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Every organization gets 3 innovation tokens. Every cool new technology you add to your application's tech stack uses up one token. We try to keep our language choices minimal, but somehow don't apply the same principle when it comes to other parts of the tech stack. A lot of our old boring tools can serve more than their primary purpose. You have to read the second page of the manual. Also, the old boring tools fail in predictable ways. New tools fail in unpredictable ways and are much riskier. Their unknown issues are far harder to deal with than the known issues of old boring tools. | Every organization gets 3 innovation tokens. Every cool new technology you add to your application's tech stack uses up one token. We try to keep our language choices minimal, but somehow don't apply the same principle when it comes to other parts of the tech stack. A lot of our old boring tools can serve more than their primary purpose. You have to read the second page of the manual. Also, the old boring tools fail in predictable ways. New tools fail in unpredictable ways and are much riskier. Their unknown issues are far harder to deal with than the known issues of old boring tools. | ||
== Productivity == | |||
=== [https://writingcooperative.com/zettelkasten-how-one-german-scholar-was-so-freakishly-productive-997e4e0ca125 Zettelkasten note-taking method] === | |||
The Zettelkasten (paper + box) note-taking method uses a system of linking together ideas. Each idea is written on one note. Notes are tagged and there's a way to list all notes of a tag. The notes also form a web. They are linked to each other. Most of the popular note-taking apps do most of these, except the linking. | |||
Main website: https://zettelkasten.de/ | |||
Revision as of 09:41, 30 May 2020
Articles and essays that I found on the web. These are articles of long-term value and worth re-reading.
World-wide Web
Rediscovering the Small Web
This essay is a nostalgic trip back to the 90s when the web was still free and for the people. It wasn't taken over by the marketing departments of corporations yet. There were no gatekeepers like Google back then. The web was a bit weird but it was diverse and thriving. It was like a solarpunk version of the current corporate web. I didn't really use the WWW till about 2005, but I wish I had seen the times when the web was completely indie.
Software Engineering
Choose Boring Technology
Every organization gets 3 innovation tokens. Every cool new technology you add to your application's tech stack uses up one token. We try to keep our language choices minimal, but somehow don't apply the same principle when it comes to other parts of the tech stack. A lot of our old boring tools can serve more than their primary purpose. You have to read the second page of the manual. Also, the old boring tools fail in predictable ways. New tools fail in unpredictable ways and are much riskier. Their unknown issues are far harder to deal with than the known issues of old boring tools.
Productivity
Zettelkasten note-taking method
The Zettelkasten (paper + box) note-taking method uses a system of linking together ideas. Each idea is written on one note. Notes are tagged and there's a way to list all notes of a tag. The notes also form a web. They are linked to each other. Most of the popular note-taking apps do most of these, except the linking.
Main website: https://zettelkasten.de/
