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Genius product name... burning ROMs :D

What triggered the sudden surge of interest in these knowledge management platforms in your opinion?

How is this conclusion different than saying that, say, reading anything in any magazine is a waste of time because the magazine sells advertising space?

Looks great. Would be amazing if I could use it as an alternative frontend for my vimwiki, which is also markdown.

Only thing missing is that links like these should work:

[anchor](path)

As that's the way vimwiki generates them :)

Yes yes, I agree. The way I tackle the threat of detachment from my cards is to aggressively delete cards as soon as I see boredom creeping in. I switched from Anki to Supermemo, though. Much better for managing context and even keeping organized notes that may or may not be used for active recall at some later point.

Anki is great but Supermemo is where it's at.

Commonplace book on steroids.

Economist also makes it very hard to unsubscribe.

That's appealing. I have been tracking my time in toggl for years.

I do this too but this article makes me think that it may be better if everything u was one file folding avoids visual clutter anyway

Yes, I retired Evernote when I discovered Vimwiki. I keep wondering, though, am I shortchanging myself by not using org. mode? But I don't know emacs and I am not sure whether it makes sense to make such a costly transition.

I tried using duckduckgo but gave up after I kept getting irrelevant results for simple queries

I agree. If anything, tinkering and iterating is the best approach to deal with complexity, which the author says will emerge from the new technology.

If you are adding Shogun then surely you also must add Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa. A sprawling epic loosely based on history, with real historical people as characters

Software: Vimwiki[1] System: Johnny Decimal[2]

[1]: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki [2]: https://johnnydecimal.com/

Not that it solves your problem, but it's useful to know the shortcut for speeding the video up and down: shift + , or . and use it in conjunction with the left and right arrows or j and l keys. It's the best you can do to skim clips.

+1

I did. This sleep problem happens only if I try to work on a problem before bedtime. Otherwise, I'm OK.

My problem too. I actually can't fall asleep because my brain keeps throwing out random ideas at me, like a toddler tugging at my sleeve: "is this solution good enough? no? How about this? No? What about this? No? This?" and so on and so on throughout the night.

This will come up in any Hackernews thread that mentions spaced repetition, so I might as well mention it to get it over with.

Supermemo [1].

SuperMemo is the king of spaced repetition software.

Anki uses the algorithm from an earlier version of SuperMemo - SM2. The current version of the algorithm used in SuperMemo is SM17.

The benchmark for the algorithm's performance is the repetition workload. I don't have the numbers close hand. But the point is that the repetition intervals in SuperMemo will increase much faster than in Anki, but you will have the same, if not better, retention rate.

Also, it has Incremental reading.

To be honest, I used Anki on and off for more than five years. SuperMemo scared me, with its ugly non-conventional interface. But in the end, I succumbed, and now for the first time, I actually do my repetitions every day for 4 months now.

This despite the fact that I have to boot into Windows from Mac OS every time I need it.

It helped me learn Python and a bunch of other less practical things.

Of course, spaced repetition is not all you need for better learning. Most of what you need to know is covered in the Coursera Learning How To Learn course.

Jim Kwik is also good.

[1]: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/Main_Page

incidentally, Dale Carnegie didn't write that title. The main title and all the chapter titles were written by an advertising copywriter named Vic Schwab. Arguably the titles made it the publishing phenomenon it is. Schwab also wrote a book that probably changed the lives of many marketers. It's title is "How to write a good advertisement"

Good observation. The reason that CrazyEgg can get by with such a headline is that they count on their audience (marketers) already being familiar with the tool. If you look at older versions of their website through the web archive you'll see that they used to have more informative headlines, such as "Get Immediate Insight Into Your Visitor's Behavior"[1] followed by actual descriptions of what the product does.

When creating their landing pages, people often model pages of well-established companies, missing the fact that their audience's awareness level is totally different. It's a common mistake. You end up with a website as pretty as the one from your favorite startup, but with horrific bounce and conversion rates.

I call it the cargo cult[2] approach to marketing

--- [1]: http://web.archive.org/web/20110225071634/https://www.crazye... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

I hold the opposite view: I read books to extract intelligence that will help me operate in the world. So I interrogate them like detectives interrogate suspects in movies. I sit alone in a room with a book and point a light at it. By the time I am done the book is in terrible shape -- it is lacerated with earmarks, scratched with scribbles, and if it's a soft cover its spine is cracked. The more worn down the book ends up, the more intel I extracted. There might even be some sadistic pleasure in the process.

I think the idea of revering books as objects comes from an earlier time when books were rare and expensive. But now that books are abundant and cheap, it's a useless conviction. We should cherish books for their content not their physical form.

Plus, once I mark up a book it becomes one of a kind and more valuable. If I keep it intact it's indistinguishable from all the other thousands of its clones.

On occasion, I pick up books from my dad's library. His marginalia from decades ago enhance my reading experience. It becomes a meeting of three minds instead of two. I also enjoy putting down my scribbles next to his. Perhaps a few decades in the future my son will stumble on the same book, traverse the same pages, and trace the thoughts and reactions of his predecessors. For me, that is much more compelling than accumulating a family library filled with pristine volumes that make it indistinguishable from a commercial bookstore.

Or what they call steelman as opposed to strawman, right?

Yes, this is an excellent book. I like how it gets boring towards the end as the discussion turns to USA-Japan import/export issues and other less inspiring subjects. As the book slips into being boring it coincides with the decline of Sony so it's symbolic. But it's only perhaps the final third that is boring. Otherwise, it's a great read that rarely gets mentioned online.

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