Writing

I read How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens recently which talks about Niklas Luhmann’s zettlekasten (English: slip-box) note-taking method. Luhmann was a prolific sociologist who came from humble beginnings. Check out video of the relationships in my zettelkasten so far: I highly recommend reading How to Take Smart Notes but to summarize the method: You want to keep notes unitary. Each note contains one idea, and one idea only....

I don’t publish very frequently and it’s because I feel like this site represents my public image and the things I put here should be somewhat polished since it’s “how the world will see me.” If I write something here I tend to keep a draft for months. Write it and rewrite it again and save it to reread later and decide it’s not good enough to publish. But in truth, I’m not always polished....