Started a YouTube channel. No jump cuts. No background music. No dopamine slot-machine thumbnails. Just ideas I think are worth hearing, said clearly, once.

If that sounds like something you’re craving, I’d love to have you there.

Started a YouTube channel. No jump cuts. No background music. No dopamine slot-machine thumbnails. Just ideas I think are worth hearing, said clearly, once.

If that sounds like something you’re craving, I’d love to have you there.

https://youtu.be/CjSWwmg-JRM?si=ZQQaQ8zTHdSVor_3

I write about tech + humans + philosophy. Skeptical optimist, EA aligned, building internet businesses.

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https://linktr.ee/joanwestenberg

I think we bastardised and reshaped Luhmann's zettlekasten to make it suitable for laziness and progress without thinking.

The majority of Luhmann's ZK was original writing, only referencing what he read through bibnotes. His slips didn't have titles - which meant that there was no pull to categorise information (imo the main pitfall of obsidian is that it forces you to shim one-concept-per-note, turning you into a librarian)

I deleted (or just stopped using) my obsidian vault and moved to a physical ZK, but not before deeply studying Luhmann's method. If you do it right you actually end up thinking more, since every slip should be an original essay that may be inspired by something you've read, but connected to something else already in the box. You end up growing a tree of essays and narratives, your own unique conceptualisation of the topics you study, rather than a library of linked definitions.