Notes
This is a collection of my half-formed thoughts, my digital garden.
The system currently contains 131 public notes, a subset of what I use in my personal knowledge management system.
Interesting places to start could be collections on: End-User Programming, Future Of Coding, Learning, or Cybernetics.
Notes below are grouped by last edit time.
Why Do We Do Things?7Following Genuine Interests Forms Positive Feedback Loops6Re-engagement in Knowledge4
Cybernetics18Simulator16Self-Cybernetics11Solving Things Visually11Where Do Ideas Come From?11Epistemic Actions9Thinking About Thinking Requires Something to Think About9Metacognition and Debugging8Pixel Space and Tools8VPL Issues8Embodied Cognition7Fixating on Solution Aesthetics can Lead to Solving Wrong Problems7The Incredible Power of The Right Interface7Understanding Through Building7Deliberate Practice6Great Thoughts6Programming Tools and People's Needs6Browsing vs Searching5Peripheral Vision in Software4Mastering Tools3Sequences of Static Snapshots3Strive for Greatness3Strive to be Well Rounded3Community in Research1Leave Room for Errors1Strive to Have Balanced Days1
Links19End-User Programming17Thinking by Writing16Canvas for Programming14Canvas for Thinking14Extended Mind11Situated Cognition11Tensions9Thinking with Zettelkasten9Creating-Curating8Constructionism6End-User Programming vs Programming6Research Themes6Spreadsheet for End-User Programming Might be a Wrong Model6Computationalism5End-User Programming Should be Task-Oriented5No Chrome5Second-Order Cybernetics5Second-Order Tool Building5Knowledge Work Should Accrete4Notes Should Serve a Purpose4Data not Apps3Domain Experts Shouldn't be Limited by Developer Time3Gradual Enhancement3Look for Opposite Views Instead of Confirming Ones3Zeigarnik Effect3Feedback Loops in Research are Long2Idea Hooks2Neighbour Computing2Optimising for Fewer Interactions2Working with Copies2
VPL18Composing Functionality and VPLs6Fractality of Software Tools6Data Layer5DAG and Tree Representations of Code4Dynabook3Syntopic Reading3Filesystem as Database2
Research48Learning37Notation16Future Of Coding15Understanding Requires Effort13Bicycle for the Mind12Memex12Dynamic Medium10Cognitive Medium9Thinking and Time8Workshop vs Library8Computational DAGs7Handling History in Software7Places in Software7CLI UX6Environments not App Pickers6Linguistic Determinism6Modes6Connections are Usually Better than Taxonomies5Extended Phenotypes5Ladder Of Abstraction5Memex and My Limits5Reflective Practice5Time and Experimentation5Cognition Shape4Dialog Across Time4Downtime4Each Extensions is an Amputation4Edit-Commit4Note Titles Becoming Abstractions4Orientation in Fractal Software4Research and Day-to-Day4Dependency Graph for Constructed Geometry3Do Your Own Thinking3Ideating-Authoring3Improvements vs Breakthroughs3Rules for Visual Information Systems3Software Performance and Thinking3Tools Building Us3Working in the Dynamic Medium3Connectionism2Constructivism2Conversation Theory2Design Science2Dialog in UI2Grey Thinking2Human Colossus2Pencil and OS-level Doodling2Perceptual Control Theory2Petri Nets2VPL vs Text2Climate Change1Confirmation Bias1Design Methods Movement1E-Prime1Epicureanism1Genetic Epistemology1Novelty Search1Semiotics1Short-Sightedness in Software1Tuple Space1Engineering vs Science0Information Aesthetics0
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