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  • Nodal points

    I started thinking about all the other important “nodal points” (I don’t know what else to call this) of people, places, books, albums, websites, etc. that all played a part in shaping who I am as a person and what I think is important. These points are a combination of seeking things out myself and getting a recommendation that felt like it was actually for me. A mixture of both passive and active knowledge acquisition.

    ultimately, it's the totality of those “nodal points” that indicate one’s own unique perspective. It doesn’t matter if you specifically sought out the nodal point or not, it’s the recognition that counts. When you encounter a piece of life-changing information (no matter how large the change part is), you are simultaneously discovering and creating “yourself,” becoming incrementally more complete. Your perspective (where your gaze is directed) is made up of a meandering line through these points. Learning (or maybe some precursor to learning) is a lot about developing the intuition to recognize when something you find in the world is going to be a nodal point for you.

    Charles Broskoski, On Motivation
    1. ​​barnsworthburning.net​​
    • identity
    • networks
    • information
    • i
  • A representational tension

    Do I need to know the precise polygonal geometries of Los Angeles and the University of Southern California to assert that the latter is within the former? No. My mind contains no such precise geometric model of points and lines, yet I know that USC is in Los Angeles. When humans reason with the real world, they focus on its objects, relations, and processes—rather than starting with geometry—because these are the keys to understanding and explaining the real world. Our GIS tools, however, usually do the opposite. Built from the geometry-up around the legacy logic of traditional cartography (geometries and layers), most GIS tools today are restricted by that legacy’s limited ability to model objects, relations, and processes. A representational tension thus exists in GIScience between being a geometric information science versus an ontological, relational, and processual information science.

    Geoff Boeing, The Right Tools for the Job
    • geography
    • networks
  • The number of ways in which things work

    The importance of diversity is not so much the number of elements in a system; rather it is the number of functional connections between these elements. It is not the number of things, but the number of ways in which things work.

    Bill Mollison, Introduction to Permaculture
    • diversity
    • connection
    • networks
    • systems
  • Trees and graphs

    a-tree-is-a-kind-of-graph;scale=400,400

    A tree is a kind of graph, but a graph can be considerably more complex than a tree.

    I have reason to believe, which for brevity’s sake I will treat elsewhere, that the most complex class of processes and structures we humans can consciously prescribe, reduces mathematically to a tree. A tree has a top, bottom, left and right. Its branches fan out from the trunk and they don’t intersect with one another. They are discrete, contiguous, identifiable objects which persist across time. Trees are Things.

    Software and websites, however, reduce to arbitrarily more complex structures: they are graphs. A graph has no meaningful orientation whatsoever. No sequence, no obvious start or end—at least none that we can intuit. It is better considered not as one Thing, but as a federation of Things, like the brain or a fungus network, or perhaps a composite artifact left behind from an ongoing process, like an ant colony or human city.

    Dorian Taylor, On the "Building" of Software and Websites
    1. ​​A City Is Not a Tree​​
    • networks
    • thinking
    • math
  • Information remix

    Effective writing stems from intelligently connecting the dots between the concepts you understand and can articulate. It stands to reason, then, that in order to generate more creativity you must not only add to a knowledge base, but deepen and expand the number of connections within the totality of the network. By establishing and explicitly mapping your knowledge, you allow yourself the freedom to remix information. You will often find that solutions come from previously unsuspected fields or topics—proving to be analogous in some shape or form.

    Will Darwin, Building a knowledge base
    www.willdarwin.com
    • connection
    • creativity
    • writing
    • networks
  • The network of connections

    Each pattern depends both on the smaller patterns it contains, and on the larger patterns within which is is contained. Each pattern sits at the center of a network of connections which connect it to certain other patterns that help to complete it. It is the network of these connections between patterns which creates the language.

    Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building
    • connection
    • networks
  • Not an accumulation of facts

    Knowledge is not an accumulation of facts, nor is it even a set of facts and their relations. Facts are only rendered meaningful within narratives, and the single-page document is a format very conducive to narrative structure. The hypertext books that have gained popularity (I’m thinking here of Meaningness.com) have largely conformed to this in two ways: 1) there is an intended reading order, and 2) the longer essays within the project do most of the heavy lifting in terms of imparting the author’s perspective to readers.

    On the other hand, the notion of the “document” that is intrinsic to web development today is overdetermined by the legacy of print media. The web document is a static, finished artifact that does not bring in dynamic data. This is strange because it lives on a medium that is alive, networked, and dynamic, a medium which we increasingly understand more as a space than a thing.

    Toby Shorin, Open Transclude for Networked Writing
    subpixel.space
    • knowledge
    • networks

    For a while now I've been calling categories of information on this website 'spaces'.

  • Infrastructure: A Guide to the Industrial Landscape

    A Book by Brian Hayes
    industrial-landscape.com
    1. ​​Savage, hostile, and cruel​​
    2. ​​Nature undisturbed​​
    3. ​​The raw materials of society​​
    4. ​​The dragline​​
    5. ​​Dark satanic steel​​
    1. ​​The Factory Photographs​​
    • infrastructure
    • technology
    • urbanism
    • industry
    • networks
  • Interoperable Personal Libraries and Ad Hoc Reading Groups

    An Article by Maggie Appleton
    maggieappleton.com

    We would need a system that enables people to:

    • Publish a list of books they would be willing to discuss with other people to the open web. Antilibraries – collections of books you haven't read yet but would like to read – are particularly well suited to this proposition.
    • See which books people in their social network want to discuss, and/or subscribe to other people's lists
    • Be notified when 4+ people in their network have the same book on their discussion list – possibly via an email thread?
    • Coordinate and schedule a time to read and discuss the book with that group.
    • reading
    • books
    • networks
  • Obsidian

    An Application
    obsidian.md
    Image from obsidian.md on 2020-08-08 at 7.58.17 PM.png

    Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

    In Obsidian, making and following [[connections]] is frictionless. Tend to your notes like a gardener; at the end of the day, sit back and marvel at your own knowledge graph.

    1. ​​are.na​​
    2. ​​Tangent Notes​​
    • knowledge
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    • thinking
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    • notetaking
  • are.na

    An Application by Charles Broskoski
    www.are.na

    Build ideas mindfully.

    Save content, create collections, and connect ideas with other people.

    1. ​​Obsidian​​
    2. ​​Roam Research​​
    3. ​​What this site is​​
    4. ​​On Motivation​​
    • thinking
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    • hypermedia
    • notetaking

    I used are.na pretty heavily at one point. Though I no longer do, I think it sets a standard for craft-oriented thinking tools.

  • All websites are just digital movie theaters now

    An Article by Ryan Broderick
    www.garbageday.email
    Image from www.garbageday.email on 2021-08-11 at 11.11.21 PM.png

    If I had to guess where this is all going, I’d say that what an internet platform is actually has already permanently shifted. Instead of apps trying to dominate specific features — a platform for video, a platform for expiring content, a platform for connecting social networking, a platform for livestreaming, a platform for resumes — we’ve already entered a new era of online networks where they all will essentially offer the same services and instead, focus increasingly on specific demographics.

    1. ​​All Social Networks Look The Same Now​​
    2. ​​Why Do All Websites Look the Same?​​
    • content
    • www
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  • Roam Research

    An Application
    roamresearch.com

    A note-taking tool for networked thought.

    1. ​​are.na​​
    • notetaking
    • knowledge
    • hypermedia
    • networks
  • InfoCrystal

    A Research Paper
    www.semanticscholar.org
    Screenshot of www.semanticscholar.org on 2020-08-16 at 2.32.07 PM.png

    This paper introduces a novel representation, called the InfoCrystal, that can be used as a visualization tool as well as a visual query language to help users search for information. The InfoCrystal visualizes all the possible relationships among N concepts.

    • math
    • networks
    • connection
    • visualization
    • logic
  • The Brain

    An Application
    www.thebrain.com
    Image from www.thebrain.com on 2020-08-08 at 7.43.59 PM.png

    Intelligent note-taking. Non-linear file management. Ideas and relationships visualized.

    • notetaking
    • connection
    • networks

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