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• About these notes (309)
• §Enabling environments, games, and the Primer (52)
• §Note-writing systems (48)
• Evergreen notes (43)
• Enacted experience (35)
• Enabling environment (33)
• Note-writing as fundamental unit of knowledge work (29)
• Mnemonic medium (27)
• §Taking knowledge work seriously (Stripe convergence talk, 2019-12-12) (27)
• Evergreen notes should be densely linked (27)
• Write about what you read (26)
• The Primer isn’t a viable enabling environment (26)
• Enabling environments require activities with intrinsically meaningful purpose (23)
• Knowledge work should accrete (21)
• Note-writing helps insight accumulate (21)
• Educational games are a doomed approach to creating enabling environments (21)
• The mnemonic medium can help readers apply what they’ve learned through simple application prompts (20)
• Executable strategy for writing (20)
• Evergreen notes should be concept-oriented (20)
• Peak - Ericsson and Pool (20)
• §Knowledge work as serious discipline (19)
• Powerful enabling environments usually arise as a byproduct of projects pursuing their own intrinsically meaningful purposes (19)
• Games effectively develop players’ skills (19)
• Note-writing practices are generally ineffective (18)
• Good enabling environments involve actually doing what’s enabled (18)
• Enacted experiences can bootstrap active participation in enabling environments (18)
• Miller - The magical number seven, plus or minus two (18)
• Note-writing helps reading efforts accumulate (17)
• How to Take Smart Notes - Ahrens (17)
• Educational objectives often subvert themselves (17)
• Evergreen notes should be atomic (16)
• Minecraft vs- the Primer (16)
• Effective system design requires insights drawn from serious contexts of use (15)
• Spaced repetition systems can be used to program attention (15)
• Cognitive scaffolding (15)
• The Primer++ is embedded in a field, bootstrapping participation through enacted experience (15)
• A reading inbox to capture possibly-useful references (14)
• Evergreen notes permit smooth incremental progress in writing (“incremental writing”) (14)
• Evergreen notes are a safe place to develop wild ideas (14)
• A writing inbox for transient and incomplete notes (14)
• Enacted experiences have incredible potential as a mass medium (14)
• §Inboxes and attention management (13)
• Writing forces sharper understanding (13)
• Designing new enabling environments can be framed as designing a University++ (13)
• Nell doesn’t know or share the Primer’s goals (13)
• Human channel capacity increases with bits-per-chunk (13)
• Inboxes only work if you trust how they’re drained (12)
• Close open loops (12)
• Prefer declarative and imperative note titles to sharpen claims (12)
• Powerful enabling environments focus on expert practice (12)
• The Primer is one big “onboarding” experience for the rest of Nell’s life (12)
• Educational games try to teach through enacted experiences (12)
• The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer (12)
• “Chunks” in human cognition (12)
• Commercial open-source software (11)
• The mnemonic medium can be used to author an experience which unfolds over time (11)
• Spaced repetition memory system (11)
• Core practices in knowledge work are often ad-hoc (11)
• Spaced repetition may be a helpful tool to incrementally develop inklings (11)
• Brainstorming may often substitute for missing insight accretion systems (11)
• Executable strategy (11)
• Spaced repetition memory systems make memory a choice (11)
• How to process reading annotations into evergreen notes (11)
• Authored environments are significantly colored by authors’ motivations (11)
• Enacted experiences amplify the power of narrative (11)
• Enacted experiences are hard to distribute (11)
• The Primer’s activities are only intrinsically meaningful to Nell because her life is impoverished (11)
• Skill development in games is subservient to other intrinsically meaningful purposes (11)
• Participatory environment (11)
• Let ideas and beliefs emerge organically (11)
• Create speculative outlines while you write (10)
• Prefer associative ontologies to hierarchical taxonomies (10)
• Insight through making (10)
• People seem to forget most of what they read, and they mostly don’t notice (10)
• “Better note-taking” misses the point; what matters is “better thinking” (10)
• Evergreen notes lower the emotional stakes in editing manuscripts (10)
• Triage strategies for maintaining inboxes (e-g- Inbox Zero) are often too brittle (10)
• Spaced repetition can lower the stakes around destructive inbox-maintenance operations (10)
• Do your own thinking (10)
• Tags are an ineffective association structure (10)
• Novices in enabling environments often can’t do what’s enabled (10)
• Dynamic mediums usually lack an authored time dimension (10)
• Enacted experiences of intellectual discovery could foster Nell’s curiosity and interest (dubious) (10)
• The Primer is fundamentally an educational game (10)
• The Primer is an enormous enacted experience (10)
• Metacognitive supports as cognitive scaffolding (10)
• The Primer’s explicit learning quests teach Nell to delegate her curiosity and interest (10)
• Deep collaborations between tool-makers and tool-users may support insight through making (10)
• Application prompts should vary when repeated (10)
• Peripheral vision (9)
• Mnemonic essays may offer detailed retention of their contents in exchange for 35-50% reading time overhead (9)
• Reading texts on computers is unpleasant (9)
• Complex ideas may be hard to learn in part because their components overflow working memory (9)
• Pocket memo pad to capture into writing inbox while out (9)
• How to collect observations while reading (9)
• Literature notes are secondary and separate (9)
• Evergreen note titles are like APIs (9)
• Enacted experiences can create intense personal connection to authored targets (9)
• Span of working memory (9)
• Quantum Country (8)
• Simple application prompts can be presented the same way as recall prompts in the mnemonic medium (8)
• Most people read ineffectively (8)
• Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much more rigorously than knowledge workers do (8)
• Note-writing practices provide weak feedback (8)
• Evergreen note maintenance approximates spaced repetition (8)
• Use phones to collect and triage, not (usually) to read (8)
• Most people take only transient notes (8)
• Most games aren’t enabling environments (8)
• Most dynamic representations developed for communication aren’t very enabling (8)
• Educational game (8)
• The Primer’s goal is to produce creative, subversive youth (8)
• Nell doesn’t do any original thinking inside the Primer (8)
• §Corporate research lab practices (8)
• Naive approaches to practice rapidly plateau (8)
• Purposeful practice (8)
• Recoding can increase chunk size (8)
• Work with the garage door up (7)
• Digital note-writing systems fixate on the presentation and manipulation of individual notes, mostly ignoring inter-note sense-making (7)
• Gingko (7)
• Insight through making prefers bricolage to big design up front (7)
• Where do ideas come from (7)
• The mnemonic medium could include prompts which support near transfer (7)
• How might we adapt existing texts to the mnemonic medium, without participation of the author (7)
• Collecting material feels more useful than it usually is (7)
• Understanding requires effortful engagement (7)
• Notes should surprise you (7)
• “Find the fun” (7)
• The Primer is scalable (7)
• Enacted experiences require participant-situated cause and effect (7)
• Most explanatory media make participants run their own feedback loops (7)
• Metacognitive supports require dynamic, participatory environments (7)
• Mass mediums mostly lack an authored time dimension beyond a day (7)
• Pixar’s movies and technology development act as coupled flywheels (7)
• The bar for virtuosity has risen precipitously in many fields (7)
• Learning increasingly complex ideas may amount to forming larger effective chunk sizes (7)
• It’s hard to navigate to unlinked “neighbors” in associative note systems (6)
• Scaling the mnemonic medium in early 2020 is premature (6)
• Mass adoption of the mnemonic medium seems to require mass adoption of web publishing (6)
• Software interfaces often harmfully frame destructive operations as final decisions, not contingent preferences (6)
• Spaced repetition may be a helpful tool to develop or change habits (6)
• Leaps of insight emerge from prior thought (6)
• Advantages and disadvantages of using notes to form associations in content (6)
• Enabling environments focus on creating opportunities for growth and action, not on skill-building (6)
• Enacted experiences are hard to author (6)
• Fine-grained task progressions as cognitive scaffolding (6)
• Tools for thought should be evaluated in the context of intrinsically meaningful purposes (6)
• Deep understanding requires (and is a result of) intense personal connection (6)
• Collaborations between tool-makers and tool-users can best iterate through a sequence of different projects (6)
• Most people use notes as a bucket for storage or scratch thoughts (6)
• Performance plateaus often require a change in approach to surmount (6)
• Human physical and cognitive capacity can be expanded surprisingly far with practice (6)
• Chase and Simon - Perception in chess (6)
• Span of absolute judgment (6)
• Channel capacity of humans as information processors (6)
• Working memory span is mostly independent of item complexity (6)
• The mnemonic medium works remarkably well for a prototype (5)
• Application prompts can systematically test combinations of details in the text (5)
• Quantum Country lacks a coherent spatial representation of the mnemonic medium’s cards as objects (5)
• Poor performance disrupts nonlinear reading in digital reading (5)
• Maintaining multiple reading positions is difficult when reading digitally (5)
• Management science focuses on knowledge work at the level of the firm and the manager, not at the level of the individual (5)
• Spacing effect (5)
• Zettelkasten (5)
• Inboxes shouldn’t be split into multiple places (5)
• Implementing my reading inbox (5)
• Beware automatic import into the reading inbox (5)
• Prefer positive note titles to promote systematic theory (5)
• Indexed references vs- tags (5)
• Are literature notes necessary if we have automatic universal backlinks (5)
• How should note tagging practices change with ranked link visualization (5)
• The Primer doesn’t make experts better at anything (5)
• The Primer++ (5)
• Participatory environments support learning (5)
• Games help players make and adapt plans (5)
• The Primer reminds people of their own experiences with profound enablement (5)
• Internally-modulated learning is self-actualizing; externally-modulated learning is self-abnegating (5)
• Narrative as cognitive scaffolding (5)
• Page Not Found (5)
• Collaborations between tool-makers and tool-users depend on building effective “armories” of tool ideas (5)
• Skill development requires challenging homeostasis (5)
• Knowledge workers usually have no specific methods for developing ideas over time (5)
• Application prompts are much harder to write than recall prompts (5)
• Mass adoption of written media with novel cognitive supports requires mass adoption of reading on computers (5)
• The detail-in-context problem (4)
• Premature scaling can stunt system iteration (4)
• The mnemonic medium is particularly valuable for platform knowledge (4)
• Computer-supported thinking (4)
• Backlit displays limit computers to interiors (4)
• The most effective readers and thinkers I know don’t take notes when reading (4)
• We don’t know how to measure knowledge worker productivity (4)
• Knowledge work (4)
• Prefer explicit associations to inferred associations (4)
• Prefer fine-grained associations (4)
• Backlinks can be used to implicitly define nodes in knowledge management systems (4)
• Existing spaced repetition systems make it hard to write evergreen notes (4)
• Constraints as cognitive scaffolding (4)
• Games help players evaluate their developing skills (4)
• Learning requires metacognition (4)
• The Primer doesn’t appear to coerce its students (4)
• Educational environments usually don’t involve original thought (4)
• The best time to write about your lecture’s topic is around the time you deliver it (4)
• Great tool-makers are often not great tool-users, and vice-versa (4)
• Some “educational” activities have intrinsically meaningful purposes (4)
• Note-writing can be a virtuosic skill (4)
• It’s hard to hear yourself think (4)
• Human channel capacity increases with stimulus dimensionality (4)
• Spaced repetition memory systems can be used to prompt application, synthesis, and creation (4)
• Spaced-repetition memory system (4)
• Application prompt variations are challenging to automate (4)
• GitLab (3)
• LiquidText (3)
• BumpTop (3)
• Question-writing in the mnemonic medium helps the writer think about their topic (3)
• Embedding the mnemonic medium via simple HTML tags (3)
• Mnemonic video may present a smoother on-ramp to mass adoption than mnemonic text (3)
• Twitter threads could be an interesting context for the mnemonic medium (3)
• Skillful reading is generally non-linear (3)
• Spaced repetition memory systems are extremely efficient (3)
• Conceptual understanding is unlikely without detailed knowledge of fundamentals (3)
• Contextual backlinks (3)
• Enacted experiences require blocking on participant action (3)
• We can develop the mnemonic medium by writing about topics with only moderate domain expertise (3)
• Executable books (3)
• Enacted experiences exist on a spectrum of participation and authorial control (3)
• Patrick Collison on project plans - 2019-12-24 (3)
• Transcendental narrative (3)
• Talks and classes provide pressure and emotional fuel for understanding (3)
• It’s difficult to maintain emotional connection to a creative project across delays and breaks (3)
• RenderMan sales are probably not important to Pixar’s business (3)
• Use notes to avoid preconceived conclusions (3)
• Practicing cognitive skills can expand associated neurological capacity (3)
• Powerful innovations often focus on creating new paradigms, not solving problems of the current context (3)
• Readers shouldn’t memorize application prompt answers (3)
• Note-writing system (3)
• Hickory Training (3)
• Pitching out corrupts within (2)
• Commercial open-source software company index (2)
• Elastic (2)
• Redis Labs (2)
• It’s hard to maintain aligned plans spanning many time horizons (2)
• In 2019H1, 29% of QCVC readers who finished the in-text level finished the 1 month level (2)
• The mnemonic medium can surface “proof of memory” social signals (2)
• reMarkable (2)
• Inspectional reading (2)
• Testing effect (2)
• Morning writing practice (2)
• Prefer labeled associations (2)
• Communities of action often form around media artifacts (2)
• Braid (2)
• Metacognition is inherently dynamic (2)
• Mathematica (2)
• Jupyter, not Mathematica, is the executable notebook for collaboration (2)
• The Knowledge Society (2)
• Explorable explanations (2)
• Cantor (2)
• Gumption transcends willpower and confidence (2)
• Jerome Bruner and enaction (2)
• Enacted experiences require tight action–feedback loops (2)
• In what fields has the bar for virtuosity not risen considerably- Has it fallen in some fields (2)
• Issues with desktop e-book readers (2)
• Continuous-scroll digital reading uncomfortably disrupts object permanence (2)
• E-reading popularity sharply trails all book-reading (2)
• Mochi (2)
• Audiobooks (2)
• Audiobooks are produced under a wide variety of business models (2)
• Connecting prose and its surrounding Twitter conversation (2)
• Transfer learning (2)
• QCVC (2)
• Brian Tobal (2)
• Anand Agarawala (2)
• Spatial (AR collaboration environment) (2)
• Working on niche, personally-meaningful projects brings weirder, more serendipitous inbounds (1)
• Confluent (1)
• Affero General Public License (1)
• Meteor was a viable business, but not a viable venture-backed business (1)
• Studio environment (1)
• SMART goals (1)
• Platformizing the mnemonic medium (1)
• Setting up my reading inbox (1)
• All my inboxes (1)
• Daily working log (1)
• Creating hyperlinks to my reference archive (1)
• Conor White-Sullivan (1)
• Roam (1)
• Program (1)
• Games can amplify a sense of player-situated agency by minimizing camera moves and scene cuts (1)
• David Chapman (1)
• Metacognition is too imprecise a category (1)
• Jupyter (1)
• The Primer doesn’t feel coercive (1)
• Dynamic medium (1)
• Khan Academy Long-term Research (1)
• David Holz’s iterative invention cycle (1)
• Dolby Labs (1)
• Ladder Media (1)
• It’s hard for autodidacts to execute purposeful practice (1)
• Transclusion (1)
• Spaced everything (1)
• The Primer++ is embedded in a field, bootstrapping participation through enacted exdperience (1)
• Lectures can offer a glimpse of what it’s like to think like an expert (1)
• RemNote (1)
• Twitter is the water cooler (1)
• Platform knowledge helps non-practitioners amplify good ideas (1)
• New media forms benefit somewhat simply from being novel (1)
• Alan Keahey (1)
• Approaches for visualizing large graphs (1)
• Luka Dover - Quantum Country interview - 2019-11-19 (1)