Tools for Better Thinking

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Post by mmoez » Thu, May 28, 2020, 5:15 PM UTC

Re: Tools for Better Thinking

#2

Post by arcticfox » Thu, May 28, 2020, 7:08 PM UTC

Ohh...I love this. I have a handful of these internal tools that I picked up over these years, but I never knew where to find more (or really, consciously thought to look for more). Now I have a bit of a roadmap.

The ones I do have are so valuable that even if I get one more effective one off this list, it will be one of the best things I do this year.

Re: Tools for Better Thinking

#3

Post by w4tson » Thu, May 28, 2020, 7:59 PM UTC

arcticfox wrote: post #2

Ohh...I love this. I have a handful of these internal tools that I picked up over these years, but I never knew where to find more (or really, consciously thought to look for more). Now I have a bit of a roadmap. The ones I do have are so valuable that even if I get one more effective one off this list, it will be one of the best things I do this year.

Re: Tools for Better Thinking

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Post by vajrabum » Thu, May 28, 2020, 8:03 PM UTC

arcticfox wrote: post #2

Ohh...I love this. I have a handful of these internal tools that I picked up over these years, but I never knew where to find more (or really, consciously thought to look for more). Now I have a bit of a roadmap. The ones I do have are so valuable that even if I get one more effective one off this list, it will be one of the best things I do this year.

I always liked that stuff too. Here's a few more systems ones you might enjoy. https://www.systems-thinking.org/arch/arch.htm

Re: Tools for Better Thinking

#5

Post by x32n23nr » Thu, May 28, 2020, 8:15 PM UTC

Side note: Also, nice minimal site. Refreshing to see well-designed, clean sites this days.

Re: Tools for Better Thinking

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Post by raspyberr » Thu, May 28, 2020, 8:23 PM UTC

x32n23nr wrote: post #5

Side note: Also, nice minimal site. Refreshing to see well-designed, clean sites this days.

You should get into the habit of actually checking the network requests. The site looks minimal but it's 1.1MB w/o Google analytics. It's what Maciej Cegłowski(https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm) would call Chickenshit Minimalism.

Re: Tools for Better Thinking

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Post by diggan » Thu, May 28, 2020, 8:31 PM UTC

Lovely idea and presentation! Will come very handy at times.

Something I feel like is missing: Statecharts. Very powerful to be able to reason about state changes without having to deal with the explosion of states that state machines often ends up with. Sometimes also called hierarchical state machines.

Re: Tools for Better Thinking

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Post by x32n23nr » Thu, May 28, 2020, 8:31 PM UTC

raspyberr wrote: post #6

x32n23nr wrote: post #5

Side note: Also, nice minimal site. Refreshing to see well-designed, clean sites this days.

You should get into the habit of actually checking the network requests. The site looks minimal but it's 1.1MB w/o Google analytics. It's what Maciej Cegłowski( https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm ) would call Chickenshit Minimalism.

You're right - spoiled by the internet connection. I guess I was referring more to the UI.

Re: Tools for Better Thinking

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Post by uk_king » Thu, May 28, 2020, 9:09 PM UTC

Looks fantastic! I like the Iceberg model.

Re: Tools for Better Thinking

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Post by M5x7wI3CmbEem10 » Thu, May 28, 2020, 9:19 PM UTC

does anyone know a simple app that allows hyperlinking within notes? I want to create a roam-style knowledge base, but most tools are too heavy for my purposes. I prefer to keep things cross-compatible and future proof with .txt or .rtf, but to my knowledge, neither allow hyperlinking to documents