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@joeywingster.bsky.social that’s wonderful. Motion sickness would prevent me from writing like that unfortunately

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@ausrtho Yes, but I’d probably find your location quite exotic, trains or no trains

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@joeywingster.bsky.social you’re not writing while driving are you? I suppose dictation might work. But travel generally seems good for writing

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@lmika Should be easy to arrange!

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I find writing on the train works well. It helps that there’s a good view.\nAnyone else do this?

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#writing #notetaking #writingcommunity #photography

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@lmika to settle all disputes, let’s just agree to call it libra pondo again

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@jarrod @manton “You kind of get a sense when the platform vendor is going to compete with you instead of work with you.” — Dave Winer’s observation on the WordPress ‘social’ theme. I hope that’s not so.

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@joshuapsteele most recently? <brennan.day/>. Kind of epitomises the indie web for me: hand crafted, opinionated, eccentric, principled, and above all, worth reading.

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Every Zen garden is unique, but recognizable patterns recur too.

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Perhaps it’s the patterns that enable the diversity.

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I’m the author of Shu Ha Ri: The Japanese Way of Learning, for Artists and Fighters, available now.

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Holy mother of cheeses, the Internet is not made out of content: writingslowly.com

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The real science behind Project Hail Mary: writingslowly.com

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@JigmeDatse to paraphrase Upton Sinclair,

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It is difficult to get people to understand something, when their likes and subscribes depend upon them not understanding it.

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I’ve had a few thankless conversations like that.

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@drwalt worse than ignored:

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> “Every journalist who is not too stupid or full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible” – Janet Malcolm.

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Louis Theroux quoted this in an interview with Patrick Raddon Keefe. But then not all writers are journalists

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💬 “For good or ill, a new generation, though raised in the lap of AI, will not be speaking or writing anything like the ‘intelligence’ that raised it.” - Notes on the artificial style of writing.

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#Zettelkasten #LLM #AIPhilosophy #Writing #Notemaking #AIWriting

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@drjlwells I see what you mean - the top level areas are defined, but they’re what you make them. Johnny Decimal seems a bit like PARA - they’re both ways of organising all your digital/written stuff, and your notes (Zettelkasten or whatever) can sit within that framework (or not).

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Notes on the artificial style of writing: writingslowly.com

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You have your own peculiar and necessarily limited interests and instead of spreading the net too widely, maybe it’s worth keeping a bit focused on these. But how? Top level categories in my notes.

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#PKM #Zettelkasten #notemaking #Writing #WritingSlowly

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@billseitz everything about your site has been inspirational for my TiddlyWiki notebook. To cite just one inspiring post of many: Notice patterns and garden your own private wiki notebook. Thanks!

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@drjlwells in what way is Johnny Decimal bottom-up? I’m not seeing that.

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@JigmeDatse it pains me when people just don’t want to see the Nazi bar. I know we can’t protest everything but still.

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@thoughtshrapnel indeed!

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Top level categories in my notes: writingslowly.com

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Simon Willison says:

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💬 “I’m effectively using Substack as a lightweight way to allow people to subscribe to my blog via email.”

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I already do this easily via micro.blog and it’s a lot less convoluted. I guess he has complete control of the output though, provided he’s happy to tinker like this.

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Finished reading Trip to the Moon by John Yorke: writingslowly.com

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@mattypenny the famine did have an impact in Strabane, whose population declined from 7,000 to 4,000. A scheme to relieve overcrowded workhouses deported at least six girls from Strabane to Australia, including three in 1848. So yes, quite dark. Irish Famine Memorial

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@thoughtshrapnel

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> all your brain is doing is making links between things. Which is why I don’t have any problem in using LLMs as part of my workflow.

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What of the difference between how the brain makes links, with necessary economy, and how AI does it, profligately? How to triage what links matter?

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💬 The fight against the far-right is much more compelling to voters when it is framed in the practical opposition to corruption than the ideological opposition to populism. — Ian Dunt, Substack.

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A lesson from Hungary for the rest of us.

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@bkryer I’m glad someone knows what this cat is thinking!

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@drwalt

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> “a polished, erudite prose that had snap, sizzle, and complexity.”

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That’s a standard worth celebrating.

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@bobdoto it’s back-and-forth for me too. My writing process oscillates between notes and drafts.

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@drwalt Isn’t it yes and no, no and yes? A car is like a horse & carriage except it isn’t. An ebook is like a book, but not. Blogging is like 17th century pamphleteering but different. Just talking in a cafe like Sartre might still be the very first step to forming ideas? What do you think?

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@chrisfoley Exactly so. I wrote a detailed content calendar once - which I’ve never looked at since.

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@chadkoh I’ve been enjoying your cherry blossom photos – especially since here in Australia the Autumn has just arrived.

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Make YouTube videos and you’ll eventually be tempted to sit in a bath of ketchup or jump into a tiny pool with a goat – but either would bring relief from the cat photos the rest of us seem compelled to post.

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How do social media platforms trap users in networks they would rather leave? | UNSW

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@bobdoto most recently and surely most reflexively ever, Eric Zimmer’s book was written this way too: How a Little Becomes a Lot.

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@cliff538 watch the classic mint cake comedy sketch — Not the Nine O’Clock News series 3 episode 3 (starts 19:56). You won’t regret it. The Archive

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On Mastodon, Harold Jarche points to the renewed relevance of Harold Innes, the mid-20th century Canadian scholar who called out US media imperialism for what it was.

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💬 “We can only survive by taking persistent action at strategic points against American imperialism in all its attractive guises.”

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I’ve written about Innes’s lost notes but his warnings about the distorting power of the media are very appropriate now.

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I’m reading about the traditional Japanese porch, the engawa, seen here at the Shugakuin Imperial Villa.

\n\"A\n

But right now I’m sitting on the typically Australian version, the verandah, an idea the colonialists took from India.

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In each case, inside and outside connect quite elegantly.

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Jorge Arango’s book, Duly Noted: Extend your mind through connected notes, has its own Flickr page, with a set of photos, images and screenshots — illustrations that inform the book’s text. I like this idea and am saving it here in case it’s useful in future — whether for me or for someone else.

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@chrisfoley I’m keen on Doctorow’s idea of finding ‘subjects of interest’ from the bottom up, by writing and publishing, rather than by determining them in advance. Has that been your experience?

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Thoughts on ‘The Memex Method’: writingslowly.com

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Writing is still about thinking: writingslowly.com

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Game of Likes: writingslowly.com

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The Writing Slowly stats page has been given a natty makeover. As a result I’ve learned it will take 18 hours to read this whole site. Good luck!

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#IndieWeb #SmallWeb #DataViz #SlowLiving

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Beginner’s mind: Flea turns to the trumpet: writingslowly.com

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AI is changing how we think. Many people now swap deep reading for building with agents. Is the Zettelkasten just a nostalgic relic of a Twentieth Century academic process? This article explores why “efficient” tech might actually fail our cognition.

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💬 It’s intriguing that despite incredible, relentless waves of innovation stretching right back at least to Gutenberg, the age-old question of how best to write and publish for an audience is still not completely settled.

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Will the last Zettelkasten practitioner please turn off the lights?

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#Zettelkasten #AI #PKM #Philosophy

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Will the last Zettelkasten practitioner please turn off the lights? writingslowly.com

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Updating this site to Hugo 0.158 has caused the Search function to break. Normal service will shortly resume. 🤞

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An update to the update: rolling back to Hugo 0.91 until plugins are updated. Search is back in action.

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A mind like a skittish and unbroken horse: writingslowly.com

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This video of Kurama-dera, a Buddhist temple outside Kyoto, is quite lovely. And the snowy scenery makes the place look completely different from when I visited it in late Summer.

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Kottke.org

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Summer:

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Winter:

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