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Popularity is not quality, and quality depends on the audience and your own value system, not internet randos. One of the signs that you're writing really great or really bad is if…

I just finished my third run through the series. There have been a lot of movies and shows about how tech "grew up" in the 80s and 90s, but this one feels closest to home for me. I…

This is quite the lament. Very well written. I'm about ten years ahead of the author. I felt this a long time before AI arrived. I went from solving problems for people to everythi…

I hate to be terse, but this subject has been covered many times before. Let me phrase the contrapositive: why blog only for people to read? I see a lot of people (I'm looking at y…

The generalized answer is layered curation versus tagged curation. In my VHS scenario, there are several layers involved. First, I'm taking the video because I think there's someth…

I lost all of my photos (along with everything else) when growing up, so taking pictures and videos was important to me as I became an adult. I'm 59 now. In the 1990s I started tak…

We're primates, we see and tactilely use physical objects. Use your strength. Put different things in different objects. Now you rationally reason about them.

Related: People wonder why English has so many weird spellings. It's a complicated answer. The Vikings seem to show up way too often (grin). One of the reasons, though, is that sev…

Related: From ~5 years ago. https://danielbmarkham.com/for-the-love-of-all-thats-holy-us... Understanding CCL is both critically important and will sink you into deep professional …

I'm all for that. Sounds great. I very well might be wrong. I hope I am, since I can't of any other way to make things work.

I feel both strong agreement and strong disagreement with your comment. Epistemology is probably the only topic that I would recommend being 30+ before you read. Before that, in my…

Just to clarify, I'm asking where to host a static page that would be a modified introduction, addendum, errata, "if you like this try these", "The author died by wooden badger att…

As I get older, I've decided to write physical books. I want something of a legacy for after I leave. In the back of the book, I'd like to put a 2D barcode to send folks to a stati…

Anna Karenina. Nothing mind-blowing. I didn't see a light in the sky. I read a lot, fiction and non-fiction. When I read Tolstoy, I remember thinking "What sort of dark magic is th…

"Most drama today sucks" --- "This is called write-to-market" Yes. I doubt you disagree, but I needed to point that out. These two, along with writing-by-formula, are intricately r…

I completely agree with the author and yet I have taken up the profession of writing books. There are, as we know, two different kinds of books: fiction and non-fiction. There's ac…

Thank you for your essay. Apologies for being Mr. Negative Guy. I hate folks that do that. But as somebody who is extremely technical and loves tools and coding, moving to long-for…

It occurs to me that most content creation jobs don't exist anymore, that is, 99% songwriters, essayists, and so forth can't make a living. A few do very well and are promoted as e…

My first Obsidian project was a research project for an upcoming non-fiction book. It's not academic, but I believe the synthesis/citing issue is generally the same. I just looked …

Happy to chat some via email or Discord. Hit me up using the email in my profile. (This thread has convinced me never, ever to write a "How to do awesome X using Obsidian!" essay)

Yes. Add nothing, do nothing until forced to. Obsidian still does this. It's not an IDE, heck no. It's just notepad with some bells and whistles coders could use (but only when nec…