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resources: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23667381">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23667381</a>
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<li>talks about dealing with lotsa files in a single top-level directory... but Dendron's vaults can help</li>
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resources: <a href="https://subconscious.substack.com/p/tools-for-thought-in-your-ooda-loop">https://subconscious.substack.com/p/tools-for-thought-in-your-ooda-loop</a>
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"Tools for thought are tools for orientation. They’re the big circle in the OODA diagram. A tool for thought…
Expands your awareness. The more you sense, the broader your ability to orient in your environment.
Builds up a memory across time. Expanding your time horizon into a long now lets you act across broader timescales, lets you generalize across wider distributions, and avoid fat tailed risks.
Broadens the surface area for luck to strike, by collecting stepping stones that expand your adjacent possible.
Increases your bandwidth for synthesis by augmenting our intellect, and provoking creative insights.
Evolves the complexity of your world-model. The bigger the memes, the complex-er your thoughts."
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Backlinks
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<li><a href="/wiki/notes/0deUbUTA87xF5Npu5zw1s">RemNote</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/notes/tzzm18saxnkek9usp2x4xt0">Neuron</a></li>
<li><a href="/wiki/notes/asm3f92bkabaxtqwgofhu7k">Semantic Obsidian</a></li>
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Tools for Thought

public-notes


Welcome! And beware!  

## Purpose

This vault is the "[[learning-in-public|ar.swyx.learn-in-public]]" part of my Second Brain. If you share some of my interests, please [reach out](https://djradon.github.io)! 

## Contents

- [[t]] my personal wikipedia
- [[idea]] (not necessarily mine)
- Resource Notes, including highlights, thoughts and metadata, for various things:
  - [[ar]] mostly articles, papers and web pages
  - [[book]]
  - [[community]]
  - [[course]]
  - [[event]]
  - [[game]]
  - [[loc]]
  - [[org]]
  - [[user]] 
  - [[prdct]] mostly software products, but also ontologies
  - [[recipe]]
  - [[video]] movies, tv episodes, youtube, etc
- [[vs]]
- [[wanted]]
- Some "Metadata Notes":
  - [[tags]] which may refer to any and multiple (or none) of the above
  - [[c]]: ways to categorize resources
  - [[p]]: ways to assert things about resources (mostly abandoned)

In terms of the [[t.km.zettelkasten]] method, this wiki is a commingling of literature notes with something @Sönke-Ahrens warned about: a "personal Wikipedia or a database" [^1]. 

In terms of [[t.tm.getting-things-done]], it's references, someday-maybe, next actions, and public projects.

## Beware!

This is a cluttered cupboard of jumbled jottings riddled with inaccuracies, confusion, and mistakes.

## What This Is Not

- evergreen-notes/digital-garden: for "synthesized" / original-ish publishable big-idea notes that should evolve over time, props to @andy-matuschak and @maggie-appleton
- blog: for "point-in-time" items to be shared: personal news, articles, etc.
  - e.g., [[ar.substack.carpe-noctem]]


[^1]: [[book.how-to-take-smart-notes]]  