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I write about the human experience through the lens of self-development, spirituality, PKM, and anarcho-marxism.
RECENT WRITING | posts & essays
08-22-24 ••• How a Collaborative Zettelkasten Might Work: A Modest Proposal for a New Kind of Collective Creativity
01-25-24 ••• What Do We Mean When We Say "Bottom-Up?"
09-12-23 ••• Inspired Destruction: How a Zettelkasten Explodes Thoughts (So You Can Have New Ones)
09-06-23 ••• Doing What Matters Most: Personal Project Management for the Burgeoning Homesteader
08-07-23 ••• Keeping the Zettelkasten in Mind When Creating New Notes
06-28-23 ••• Using Diaries and Journals as Source Material for Zettelkasten Notes
03-12-23 ••• How to Handle Facts in Your Zettelkasten
03-02-23 ••• There is No "One True Meaning" in a Text: Reading as a Communal Act
02-03-23 ••• How to Use Folgezettel in Your Zettelkasten: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started
10-12-22 ••• What is a Permanent Note?
08-16-22 ••• Don't Ditch Your Old Notes: An Argument for Holding onto Abandoned Ideas
07-25-22 ••• What is a Fleeting Note?
07-19-22 ••• Folgezettel is Not an Outline: Luhmann's Playful Appreciation of (Dys)function
07-16-22 ••• "I just finished reading a book and took lots of notes. Now what?"
06-17-22 ••• The New Convert and the Old Devotee
06-06-22 ••• What is a Literature Note?
05-28-22 ••• A Zettelkasten is Not for "Making Connections"
05-25-22 ••• Zettelkasten, Linking Your Thinking, and Nick Milo's Search for Ground
05-19-22 ••• Linking New Notes & Fearing Lost Ones
05-18-22 ••• Quotes are Not Notes: Creating a Zettelkasten of Ideas
05-16-22 ••• A scraped knee is never just a scraped knee
05-11-22 ••• Friction-free does not lead to more free time
05-10-22 ••• My former alter ego
05-09-22 ••• How I Use CLOGs to Organize My Writing Files
05-07-22 ••• User-Centric Means Labor-Invisible
05-06-22 ••• Decentralization is Inevitably Centralized
05-05-22 ••• The Spectacle Always Recoups Dissent
05-03-22 ••• Resonance over scale
03-27-22 ••• Misconceptions About the Relationship Between Permanent & Evergreen Notes
03-01-22 ••• Folgezettel is More than Mechanism
02-21-22 ••• Tensions Between Zettelkasten & the Productivity Scene
02-16-22 ••• Obsidian Publish Should Not Cost $198 a Year to Use
02-11-22 ••• How to Be a Good Teacher
02-04-22 ••• Is NYT's Acquiring Wordle the End of an Era?
01-30-22 ••• The Five Levels of Hype
01-23-22 ••• Mindsets that Prevent(ed) Me From Ever Making Money as an Artist
01-02-22 ••• Cars feeling creepy dystopian
2021 WRITING | still being uploaded
12-08-21 ••• The Spirit of Productivity: Channeling Inspiration Into Doing What Matters Most
12-03-21 ••• Hidden Relevance: Where Seemingly Dissonant Ideas Meet
08-21-21 ••• The Predicament of Bourgeois Anticapitalism
08-06-21 ••• Is "Conscious Capitalism" Still an Option? Was it Ever?