I take a lot of notes. I also have quite a lot of thoughts about note-taking. I could probably keep going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also have a lot of thoughts about vocabulary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The word \u201cnote\u201d is from Latin \u201cnotare\u201d, \u201cnota\u201d \u2013 mark, sign, character, letter, notus, gno\u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n
close enough that I feel like that we can smush them. Things get smushed, we suggest that they should be, and if enough people agree, we\u2019ve memed it into a Thing<\/p>\n\n\n\n
do I want to encourage people to notice things? the art of noticing? what do you see? what do you care about?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
everything comes from noticing. selene had a thread about how noticing things and sharing her noticings changed her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
you can change behavior just by describing things. i think in thinking about this substack i\u2019ve often spent a lot of time overtheorizing things in abstract terms, and it suffers from a lack of groundedness, a lack of noticings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
i\u2019ve been meaning to do a post about desire paths, which is very funny because it\u2019s like a part of me is trying to force the thing to happen from a top down way, which is antithetical to the spirit of desire paths in the first place. a desire path is a path that forms because people keep walking it, walk to where they want to go. there\u2019s a certain follow-the-leader aspect where you vote with your feet. i\u2019ve been like \u201cwrite a post about desire paths!\u201d and there\u2019s another part of me that\u2019s like \u201ci dont wanna!\u201d and i\u2019m trying to err on the side of respecting the latter. so the next thing to do is really to ask, well why don\u2019t you want to? isn\u2019t it a good idea? yes. so why not write about a good idea? something doesn\u2019t feel right. can we figure out what\u2019s wrong together? maybe it\u2019s something meant to be mentioned in passing? would you be ok writing about it in passing? I think yes. so okay for now let\u2019s merge it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\/\/ desire paths<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What do I want to do with this essay?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\/\/ magic junkyard, info architecture, how to scope things?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes I gotta pause and ask myself, what am I doing here? What do I want to be doing, really? Right now I\u2019m in this text editor for a couple of reasons. One is that I love writing, always have, and I\u2019m trying to find a way to enjoy myself in my writing. Another is that I do feel some sense of obligation to publish. An obligation to myself, to my process, to my craft, whatever you wanna call it. And as I covered in I Don\u2019t Wanna!, <\/em>there\u2019s a part of me that resents that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have a lot of \u201cstuff\u201d. Loads of notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m internally conflicted in lots of ways all the time. I could further joke that I\u2019m internally conflicted about whether or not that\u2019s a good thing. It can be good, it can be bad, it depends on how I\u2019m managing the conflict. Conflicts can be interesting, productive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I generally try not to wade too much into \u201cproductivity discourse\u201d. There\u2019s a lot of talk about apps and routines and other minutae that I generally…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I take a lot of notes. I also have quite a lot of thoughts about note-taking. I could probably keep going. I also have a lot of thoughts about vocabulary. The word \u201cnote\u201d is from Latin \u201cnotare\u201d, \u201cnota\u201d \u2013 mark, sign, character, letter, notus, gno\u2013 close enough that I feel… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[727],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drafts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-3wc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13530,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13528\/revisions\/13530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}