• §Enabling environments, games, and the Primer (58)
• §Note-writing systems (50)
• Evergreen notes (41)
• Enacted experience (37)
• Enabling environment (34)
• Mnemonic medium (30)
• Note-writing as fundamental unit of knowledge work (29)
• §Taking knowledge work seriously (Stripe convergence talk, 2019-12-12) (28)
• Evergreen notes should be densely linked (28)
• The Primer isn’t a viable enabling environment (28)
• Write about what you read (26)
• Enabling environments require activities with intrinsically meaningful purpose (24)
• Note-writing helps insight accumulate (23)
• Games effectively develop players’ skills (22)
• Educational games are a doomed approach to creating enabling environments (22)
• Knowledge work should accrete (22)
• How to Take Smart Notes - Ahrens (21)
• Powerful enabling environments usually arise as a byproduct of projects pursuing their own intrinsically meaningful purposes (21)
• Evergreen notes should be concept-oriented (21)
• Peak - Ericsson and Pool (21)
• Executable strategy for writing (21)
• The mnemonic medium can help readers apply what they’ve learned through simple application prompts (21)
• §Knowledge work as serious discipline (20)
• Good enabling environments involve actually doing what’s enabled (20)
• Miller - The magical number seven, plus or minus two (19)
• Note-writing practices are generally ineffective (19)
• Enacted experiences can bootstrap active participation in enabling environments (18)
• Educational objectives often subvert themselves (18)
• Note-writing helps reading efforts accumulate (18)
• Minecraft vs- the Primer (17)
• Evergreen notes should be atomic (17)
• §Inboxes and attention management (16)
• The Primer++ is embedded in a field, bootstrapping participation through enacted experience (16)
• Cognitive scaffolding (16)
• Spaced repetition systems can be used to program attention (16)
• Effective system design requires insights drawn from serious contexts of use (16)
• A writing inbox for transient and incomplete notes (15)
• Enacted experiences have incredible potential as a mass medium (15)
• Evergreen notes are a safe place to develop wild ideas (15)
• Evergreen notes permit smooth incremental progress in writing (“incremental writing”) (15)
• A reading inbox to capture possibly-useful references (15)
• Nell doesn’t know or share the Primer’s goals (14)
• Designing new enabling environments can be framed as designing a University++ (14)
• Powerful enabling environments focus on expert practice (14)
• Human channel capacity increases with bits-per-chunk (14)
• Inboxes only work if you trust how they’re drained (14)
• Prefer declarative and imperative note titles to sharpen claims (13)
• Educational games try to teach through enacted experiences (13)
• The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer (13)
• “Chunks” in human cognition (13)
• Spaced repetition may be a helpful tool to incrementally develop inklings (13)
• Commercial open-source software (12)
• Spaced repetition memory systems make memory a choice (12)
• Skill development in games is subservient to other intrinsically meaningful purposes (12)
• The Primer is one big “onboarding” experience for the rest of Nell’s life (12)
• The Primer is fundamentally an educational game (12)
• The Primer’s activities are only intrinsically meaningful to Nell because her life is impoverished (12)
• Dynamic mediums usually lack an authored time dimension (12)
• Enacted experiences are hard to distribute (12)
• Enacted experiences amplify the power of narrative (12)
• Authored environments are significantly colored by authors’ motivations (12)
• Let ideas and beliefs emerge organically (12)
• How to process reading annotations into evergreen notes (12)
• Writing forces sharper understanding (12)
• Close open loops (12)
• Executable strategy (12)
• Brainstorming may often substitute for missing insight accretion systems (12)
• Core practices in knowledge work are often ad-hoc (12)
• Spaced repetition memory system (12)
• The mnemonic medium can be used to author an experience which unfolds over time (12)
• Spaced repetition can lower the stakes around destructive inbox-maintenance operations (11)
• Tags are an ineffective association structure (11)
• Participatory environment (11)
• Metacognitive supports as cognitive scaffolding (11)
• The Primer’s explicit learning quests teach Nell to delegate her curiosity and interest (11)
• The Primer is an enormous enacted experience (11)
• Enacted experiences of intellectual discovery could foster Nell’s curiosity and interest (dubious) (11)
• Deep collaborations between tool-makers and tool-users may support insight through making (11)
• Do your own thinking (11)
• Triage strategies for maintaining inboxes (e-g- Inbox Zero) are often too brittle (11)
• Evergreen notes lower the emotional stakes in editing manuscripts (11)
• “Better note-taking” misses the point; what matters is “better thinking” (11)
• People seem to forget most of what they read, and they mostly don’t notice (11)
• Insight through making (11)
• Prefer associative ontologies to hierarchical taxonomies (11)
• Peripheral vision (10)
• Enacted experiences can create intense personal connection to authored targets (10)
• Most dynamic representations developed for communication aren’t very enabling (10)
• Novices in enabling environments often can’t do what’s enabled (10)
• Evergreen note titles are like APIs (10)
• Literature notes are secondary and separate (10)
• How to collect observations while reading (10)
• Pocket memo pad to capture into writing inbox while out (10)
• Complex ideas may be hard to learn in part because their components overflow working memory (10)
• Simple application prompts can be presented the same way as recall prompts in the mnemonic medium (10)
• Application prompts should vary when repeated (10)
• Reading texts on computers is unpleasant (10)
• Mnemonic essays may offer detailed retention of their contents in exchange for 35-50% reading time overhead (10)
• Create speculative outlines while you write (10)
• Most people read ineffectively (9)
• Educational game (9)
• Mass mediums mostly lack an authored time dimension beyond a day (9)
• Nell doesn’t do any original thinking inside the Primer (9)
• §Corporate research lab practices (9)
• Most games aren’t enabling environments (9)
• Most people take only transient notes (9)
• Use phones to collect and triage, not (usually) to read (9)
• Recoding can increase chunk size (9)
• Span of working memory (9)
• Purposeful practice (9)
• Naive approaches to practice rapidly plateau (9)
• Evergreen note maintenance approximates spaced repetition (9)
• Note-writing practices provide weak feedback (9)
• Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills much more rigorously than knowledge workers do (9)
• Quantum Country (9)
• Gingko (8)
• Insight through making prefers bricolage to big design up front (8)
• Notes should surprise you (8)
• Enacted experiences require participant-situated cause and effect (8)
• Most explanatory media make participants run their own feedback loops (8)
• Metacognitive supports require dynamic, participatory environments (8)
• The Primer is scalable (8)
• The Primer’s goal is to produce creative, subversive youth (8)
• “Find the fun” (8)
• Deep understanding requires (and is a result of) intense personal connection (8)
• Pixar’s movies and technology development act as coupled flywheels (8)
• Learning increasingly complex ideas may amount to forming larger effective chunk sizes (8)
• Chase and Simon - Perception in chess (8)
• The bar for virtuosity has risen precipitously in many fields (8)
• Understanding requires effortful engagement (8)
• Collecting material feels more useful than it usually is (8)
• How might we adapt existing texts to the mnemonic medium, without participation of the author (8)
• The mnemonic medium could include prompts which support near transfer (8)
• Where do ideas come from (8)
• Digital note-writing systems fixate on the presentation and manipulation of individual notes, mostly ignoring inter-note sense-making (8)
• It’s hard to navigate to unlinked “neighbors” in associative note systems (8)
• Work with the garage door up (7)
• Scaling the mnemonic medium in early 2020 is premature (7)
• Advantages and disadvantages of using notes to form associations in content (7)
• Existing spaced repetition systems make it hard to write evergreen notes (7)
• Fine-grained task progressions as cognitive scaffolding (7)
• Tools for thought should be evaluated in the context of intrinsically meaningful purposes (7)
• Enacted experiences are hard to author (7)
• Collaborations between tool-makers and tool-users can best iterate through a sequence of different projects (7)
• Enabling environments focus on creating opportunities for growth and action, not on skill-building (7)
• Most people use notes as a bucket for storage or scratch thoughts (7)
• Leaps of insight emerge from prior thought (7)
• Working memory span is mostly independent of item complexity (7)
• Channel capacity of humans as information processors (7)
• Span of absolute judgment (7)
• Human physical and cognitive capacity can be expanded surprisingly far with practice (7)
• Performance plateaus often require a change in approach to surmount (7)
• Spaced repetition may be a helpful tool to develop or change habits (7)
• Software interfaces often harmfully frame destructive operations as final decisions, not contingent preferences (7)
• Spacing effect (7)
• Mass adoption of the mnemonic medium seems to require mass adoption of web publishing (7)
• The mnemonic medium works remarkably well for a prototype (7)
• Poor performance disrupts nonlinear reading in digital reading (6)
• Maintaining multiple reading positions is difficult when reading digitally (6)
• Are literature notes necessary if we have automatic universal backlinks (6)
• How should note tagging practices change with ranked link visualization (6)
• Indexed references vs- tags (6)
• Participatory environments support learning (6)
• Games help players make and adapt plans (6)
• Learning requires metacognition (6)
• The Primer reminds people of their own experiences with profound enablement (6)
• Internally-modulated learning is self-actualizing; externally-modulated learning is self-abnegating (6)
• The Primer++ (6)
• The Primer doesn’t make experts better at anything (6)
• Narrative as cognitive scaffolding (6)
• Collaborations between tool-makers and tool-users depend on building effective “armories” of tool ideas (6)
• Prefer positive note titles to promote systematic theory (6)
• Beware automatic import into the reading inbox (6)
• Skill development requires challenging homeostasis (6)
• Knowledge workers usually have no specific methods for developing ideas over time (6)
• Implementing my reading inbox (6)
• Inboxes shouldn’t be split into multiple places (6)
• Zettelkasten (6)
• Management science focuses on knowledge work at the level of the firm and the manager, not at the level of the individual (6)
• The most effective readers and thinkers I know don’t take notes when reading (6)
• Application prompts are much harder to write than recall prompts (6)
• Mass adoption of written media with novel cognitive supports requires mass adoption of reading on computers (6)
• Quantum Country lacks a coherent spatial representation of the mnemonic medium’s cards as objects (6)
• Application prompts can systematically test combinations of details in the text (6)
• Premature scaling can stunt system iteration (5)
• Computer-supported thinking (5)
• Backlit displays limit computers to interiors (5)
• Prefer explicit associations to inferred associations (5)
• Prefer fine-grained associations (5)
• Backlinks can be used to implicitly define nodes in knowledge management systems (5)
• Games help players evaluate their developing skills (5)
• Constraints as cognitive scaffolding (5)
• Educational environments usually don’t involve original thought (5)
• The Primer doesn’t appear to coerce its students (5)
• The best time to write about your lecture’s topic is around the time you deliver it (5)
• Great tool-makers are often not great tool-users, and vice-versa (5)
• Some “educational” activities have intrinsically meaningful purposes (5)
• Note-writing can be a virtuosic skill (5)
• It’s hard to hear yourself think (5)
• Human channel capacity increases with stimulus dimensionality (5)
• Spaced repetition memory systems can be used to prompt application, synthesis, and creation (5)
• Knowledge work (5)
• Spaced repetition memory systems are extremely efficient (5)
• We don’t know how to measure knowledge worker productivity (5)
• Application prompt variations are challenging to automate (5)
• The mnemonic medium is particularly valuable for platform knowledge (5)
• The detail-in-context problem (5)
• GitLab (4)
• Skillful reading is generally non-linear (4)
• Contextual backlinks (4)
• Enacted experiences require blocking on participant action (4)
• We can develop the mnemonic medium by writing about topics with only moderate domain expertise (4)
• Executable books (4)
• Enacted experiences exist on a spectrum of participation and authorial control (4)
• Communities of action often form around media artifacts (4)
• Transcendental narrative (4)
• Talks and classes provide pressure and emotional fuel for understanding (4)
• It’s difficult to maintain emotional connection to a creative project across delays and breaks (4)
• RenderMan sales are probably not important to Pixar’s business (4)
• Use notes to avoid preconceived conclusions (4)
• Practicing cognitive skills can expand associated neurological capacity (4)
• Powerful innovations often focus on creating new paradigms, not solving problems of the current context (4)
• Conceptual understanding is unlikely without detailed knowledge of fundamentals (4)
• Readers shouldn’t memorize application prompt answers (4)
• Twitter threads could be an interesting context for the mnemonic medium (4)
• Mochi (4)
• Note-writing system (4)
• Mnemonic video may present a smoother on-ramp to mass adoption than mnemonic text (4)
• Embedding the mnemonic medium via simple HTML tags (4)
• Question-writing in the mnemonic medium helps the writer think about their topic (4)
• Hickory Training (4)
• BumpTop (4)
• LiquidText (4)
• About these notes (3)
• Redis Labs (3)
• Elastic (3)
• Commercial open-source software company index (3)
• It’s hard to maintain aligned plans spanning many time horizons (3)
• reMarkable (3)
• Inspectional reading (3)
• Prefer labeled associations (3)
• Metacognition is inherently dynamic (3)
• Mathematica (3)
• Jupyter, not Mathematica, is the executable notebook for collaboration (3)
• The Knowledge Society (3)
• Cantor (3)
• Gumption transcends willpower and confidence (3)
• Enacted experiences require tight action–feedback loops (3)
• Jerome Bruner and enaction (3)
• In what fields has the bar for virtuosity not risen considerably- Has it fallen in some fields (3)
• Morning writing practice (3)
• Issues with desktop e-book readers (3)
• Testing effect (3)
• E-reading popularity sharply trails all book-reading (3)
• Continuous-scroll digital reading uncomfortably disrupts object permanence (3)
• RemNote (3)
• Audiobooks are produced under a wide variety of business models (3)
• Audiobooks (3)
• The mnemonic medium can surface “proof of memory” social signals (3)
• Connecting prose and its surrounding Twitter conversation (3)
• Transfer learning (3)
• Platform knowledge helps non-practitioners amplify good ideas (3)
• New media forms benefit somewhat simply from being novel (3)
• QCVC (3)
• Brian Tobal (3)
• Spatial (AR collaboration environment) (3)
• Anand Agarawala (3)
• Pitching out corrupts within (3)
• About these notes (3)
• Meteor was a viable business, but not a viable venture-backed business (2)
• Affero General Public License (2)
• Confluent (2)
• SMART goals (2)
• Roam (2)
• Conor White-Sullivan (2)
• Games can amplify a sense of player-situated agency by minimizing camera moves and scene cuts (2)
• Jupyter (2)
• Dynamic medium (2)
• Khan Academy Long-term Research (2)
• Explorable explanations (2)
• Dolby Labs (2)
• David Holz’s iterative invention cycle (2)
• It’s hard for autodidacts to execute purposeful practice (2)
• Daily working log (2)
• Transclusion (2)
• Spaced everything (2)
• Lectures can offer a glimpse of what it’s like to think like an expert (2)
• Twitter is the water cooler (2)
• Approaches for visualizing large graphs (2)
• Alan Keahey (2)
• Studio environment (2)
• Working on niche, personally-meaningful projects brings weirder, more serendipitous inbounds (2)
• All my inboxes (1)
• Setting up my reading inbox (1)
• Creating hyperlinks to my reference archive (1)
• Program (1)
• David Chapman (1)
• Metacognition is too imprecise a category (1)
• Braid (1)
• The Primer doesn’t feel coercive (1)
• Patrick Collison on project plans - 2019-12-24 (1)
• Ladder Media (1)
• Spaced-repetition memory system (1)
• The Primer++ is embedded in a field, bootstrapping participation through enacted exdperience (1)
• Platformizing the mnemonic medium (1)
• In 2019H1, 29% of QCVC readers who finished the in-text level finished the 1 month level (1)
• Luka Dover - Quantum Country interview - 2019-11-19 (1)
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