• [[metasj]]
  • [[cascading]]
• [[kanopi]]
  • signed up after discussing with [[brian]], its creator
• [[donald bitzer]]
  • invented both [[plato]] and the [[plasma display]] (!)
• [[for the love of troff]]
  • http://www.schemamania.org/troff/for-the-love-of-troff.pdf

14:05 making the best of it

i think the best way that someone can appreciate the world is to focus on the essentials. essentials: things everyone does to some extent but that some are passionate enough to master.

this seems far from the obscure, pretentious ideals of the academic culture i love and hate - endless abstraction feels unhealthy, as useful as it is for discussing complex ideas, as it prevents people from communicating with one another. learning shop language is fine, but often what should be accessible material is rendered inaccessible, and those newer to the field, to ideas, or resources are expected to take on the full burden of

here’s what i am interested in focusing on:

• exercise and posture. everyone have to lift things and everyone can or has to walk or run. i’m interested in honing these skills - honing with my body, making daily tasks look effortless, and appearing structured and confident.
• writing (and reading?). everyone can, should, and/or must write - but few can eloquently express themselves in writing. i want to be able to. i want my writing to feel like me, and to hone myself to become more similar to my writing - or, at least, how i would like to portray myself, though i know i will never get there because accomplishing such a goal is tantamount to giving up on oneself. it’s lovely to have something to strive for - truly.
• everyone takes photos. i want to take photos wellm to make them look nice, because photos show our real life to others better than anything else can and i want to be very good at that. recording the past for the future might be the most beneficial part of this
• cooking. everyone has to eat so becoming a great cook feels essential. making good, healthy and nutritious for yourself is incredibly worthwhile - and cooking and baking for others - to have someone else enjoy the results of your labor, to experience the joy of tasting something exquisite with them, is one of the greatest joys in life. baking too - baking might be the bset thing to do.

i’m sure there are more but they are currently escaping me. whatever the case i would like to be good at them. spending time on all of the things we need - things that feel essential to human nature - feels incredibly valuable and satisfying.

21:36 personal advertisement

currently my profile pictures on each platform are a bit of a caricature of their respective sources; the twitter profile picture parodies the line used to convey replies and the instagram picture satirizes the private stories that many people use.

the first step is obtaining a consistent username across all platforms - this username doesn’t have to be my real name, i don’t think, and i’m okay with it being ‘jakeisnt’ - ‘jakechvatal’ doesn’t quite feel like me. i’ll have to figure out how to snag the username i prefer from others.

I like https://bitsofether.com/ and the way he has laid out all of his work, his value propositions, the people he has consulted for, etc. The testimonies, clear results and skillsets, client buzzwords, and the way the website is organized make for an excellent and easy to navigate interface.

2021-07-01

• [[Parable of the Sower]]

  • [[God is Change]]
  • [[Debt slavery]]

• [[Federated Education: New Directions in Digital Collaboration]]

| writing | subject | tools | dialectics | ||—-|—|| | narrative | I | garden | thesis | | dialogic | you | stream | antithesis | | exposition | we/it | agora | synthesis |

Another way is to start at the end technology — in this case wiki — and look at what it would take to make it work better in the other stages, the I and the You, the personal and the dialogic.

^ This is huge. And what I think I’m going for with my site. Combine the garden and the stream there. Actually not just there. And then the agora (or interlinking wikis, one way or another) layered on top of that.

But YES - the goal is to combine garden, stream, and agora. The way one does that might take many forms. My chosen form is some kind of indieweb / fediverse / agora mashup.

• [[dialogic]]

• Away from reality for a few hours, I am drinking coffee, writing in my wiki, listening to Atlas by Bicep, and having galaxy brain moments.

• [[What’s the difference between my journal and my stream?]]

• [[Chorus of voices]]

• It could be interesting to have an action in [[Agora]] that forks (or merges) someone else’s node in to my own content store.

  • Similar to what one does in [[FedWiki]].
  • In Agora, however, given the way nodes are all displayed together on one page, you might end up with a lot of duplicated content.

• Similar to the above on wiki and dialogic: "Good digital note taking tools easily blend into online conversations"

  • [[Bastien Guerry]]
  • [[Future of Note Taking]]

2021-07-01

hey, it’s been a while. it’s like, i forgot about this almost but it was in the back of my mind. today i thought, "maybe i should pick this back up." so, here i am. hopefully i can get back on track for daily entries.

anyways:

• woke up relatively late (unfortunately summer has messed up my sleep schedule pretty badly >_>)
• got a notification i passed my summer classes! pretty happy about this, i thought i was kind of just not going to pass.
• this one is fun: because of ^, my mom bought me a new keyboard.
  • Keychron C1 with Keychron Brown switches
  • hotswappable(!) i’ll probably order some other switches a few months from now and play around with them.
  • of course, i still have to consider… this is an expensive hobby. i hope i don’t go too far LOL

i’m still a bit tired from my absolutely awful sleep schedule but ah well what can you do about that. hopefully i can fix that in the next few days.