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How to Turn Note-Writing into Deliberate Mind Training • Zettelkasten Method
Andy Matuschak claims that note-writing can be a virtuosic skill. Taking that seriously means treating note-writing as a practice in its own right with its own measure of quality. Atomic notes and the knowledge building blocks provide that measure, and turn the notes you have to write anyway into deliberate mind training.
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Rust’s infrastructure runs on limited engineering time. Saving compute can mean adding maintenance work, and reviewing contributions competes with keeping services running.
In this interview, Marco Ieni of the Rust Foundation explains how the team reduced CI costs and why it sometimes accepts duplicated work for a simpler system. We also discuss running untrusted code, infrastructure as code, release-plz, and what it takes to support Rust’s growing ecosystem.
( 75
min )
Using GraphViz to Build Complex Models Bottom-Up • Zettelkasten Method
When you can't see the whole of a complex issue yet, model it bottom-up: keep a GraphViz note of reinforcing and balancing relationships, research each link in its own note, and let the model of the whole assemble as a byproduct.
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( 3
min )
It takes time to wait. Today, I created a sequence diagram to reveal one of my 'secret Zettelkasten workflows':
My Zettelkasten reminded me of an old idea from 2023 published on the Obsidian forum. To create the diagram today I used the PlantUML plugin for Obsidan.
More about: https://plantuml.com/en/
( 2
min )
Rambling about Sorites • Zettelkasten Method
Another example of anchored model layering: a meta-model anchored on the freedom scale and on consciousness. Why interdisciplinary frameworks belong in your Zettelkasten, and what the Sorites paradox teaches about drawing conceptual boundaries.
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