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• andang76

  August 19

  Without explaining them, leaving the readers' curiosity :-)

  • I never thought I’d connect Taylor Swift to Mortimer Adler
  • I managed to make a loop connecting the autopoiesis of the Zettelkasten to the movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
  • One meter a day and I can achieve results I could only dream of at first
  • I realized that keeping a journal about my running activity helps me grow as an athlete
  • I AM a runner and a vegetarian, not someone who just uses these tools to maintain their weight
• Sascha

  7:52AM

  In no order:

  • How to teach my daughter the concept of "no" when she was 8 months old
  • The strange dichotomy between raising children and self-responsibility (which leads to the difference between training and raising a child)
  • That nature is not typically depicted as feminine but nature as force, while nature often is personified masculine. (in myth)
  • That Gandalf and Dungeon Master (the old series Dungeons and Dragons) are the exact same archetype to preserve the agency of the protagonists.
  • That the assault bike is far superior to the bike erg for cardio vascular adaptations and the current best is the Arc Trainer (expensive)
  • That what so-called theories are very often models (e.g. Luhmann's opus magnum)
  • That knowledge (in a narrow philosophical sense) indeed is not the goal of epistemic work but truth.
  • That optimal experience is not identical with flow as Csíkszentmihályi states.
  • Joy is orthogonal to pain and pleasure.
  • The problem of acrasia is part of the human condition by necessity
  • Habit work is part of the meaning work designed to deal with the existential problem (as laid out by the French existentialists)
  • That stimulus refining is at the foundation of the zero-sum game that we play with each other as producers and consumers.
  • There is a problem with using logic in communication. Logic is far less convincing and even if you "proof" something being correct or wrong, the chances for acceptance are fairly slim, even (or sometimes especially) in intellectual circles.

  I am a Zettler
• harr

  10:27AM edited 10:32AM

  Following @andang76's example, no explanations. :-)

  • I made a connection between tourist guides, desert camels and ferroequinology
  • Note-writing skills and mnemonic skills strengthen each other
  • I write notes to improve my knowledge of the world, not for the sake of writing notes
  • My favorite episodes of Lie to Me were written by the same screenwriter
  • Nietzsche's geistige Aristokratie is a self-control aristocracy (Heath)
  • The Bible command "Do not judge" has more in common with metta and sati, than with thin-slicing and taxonomies
  • I want to learn the art of asking the right questions
  • How to read a book? Good question!
  • "Das gute Schreiben erzieht das gute Denken" (Cornelia Klinger)
  • I enjoy rereading some books from time to time
  • Not everyone shares my interest in history and the sources of shared knowledge
  • Luhmann had a fine sense of humor
• FernandoNobel

  11:38AM

  Also, in no particular order:

  • Clear discernment is a prerequisite for right action.
  • Every situation has a need that you must address; do not force the situation to do what you want to do.
  • It is essential to distinguish between different types of management. For example, do not mix task and project management.
  • Determination (the ability to stay focused on a goal and move toward it) depends on two virtues: discipline, the ability to do what is necessary even when you do not feel like it, and flexibility, the ability to change how you act and think in order to adapt to what the current situation requires. Their opposites are the flaws of perseveration (not changing when change is necessary) and inconstancy (changing without a good reason). I found this model of complementary virtues and flaws in a tabletop role-playing game and adapted it to my own concept of personal determination. And, how do you know if you need to apply discipline or flexibility? You need clear discernment ;-)
  • The task in both the Zettelkasten method and meditation is to stop searching and instead recognize what is already there. In other words, you do not need to search for the ghost in the box; you need to recognize that it was there all along.
  • The creative process involves parts that are painful or unpleasant. The task is not to make them pleasant, but to accept the discomfort and do them despite it.

  Creative work doesn’t play by conventional rules
• Edmund

  3:07PM

  Just by filtering #type/insight:

  • Zettelkasten can be used as a creativity tool for applying frameworks and principles from one field of ​​knowledge to another.
  • Creative work is basically like breathing. We take in information and emit new ideas. - Ralph Ammer
  • Good places are not just about good locations; they are also about environments that resonate with you or make you feel at home. They are also about receiving a proper education.
  • Tags provide architectur, not content.
  • Leave a reason to revisit your idea is a simple rule to create and structure useful Permanent Notes.
  • We can easily distinguish differences in line length, shape, orientation, distances, and color readily without significant processing effort.
  • If you have a question, Zettelkasten will not always give you the answer, but it will improve the quality of your question.
  • If the tasks on your to-do list don't support the goals on your wish list, then you're most likely working for someone else's goals.
  • I use my Zettelkasten to find out how I am thinking.

  Edmund Gröpl — 100% organic thinking. Less than 5% AI-generated ideas.
• Marcel_Liauw

  3:38PM

  @Edmund said:

  • We can easily distinguish differences in line length, shape, orientation, distances, and color readily without significant processing effort.

  Great input by all! This point by Edmund triggered me to individually differ: I suffer of congenital red-green color blindness and have a hard time distinguishing reddish and greenish hues. May be simulated by the normal-sighted with e.g. https://www.vischeck.com/run.html
• ZettelDistraction

  6:55PM edited 7:52PM

  None. There have been no surprises or unexpected connections. This is probably because I wrote the notes.

  I have software to check that my notes conform to a specification. Let's make the conservative estimate that out of the 1253 files checked, the 1003 valid notes should be counted toward notes that could offer some revelation, and the 250 invalid files do not belong to the Zettelkasten and should be excluded.^†

  Perhaps at a mere 1003 notes, the Zettelkasten hasn't reached the critical mass Niklas Luhmann wrote about, when the prolific sociologist's Zettelkasten underwent a rapid phase transition from a mundane filing cabinet to a conversation partner capable of surprising its interlocutor (cf. the illustration below). As it is, my Zettelkasten agreed, despite serious reservations, to take me on as its remedial student.

  

  ^† This is false: each note among the 250 syntactically invalid notes either needs repair or does not belong, and at least half of them belong. At some point I will clean up the Zettelkasten and either repair or move the notes that don't conform to my template.

  Post edited by ZettelDistraction at 7:52PM

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• andang76

  7:43PM

  Two again:

  • Anyone who says running is easy and fun is talking bullshit §
  • Running at an easy pace isn't easy §§

  § The real one is way more crude, a bit censored here
  §§ pun intended.