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Tools for Thought
Updated 12d
Reading that adds up. The lineage of ideas behind notes, memory, and understanding.
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Updated 12d
Reading that adds up. The lineage of ideas behind notes, memory, and understanding.
Unbundling Tools for Thought
Disparate thoughts on personal information management after traversing the hype cycle.
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web
The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
Opening keynote for dLRN 2015. Delivered October 16th @ Stanford. Actual keynote may have gone on significant tangents… 1 | a year in the garden A week or so ago, I was reading about the Oreg…
Augmenting Long-term Memory
One day in the mid-1920s, a Moscow newspaper reporter named Solomon Shereshevsky entered the laboratory of the psychologist Alexander Luria. Shereshevsky's boss at the newspaper had noticed that Shereshevsky never needed to take any notes, but somehow still remembered all he was told, and had suggested he get his memory checked by an expert.
As We May Think
“Consider a future device ... in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
