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2024-09-05 | 00:49
Another chill night here in the cozy Pub. I'm sitting at the bar, earbuds in, quietly reflecting, watching intently as our other patrons enjoy their drinks and bask in their own personal thoughts. The pool table beckons, but alas, I didn't bring any change with me. Oh well, another day, perhaps. :-)
~bartender, another beer please? these are going down way too easy.
lighting up a smoke (my ever trusty Lucky Strikes), I turn the music up just a bit. a cool song has come on, one I haven't heard before. I'm adding it to my list of things to download. our fellow Pub patron, ~tffb, has shown me this cool radio.garden, where I have been tuned into various international stations throughout the day. I am currently tuned into J1 Radio Gold in Japan, enjoying some chill Japanese music from the 70s and 80s.
I've already accumulated a nice little list of 'favorites' on radio.garden. Some local stations in my home state of Arkansas, the old station I used to listen to when I lived in Broken Arrow, OK, and some international stations in Japan, the UK, and Australia. Bookmarked on my firefox, I can easily make my way back here anytime I want to listen to some stuff from around the world.
I stepped into the Pub this evening for a quick break from what I have been working on for the past few months, and which I have planned to have done by the end of next week. I have been getting my "second brain" of sorts together, a personal, expansive wiki, which is to accompany the redesign of my personal website. it has been a lot of fun to build, and has been a work in progress for quite awhile, as I try to organize all the knowledge I have gained throughout the years,, on a huge variety of topics - everything from programming, free and open-source software, obscure internet stuff, homesteading, renewable energy, gardening, brewing, emulation, GNU/Linux, free software android ROMs, music production, hardware, and a lot more.
this wiki idea was inspired by devine from 100 rabbits, a personal log of all the knowledge I have accrued and wish to share with others. if something ever happens to me, it is nice to know that this knowledge will live on in this knowledge base, the digital garden. not only might it help anyone who stumbles across it, but it might even come in handy for me as a reference if i ever need to refer to it again in the future. my favorite thing in this life is learning new things, and I am happy to be able to record the knowledge I have picked up throughout the years.
it has been a fun exercise, and I look forward to seeing the fruits of this work end up live on the new version of my website. if all goes according to plan, I am aiming to have this up by next friday. i am happy to share it with anyone who is interested when it is complete.
My smoke has almost reached the filter, and my beer is running low. I think I'll have one more of each, enjoy a few more songs, and get back to work. I hope my fellow pub Patrons are having a great night, as well.
Enjoy some tunes from around the world with me!
are you using notion for your second brain. I have a doc file that i kind of use as a second brain but it's mostly used as an instruction manual for my mentees.
I also am trying to write more on actual physical notebooks. I have also started keeping a commonplace notebook for that explicit purpose.
Second brain is an idea that i've been wrestling for years without any proper or consistent action/approach/ Maybe that will change this year.
I love the idea of creating a wiki with every information one knows and deems to be useful for future people. kind of like a lonely archivist floating in zero gravity
Hi. I am very interested in your project, so please, when you are done, be sure to share it so we can have a look at it.
Myself, I've been interested in this topic for a while already. But my relation to technology is a bit different than it would be, I assume, for most people. Not just with technology, but with everything. Put simply, I am a stark (staunch?) minimalist. Not only that, I am very unorganized. Here, take a look at my notebooks, you'll find scribbles all over the place, even the nice and tidy notes are a mix of chinese vocabulary, excerpts from various chinese classics, sanskrit, greek and russian vocabulary drills, and an assortment of technical notes on: lambda calculus, yijing hexagram deconstructions, qbalistic tree-of-life studies, some lost notes from physics, chemistry, etc. But I digress, as usual.
I was interested in the "second brain" for a little while, but then I realized.... I have a first brain already! I am more than happy to let the information in and let the brain do it's work in integrating it into it's world model while I sleep, or even better, while I'm gardening!
Still, I've been meaning to take my gardening to the digital realm, as well, build my own digital garden. Most likely here and in the smol.pub.
Recently, I have been delving more into yijing (易經) studies, and I've been thinking of building a sort of "wiki", in the sense of an integrated, easy-access reference into the several hexagrams, commentaries, and translations. Right now, for example, as I read one or another translation or commentary translation, they usually come without the chinese characters themselves, and mix commentaries inside the judgement texts, so I have to constantly reach elsewhere (usually ctext) for the chinese text to see what's what and what the original chinese texts is (for which each translation gives a different rendering.) This is precisely what I've been starting to consider.
Of course, the idea of making it public for others to benefit from the fruit of your researches and learning is also a very enticing proposition! You mentioned homesteading, renewable energy, and gardening. Here is an example of my inner struggle between technology and non-technology. Lately, I've been taking to the maxim that "the landscape is the textbook", and opted not to mediate my interaction with the garden through a myriad of books and online resources. On the other hand, something like Mollison's Designer's Manual and Holmgren's Principles and Practices are a very good compass and source of ideas. Likewise, whatever "notes" I take about this, they are embodied in the garden itself, so whatever reference I need, it is taken from the garden. Here, the first brain holds the "world model", and the "second brain" is the landscape, the digital computer ends up as a superfluous third party.
Anyway, again, please be sure to share the wiki/garden once you're done. Myself, I'm too thinking of restructuring my smol.pub pages to serve as a sort of "study log" for the... many many things I engage in. Hopefully, it'll help me keep them all in some sort of order.
ah, 100r, a new favorite of mine as of late. I downloaded 15 or so if their videos, read though all their off grid sailing posts and permacomputing entries. The second brain concept is interesting, have hard of it for a great while. Though, me being the knowledge-releasing, personal-interest-purger that I am, I have taken to err on the side of collecting OTHERS writing/knowledge, and see what I can keep/sustain/remember on my own, as I (personally) rarely produce and true original info.
That, and I consider all my writing/ideas to be ephemeral.
stay well ~rav3ndust, and I'd like to see your site(s) if you'd like to share