A portfolio and stream based alternative to LinkedIn. — I have avoided LinkedIn for years, maybe since it was launched, actually. It seemed a community dominated by ‘upward-striver’ dynamics, where I receive people eager to aggressively create ‘connections’ with me instead of the more organic pattern of following and commenting that I love in blogging and Twitter. It seems…

Following a suggestion by Clive Thompson. — Clive Thompson recently wrote How I Take Notes When I’m Doing Research, in which he lays out his thinking about research, and — to a limited extent — the tools and techniques he employs. He ends the piece he asks ‘Let me know if you do something like this, what…

From Wikipedia Shiplap is a type of wooden board used commonly as exterior siding in the construction of residences, barns, sheds, and outbuildings. Shiplap is either rough-sawn 25 mm (1 in) or milled 19 mm (3⁄4 in) pine or similarly inexpensive wood between 76 and 254 mm (3 and 10…

A deep dive into my evolving task management — ‘work processing’ — in Obsidian. — I’ve been revamping an approach to task management in Obsidian that I call Taskidian. This is a long and deeply wonkish dive into the second version of Taskidian: New Taskidian. In an earlier post — ‘Kanbanibalization’ in Obsidian — I laid out the basics of using the Kanban plugin which…

Can Twitter return to the dream of a platform? — It is the aim of public life to arrange that all forms of power are entrusted, so far as possible, to people who effectively consent to be bound by the obligation towards all human beings which lies upon everyone, and who understand the obligation. | Simone Weil, Draft for a…

Moving from Search and Dataview to Kanban, all the way down — I have been experimenting with an evolution in how I manage my work in Obsidian. Ever since I adopted Obsidian, I’ve used Dataview as a unifying element of my workflow. …

This is from 2011, so the ‘crisis’ discussed is the scree falling from the Great Recession, not today’s crisis, ten years after. — I think Umair is right about what is wrong, but wrong about what’s right. Here’s his diagnosis: Umair Haque, Why This Crisis Isn’t Going Anywhere-And What To Do About It The clanking, wheezing institutions of the industrial age are beset by a titanic flaw. They overcount real benefits, and undercount…