I think I remember you having talked about hypomnemata before and it has been percolating in my head to the point that I’ve begun to think I should set up a system to capture, manage, and functionally direct my stray thoughts into some sort of eventual output.
Your linkmentions the system but it doesn’t vividly describe the system such that it might be understood and reproduced by a third party.
If you could describe your system, that would be neat!
There really isn’t much to add beyond what I wrote there. I try to write neatly. I put some blinds in there so that if a girlfriend picks it up she will see something about sado sex where some woman is forced to eat her own puke off the carpet long before she can glean any useful insight into my deep psychology. The most common glyphs I use are for Venus and Mars and Jupiter and Saturn and Pisces and Capricorn and Sagittarius and LIbra. I use these in the same manner that LessWrong uses tags.
At the moment the stack of pages is close to a foot tall and I am still going daily at a near constant pace and expect to do so for the foreseeable future.
Four reams of paper, each 15 pages, lined.
You take your notes, basically summary, implications and connections with other previously encountered knowledge. Every time you finish a ream you reread it and your next ream begins by summarising, and connecting the previous ream. Repeat ad infinitum, and once you get up to 75 pages, the last 15 are dead to you.
I think I remember you having talked about hypomnemata before and it has been percolating in my head to the point that I’ve begun to think I should set up a system to capture, manage, and functionally direct my stray thoughts into some sort of eventual output.
Your link mentions the system but it doesn’t vividly describe the system such that it might be understood and reproduced by a third party.
If you could describe your system, that would be neat!
Description here.
There really isn’t much to add beyond what I wrote there. I try to write neatly. I put some blinds in there so that if a girlfriend picks it up she will see something about sado sex where some woman is forced to eat her own puke off the carpet long before she can glean any useful insight into my deep psychology. The most common glyphs I use are for Venus and Mars and Jupiter and Saturn and Pisces and Capricorn and Sagittarius and LIbra. I use these in the same manner that LessWrong uses tags.
At the moment the stack of pages is close to a foot tall and I am still going daily at a near constant pace and expect to do so for the foreseeable future.
IIRC Foucault’s method was as follows
Four reams of paper, each 15 pages, lined. You take your notes, basically summary, implications and connections with other previously encountered knowledge. Every time you finish a ream you reread it and your next ream begins by summarising, and connecting the previous ream. Repeat ad infinitum, and once you get up to 75 pages, the last 15 are dead to you.
No.