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
- creating a lifestyle that facilitates creativity e6fd318894a54f428f421b2b776cdf44
- 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