A Notebook Zettelkasten

ctietze

Very cool find! Instant Zettel material:

# 202102261003 Your first notes will suck in 20 years time
#zettelkasten #quality

It may be inevitable that your first notes will not hold up to 
scrutiny 10 or 20 years from now.

Cyberneticist Ross Ashby (1903--1972) left behind 25 volumes of journals that 
include his studies. In volume 9, he commented on the poor quality of the 
first volumes:



  My early notes, especially Volumes 2 and 3, are appalling even for their 

Sociopoetic

@ctietze , now you have me curious what else is in your #quality tag... But yes, I made a note like this too. I'm of the opinion that cybernetics is a great topic for anyone using the Zettelkasten method, as a way to understand how knowledge ecosystems can form and flourish.

TRumnell

I have a #quality tag actually, most of what is there comes from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Rober Pirsig

jamesrregan

I think Andy Matuschak adds support to the idea of such a zettel when he said, "just like writing itself, it's hard to write notes that are worth developing over time."

mediapathic

Coming to this thread very late from a mention somewhere else, but as a public service I note that if anyone else is looking for the Ross Ashby archives, they have moved urls, and can now be found at ashby.info.