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  • The brain is wider than the sky

    The brain is wider than the sky,
    For, put them side by side,
    The one the other will include
    With ease, and you beside.

    The brain is deeper than the sea,
    For, hold them, blue to blue,
    The one the other will absorb,
    As sponges, buckets do.

    The brain is just the weight of God,
    For, lift them, pound for pound,
    And they will differ, if they do,
    As syllable from sound.

    Emily Dickinson, The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
    www.bartleby.com
    1. ​​The Art of Looking Sideways​​
    2. ​​the speed of God​​
    • words
    • thinking
    • cognition
  • Documents vs. decks

    Decks are easier to prepare than documents, however. Documents require coherence, thinking, sentences. But convenience in preparing decks harms the content and the audience. Optimizing presenter convenience is selfish, lazy, and worst of all, replaces thinking.

    Edward Tufte, Seeing With Fresh Eyes
    1. ​​Ban PowerPoints​​
    2. ​​Staff meetings at Amazon​​
    3. ​​The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint​​
    • thinking
  • On Programming

    I think everyone in this country should learn a computer language because it teaches you how to think. It’s like going to law school — I don’t think anyone should be a lawyer, but going to law school could be useful because it teaches you how to think in a certain way. So I view computer science as a liberal art.

    Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview
    • thinking
    • programming
  • The quality of thought

    It is the quality of thought and the information we use that determines yield, not the size or quality of the site.

    Bill Mollison, Introduction to Permaculture
    • thinking
    • information
    • size
  • Walking is a natural armature for thinking sequentially

    Walking is a natural armature for thinking sequentially. It also has a historic relationship to mental organization that ranges from the Peripatetics, to the philosophers of Kyoto, to the clockwork circuit of Immanuel Kant, to the sublimities of the English Romantics and their passages through nature. It is not simply an occasion for observation but an analytic instrument.

    Michael Sorkin, 20 Minutes in Manhattan
    1. ​​Reveries of a Solitary Walker​​
    • walking
    • thinking
  • Writing is one way to go about thinking

    And the practice and habit of writing not only drains the mind but supplies it, too.

    William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White, The Elements of Style
    1. ​​Expressing ideas helps to form them​​
    • thinking
  • Trees and graphs

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    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
  • Let the body wander

    If the mind needs to wander, best let the body do the same. A short walk is more effective in coming up with an idea than pouring all the coffee in the world down your gullet.

    Frank Chimero, The Shape of Design
    • thinking
    • walking
    • creativity
  • Agents of thought and experiment

    The act of drawing serves to remind us that hands are agents of thought and experiment. Photography has a great future, but no matter how much ancillary wizardry photography accumulates, it will not be in competition with “drawing” in the broadest sense of that term. There will always be a role for exploration by the hands, encumbered by no more than a piece of ocher or a stick of charcoal.

    Its practical utility is as a manifestation of the mind struggling with the meaning of what it encounters and what it wants to explore.

    Jonathan Kingdon, In the Eye of the Beholder
    • thinking
    • drawing
    • understanding
  • For one who can see

    Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see.

    John Ruskin, Modern Painters
    1. ​​Seeing and feeling​​
    • thinking
    • understanding
    • seeing
  • A blue glow

    The neurons that do expire are the ones that made imitation possible. When you are capable of skillful imitation, the sweep of choices before you is too large; but when your brain loses its spare capacity, and along with it some agility, some joy in winging it, and the ambition to do things that don't suit it, then you finally have to settle down to do well the few things that your brain really can do well - the rest no longer seems pressing and distracting, because it is now permanently out of reach. The feeling that you are stupider than you were is what finally interests you in the really complex subjects of life: in change, in experience, in the ways other people have adjusted to disappointment and narrowed ability. You realize that you are no prodigy, your shoulders relax, and you begin to look around you, seeing local color unrivaled by blue glows of algebra and abstraction.

    Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine
    • i
    • creativity
    • thinking
    • life
  • Get a grip

    The hand is the window on to the mind. — Immanuel Kant

    American slang advises us to "get a grip"; more generally we speak of "coming to grips with an issue." Both figures reflect the evolutionary dialogue between the hand and the brain.

    Richard Sennett, The Craftsman
    • thinking
  • In a stare

    Being in a stare referred to staring fixedly and without expression at something for extensive periods of time. It can happen when you haven't had enough sleep, or too much sleep, or if you've overeaten, or are distracted, or merely daydreaming. It is not daydreaming, however, because it involved gazing at something. Staring at it. Usually straight ahead—a shelf on a bookcase, or the centerpiece on the dining room table, or your daughter or child. But in a stare, you are not really looking at this thing you are seeming to stare at, you are not even really noticing it—however, neither are you thinking of something else. You in truth are not doing anything, mentally, but you are doing it fixedly, with what appears to be intent concentration. It is as if one's concentration becomes stuck the way an auto's wheels can be stuck in the snow, turning rapidly without going forward, although it looks like intense concentration. And now I too do this.

    David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
    • attention
    • thinking
  • The Ladder of Abstraction

    An Essay by Bret Victor
    worrydream.com
    1. ​​Collaborative Information Architecture at Scale​​
    • information
    • thinking
    • communication
    • abstraction
  • Pensées

    A Book by Blaise Pascal
    • identity
    • thinking
    • philosophy
  • On online collaboration and our obligations as makers of software

    An Essay by Baldur Bjarnason
    www.baldurbjarnason.com

    Is it the notetaking system that’s helping you think more clearly? Or is it the act of writing that forces you to clarify your thoughts?

    Is it the complex interlinked web of notes that helps you get new ideas? Or is it all the reading you’re doing to fill that notetaking app bucket?

    Is all of this notetaking work making you smarter? Or is it just indirectly forcing you into deliberate, goalless practice?

    1. ​​Towards a crap decision​​
    2. ​​So much knowledge not being applied​​
    • notetaking
    • blogging
    • software
    • thinking
    • commonplace
  • The Feynman Algorithm

    A Definition
    wiki.c2.com
    1. Write down the problem.
    2. Think real hard.
    3. Write down the solution.
    1. ​​The fastest way to learn something is to do something​​
    • problems
    • thinking
  • e-worm.club

    A Website by Zach Sherman
    e-worm.club
    Screenshot of e-worm.club on 2021-04-03 at 8.31.17 AM.png

    I’m building a custom pleroma client so that my friends and I can have a cute, self-hosted social network to post about politics and art. Besides being much more visually interesting than our facebook messenger groupchat, e-worm also attempts to solve design problems around conversational, collaborative thinking. The biggest of these problems is the inherent ephemerality of our groupchat— it doesn’t really succeed as a collaborative thinking space because it has no long-term memory. When messages are constantly buried under new ones, it places the burden on us to remember previous conversations. So the ultimate design goal for e-worm is to create a self-archiving conversational interface that preserves thought and helps us keep thinking new things rather than going in intellectual circles.

    • microsites
    • communication
    • thinking
  • The surprising effectiveness of writing and rewriting

    An Article by Matt Webb
    interconnected.org
    • The act of writing the first draft creates new “essential data” that feeds the imagination and makes possible figuring out the second draft.
    • Or: In your head, ideas expand until they max out “working memory” – and it’s only be externalising them in the written word that you have capacity to iterate them.
    • Or: Good writing necessarily takes multiple edits, and the act of writing and act of rewriting are sufficiently different that performing both simultaneously is like rubbing your tummy and patting your head.
    1. ​​The McDonald’s Theory of Creativity​​
    • writing
    • thinking
    • iteration
  • How can we develop transformative tools for thought?

    A Research Paper by Andy Matuschak & Michael Nielsen
    numinous.productions
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    Conventional tech industry product practice will not produce deep enough subject matter insights to create transformative tools for thought.

    ...The aspiration is for any team serious about making transformative tools for thought. It’s to create a culture that combines the best parts of modern product practice with the best parts of the (very different) modern research culture. You need the insight-through-making loop to operate, whereby deep, original insights about the subject feed back to change and improve the system, and changes to the system result in deep, original insights about the subject.

    • making
    • thinking
    • tools
    • design
    • feedback
    • research
    • cognition
    • technology
    • software
  • Obsidian

    An Application
    obsidian.md
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    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
    • hypermedia
    • thinking
    • networks
    • 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
    • networks
    • 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.

  • The right box to think inside of

    A Quote by Aza Raskin
    www.robinrendle.com

    Design is not about learning to think outside the box, it’s about finding the right box to think inside of.

    • design
    • thinking
    • creativity
  • On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking

    An Article by Jeremy DeSilva
    lithub.com

    You are undoubtedly familiar with this situation: You’re struggling with a problem—a tough work or school assignment, a complicated relationship, the prospects of a career change—and you cannot figure out what to do. So you decide to take a walk, and somewhere along that trek, the answer comes to you.

    • walking
    • thinking
    • genius
  • A Need to Walk

    An Essay by Craig Mod
    craigmod.com

    Walking intrigues the deskbound. We romanticize it, but do we do it justice? Do we walk properly? Can one walk improperly and, if so, what happens when the walk is corrected?

    • walking
    • thinking
    • urbanism
    • discovery
  • Pellucidity

    A Definition
    www.thefreedictionary.com

    Free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression

    • euphony
    • understanding
    • thinking
    • clarity
  • Rationality: From AI to Zombies

    A Book by Eliezer Yudkowsky
    www.readthesequences.com
    1. ​​The Tao of rationality​​
    2. ​​Everyone sees themselves as behaving normally​​
    3. ​​Argue against the best​​
    4. ​​Let the meaning choose the word​​
    5. ​​People can stand for what is true, for they are already enduring it​​
    1. ​​Do not propose solutions​​
    2. ​​One brick​​
    3. ​​Your intention to cut​​
    • rationality
    • thinking
    • consciousness
  • How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think

    An Essay
    users.speakeasy.net
    1. ​​Zettelkasten​​
    2. ​​The Zettelkasten Method​​
    • thinking
    • connection
    • understanding
  • Zettelkasten

    A Tool by Niklas Luhmann
    en.wikipedia.org

    A zettelkasten consists of many individual notes with ideas and other short pieces of information that are taken down as they occur or are acquired. The notes are numbered hierarchically, so that new notes may be inserted at the appropriate place, and contain metadata to allow the note-taker to associate notes with each other. For example, notes may contain tags that describe key aspects of the note, and they may reference other notes. The numbering, metadata, format and structure of the notes is subject to variation depending on the specific method employed.

    1. ​​zettelkasten.de​​
    2. ​​How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think​​
    3. ​​The Zettelkasten Method​​
    4. ​​What this site is​​
    • notetaking
    • thinking
    • writing
  • That the mind may not be taxed

    A Quote by Thomas Farnaby
    mycommonplacebook.org

    In order that the mind may not be taxed, moreover, by the manifold and confused reading of so many such things, and in order to prevent the escape of something valuable that we have read, heard, or discovered through the process of thinking itself, it will be found very useful to entrust to notebooks...those things which seem noteworthy and striking.

    • commonplace
    • i
    • memory
    • thinking
    • notetaking
  • Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think

    A Book by Ben Shneiderman
    • visualization
    • thinking
    • information

See also:
  1. notetaking
  2. walking
  3. understanding
  4. creativity
  5. information
  6. networks
  7. i
  8. commonplace
  9. communication
  10. cognition
  11. hypermedia
  12. writing
  13. design
  14. software
  15. life
  16. seeing
  17. drawing
  18. attention
  19. memory
  20. identity
  21. philosophy
  22. visualization
  23. abstraction
  24. words
  25. knowledge
  26. connection
  27. math
  28. rationality
  29. consciousness
  30. size
  31. euphony
  32. clarity
  33. urbanism
  34. discovery
  35. genius
  36. iteration
  37. programming
  38. making
  39. tools
  40. feedback
  41. research
  42. technology
  43. problems
  44. microsites
  45. blogging
  1. Richard Sennett
  2. Frank Chimero
  3. Nicholson Baker
  4. John Ruskin
  5. Jonathan Kingdon
  6. David Foster Wallace
  7. Thomas Farnaby
  8. Blaise Pascal
  9. Ben Shneiderman
  10. Bret Victor
  11. Emily Dickinson
  12. Niklas Luhmann
  13. Dorian Taylor
  14. Charles Broskoski
  15. Eliezer Yudkowsky
  16. William Strunk Jr.
  17. E.B. White
  18. Michael Sorkin
  19. Bill Mollison
  20. Craig Mod
  21. Jeremy DeSilva
  22. Aza Raskin
  23. Matt Webb
  24. Steve Jobs
  25. Edward Tufte
  26. Andy Matuschak
  27. Michael Nielsen
  28. Zach Sherman
  29. Baldur Bjarnason