Category: Blogging
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Using AI To Analyze Books
I asked my son, an excellent writer, for his comments on my blog post “The Comfort Crisis” (https://deangelis.tech/2024/04/15/the-comfort-crisis/), which used AI and my notes and highlights to analyze the book. Our conversation helped clarify my thinking, but raised more questions. My initial concern was that I might be doing the book’s author a disservice by…
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Decentralized Social Media
I had not thought of Discord as decentralized social media. But the MIT Technology Review, January/February 2024, labeled it as such along with Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr and Threads. Of these, I have tried Mastodon and Nostr, but they have not yet stuck with me. It may be time to start directing blogging activity towards those…
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Physical Journal
In a Ryan Holiday YouTube video on journaling, he suggests a physical journal on the basis that in the future it will be available, whereas digital copies may not be. One of the reasons I like Obsidian is that it creates text files. They are unlikely to be unavailable in the future. Like physical books,…
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Why Obsidian?
Two concepts from my initial investigation of Obsidian that resonated are “A second brain, for you, forever” and “Notes for you grandchildren”. I am a very linear thinker, but often feel the limitations of just linear thinking. Years ago, I started studying Chinese, having read from Alan Watts that the language is less linear than…
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Zettelkasten Method
As I continue to write and improve my writing, I am on the lookout for tools that can improve my writing, organization and thinking. I have come across the Zettelkasten Method in a YouTube video “The FUN and EFFICIENT note-taking system I use in my PhD“. The YouTuber used the system with the software Obsidian. Like…
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Intro to Blogging Course
I am working through the “Understanding your why” section of the course. I think it boils down to wanting to organize and sharpen my thinking around my interests and attract readers interested in the same areas. The writing alone would improve my thinking, with comments bringing further improvements. I currently use Joplin as my note-taking,…
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Intro to Blogging Course
6/1/2022:Got busy and tried to log onto this course, but it had been revamped and there was a new one. Luckily for me I did not get too far into it. I wrote a Community post there. In the section where the course discusses the Homepage, there is a suggestion about finding your niche. But…
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Intro to Blogging Course
4/23/2022:I am starting the WordPress Intro to Blogging Course. I have been blogging for a little while, but can definitely improve. The course starts out with a number of questions. The first is “Why are you blogging publicly instead of keeping a diary?” The blog has the potential for feedback, the diary does not. Although…
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