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  1. Oct 2022
    1. Editor’s note: I wrote this essay of approximately 7,000 words in about half a day’s work, including outlining, footnoting, and editing by drawing material directly from my own hybrid commonplace books/Luhmann-based Zettelkasten.

      Not really an Editor's Note as much as a Writer's, but this is in some sense the money quote and indicates the value to Chris of his practice. It would be instructive, I think, to see the raw material and how this essay emerged from it, but drawing aside the curtain may also dispel a lot of the magic.

    2. hiding

      hidden?

    3. the power of naming begins to wane here as the over-proliferation of names causes semantic collisions and worries when these systems and their adherents talk about related ideas online in broader overlapping publics

      This seems to me to be a crucial point. As names proliferate within any discourse, people in adjacent discourses can spend a lot more time discussing and defining the terms than getting on with useful work, a sure-fire attraction.

    4. guild

      gild

    5. tacitly

      I don't believe Chris means "tacit". I believe he intends the opposite, "explicit" here and below.