed Ali Kilic)

@M.AKilic50

Our mentality (inspired by GTD and other standard productivity stuff, mostly Flow) is to avoid creating homework.

You don't HAVE to make notes on something. You select what you deem valuable and are interested in working with at the moment.

Because of the marginal gains effect I wrote about earlier, it doesn't matter if you don't make a lot of notes. Besides, you can always return later--especially with a proper bib card and potentially a custom index/ToC for a book.

A Zettelkasten is the lazy man's path to excellence.

(this is an ironic statement of mine because a Zettelkasten asks a lot of work over time. However, it doesn't have to be on a day to day basis. Plus you work only on what you want, hence it doesn't require that much discipline.)

"If you do one or two positive contributions a day, it adds up." - Ryan Holiday

Perhaps this is the essence of both Zettelkasten and Commonplace books; Marginal Gains.

Exponentional Increase over time. Upon first glance, it seems linear (1+1 = 2)... However, the formula is different because, at least in Zettelkasten, a new note means N new possible connections as this new note can virtually be connected to all other notes. In a Zettelkasten this is explicit, in a commonplace book connections are implicit.

Engaging in a Zettelkasten/Commonplace book in this way is equal to inherent spaced repetition and recall perhaps?

Especially if you allow some time of rumination... Read book, wait a few days to a few weeks before processing it. The book's contents remain in the back of your mind.

Then when processing you get engaged with the substance again and therefore interrupt the ebbinghaus curve.

Perhaps I need to argue more with the authors and the content, as Adler & van Doren also recommend.

This might be a limitation in (the way I do) Zettelkasten. Because I am not writing in the margins and not engage in "tearing up" the book, I am less inclined to argue against/with the work.

Maybe I need to do this more using bib-card. Further thought on implementation necessary...

Perhaps a different reason is that I like to get through most books quickly rather than slowly. Sometimes I do the arguing afterward, within my ZK.

I need to reflect on this at some point (in the near future) and optimize my processes.

https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/how-much-does-obamas-summer-reading-list-cost-your-library

How to Read a Book by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, Part 1

Amazing series by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf on Adler and van Doorns How to Read a Book. Part 2 is here: . How to Read a Book, Part 2 by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

relationship to Adler's levels of reading?

This chapter is essentially what one ought to glean from skimming the TOC, the Index, and doing a brief inspectional read (Adler, 1972).

Learning and Intellectualism can both be found in the act of comparison, or more broadly, analysis. One must do this perpetually when reading to dissect and gain most (long-term) (syntopical) value out of it.

In other words, Luhmann is urging to engage in pattern recognition.

True intellectual work using the Zettelkasten demands pattern recognition when reading. Domain specific knowledge + pattern recognition = efficient reading; for it allows to distinguish signal from noise, value from trash.

Is this a criticism by Luhmann on the conventional notion of syntopical reading in Adlerian terms? Probably without knowing Adler's work.

Because science/truth work (knowledge) is constantly in revision, conventional syntopical reading on a topic of science is without necessary value?

Perhaps unless stored and expanded upon in a ZK?

Further thought is required to disseminate this paragraph.

One must read analytically (cf Adler & van Doren) in order to grasp the meaning behind text. Or perhaps syntopically by default if one performs the Zettelkasten method.

Conventional Syntopical Reading is "immediate" and project-based, at least in Adlerian terms, that is.

However, when doing Zettelkasten work, one is perpetually reading syntopically and therefore I would call it Delayed Syntopical Reading

Stroop effect

In psychology, the Stroop effect is the delay in reaction time between congruent and incongruent stimuli.

Strange Loops: Reading a Book on How to Read a Book by [[Sascha Fast]]

Not quite sure of what Fast is getting at here. Language barrier perhaps?

For true deep processing and learning, intellectualism, one must think beyond the single source they are consuming and think about everything they know. Although keep in mind selective attention for true learning and thinking.

This process is habitualized by means of Zettelkasten and further aided in tool like hypothes.is

Unrelated to the song itself. It is interesting that different people interpret the song's meaning differently. Likely due to individual differences in perspective, history, culture, etc.

Makes me reflect. Is knowledge/wisdom contained solely in content and words? Or is knowledge/wisdom rather contained in the RELATIONSHIP, the INTERACTION, between past experience, previous knowledge (identity) and substance?

Currently I am inclined to go for the latter.

When switching, do this only at the end of a chapter, not in media res (in the middle of action).

Also summarize the last thing that happened/got explained for an easy refresher the next time you get back.

Bib-Card? Potentially Marginaelia? Feeling more like a dedicated notebook for this. Need to work out.

Vashik does this summary of a chapter on index cards... Useful to do in a Zettelkasten, or too much effort?

Vashik recommends to keep a list of books to read. I can do this on Obsidian, but I also keep a reading log like Parker Settecase recommends.

For parallel reading, read multiple different genres/topics to prevent confusion and boredom.

Due to this time/mood conundrum, you can read books that you do feel like reading.

Cothran, Ann, and George E. Mason. “The Typewriter: Time-Tested Tool for Teaching Reading and Writing.” The Elementary School Journal 78, no. 3 (1978): 171–73. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1001415

No new results here, but a modest overview and literature review of research on typewriters in classrooms.

One must wonder if the early use of typewriters to teach reading and writing research matches that of modern day use of computers and tablets in the same classrooms?

He recommends to read in the following order, because of thematic significance, I have to determine if I'll do the same.

Books: - A Defence of Classical Education, R. W. Livingstone - Weapons of Mass Instruction, John Taylor Gatto - The Republic, Plato - The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis - Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, Étienne de La Boétie - The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek - The Political Theory of the American Founding, Thomas G. West

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Fascinating. Rob Pierri mentions that there had been a shift in education from the development of the soul to the development of monetizable skills... Keep society manageable.

The question that remains for me is, what will ultimately leave society better and advance it? In the end, what matters more, the material or the immaterial? Why?

Useful tip to collect wise sayings; mark them in the book and write "Proverb" next to them, or a symbol...

Can also then write the page number on your bib card, or perhaps a dedicated index card to proverbs per book.

According to Vashik Armenikus, reading and book collecting becomes an obsession/addiction when you do it indiscriminately, without thought, without taking into account the bigger picture.

Fascinating and troublesome is the idea that older books are being edited to be less "offensive" in modern times. This alters the meaning of the past. Do not do this.

Keep it original.

This person argues that one should cultivate a personal library, the tangibleness of the physical, to safeguard knowledge and prevent information control from falling to a single institution or person, so that they may never control the past.

I think he should go deeper into his argument, I do not fully understand what he means.

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This explanation of why to read books in a certain order in dependency of each other is analogous to why a Zettelkasten (in Luhmannian sense) cannot be used collaboratively.

In order for someone else to understand your notes (not meant to be published), they would have to understand both the source text you are referencing and the implicit references you make. Things you understand instinctively and do not need to write down.

Because others do not have your experiences and worldview, it is more difficult for them, perhaps impossible, to completely comprehend your Zettels, your notes.

( ~5:00 ) Reading Aids should be used after initial interpretation. This is to prevent framing bias.

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Suggested to train analytical reading in high school.

reading as a leading indicator of cultural shift to help provide power to women and non-whites.

Was the Great Books idea being pressed towards "men" a means of pushing back against this in some sense?

For over 2 decades I struggle with this. Because my paraphrasing is mostly unsuited for my blog, regularly because it is mixed language and often bc it contains words that serve as shorthand. A blog is more performance, written for not-me, while annotation is for me, and after editing might be publishable for not-me. Annotating publicly here in .h, even if the readership is highly limited, introduces a level of performance-awareness for me. At times I've done annotated link blogging, but it never became a practice as with [[Stephen Downes]].

https://danallosso.substack.com/p/science-of-reading-meeting-2