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Biomedical and Electrical Engineer with interests in information theory, evolution, genetics, abstract mathematics, microbiology, big history, IndieWeb, mnemonics, and the entertainment industry including: finance, distribution, representation
@alexobenauer Markus Krajewski frames index cards and card catalogs as computing machines, and they've definitely been an operating system that have been operating well and flexibly for that purpose for several centuries now. #ToolsForThought https:/
Delving into an early version of chapter 1, I have to reiterate how much I can't wait to get all of @bookscribbler's Media and the Mind: Art, Science and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830 (@UChicagoPress, Dec 2022) #ToolsForThought #NoteTaking
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I can only wonder how many years ago Alito and his staff wrote the bulk of this massive paper?
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For those interested in some history and culture surrounding today's Welsh Calan Mai (aka Calan Haf) celebrations, I found a great little paper "The Rituals surrounding Calan Mai–the Welsh May Day–and their Functions" by Alan Robert Phillips [.pdf]:
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@actualham That is spectacularly awesome!! If you ever wanted to part with it, I'm building an archival collection of original documents at the heart of 20th century communications and I don't yet have an original of Baran's paper yet. #informationtheory
I'm tempted to ask for the stage rights both for this thread and the paper #openscience #sciencecommunication https:/
I think her most valuable thesis is really the "only keep things which spark joy in you." I suspect that I'm just as messy/untidy as you are (perhaps worse) in terms of having things everywhere and not necessarily putting them away. The difference with her "method" is that you've first gotten rid of a magnitude of order of junk. Thus the new "mess" that surrounds you (even when things haven't been put away) is at least the things that bring you joy and make you happy. She does discuss in that one portion you mentioned that tiding up your own space first will likely help to encourage those around you to do the same--that old "lead by example" chestnut.
Another aspect of her thesis, which I haven't seen laid out anywhere else, is that it dovetails somewhat with some of the GTD (Getting Things Done) and Bullet Journal philosophies which tell you to write everything you need to do down on a piece of paper. This helps to keep your mind clearer of all the minutiae you might otherwise try to hang on to (and typically forget), but still know in the back of your mind that you're forgetting to do something, but aren't sure what. Kondo's piece helps you clear the physical clutter (compared with the mental clutter) out of your life.
Of course it all sounds lovely on paper. We'll see what it looks like a few days, weeks, months hence... I will happily report that after donating away a lot of clothes and refolding things, I've got several additional empty drawers which I can put tsundoku into.
Richard Feynman's 1st paper: The Scattering of Cosmic Rays by the Stars of a Galaxy #annotated http:/