Athens Research§

• A [[project]] led by [[jeff tang]].
• [[go]] https://github.com/athensresearch/athens/
• Probably the best [[roam like]] soon; but it is currently still in closed beta.
• [[clojure]], [[datascript]] based.
• I/O with Agora will probably be through something like [[roam2agora]] (to begin with).
  • https://github.com/athensresearch/athens/issues/98 for export support.
• See also: [[athens]] ([[Agora plan]]: the Agora should resolve "see also" blocks.)

Cosmos [[Cosmos ATOM]] [[cosmostation]] — network [[interchain foundation]] [[tendermint]] [[stake.fish]]

Exchanges [[okex]] - not in US

Validators

Tools [[starport]]

Networks [[regen.network]] [[polkadot.network]] [[eos.io]]

Validators [[paradigm]]

Wallets [[keplr]] [[eos.io]] [[walletconnect]] [[trust wallet]]

Coins [[crypto.com]]

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Most of the innovation on which Silicon Valley depends comes from government-funded research§

A : [[claim]]

Most of the innovation on which Silicon Valley depends comes from government-funded research

– [[Internet for the People]]

[[Mariana Mazzucato]] researched this I believe.

Because§

for the simple reason that the public sector can afford to take risks that the private sector can’t

– [[Internet for the People]]

• [[MicrobioJC]] https://scicomm.xyz/users/MicrobioJC/statuses/107887079373293585/activity

operational research§

• #push [[our research]]
  • a [[nonprofit]].
    • #go https://ourresearch.org/

https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/igsj7c/cant_go_wrong_with_black_or_white/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/l88dc6/bought_a_prebuilt_pc_for_first_time_in_20_years/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/kv0nuw/%EF%BD%96%EF%BD%81%EF%BD%90%EF%BD%8F%EF%BD%95%EF%BD%92%EF%BD%82%EF%BD%85%EF%BD%89%EF%BD%87%EF%BD%85/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/j0e8lc/its_done_formd_t1_rtx_3080/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/hakcqg/black_on_black_on_black/ https://yuelbeaststore.com/products/motif-monument https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/iuxuip/happy_to_announce_that_the_evga_xc3_rtx_3080_fits/ Form M1 and T1 cases also seem to be good also investigate server hardware / software https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeServer/comments/lg8ybt/help_planning_my_setup/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/comments/kzv491/the_queen_inspecting_her_new_throne/

https://www.thelightinthedarkplace.com/2019/08/the-origin-of-life-fruit-of-life-metatrons-cube.html?m=1 Products I like.

Packs

Peak Design Camera Packs Mission workshop rambler https://www.peakdesign.com/products/travel-backpack/ orbitgear acr clone pd camera cube pd tech pouch arris pack - love the innovation here https://matterful.co/i/pakt-travel-backpack/ modular good https://matterful.co/i/aer-capsule-pack/ travel pack elegant aer https://eu.wandrd.com/products/duo?sscid=91k4_5stpc would be good if not for branding

Socks

gtex socks

Shirts

patagonia tech topconsidered best non-merino wool performance shirt wool and prince button downwish this had cover over buttons, that would be a bit sleeker veilance frame ls polofirst polo i have liked

Collections

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rMoig3kQr3Y

towel

travel towel recs https://packhacker.com/travel-gear/matador/nanodry-towel/

jacket

indisce blazer partition ar coat rosen minerva overshirtboth min. and futuristic!

recorder

Shirting - Long and shortsleeve shirts - Our Legacy

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SgMteaMbZi8 — best lav mic recorder? how to mount h1n on camera

wbottle

https://packhacker.com/travel-gear/vapur/eclipse-water-bottle/ get one like this

general

remake clothes like my y3 things in sustainable fabrics! imitate vetements zip hoodie, one size bigger, waterproof or merino or something wish i had vetements xl

https://outlier.nyc/collections/pants/products/futureworks https://www.reddit.com/r/onebag/comments/blghok/ronebag_buying_guide_pants_and_shorts/ buying guide for onebagging https://www.reddit.com/r/onebag/comments/935t1p/best_tshirt_for_running_yoga_and_gym/ best all in one tee

https://www.michaellivingston.com/my-travel-kit-weighing-underwear-for-science/ underwear: uniqlo prob best

https://wayfindercarry.com/collections/accessories/products/borderless-passport-notebook-holder borderless passport holde https://kk.org/thetechnium/travel-without/ traveling without a bag

transport

https://us.brompton.com/ https://blixbike.com/products/vika-electric-folding-bike https://www.reddit.com/r/DIEMs/comments/6xzwnn/first_attempt_at_diy_ciems/ diy ciems https://www.hilavitkutin.com/2007/01/22/burton-audex-motorola-cargo-jacket-lumilautatakki-kaiuttimilla/ the audex jacket https://ablecarry.com/products/daily-backpack?variant=19570923602033 backpack https://outlier.illposed.com/ outlier archive https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rMoig3kQr3Y descente allterrain show https://www.reddit.com/r/onebag/comments/hzqxk2/lightweight_compact_travel_blanket/ https://web.archive.org/web/19980115120006/http://www.asarian.org/~vickis/continuum.html yes

anxiety in product development

https://andreschweighofer.com/agile/anxiety-in-product-development/ anxiety can emerge easily from stress, resulting in anger, frustration and other unhealthy forms of exerting such stress. this impacts other people, organizations and processes as well. we have fear driven development : a concrete idea encouraging us to avoid certain practices depending upon the specific approach play to win, don't play not to lose; developing a unique selling proposition means that you are no longer fighting with others, but rather striving to come out ahead awareness of such anxiety is the first step to take. with this awareness comes conscious decision making, and with such decisions come wiser product crafting and, in the end, better, more creative work

Why should you be concerned? Our brains are no match for our technology. Inventing on principle https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=b2AjRklfWQo

"A note-taking tool for networked thought. As easy to use as a document. As powerful as a graph database. Roam helps you organize your research for the long haul."

I currently use Roam for my private note taking. I practice making a daily [[Worklog]], taking notes on meetings, running a lightweight CRM, and managing my personal TODOs with it.

Roam Research§

• [[go]] roamresearch.com
• Probably the lead in the [[personal knowledge management]] space.
• It is like a personall [[wiki]] with the following extra features:
  • [[backlinks]]: very important.
  • [[block references]]: important in that they are [[transclusion]].
• Unfortunately not [[open source]]. Has an [[extension ecosystem]] but that’s also closed.
  • I find this worrying.
  • [[athens research]] tries to be an [[open source]] [[roam research]] — and more.
  • See [[wikilinking tools]] for other alternatives.
• [[pull]] [[roam likes]]

Authored by:: [[P- Brendan Langen]]

Roam Research is a prominently used networked tool for thought. Roam’s early community connected many from the PKM, academic, and hacker spaces, who have built out an ecosystem of workflows and extensions alongside the platform. [[R- Roam can loosely be considered a DSL with a structural editor]] atop its Clojure base.

Roam’s aim is to augment collective intelligence over a long (50 years) time horizon, which has led to delays in desired user-facing updates. This has caused some early users to seek alternatives, and a spring of open source and alternative hypertext tools have arisen as competitors.

co-founded by [[P- Conor White-Sullivan]] link:: https://roamresearch.com/

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• a [[book]].
  • #pull [[research]] [[patterns]]
  • [[portuguese]] [[a arte da pesquisa]]
  • [[español]] [[cómo convertirse en un hábil investigador]]

• Autorxs: [[Wayne C. Booth]], [[Gregory G. Colomb]], [[Joseph M. Williams]]
• Publicado por: [[[University of Chicago Press]]
• Año de publicación: [[1995]] + reeds.

Chapter 3: From Topics to Questions§

Subject:§

• a broad area of knowledge

Topic:§

• specific interest within an area.
• specific approach to a subject:
  • asking a question, the answer of which would solve a problem that my readers care about
• How to pick a topic:
  • start with what most interests you
  • you do not have to be an expert on it, you do want to become one
  • make a list of interests that you would like to explore
  • choose one or two by:
    • skimming the subheadings of your topic in general guides/reference books/specialized indexes
    • look for online/paper encyclopedias or other reputed online references and check out the bibliography at the end of the entry for your general topic
    • find ideas in blogs
    • find what interests other researchers
    • skim latest issues of journals in your field (not just articles but conference announcements, calls for papers, reviews)
    • investigate which resources are particularly abundant in your library.
• How to go from a broad topic to a focused topic
  • a topic: a starting point for your research (topos) from which you can head off in a particular direction and narrow it down from broad to focused
    • a topic is too broad if you can state it in four or five words: "Free will in Tolstoy"
  • a topic must be narrowed down by adding words and phrases, specially those deriving from "action" words: "The conflict of free will and inevitability in Tolstoy’s description of three battles in War and Peace
    • lacking these action words make your topic a static claim, and these do not lead anywhere: "There is free will in Tolstoy’s novels".
    • adding the "action" words transform these claims into something a reader could be interested in: "The conflict of free will and inevitability in Tolstoy’s description of three battles in War and Peace —> In War and Peace Tolstoy describes three battles in which free will and inevitability conflict.
    • these claims may seem thin but get richer as your project progresses.
    • caution: do not narrow down your topic so much that there is no information available regarding it
• How to go from a focused topic to questions
  • beginners’ mistake: to collect any information available on the topic, which could produce a report on the topic, but does not provide an answer to any specific question, which should be the aim of a serious researcher
  • Thus, the best way to begin working on your focused topic is to formulate questions that direct you to the information you need to answer them
  • Make an inventory of possible questions:
    • start with standard journalistic questions: who, what, when, where
    • focus, however, on how and why
    • to engage your critical thinking, ask about:
      • Topic’s history:
        • how does it fit in a larger developmental context?
        • how has its internal history developed?
      • topic’s composition
        • how does your topic fit in a larger structure?
        • how do its parts fit together as a system?
      • Topic’s categories
        • how can your topic be grouped into kinds
        • how does it compare/contrast with others like it?
      • Turn positive questions into negative ones
      • ask what if and other speculative questions: what if your topic never existed, dissappeared etc.
      • ask questions suggested by your sources (once you have done some reading about the topic):
        • build on agreement
          • extend the reach of someone’s claim
          • ask questions that might support the same claim with new evidence
          • ask questions analogous to those that sources have asked about similar topics
        • ask questions that show disagreement
        • ig you are an experienced researcher, look for questions that others ask but haven’t answered yet: conclusions usually contain open questions, new research ideas etc.
  • Evaluate questions:
    • look for questions that may help you look at your topic in a new way.
    • avoid this kind of questions:
      • their answer is settled —> questions with how and why may lead to further thinking on the topic
      • their answers would be merely speculative
      • their answers are dead ends
  • Once you have a few promising questions, try to combine them into larger ones that could be potentially interesting to readers
• The most significant question: So what?
  • Once you have a question you that holds your interest, it must be interrogated in a deeper way
  • why would others think your question is worth answering?
  • what will be lost if you don’t answer your question?
  • You may not have an answer to "so what" at the beginning of your project, but you must work on this questions throughout your project
  • 3 steps to achieve an answer to the "so what" question:
    • name your topic using nouns derived from verbs:
      • say what yoy are writing about
      • I am trying to learn about… the causes of the disappearence of large North American mammals…
    • add an indirect question that indicates what you do not know or understand about yout topic
      • because I want to find out who/what/when/where/whether/why/how
      • here you state why you are pursuing your topic: to answer a question important to you
      • I am trying to learn about the causes of the disappearence of large North American mammals because I want to find out whether they were hunted to extinction
    • answer so what? by motivating your questions
      • here you find out whether your your questions could interest not just you but others
      • add a second indirect question which explains why you asked your first question:
        • in order to help my reader understand how, why or whether…
        • I am trying to learn about the causes of the disappearence of large North American mammals because I want to find out whether they were hunted to extinction in order to help my reader understand whether native peoples lived in harmony with nature or helped destroy it.
    • this indirect question should seize your reader’s interest
    • if it touches on issues important to your field, even indirectly, then your readers should care about its answer.

Chapter 4: From Questions to a Problem§

triangulation in qualitative research§

Denzin’s Paradigm Shift: Revisiting Triangulation in Qualitative Research

User Research§

Inquiring into the lives of others

1. Speak to people (Curious and Empathic)
   1. construct themes
   2. insights
2. Create a group of personas as a constraint
   1. demographics don’t always tell the whole story
   2. make personas from data, not preset demographics
3. To create them, use
   1. conversations
   2. books
   3. surveys
   4. documentaries
   5. real data,
   6. not demographics

This is part of the [[Feminist Chatbot Main Page]]

You and your research notes

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

• “There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think.''

• Shannon information theory?

• Hired as a clerk for the computers of people like Feynman and Shannon. Kept asking 'why?'

• you must first tell yourself that you'd like to do something significant

• there is always repitition we see in people who make impacts, like Shannon. Partly luck but the only control we have over that is our circumstances

• great work is not just 'brains'; often the issue is with articulation, a lack of an ability to access the language and forum necessary to develop ideas

• once you've developed the courage to face - and solve - important problems, you can - he postulates that this will lead to a stream of successes if you stick to the method

• the best stem work is often done early in the career while the best literary work is often done late

• do not define your scale by the problems you've faced, Shannon error

Research times from @random_walker

Knowing lots of things isn't important. What is important is:

• Knowing what you know and don't.

• Being good at teaching what you know.

• Admitting when you're incorrect.

• Communicating uncertainty effectively.

• Spotting bullshit.

• Recognizing others with expertise.

• Recognizing different domains of expertise.

• Recognizing different kinds of expertise.

• Drawing from the expertise of others without deferring to authourity.

• Accepting the unknowable. Abstractions exist for a reason!