Category: Links of Interest
The long note task system avoids “due bombs”
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Two interviewees described this approach as “like paper, but with links.” Many note-centric people I talked to appreciate that notes avoid the ceremony of GTD-style task-tracking tools, and the overwhelm that can come from “due bombs” and other anti-patterns in systems like this. Allen Pike Prompted by my earlier link to Greg and his Field…
One book per month – Field Notes Bullet Journal
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Love this short report on how Greg is using his Bullet Journal via Field Notes books. I do have TickTick as my regular task manager…in theory. In reality, I write down what I need to do in a notebook at my desk and then do it. The only hard part is tracking links to things…
The Dictators Dilemma andMath Can’t Be Racist
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I enjoyed this post at Pluralistic. Specifically showing how putting bad data into AI yields bad results, which then slurps up the results and puts out more bad data.
My Top Tool for Making Note Connections
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My vault has just over 4k notes in it, and there is no way I can know what each note is. In fact, I’ve likely forgotten most of the notes in my vault, which is fine because they’re remembered in my vault for me. But this does bring up a problem, how do I go…
Foxconn industry investment was a can
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Unsurprisingly, subsidies given to Foxconn were a terrible deal for citizens. The jobs never materialized in real ways. Governments spent millions preparing power and roads for a building that never showed up. People’s houses were stolen to get the land that Foxconn wanted. We should loudly oppose our cities courting big companies with subsidies.
Cool robot build with personality
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In the name of AI Google is making its bad search worse
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According to David Pierce writing in The Verge, you’ll be getting Google’s AI, called Bard, at the top of your search results soon. So now you’ll have an AI summary, then a list of SEO crap articles about the topic. You’ll have to dig even further to find anyone real that has an opinion on…
Systems before Tools
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I always say that a good system/process is far better than whatever tool is “hot” in your industry. It would seem that CJ Chilvers agrees with me. He says that you shouldn’t believe in goals, you should believe in process. Stick to the process day in day out, and the goals will keep coming closer.
I agree with this take on Facebook and Federation
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Measured reasonable take from Fosstodon. I’d look at Facebook joining the Fediverse as a person having 2 strikes against them. The slightest misstep and they’re gone. Like the OP, I hate Facebook. I also try to avoid it at all costs.
Tech CEO’s are Hallucinating
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And as those of us who are not currently tripping well understand, our current system is nothing like that. Rather, it is built to maximize the extraction of wealth and profit – from both humans and the natural world – a reality that has brought us to what we might think of it as capitalism’s…
