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Tools of a Link Hoarder/Professional Procratinator
- raindrop.io
- readwise+reader
- obsidian/notion/notetaking tool of choice
Brief note on the WordCloud above – this comes from Librarything as is clearly indicated in the bottom right hand corner – it displays those writers who are found most frequently on my Calibre shelves. I find LibraryThing is a huge stepup compared to Good Reads or any of the other/social/reading trackers I’ve come across to date.
- are.na as a source of inspiration
- academic articles that are well written – especially really difficult articles you might never have understood. now you can read without fear – as soon as i hit a passage that seems incomprehensible to me i feed it through an llm of some sort to get the fundamental concept and then take another swing at it. rinse wash repeat – i found myself learning about some fairly complex notions in quantum physics that would have otherwise been off limits on account of jargon alone.
- this also makes me this that there is some degree to which the jargon was being used as a gatekeeping tactic and it will likely need to be replaced in order for some fields to maintain their prestige. how many fields that are off-limits to the public have developed a prestigious brand that is perhaps, just perhaps, at risk of being knocked down a peg or two once an idiocratic wikipedia emerges from the ai slop sewer (not as in ideology, rather, as in idiocracy)?
- obsidian
- readwise
- my simultaneously finished and unfinished novel
past
- Souvenirs: ★★★★☆
- the convoluted history of The Dreaming
- ending your day with an idea of the next sentence you need to write
- this one comes from one of those often quoted writers i can’t bring myself to waste time looking it up — he (i believe he was a he, it feels like a masculine sentiment—mostly bullshit, but hard to dispute) said that he stopped writing each day midway through a sentence, with the end of the sentence already in mind. this way, going back to work the next day he already had a place to start, an idea, a rhythm, etc.
- i like the idea, i try to leave curiosity prompts scattered about like legos. i’m forced to pick them up even if i don’t want to or they will stab me in the foot. when i pick them up i look at them, think through them, stoke my curiosity. the idea is to stockpile them.
- for this reason i am creating a new page with a bunch of legos i intend to step on: [link new page here]
- getting back to the page