Excerpt from M. C. Escher, Metamorphosis III (1968) December 2020 Contents This guide and its embedded spaced repetition system were made possible by a crowd-funded research grant from my Patreon comm
Looking closely at dang near anything might very well be the key to it all. 1 With that in mind, I’ve been trying to get better at this, this deceptively simple act of looking closer. By dint of pande
Why I'm losing faith in UX By Mark Hurst • January 28, 2021 For many years I believed in UX. The so-called "user experience" of a website, app, or other digital product could spell the difference betw
If you wanted to eliminate disfavored ideas from a society, you’d begin by aggregating most of the world’s books onto a single platform. You’d hope to create a global network of gargantuan warehouses,
Hybrid teams have emerged for one simple reason: each of these three content contributors possesses unique skills, expert specializations and powerful networks. The best content marketing results from
You have 3 free articles left this month. Subscribe for unlimited access. Members log in . By the last day of November, the Buccaneers’ grand football experiment was tilting closer and closer to failu
The Discipline March 22, 2019 Microcosmographia lv: The Discipline Microcosmographia is a newsletter thing about honestly trying to understand design and humanity. After ten years away, I reread Anath
Early Thursday morning, Will Wilkinson, the vice president for policy at the Niskanen Center, tweeted out an extraordinarily ill-advised joke : “If Biden really wanted unity,” Wilkinson suggested, “he
A day after Joe Biden's inauguration, the headline in Axios read: “ Trust in media hits a new low. ” Felix Salmon wrote that “for the first time ever, fewer than half of all Americans have trust in tr
What’s wrong with social media? It’s a kind of prison experiment, where we’re just roping people into the matrix, and harvesting all this money and data from all their activity, to profit from. –Trist
In the past eight months, two Capitol Hills have fallen. Two shocking events symbolize the abdication of authority by America’s ruling class, an abdication that has led to what can be described, not w
(Getty Images) Thought comes before action. Words come before deeds. Media that profits from polarization will stoke it. Lies — maybe harmless for the moment, maybe even noble — create a lying world.
Nick Milo Aug 8, 2020 · 7 min read Are you into personal knowledge management (PKM)? Are you confused about when to use a folder versus a tag versus a link versus a Map of Content ? Let’s explore each
Note-taking has played an important role in human history. Ancient Greeks used the word hypomnema (ὑπόμνημα) to describe what could be translated as a note, a reminder, or an anecdotal record. Before
Photo: Melissa Hom Part I: The Mystery Things first began to feel off in March. While this sentiment applies to everything in the known and unknown universe, I mean it specifically in regard to Americ
In the Christian liturgical calendar, the weeks leading up to Christmas, when Advent is observed, are meant to be a season of anticipation. A stanza in the carol “O Holy Night,” often sung during Chri
For years I’ve debated writing a book about the self-care industry. I probably couldn’t get one published, but it’s fertile ground. The self-care industry is dedicated to the proposition that everyone
Jesse — November 15, 2020 ( Roam Research is a knowledge management tool that has taken a corner of the tech world by storm. It's not easy to use at first, but once you get a hang of the novel UI patt
By Geoff Roberts · 20 min read It’s late at night and you’re in your local subway station, ready to catch the final Red Line train home. The train is late per usual, and the station is quiet and dim—o
Roden Issue 048 December, 9, 2020 Creativity Bootcamp and the Long Walk Systems for creativity, using the body and mind Roden Readers — Hello from the Shinkansen! That feels almost heretical to write.
One of Roam’s goals is to encourage networked thought, so it’s important to learn how to use search to connect your ideas. While the Roam search functionality is not yet fully developed, the recent la
At Sunsama, our goal is to help our customers be thoughtful and intentional as they plan their day. It turns out, the best way to build a product that resonates with this mission is for us to be thoug
Three Basic Foundations of Transgenderism The question of transgender identity looks set to be significant for Christians both in matters of public life and pastoral care for the foreseeable future. T
Communicating with Slip Boxes An Empirical Account Niklas Luhmann I What follows is a piece of empirical sociology. It concerns me and someone else, namely my slip box [or index card file]. It should
Table of Contents Why are you reading this introduction? The chances are that you either have an immediate need to solve the riddle of knowledge work, feel overwhelmed by your master’s thesis, try to
Well-meaning individuals often make poor choices when it comes to reducing their carbon footprint by Seth Wynes , UBC PhD graduate in Geography You need to recycle for 7.5 years to reduce your emissio
If you went to a traditional school, chances are you were told to avoid distractions at all cost: keep your eyes on the teacher, take copious notes, don’t fidget on your chair, and don’t let your mind
Many Christian organizations, as they think about their treatment of gays and lesbians, and their theology of sexuality more generally, are “evolving,” or “in process,” or “on the journey.” And make n
Eat Corn on the cob with green coriander butter. Credit... Heami Lee for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Rebecca Bartoshesky. When I’m angry — which is often these day
Or, as an alternative, wordy title: The Theoretical Pyramid of Professional Development. Today, I want to chat about career skills, but if you’ll spare me a moment for a quick digression, I’d like to
Circuit Judge Consuelo M. Callahan, in last week’s decision by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, reversing the District Court’s ruling that Qualcomm was guilty of antitrust violations, opene
Joe Montana’s legacy in Kansas City began with a rancid smell wafting through the offensive meeting room. It brought to mind rotten eggs, or, less diplomatically, a fart, cruel and penetrating enough
Roam Research is a new note-taking tool that’s re-imagining the way that we capture information, and it takes many of its cues from the pre-internet era. Doing away with the traditional file and folde
Inspecting the inner mechanics of her television set, Björk ’s face lit up with wonder. “It looks like a little model of a city, all the houses and trees, and here are the wires, they really take care
When the deal to open training camps on time got done Friday, a call was organized for all the football people, coaches and GMs, in the NFL. Super Bowl champion coach Andy Reid was asked to speak. He’
When I am writing an article for my website or newsletter list, I try to focus on just that: writing . But the problem is that as I am writing, I am also thinking about what links, photos, or screensh
Luke 15:3-7 3 Then Jesus told them this parable: 4 “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until
My practice of writing Evergreen notes is heavily inspired by Niklas Luhmann’s Zettelkasten practice and its contemporary advocates. I use a different term both because there are some distinctions and
Books are easy to take for granted. Not any specific book, I mean: the form of a book. Paper or pixels—it hardly matters. Words in lines on pages in chapters. And at least for non-fiction books, one i
Last tended on June 28, 2020 🌱 Evergreen Andy Matuschak proposed the term Evergreen Notes to describe a system of note-taking that aspires towards cumulative personal knowledge, rather than simply inf