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Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by roboyoshi »

chiefalchemist wrote: post #59
aizatto wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He actually uses Gitbook https://www.gitbook.com/ I’ve been doing the same too https://www.aizatto.com/why-gitbook

Thanks for sharing both, but especially the second link. There you said: "Organizing a lot of pages is difficult, even if nested..." Any chance you've done, or know of an article titled something like: "GitBook - If I Knew Then What I Know Now"? The idea is ultra-intriguing. But before getting started it would certainly help to not make the same mistakes others have already made. tia

GitBook is nice and I would recommend that if you want something that works good for you out of the box. I personally write markdown files with typora and then publish that to my own notes setup, which is simply mkdocs and some tweaks.

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by codingdave »

tnolet wrote: post #56

Am I the only one here that thinks this is all a bit creepy? The technical bits I get, but the parts on general life advice, especially the chapter on “seduction” give me a very bleak image of the OP’s actual life. I might be wrong, the OP might be the happiest person ever: I’m just picking up a lot of different signals from this project and the writing in it.

Anyone who attempts to blog every single thing in their life is opening themselves up to showing off the less-than-perfect aspects of themselves. And that is what this site amounts to - call it a wiki, call it a blog, call it whatever you like, it is someone who spends a decent amount of their life self-documenting it.

I'd be far more likely to call them out on their Minimalism topic, as they clearly are far to the extreme on how much time they focus on documenting their life, which is not a minimalist pursuit.

Still, it is a personal site for a fellow human being, and I've always maintained that if someone if self-aware enough to make specific decisions on who they want to be, and how they want to live, they deserve respect for that.

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by leftyted »

tnolet wrote: post #66
leftyted wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Creepy" seems judgmental. Many (most? all?) single, heterosexual men are somewhat preoccupied with how to be attractive to women (the reverse is also true). Is this news to you? I also have a negative reaction to you speculating about how "bleak" his life is. I see this project as an attempt at absolute honesty. And if we're being honest, doesn't everyone's life contain a fair amount of bleakness? We all have insecu…

Yes, it's judgemental. This is a discussion forum and this is my view on it, this is how I "judge" it. But honestly, I'm all for weird & quirky. However, my response to reading this post and the blog/wiki was very different than some of the more positive responses here. Ergo, the counter argument. I didn't get the positive weird/quirky feeling, rather the opposite.

Imagine a student has finished reading something they wrote in front of their creative writing class. Someone raises their hand and responds with "Wow that was creepy. Your life must be pretty bleak".

Of course you're entitled to those thoughts, but I think it's a good idea to couch them differently or at least to get into the reason why you had that reaction.

I can understand a negative reaction to a project like this. There's some amount of narcissism involved in writing down everything I know and then publishing it. There's also some amount of narcissism involved in writing anything at all and assuming that other people will be interested in it. There's also narcissism in me reacting negatively to your comment and then criticizing your post, as if I have something worthwhile that I want to transmit to you. Yeah, yeah: "All is vanity". But we want people to write things down and share them, right? We want people to communicate, say what they think, and risk being wrong or creepy, right?

My general thoughts are, when criticizing something something like this, err on the side of charity. Negative reactions are fine, but couch them and explain them.

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by dTal »

tnolet wrote: post #66
leftyted wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Creepy" seems judgmental. Many (most? all?) single, heterosexual men are somewhat preoccupied with how to be attractive to women (the reverse is also true). Is this news to you? I also have a negative reaction to you speculating about how "bleak" his life is. I see this project as an attempt at absolute honesty. And if we're being honest, doesn't everyone's life contain a fair amount of bleakness? We all have insecu…

Yes, it's judgemental. This is a discussion forum and this is my view on it, this is how I "judge" it. But honestly, I'm all for weird & quirky. However, my response to reading this post and the blog/wiki was very different than some of the more positive responses here. Ergo, the counter argument. I didn't get the positive weird/quirky feeling, rather the opposite.

I can understand the "ick" factor - putting this much of oneself online, without any contextual filter, embodies a level of intimacy unusual with strangers. I don't think it's weird to find it discomfiting seeing notes about machine learning side by side with relationship advice. It feels like a bit much from one guy.

But I think it's very unfair to say it paints a very bleak picture of his life. I jumped straight to the Seduction section after your comment, half-expecting some kind of PUA crap. But it's just filled with the kind of solid advice you get from your dad. Maintain eye contact. Don't slouch. Be honest and genuine. Compliment effort, not intrinsic beauty. Flirt with body language and small amounts of touch, but don't be aggressive. It's all pretty standard, solid stuff.

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by dTal »

camillomiller wrote: post #9
anewhnaccount2 wrote: post #2

The more things you try and do, participate in, and understand, the shallower your knowledge will be of any one of those things.

A vast superficial knowledge, along with a good memory, the ability of making meaningful connections between far away domains is a scarcely distributed skillset and a quite valuable one in today's Western world.

I'd like to believe this were true. Personally I've found it very difficult to find paid work that allows me to exercise even a fraction of my general knowledge. My best results so far have been with underfunded startups who are trying to do too much with too little - they need people who can tackle a different challenge every week, because they can't afford to hire specialists. But it's not a spectacular way to build a career.

Of course there are other kinds of value than monetary.

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by j7k6 »

bloopernova wrote: post #69
j7k6 wrote: post #47

Great work! I did something with a similar approach, although it's just kind of a knowledge base for myself build with Jekyll and a little search function, called "My Sysadmin Cheatsheet": https://docs.j7k6.org Did it mainly for myself, because I was tired of having to google for the same problem more than once, but decided to make it public to kind of share my knowledge with others.

This is fantastic! I love the live search results feature. I don't suppose you have your source available with a free license? EDIT: wait, I see it: https://github.com/j7k6/docs.j7k6.org

Thanks! I'm actually thinking about releasing it as a standalone Jekyll theme some time.

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by mbrock »

s_y_n_t_a_x wrote: post #60
tnolet wrote: post #56

Am I the only one here that thinks this is all a bit creepy? The technical bits I get, but the parts on general life advice, especially the chapter on “seduction” give me a very bleak image of the OP’s actual life. I might be wrong, the OP might be the happiest person ever: I’m just picking up a lot of different signals from this project and the writing in it.

Consider this a diary + blog. You'd get creeped out reading anyone's diary. I don't think OP is creepy at all, everything in here is normal and very honest.

Maybe the seduction page would seem more relatable if it actually were diaristic, talking about some real life experiences rather than “theory.”

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by robobro »

This reminds me of the project ran by scholar Avery Morrow, "Everything Shii Knows."[0] He was an early Wikipedia administrator and one of the founders of 4chan. It was really interesting.

Great work OP, personal wikis are very cool! I wish there were more of them :(

[0] http://shii.bibanon.org/shii.org/knows/Everything_Shii_Knows...

Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by [deleted] »

tnolet wrote: post #56

Am I the only one here that thinks this is all a bit creepy? The technical bits I get, but the parts on general life advice, especially the chapter on “seduction” give me a very bleak image of the OP’s actual life. I might be wrong, the OP might be the happiest person ever: I’m just picking up a lot of different signals from this project and the writing in it.

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Re: Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

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Post by mpoteat »

I don't see transparency as necessarily a virtue to optimize over everything else, or even a terminal good in itself.

Consider: Would it be wise for a CIA agent to run an "Everything I know" site? No, because they could be targeted through the information they blindly broadcast. I know you're not in such a high-risk role yourself, but do you never want to be important in the future, e.g. a CEO, founder, or a high-ranking software engineer?

Knowledge is power, and sharing unnecessary information to strangers will allow them to abuse it and you.

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