Seeds

The smallest hints of ideas I've had. Barely more than a title. In many cases, only a title. But I still thought it, so in it goes.

Mind Forest Seeds

• Use verbs in description
• Control over technology is more important than control over industry
• Give readers clues so obvious, they feel like they're piecing it together themselves
• Dump ephemeral thoughts into a physical commonplace book rather than a digital one
• Do not send your manuscript to a literary agent or publisher and do not self-publish your script until it is ready to be seen.
• Connect with the powerful to win
• Tag highlights, not entire articles
• Words are a web of meaning
• explore with purpose
• To better connect us with each other, new technologies need to be shareable
• Working through my Mind Forest is a reminder of thought; working through my HIghlight Library creates new ones
• Use Obsidian when you need the information, not just to maintain what is already there
• Review note tags in Obsidian
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• Every character must want something from another character in the same scene
• Take time to do nothing
• incremental reading is better than space repetition
• It's easier to make money if you already have money
• what we vale about ourselves and what we value in others is not the same thing
• simplicity is beautiful
• writing gives thoughts a grammar
• Writing is a performance of thinking
• Do the thinking as you write, not before
• Writing VSS works well when the prompt word is not the main focus of the story
• We first need to understand the thing for what it is.
• What to do when you first make contact with someone
• To understand something, we need to name it
• Emotions are not universal
• AR needs to die
• Positive emotions broaden our awareness
• Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing left to take away
• Sport encourages a zero-sum mindset
• Positive thinking makes you stronger
• Always create
• Doing something quickly is an advantage
• You have to start at the bottom to reach the top
• You only need a handful of stories to construct a narrative of your own life
• It gets easier. But you have to do it every day.
• Become more of yourself
• Climate change requires levels of cooperation that don't exist
• Culture evolves faster than biology
• Child Poverty in the UK
• We need to learn from AI, not deny it
• How to use Substack
• AI is a remix, not the original
• Right and wrong are not absolutes but comparatives
• Depth of character isn't a laundry list of facts
• Allow others to make their own bad choices
• Second Brain Workflow 2023
• Map out concepts before you begin
• We only know what we make
• Why open up Obsidian
• A man is an adult human with an internal sense of being male
• How to grow your following
• Do flashcards instead of social media
• Best things to do in the morning
• Meta want to join the fediverse to fix their accountability problem
• Islam and homosexuality
• Technology is most useful when it helps us connect with the real world rather than drawing us away from it
• Delegate your thinking to an external system
• How do we make good notes
• Characters should have their own distinct philosop 2586f0edb6eb4c4c9a81fd05db3d3702
• A good workout in the morning sets you up for the day
• The Design Argument (aka Teleological Argument) 98b90b3ee44947338c3fd97d8cfc6708
• The First Cause Argument (aka the Cosmological Arg 2796b55f91354043a566dba7c33efc9a
• Major evolutionary milestones
• The Anthropic Cosmological Principle
• Homosexuality and the bible
• When we create something it creates meaning
• We are what we do
• You have to sacrifice something to achieve excellence
• Make use of Canvas in Obsidian to make more visual connections between notes
• Good writing is invisible to the reader da687ee04b574bb3ad56d7497123f1ff
• Focus is when you manage to resist distraction
• Duty-based theories (aka deontological)
• Give yourself 30 minutes before you begin creative work to let your mind wander without distraction
• Writing doesn’t make money
• You need to be your own brand
• Boris Johnson
• Create something from your notes
• Hijra
• To better connect us with each other, new technologies need to be shareable
• Use Obsidian when you need the information, not just to maintain what is already there
• Working through my Mind Forest is a reminder of thought; working through my HIghlight Library creates new ones
• Lean into difficulty
• Don't get lost in your notes
• Gender is not binary
• Structure your time
• focus on what’s essential
• Work on what matters
• There is a glass ceiling of potential in every human being
• group smaller tasks into deliberate and focused sessions
• Win hearts, not eyeballs
• choose your influences
• The production of knowledge is not a neutral project
• Description tells the truth of a scene
• Stories have to continually build towards something
• Differentiation has little effect
• The small things in life matter
• decolonising the curriculum
• The hidden secret in stories
• good teaching should be multimodal
• Good Technology should augment the real world, not replace it
• Slow growth is strong growth
• 'Good' is context dependent
• Genius does not mean 'nice'
• Mental health in literature
• readers like to feel clever
• Confidence is a superpower
• A life is the memory of it
• Survival is the first goal
• The hallucination argument
• Plan characters, not plot
• Good timing in literature
• Grief is the echo of love
• Stories need a variety of different ways to recount speech
• Learning can be invisible
• We are more than biology
• Thomas Tallis - 1505-1585
• Journal in the mornings
• Gain also involves loss
• The big guys always win
• You can't do everything
• Success breeds success
• Gladstonian liberalism
• Common-Sense Realism
• The simple future tense creates a sense of detachment
• The difference between mink, ermine, weasel and stoat
• Hope has a dark side
• Better physical health leads to better mental health
• commitment inflation
• Death in literature
• Sound is atmosphere
• Browse your notes with a purpose and outcome in mind
• Flaws make us human
• The 80 20 principle
• unreliable narrator
• Conflict is story
• learning takes time
• nicomachean ethics
• data is pointless if you don't do something with it
• The Dream Argument
• Consequentialism
• We crave agency
• Christian ethics
• Fillipo Azaiollo
• learning points
• Parkinson's law
• early mornings
• Evergreen notes
• Types of time
• David Drysdale
• Virtue Theory
• boiling a frog
• Taking notes on something requires a purpose
• traditional means of knowledge are unreliable
• Resurfacing notes isn't enough
• Suspense is when the audience knows but the characters don't
• A good story is based on set-up and pay-off
• Speciesism
• note taking should help you think better
• Emotivism
• Knowledge is not the same as understanding
• Alcohol has a permanent place in culture
• Good thinking challenges the orthodoxy
• Characters are their habits and goals
• the tension between learning and doing
• add images to make notes more memorable
• The real world doesn't like binaries
• How to use the Mind Forest
• How to use your phone
• Heirarchical knowledge
• explore with purpose
• You have to own what you want to learn
• Effective teaching provides many examples
• Photograph student work every time they write something
• Good description is full of impossible comparisons
• Study eternal things
• All riots are alarm bells
• Good description is about a few well chosen details that make a thing unique
• Create your own thoughts to escape other people's
• Reading needs to be processed through writing
• Tagging for projects
• Entries to the Highlight Library need to be properly tagged at the point they are made in Kindle or Pocket.
• Academic publishing is exploitative, elitist and exclusionary
• Give readers clues so obvious, they feel like they're piecing it together themselves
• variation is a measure of life
• Post-traumatic growth
• Utilitarianism
• Use your notes when you want to work on something
• Tag highlights, not entire articles
• Religious faith makes philosophical and reasoned arguments irrelevant.
• literature notes
• portal
• fleeting notes
• Exponential progress
• Words are a web of meaning
• how to get published
• Connect with the powerful to win
• Do not send your manuscript to a literary agent or publisher and do not self-publish your script until it is ready to be seen.
• Discipline is a useful skill, but in creative situations it is surpassed by motivation
• Control over technology is more important than control over industry
• The Spitzer Study, 1939
• The Butler Study, 2010
• Using GPT3 in my notes
• Inflation hits the poor hardest
• Falsificationism
• the wiki-hole effect
• Dump ephemeral thoughts into a physical commonplace book rather than a digital one
• Michel de Montaigne
• Non-Realism is an alternative to Theism f514e6ca641c4248b168475f6417cee3
• Have your own voice
• Always carry tape to use with your commonplace notebook
• fauxthenticity
• cloze
• Focus is more valuable than [insert just about any efb40da40b68414eac9679e23155a559
• The path of history is not always one of progress
• Skepticism
• Stories within stories expose how characters inter fb8dc56b673f43319cafba3ea62f9250
• Routine is more important later in the day than th fbf5b4555b5148508f32c8b3a4c03dfc
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• Individual activity does not correct the inequalit fdf4afd8f32746e5b22343c3813d3697
• Setting should be as idiosyncratic as character
• Without comparison, statistics are useless f970956106964252b89d664bace29165
• Meaningful moments in literature are valuable beca eb2f9d1acd9948a8bb3fb4d926841e1e
• Community benefits from routine eb167006140046ab88a24d6d76c0115d
• Journal at the end of the day
• It is best to play to the strengths of a system ra f6e47cc840a54ff9b656575678ba7b44
• conceit (literature, comparison) f17f27da6107445b8b143e4e27cb7fdc
• Philosophy of the mind differs from psychology
• working towards a socially acceptable form of suic e2dbcf7e4e314c64b1ae293b8378c922
• Physicalism
• We return to and relish suffering d5293d718871496aaf68a401d6e570e5
• Careful metaphor (particularly catachresis @#catac b79e8e3f0df34a02a7a714c92aacd4f2
• Inappropriate metaphor creates humour bbe95e6e927846069e24adaaa05021a6
• Good writing is invisible to the reader
• Reading is a meditative activity
• It takes time to train our intuition dcb86dac672c4a829c995c63e1b66067
• Praise the action, not the actor d3c5cb6cb2eb481dbd0e392142c843e6
• We can enjoy insulation from suffering as much as d8dd758152ca462ca1e47935b33ca7b4
• we need a new word for things that are meant to be identical but are unique
• The appeal of a novel should be unique, not generalised
• Your expectation influences your experience
• Faith in science is not the same as faith in the s cef35e9244d7431bb3fea6fc5373dcea
• Subtle physical action to indicate thought d064c801d7d6462eb1d496babc18ef55
• Workout in the morning, run in the afternoon bf82065ad322457eaaceb6f1baac5f30
• To particularize is the alone distinction of merit c488700ad9d84b7da258c3a5c5e33d83
• Freedom can never be complete in any society c0436d0af53a4882ba702a1501dd3f81
• Ownership of living things is a mark of capitalism b76de75fbac4421c9ed09be059f140e2
• Self-aware writing creates the opportunity for deeper metaphors
• Story is not about the moment, but the moment it i add637ce70af4535b24312d7c717b352
• Admirable characters are best viewed from the marg b3fe0235e65d48178f129cc4e36a29ed
• Objects have Primary and Secondary Qualities bac8f9d829994f5e833fbb74cf24c88c
• Understanding requires transformation b65e4203f850440cb5aaadd50f2a183e
• Good stories need complexity of character, not of plot
• Thinking takes time
• We may change our habits, situation and circumstances, but a core of personality remains untouched
• You aren't paid according to how hard you work, yo b0379b51eec14fd79c189b110e900fd6
• Steve Bannon
• Beauty is complexity made simple a6ff7e529e67475dbd4691eae94c10f4
• narrator
• Zero Inbox is satisfying, but distracting a6a136bab6384251ab4677c423cd069e
• Description should inspire the imagination, not replace it
• We learn by doing
• Desire and logic often disagree a6212e2c14624ea3a2727686e9808111
• Incomplete understanding is empowering a43c6c45d9ef44d78b694e1826206c41
• willpower
• Traditional masculinity is a feeble and limited vision of the human experience
• active learning beats passive learning 91ea7ff03a8a462580a8edb9f513c781
• notes should lead to new thinking and new material
• We should judge by actions taken not words spoken 86bad6abb15348ed81f81879714384ea
• Mini whiteboards provide immediate feedback on who 6d76ebe7c2814f0d815f8395b052f071
• The simplest systems are usually the most robust
• Populists depend on enemies, real or imagined, to legitimise their actions
• courage
• Digital notes allow easier use of images 844b4a7ac4b2469c809bf1910f041fc3
• Praise and blame are two sides of the same coin
• Philanthropy is always an expression of power 7194ea8fc70047589f47bdf18af9c020
• Characters should be more concerned with their own desires than the plot
• Life is more complicated than logic 7eb4e9915c744d34a2c1b9d36c03bece
• Opening lines should begin at the most interesting point in the story
• We have a right to restrict others 77dea1fcf7474a26a0bdeb2fd32b6c56
• We should be the primary audience for all our work 6f432bcbe74f43d7babf1b4f4a8e31b0
• Cling to simplicity in the complexity
• Seek out views you can synthesize into their own
• Learning should lead to a product 567b84c8b41f4e31904483d0cc5ab46e
• knowledge is recall (memory, remembering)
• Every question should be answered in the conclusio 52a46d64802d4eb1b66d78bf26a9e433
• Profundity in literature should be small and precise
• Ignorance is an essential part of successful capit 35bca672cd024a8fa1040c109656a38f
• Our understanding is limited by what is there - we 38d996f781264e54bbbc383ceb274ebc
• The Ontological Argument
• Emotion resonates in its 'opposite' emotion 5402e7f010a1433c8ddf7f0cd091dff5
• The most important part of a zettelkasten system is the resurfacing of ideas
• Teach content before you teach form 5e876ed88ac04783a0862a55d8a589d0
• reimagine the world from a different angle 44b2c6ab1f0e4fb3952a947d7a1db8d1
• Creating opportunity for self-learning is more eff 092aaf662da045e0ac6b84120f9dd822
• Ritual gives structure to our experiences 45b0cdc39c254df995fdcfc7739a15fc
• Describe the literal, not the abstract (writing) 4a001cad12084dc88240c99bd872467a
• We are attracted to 'true' stories
• The use of imagined events in literature
• We ignore what we do not understand
• variation is a measure of life 37a7ebaf12f248928e6c928bf5f43ba3
• Use verbs in description
• Learning is also copying; copying is also learning 41721a80c0564bedadac082fe4e50566
• Knowledge is only valuable when it leads to taking 3239de213a6b4a55a7d2ebfee70c7af1
• Disprove first impression to create a sense of character depth
• Music is about horizontal, not vertical progressio 09875c6aa7744845b3a88f5765ddaf37
• Passion is the key to a long, fruitful life
• Write at the edges
• The First Cause Argument
• Enjoyment is a subjective, not objective act
• knowing the future is torture
• Idiosyncratic actions create character 20a645fba68544dc8ebfb464bdfd2d46
• The voice of a dead character is a denial of the p 24eb071b450247f3a948ef0a2c33237b
• Familiarity is not the same as understanding 2b7fc032d7a64089865c2f1daa76b122
• Metaphor is an exchange of energy between two thin 27b4cde0899246088e6bb32226f9d0ae
• Leave mindless jobs until the end of the day 26dcf1fd371b4b949e61929b13c01105
• Create a unique description of a universal experie 2bc56216f5374e66a9f724ad9faf2ec4
• Characters should have their own distinct philosophies
• Tony Harrison
• We only want to give freedom to others if we ultim 200570f1e4a14d2fb069d3c4ed181f0c
• Good stories have a theme or value supporting them 25ed7bfd0724431e8efb22a32e4ef8a7
• Inequality isn't even good for the rich
• Shared experiences are not perceived in the same w 1eaca06c797347eb801a61feb01dd60d
• Is accurate self-evaluation possible
• focus on the thing you want to learn
• Quizlet Pro gives us a diagnostic insight
• Write for when the reader is in time
• You believe you know more than you actually know
• Clump smaller tasks together into one unit of acti 0409dbdc16494283b37c4f47275fbaa2
• Juxtaposition of tone creates discomfort 0342abcd424747a6b3e6bee386cc40c3
• prejudice
• share your work
• Ain’t nobody got time for this
• Pegasus Project
• Ambiguous attribution of speech creates a dreamlik 512c2ce169bd4dc1877f60766d8daebb
• Deliver correction all in one go
• It should always be ‘all or nothing’ 8fc50f3a876b485a88c1994add29bc03
• Notes should be completed in as much detail as possible when they are first created
• Having wealth is different to being rich 93358e9d2c314fa39d78ed106de0926f
• The problem with creating a digital note system (P c99b14a3f15845d9a40e5cf8d0e22230
• There is always a reason why we do not speak out - ac0bfca8ebde448b9ad8946a03de5804
• Praise should be gradual and sustained
• Lesbianism was not a crime in Victorian England be cb7deb9825c64e2c9977e7d5ef3dec76
• It is sometimes better to build new bridges
• We must understand our demons to defeat them ff282bbd855247859847e06ec1e9c4e5
• You need to aim for greatness to achieve mediocrit 269c63e2ce6d42ca8f66946ff62af9ac
• science will absorb other ways of seeing the world 31b8255b4d634faa873727c3caf5cde7
• When something happens, take time to let the initial panic fade
• afterlife
• Knowledge is only valuable when it leads to taking action on an idea
• knowledge is recall (memory, understanding)
• free indirect style