## [[0. meta]] - ⭐ [[{0.1} my favorite questions]] - [[{0.2} trail guide]] - [[{0.2a} trail guide - public]] ## [[1. identity and knowing yourself thru time]] - [[{1.1} identity as self-definition]] - [[{1.1a} it's unclear whether identity is discovered or created]] - [[{1.1a1} two metaphors for identity formation]] - [[{1.1a2} waterman's elements of identity formation]] - [[{1.1b} a strong sense of identity comes from a well-developed self-definition]] - [[{1.1c} a strong sense of identity requires a sense of continuity]] - [[{1.1c1} a sense of continuity comes from the integration of experiences, evolving senses-of-self, and identity elements over time]] - [[{1.1c1a} you need to commune with your past to understand your self]] - [[{1.1c1b} you need to commune with your present to understand your self]] - [[{1.1c1c} you need to commune with your future to understand your self]] - [[{1.1c1d} interacting with yourself over time]] - [[{1.1c1d1} your search and browsing histories build a resonance calendar]] - [[{1.1c1d2} boardroom meeting with your selves]] - [[{1.1c1d3} my history with journaling]] - [[{1.1c2} liminal identity]] - [[{1.1c2a} shock disrupts the continuity of one's identity and their understanding of their inner and outer worlds]] - [[{1.1c3} identity crises happen when you are not situated in the context of - or oriented toward - your past, present, or future]] - [[{1.1c3a} stability is connection to, while recovery is reorientation toward, one's location in time and space]] - [[{1.1c3a1} time-binding refers to our ability to pick up where the last generation left off]] - & space-binding - & life archiving is time-binding - & if not being bound to time / space leads to identity crisis, a lack of time-binding can lead to generational identity crisis (see [[{1.2a2d} time collapse]]) - [[{1.1c4} erikson's stages of personality development]] - [[{1.2} social context shapes the way we perform identity]] - [[{1.2a} social context is limited and less developed on social media]] - [[{1.2a1} social media requires fragmentation and decontextualization of our identities]] - [[{1.2a1a} social media removes agency in our identity performance]] - [[{1.2a1a1} the internet lets you try on new identities]] - [[{1.2a1a1a} online authenticity paradox]] - [[{1.2a1a2} social media encourages us to label ourselves for better visibility]] - [[{1.2a1a2a} many of us are turning our digital personas into personal or lifestyle brands]] - [[{1.2a1a2a1} digital identity maintenance requires feeding the machine]] - [[{1.2a1a2a2} a brand is a promise of consistency and dependability]] - [[{1.2a1a2a2a} systems are infrastructure for brand stability]] - [[{1.2a1a2a2b} silence, brand]] - [[{1.2a1a3} digital embodiment requires writing yourself into being]] - [[{1.2a2} context collapse]] - [[{1.2a2a} social media decontextualizes our relationships by flattening our social network]] - [[{1.2a2a1} flattened networks give the appearance of homogeneity]] - [[{1.2a2a2} the algorithm flattens all users into a single context]] - [[{1.2a2b} context collapse leads to information reaching unintended audiences without context]] - [[{1.2a2b1} context collapse and virality repurpose users into fodder for content generation]] - [[{1.2a2b1a} virality can spread your story while simultaneously taking away your control of the narrative]] - [[{1.2a2b1a1} virality exacerbates context collapse]] - [[{1.2a2b1a2} viral targets on social media indicate a platform failure]] - [[{1.2a2b1a3} broadcast vs viral communication]] - [[{1.2a2c} cancel culture is a result of context collapse]] (symptom?) - [[{1.2a2d} time collapse]] - [[{1.2a2d1} identity collapse]] - [[{1.2a2d1a} collapse of the self]] - [[{1.2a2e} content collapse]] - [[{1.2a2e1} kayfabe content]] - [[{1.2a2e2} truth collapse]] - [[{1.2a2e2a} truth in record-keeping on the internet and post-ai]] - [[{1.2a2e2a1} algorithms increase the spread of misinformation]] - [[{1.2a2e2a2} the algorithm is a gatekeeper of truth]] - [[{1.2a2e2a3} choose-your-own-adventure reality]] - [[{1.2a2f} federated social media could lessen the effects of context collapse]] - [[{1.2b} the context of our lives is cumulative and intertwining]] - [[{1.2b1} history is the full context]] - [[{1.3} partitioning, performing, and projecting]] - [[{1.3a} we have to un-self collectively]] ## [[2. being online]] - [[{2.1} we're losing the magic of our life's ephemera to the cloud]] - [[{2.1a} the essence of the everyday]] - [[{2.1b} we accumulate so much, but we own very little]] - [[{2.1b1} digital subscriptions are blurring the lines of ownership]] - [[{2.1b1a} artificial limitations create a user-hostile businesses]] - [[{2.1b1a1} we’re living on the internet of shit]] - [[{2.1b1b} there are three subscription models]] - [[{2.1b2} so many products have digital locks because it allows the company to invoke section 1201 of the dmca]] - [[{2.2} the layout of the internet is starting to feel life a cookie-cutter new development]] - [[{2.2a} digital gardens are a protest against homogeneity on the open web]] - [[{2.2a1} a digital garden is a collection of linked ideas that encourages curious exploration]] - [[{2.2a1a} the architecture and landscape of your content can hold or limit attention]] - [[{2.2a1a1} too much navigational structure distorts your voice and makes your content feel smaller]] - [[{2.2a1a1a} digital gardens are experiential text design]] - [[{2.2a1a1b} hypertext builds context]] - social media has links, but not hypertext – hypertext is inherently contextualized? - [[{2.2a2b} digital gardens more closely resemble how we think than chronological feeds]] - [[{2.2a2} linking, annotating, changing, summarizing, copying, and sharing are the verbs of gardening]] - [[{2.2a2a} digital gardens fill the gap between raw notes and finished content]] - [[{2.2a2b} digital gardens should be collaborative]] - [[{2.2a2b1} note-making is the future of information creation and consumption]] - [[{2.2a2c} browsing, editing, and annotating should be seamlessly merged]] - ~ **jump to [[#knowledge management and life infostructures]], [[the memex is the original digital garden|memex]]** - [[{2.2b} the indieweb movement is an alternative to corporate-web]] - [[{2.3} internet spaces have a triple-constraint of being free, open to the public, or quality]] - [[{2.3a} it's devastating to rely on megacorps for our tools]] - [[{2.3a1} enshittification]] - [[{2.3a1a} enshittification of physical products]] - [[{2.4} the four quadrants of the extended internet universe]] - [[{2.4a} the public web versus cozyweb]] - [[{2.4a1} we should not bring the machine of social media into walled gardens]] - [[{2.4b} the dark forest theory of the internet]] - [[{2.4b1} bowling alley theory of the internet]] - [[{2.4b2} the dark forest theory of the universe]] - [[{2.5} social media transformed the internet from a place of text to a place of visual content]] - [[{2.5a} bad art is not unique to social media]] - [[{2.5b} not all media should be digital media]] - [[{2.6} poe’s law]] - [[{2.6a} the rule of goats]] ## [[3. algorithms, manipulation, and culture]] *technology’s impact on society* - [[{3.1} algorithmic monoculture]] - [[{3.1a} algorithmic monoculture requires memeification and turns users into evangelists]] - [[{3.1a1} algorithmic monoculture is memeifying our politics]] - [[{3.1a2} memes are units of cultural transmission]] - [[{3.1b} how algorithmic monoculture creates fragmentation]] - [[{3.1c} how algorithmic monoculture creates homogenization]] - [[{3.1d} the algorithm has replaced culture-building]] - [[{3.1d1} algorithmic monoculture is the memeification of culture-building]] - [[{3.1e} social media engagement is reproductive labor]] - [[{3.2} aesthetics are the new conceptual subculture]] - [[{3.2a} performative aesthetics give you access to the trappings of community]] - [[{3.2b} aesthetics as part of a subculture]] - [[{3.2c} formula for embodying a particular aesthetic]] - [[{3.3} we don't have a cultural childhood anymore]] - [[{3.3a} the algorithm is changing childhood]] - [[{3.3a1} the internet is for children because they give the most currency in the attention economy]] - [[{3.3b} we don't have a cultural adulthood anymore]] - [[{3.3b1} the infantilization of millennial women]] - [[{3.4} we're living in a doppelganger culture where we act as other to people's beliefs]] - [[{3.4a} your online presence is a doppelganger]] - [[{3.4a1} the machine-made doppelganger is our real digital doppelganger]] - [[{3.4a1a} platforms own our digital identities]] - [[{3.4b} the mirror world is where people end up when their views are too extreme or fringe for traditional social media]] - [[{3.4b1} once an issue is picked up in mirror world, it becomes untouchable]] - [[{3.4c} overton window is shifting left and right]] - [[tech gets big through network effects and stays big because of high switching costs]] - [[computers are universal which gives them inherently low switching costs and intrinsic interoperability]] - [[the answer to controlling big tech is forcing interoperability]] - [[we deputize tech companies with governmental and law enforcement responsibilities]] - [[fraud in google search engine results pages]] - [[crisis pregnancy centers target abortion-related keywords to show up at the top of serps]] - [[what we think of as algorithmic radicalization is just how most of us surf the web]] - [[data voids are gaps in information online]] - [[media manipulators exploit data voids by capitalizing on missing data and the logic of algorithms and search engines]] - [[disinformation works because it plays on our existing biases]] - [[closing your own knowledge gaps makes it harder for people to exploit what you don't know]] - [[they know about cellphones]] - [[media literacy does not address epistemological differences]] - [[media literacy requires people to doubt what they see]] - [[we cannot assert authority over epistemology]] - [[misinformation can be a scapegoat for declining trust in institutions]] - [[we combat misinformation by building trust]] - [[we don't just disagree on the shape of reality, we disagree on who is in reality]] - [[technical surveillance allows people to travel through time and space]] | we’re losing *ourselves* to the cloud - ~ **jump to** [[#1. identity and knowing the self thru time]], [[{1.1c1d1} your search and browsing histories build a resonance calendar|{1.1a1a4f}]] - [[we should be able to view, edit, navigate, and use the data tracked about us through our digital tools and environments]] - [[technofeudalism is a system dominated by cloud capital]] - [[cloud proles]] - [[cloud serfs]] - [[cloud fiefs]] - [[vassal capitalists]] - [[cloud rent]] - [[cloudalists are not selling us a commodity for profit]] - [[there is no singular experience of the internet]] - [[hard vs. soft technologies]] - [[natural language as a soft technology]] - [[computing as a soft technology]] - [[computing as a technological disruption to natural language]] ## [[4. knowledge management and life infostructures]] - [[{4.1} hierarchy vs network in knowledge management]] - [[{4.1a} tagging and linking are not alternatives to hierarchy]] - [[our minds do not think in files]] - [[thinking is the process of navigating our knowledge graph to find interesting paths or associations between unrelated ideas]] - [[writing is turning your networked thought into a cohesive narrative]] - [[thinking tools should help us navigate through our knowledge]] - [[thinking is a form of doubling]] - [[people prefer to navigate file systems manually]] - [[avoid trying to boil the ocean when organizing your data]] - [[ACE organization framework]] - [[tagging analog notebooks]] - [[the limitations of pkm language]] - [[personal knowledge management is a life practice]] - ! [[2025-01-28 becoming a morning person - in defense of tinkering with your tools]] - [[file over app]] - [[personal versus business knowledge management]] - ~ **jump to** [[{11.1} your business is a collection of systems]] - [[🌲 atomic notes]] - [[atomic versus perpetual notes]] - [[spatial notes]] - [[time is a grid]] - [[layered calendars]] - [[the do vs. due date vs. layered calendar debacle]] - [[🌲 life data as an identity graph with time as an axis]] - [[build systems by working manually, organizing patterns, and mechanizing them]] - [[my device is my all-in-one tool]] - [[the memex is the original digital garden]] - [[google search is actually close to the conceptual overlay of the memex]] - [[steph ango's rating system]] ## [[05. creativity, craft, and publishing]] - [[{5.1} types of creativity]] - [[{5.1a} idea sex]] - [[{5.1a1} idea gardening is collecting seeds that can be planted later]] - [[{5.1a1a} gardening is a protest against control, perfectionism, and the status quo]] - ~ **jump to [[#2. being online]]** [[digital gardens]] - [[{5.1b} the curation method]] - [[{5.1c} projects are play]] - [[{5.2} a defensible and personal premise creates a thru-line for your work]] - [[{5.2a} that’s the thing about]] - [[{5.2b} don’t market more, matter more]] - [[{5.2b1} the tyranny of the right answer]] - [[{5.2b1a} optimization comes at the expense of originality]] - [[{5.2b1b} best practices lead to average work]] - [[{5.2b1c} expertise isn’t enough because everyone is saying the same things]] - [[{5.2c} be an investigator instead of an expert]] - [[{5.2d} hybridizing over specializing in work]] - [[{5.2e} the tyranny of real work]] - [[{5.3} build something growable]] - [[{5.3a} publish what would have excited you six months ago]] - [[{5.3a1} do not stress over making your writing accessible]] - [[{5.3b} publishing online is querying the internet for community]] - [[{5.4} therefore or but should come between your writing beats]] - [[{5.5} the cycle of craft]] - [[{5.5a} finding your voice is an external process]] - [[{5.5b} antilibrary]] - [[{5.5b1} creating a research antilibrary]] - [[{5.6} good writing has the right answers, not the best argument]] - [[{5.6a} essays start with a question]] ## [[6. artificial intelligence]] - [[{6.1} artificial intelligence will increase the power of the stream]] - [[{6.1a} artificial intelligence might necessitate a reverse turing test to prove humanity online]] - [[{6.1a1} is Online about to get way less cool]] - [[{6.1a2} tips for proving that you are not an llm]] - [[{6.1a3} artificial intelligence can never replace the human experience]] - [[{6.1b} artificial intelligence will change search engines and how people find our content]] - [[{6.2} habsburg AI]] - [[{6.3} chatbots are not the right interface for AI]] - [[{6.3a} ai prompts are just context]] - [[{6.4} using AI images in marketing is the digital equivalent of a fake Chanel bag]] - [[{6.4a} determining whether an image has been AI-generated]] - [[{6.4b} how will our feelings about ai art change over time]] - [[{6.5} we do not have an effective defense against deceptive AI]] - [[{6.6} reader-generated essays as a use-case for AI]] ## [[07. being and having a body, mind, and spirit]] - [[{7.1} the body as a means of control]] - [[{7.1a} atomization and body control in men versus women]] - [[{7.1b} body people in the business of bodies]] - [[{7.1b1} so many physical hobbies become inaccessible to adults.]] - [[{7.2} aging as body doubling]] - [[{7.3} cycle syncing guide]] - [[{7.4} red alert rules]] - [[{7.5} care tasks are functional and morally neutral]] - [[{7.6} stop giving yourself extra consequences]] - [[{7.6a} too sensitive and too needy do not exist]] - [[{7.7} is the situation really complicated]] - [[{7.7a} the questions we ask ourselves are not rhetorical]] - [[{7.7b} make the decision right]] - [[{7.7b1} if you have a solution to your worst-case scenario, go after your best-case scenario]] - [[{7.8} dream planning matrix]] - [[{7.8a} ikigai]] - [[{7.9} secular spirituality]] - [[{7.9a} those without a religious affiliation are now the largest cohort in the u.s.]] - [[{7.9b} gods and archetypes are just precise language]] - [[{7.9c} spirituality is contextualization]] ## 8. social problems - [[{8.1} a person from a marginalized group accomplishing something doesn't indicate progress for that group, but for the majority group]] - [[{8.2} the rough sex defense is used to argue that a person should not be held legally responsible for a death that occurred during allegedly-consensual sexual activities]] - [[{8.2a} in rough sex defense cases, we question the victim's sexual history more than the defendant's]] - [[{8.2b} indiscriminate sex positivity is a tool of the patriarchy]] - [[{8.2b1} women are becoming burned out]] - [[{8.3} euphemism treadmill]] - [[{8.4} we all participate in gender affirming practices]] - [[{8.5} society should work for humans]] ## 9. learning computer things - [[{9.1} html tags]] - [[{9.1a} rotating elements in html]] - [[{9.2} version control is a system that records changes to files]] - [[{9.2a} git]] - [[{9.3} block protocol]] - 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[[how does the block protocol connect to my tagging idea]] ## [[10. creative writing]] - [[{10.1} novel outline template]] - [[{10.2} questions for character development]] - [[{10.3} romance outline template]] - [[{10.4} satire headline formulas]] - [[{10.5} grapes worldbuilding technique]] - [[{10.5a} worldbuilding cultural iceburg]] # [[11. business ops and development]] - [[{11.1} your business is a collection of systems]] - [[🌲software is not a system, it’s a way to store and display your system]] - [[EDIT systematization method for businesses]] - [[business operations includes system, project, and information management]] - [[systems documentation is imperative for a healthy company]] - ! need to clarify the difference between ops and systems - ~ **jump to** [[personal versus business knowledge management]] - [[software agnosticism in business systems]] - [[local storage for business systems]] - [[organizational frameworks for the meta work and operational management]]