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25 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
1/n I love this thread, was just thinking about this myself ...

Kid up, inside, happily opening the presents that I wrapped...

Stepped out, because sunrise was UNBELIEVABLE, a rich purple orange ...

But-->
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

Sheer awe, that all this just IS -->
4/ and that I, you, WE, all get to be a part of this.

The ultimate winter solstice gift, right there!

Happy holidays, all!

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Matt is a fan of Victor Hugo 🆘 Profile picture
25 Dec
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 ...
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22 Dec
For those not yet part of the [[Zettel]] discussion, one thing I want to emphasize:

The low-floor, high-ceiling, agile, locally-emergent concepts that @beauhaan prototyped, mean you can start doing this on top of any existing note-stack, no matter how it was prev'ly organized.
2/ and furthermore, this leads me to ...

the PERFECT metaphor!!!

(cc @RoamBrain! ... here is another crucial appearance of [[Christopher Alexander]] in my "pantheon of Roaman influencers") -

so ...

What is a Zettel?

The Zettel is the "small green stone in the Alhambra"
3/ what is the small green stone?

to quote @beauhaan , "I'M GLAD YOU ASKED!"

I wrote about it back in June. Read this thread, for the context:

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18 Dec
1/n thoughts on Zetteling

If you treat your brain as a programmable computer, you will vastly unappreciate all the things it can do (many of which are the things that make life, life)

But if you ignore its algorithmic capacities, you will miss out on some splendid superpowers.
2/n ... the above observation, which is, itself, a kind of [[Zettel]], arose out of discussions with other @RoamResearch Book Club members,

in which we were reflecting on the lessons of Soenke' Ahren's remarkable book "How to Take Smart Notes", in a series of weekly meetups.
3/n What is a "Zettel"?

It's an idea. An "aha!" moment. An aphorism. A gnomon. It's the basic, atomic unit of thought. It's what knowledge is woven out of. A conclusion, belief, idea, hypothesis. Sometimes, it's even a Tweet.

It's all of the above.
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22 Oct
1/ Today is my first day of trying to really hone-down a "prediction-based workflow" and so far I'm really loving it.

The basic premise: at 8PM last night I gave myself fifteen minutes to run an imaginary preview of today, highlighting tasks and challenges I thought I'd face.
2/ Key - I also wrote all this down, to keep myself accountable

One way to conceptualize this is with the "managing self-creative self" split.

I was giving my "manager" fifteen minutes to "coach the team" last night. White board, chalk arrows the whole deal.
3/ This AM, I woke, slonked some vitamins and coffee, and the "prediction" was fresh in my mind.

Good to go!

The first and probably most interesting observation was that I then became acutely aware of exactly when I was at risk of diverging from the predicted plan.
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21 Oct
The Dance Theater or Harlem is absolutely incredible.

... the mix of fluidity, precision, and soul energy is 🔥

Jump to the 7:38 mark in this vid, to go straight to the dancing

(I'm told this video is viewable for only a week - thanks @alphamom ... )

at 12:59.

This is so inspiring.

it's like watching the universe itself unfold

music is from the soundtrack to Barry Jenkins' "If Beale Street Could Talk"

haunting, so much it practically aches with beauty

my favorite thing I've seen in a while
(such an artful decision to cut to this clip right after the clip about inspiring kids to believe in themselves as dancers)

well played, video editor, well played.
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20 Oct
OK quick @RoamResearch experiment with new, stabilized block-embeds and "attribute tables".

If you want to keep the attribute table columns in a particular order, this is how... (read on)

Usually the ordering moves the "most recently edited" entry to the far right column.
2/ This is a problem if you "need" the columns to be in a certain order (see below pic) because you can't edit them without reshuffling.

HOWEVER if you just put a block embed in the place you want, you can edit into that block embed with no change to table order

NOTE, though -> Image
3/ you can't directly edit within-table but you CAN click on the entry in an attr-table to bring it up in side window... you can edit its block-embed there, AND use it to navigate to wherever it "lives"

(thus, attr-tables become "indexes" ... one of their secret superpowers).
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