One more week into being off twitter. I continue to read 5am-club - the story surrounding the themes is a bit woo-woo, but the insights are quite interesting, so I continue to work through the book. I also started listening to David Allen’s Making it all Work.
Getting deeper into using the notecard system, aka zettelkasten. I have been making copious amounts of notes, and putting them away. I have start process them on a regular basis.
I continue to hack away at Cardamom, my homegrown solution to make “zettelkasten + knowledge lake + blog ” system. Seeing Are.na, gave me some more ideas, and confirmed my intutition about using small texts to build up to connecting dots.
Now that I’m off Twitter/X, I’m digging into my reeder feeds more, and also reading blogs more intently. Found two new blogs - <benkuhn.net> and the jsomers.net blog; Ben’s blog is built with Django, and James Somer’s blog has some intersting reads - speed matters; I believe in speed-as-a-core-value and The best general advice on earth — One line from William James’s 1890 classic, Principles of Psychology, Chapter IV, “Habit” connects with 5am-club:
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.