thoughts

🌲 The Best "Gamified X" App is a GAME

Pokémon Go has done more for my overall productivity than any number of attempts to make something like Habitica work for me.

Nov 19 •

🌲 The Konik Method for Organizing Electronic Notes

An update to the award-winning 2022-era Konik Method for Making Useful Notes, now that AI can do the grunt work for us.

Oct 1 •

🌲 The Konik Method for Making Analog Notes

Life is tradeoffs. Analog notes last longer but aren't as searchable. They are, however, useful, beautiful, and less distracting to create.

Sep 3 •

🌲 The Fastest Way to Learn Depends on Circumstance

What desert engineering and Paul Atriedes can teach us about tacit knowlege.

Jun 18 •

🌲 Familiarity with the Western Canon is Surprisingly Reassuring

It's amazing how much modern conservative rhetoric sounds like Augustus and Chesterton.

Jun 4 •

🌲 Why I like Twitter Threads more than Epic Novels

On clear communication, targeted narratives, taming project sprawl, & the typical mind fallacy.

Mar 14 •

🌲 AI cannot replace genuine human connection

That doesn't mean it's not incredibly useful, or economically disruptive, of course.

Feb 6 •

🌲 Heuristics for Hanging on to Things

On deciding what to save: recording thoughts, retaining references, & purging without regret

Nov 15, 2024 •

🌲 On what it means to not have time

People mean different things by "I can't--" ; it's ok to say you shouldn't.

Oct 3, 2024 •

🌲 On finding relevant notes when you need them

Another use-case where LLMs are genuinely useful and not overhyped nonsense

Sep 26, 2024 •

🌲 Themed logs are still more useful than daily notes

I group notes by purpose, not chronology. This method allows for more focus, easier retrieval, and less context switching.

Aug 29, 2024 •

🌲 On taste and paying attention to who you're influenced by

The emperor has no clothes; on letting (cultural) works stand naked before us when we evaluate their quality.

Aug 8, 2024 •

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