I had to completely stop writing "to-do"s for a while, before realizing how completely awful I was at it.
What I now appreciate: every commitment has to fit into the broader scope of my intentions, with a care equal to a craftsman fitting a single tile into an epic mosaic.
2/ This is a very Alexandrian idea (Christopher, of course) - and it raises an underexplored question -
Why aren't we applying Alexandrian design principles to the imaginary structures that we create in time, as well as space?
3/ In a sense, computer programmers, among Alexander's earliest devotees, were fastest to see this - because what is a computer program, if not a kind of design that is specifically created to unfold in time?
It's also true that Alexander, himself, is reverent towards time.
4/ He proposed "principles of unfolding"; he suggested that great care be taken in sequencing decisions appropriately. He suggested that someone designing a house should design its garden first, because you can fit a house into the constraints imposed by a landscape; ... but -->
5/ ...you can't make a landscape fit a house that's already built.
But the deeper question that fascinates me is this - what if the elaborate structures that we design, for which *time itself is the medium* - the architectures that are made out of time, so to speak - rituals,
6/ habit structures, self-narratives -
What if those, too, follow Alexandrian principles?
To be clear, I'm not talking about things that "unfold in time", (a la C.A) - I'm talking about the things that we MAKE - out of the medium of time, itself.
/fin
7/ a calendar is, at best, a tool that can help you get where you need to go,
but until you do the deep work of figuring out where you are going, and why, it can't help you.
If map and the territory disagree, pay attention to territory, not map.
Maps of time, doubly so.
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@quotidiania @the_wilderless 2/ this paragraph right here: (the "melancholic", or, we could say, the "dysfunctional coper", fails, because he is making it all about HIM - which is to say, he falsely assumes that HE can "fix it all" with his intellect or his effort somehow, instead of simply feeling the loss)
@quotidiania @the_wilderless 3/ his delusional coping style comes about, because he has a poverty-mindset - his reaction to loss is to become more "grasping"
A thread about the "note taking wars", + why famous s$%-p#$ter Tiag@ F@rte does not have a clue what he is talking about
@obsdmd is a gorgeous, well executed product with a fantastic community behind it. Yay!
♥️🚀 ♥️
... but it is *not* a "roam-like".
2/n block referencing and outlining, as implemented by @RoamResearch, are WAY more than just check-boxes to tick, in some arbitrary feature-comparison list.
They are *core* features of the product.
... CORE features that cannot be tacked on, if they're not in the product-DNA.
3/n Yet, it takes time to see this.
... when I first started using Roam, I was so conditioned by the Wikipedia model of backlinked pages, I couldn't 1st see that the true revolution, is at a deeper level.
Your team is currently hard at work designing what we believe will be an extraordinary 6 week learning experience for our beloved #roamcult -->
2/n There will be 2 groups working side by side - Beau will lead a discussion of Ahrens' "How to Take Smart Notes" and I'll lead, for returning members, "The Culture Code" by Dan Coyle.
My group will have a limited number of spots. Beau's group will not be size-limited.
3/n if you are unable to join the Coyle group (enrollment has to be capped, sorry) don't worry; you can still follow along; my plan is to live tweet + carry our discussion out to Twitter
Furthermore, the plan is to bring you more "episodes".
Hear me out, what if looking *really carefully* at the past can accomplish more than fantasizing about the future;
I think this year, I am going to focus on new-years RE-solutions, which will entirely be RE-implementing all the solutions I've already used, to make life awesomer.
2/ "I am at the confluence of past and future; melding these streams creatively is what makes life itself feel alive"
... is (I think) a paraphrase of Henri Bergson, of whose work I have not yet read enough...
3/ can't believe that I somehow failed to tag @calhistorian into a tweet thread rethinking the relationship between past and future ...
2/ was MOST amazing was not the palette + the rich hues of the sunlight cascading upwards from beneath the horizon,
No
The most amazing part was taking a moment to see how softly the clouds were scudding across it all.
The seeming delicacy of this, belying the enormous -->
3/...power of wind, water, heat, majesty of sunlight from ninety three million miles away lifting water and then causing it to slide gently across the sky in one of many convection currents that slide in + out forming a gently drifting cloud