Thinking in Built Spaces
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I'm in! Please give pointers so I can improve.
I looked through my recent zettel and was curating them for public display. Always a good thing to be spurred on to refactoring, but I realized that I should take advantage of this educational opportunity with a zettel presented the usual way I form my zettel. So I more or less randomly grabbed one with no doctoring for public display. It's 268 words, not including YAML, title, subatomic (summary), and references.
Will Simpson
My peak cognition is behind me. One day I will read my last book, write my last note, eat my last meal, and kiss my sweetie for the last time.
kestrelcreek.com
Many thanks @Will!
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According to my recommendation to object tags, the tags would be:
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Summary
As always: I am a blunt person who's writing reads way more blunt than intended.
In my opinion, this is a note with great potential and already near atomic. There are two thoughts present which is presumedly the result of being a work in progress. It is a thinking snap shot. In my opinion, this note should spark some research in the following directions:
Comment on my comment: Keep in mind that my feedback on this note is in part guided by my some knowledge (or: assumptions) on your personality and usage of his Zettelkasten. I, for example, put a lot of emphasis on suggestions in which directions to go and baked in quite some specific suggestions that hopefully align with things that are interesting to you. I tried to find the right amount of "pushiness" to move you a little bit out of your comfort zone.
Many thanks for your note!
I am a Zettler
Thanks, @Sascha. I'm falling back in awe after reading your critique. It penetrates to the core of the issues I can improve on.
You have provided a lot to work with.
The content is generally underdeveloped.
"Thinking in Built Spaces" is one of 31 notes taken while reading "The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain." by Annie Paul. (Highly recommended.) It took three weeks to process all the notes. This one, particularly, I stumbled with. You are spot one calling me out as under-developing this idea. Something you said reminded me of an article I read. Searching The Archive, I found it.
A-The intelligent use of space 201903011645
- David Kirsh. "The Intelligent Use of Space." Artificial Intelligence, vol. 73, no. 1, 1995, pp. 31–68, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/0004-3702(94)00017-U. This article delves deeper into thinking in space, and as you suggest, it would help clarify the note, the idea, the connections, and, importantly, my understanding.My suggested central thought is "Walls make solitude a choice."
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My title sucks. Your suggestion shines.
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I'm still considering the value of tagging generally. I tag for project structure. I've yet to hear a compulsive argument for tagging with a full-text search. Maybe this exposes my mental clumsiness.
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I love your suggested directions of research. Thursday, I was introduced to a field of study called "Rhetoric of Silence." It looks super fascinating and relevant to this idea's development.
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I'm so glad I chose this zettel for critique. Your words of advice will improve my abilities in note-making and idea connecting.
Thinking in terms of aphorisms doesn't come naturally to me. It will take focused practice to develop and kind of mastery.
I didn't find you to be at all overly pushy.
Many thanks for your critique.
Will Simpson
My peak cognition is behind me. One day I will read my last book, write my last note, eat my last meal, and kiss my sweetie for the last time.
kestrelcreek.com
@Sascha, here is an update on my progress (2 hours 23 mins) refactoring
Thinking in Built Spaces.
Thanks again for the push. I'm rethinking ideas about tagging. I'm just not sure how I'd use them.

And new structure note.
Will Simpson
My peak cognition is behind me. One day I will read my last book, write my last note, eat my last meal, and kiss my sweetie for the last time.
kestrelcreek.com