If it were, shouldn't we e.g. observe a progress slump in the 30's-70's followed by a reversal beginning in the 80's? Interesting that the biggest change wrought to the "thought patterns of civilization" seem social and cultural, rather than intellectual as Bush emphasizes.
As We May Think frames its proto-personal-computer as a defense against rising specialization—that investigators need augmentation to keep up and to build bridges between fields. Am I wrong that in hindsight, this doesn't really seem among its primary impacts?
I like this musical representation of fury: playing a familiar theme, but in parallel tritones (with different periods!) From this very cool analysis: https://thesondheimhub.substack.com/p/beans-beans-and-nothing-but-beans
Did any of you ever use the MIT Remembrance Agent? If so: I'm curious to hear how it affected your writing / thinking experience. (more background at https://www.bradleyrhodes.com/Papers/remembrance.htmlhttps://davidamerland.com/images/pdf/Remembrance-Agent-MIT-Labs-Experiment.pdf)
Exhortation-to-self is a potent medium! (crop from whiteboard photo in https://dynamicland.org/archive/2015/Lab_v2)
Big vicarious joy: “I'd open up a text editor to make this web page, and I was like ugh…I don’t want to mess with CSS. … I realized I could make a hyperphoto … This enormous wave of relief and joy just flooded over me… Instead of using CSS, I could just use paper and tape.”
In my work with adult learners, conversation usually focuses on materials, tools, techniques—but the key problem is often trouble actually siting down to study. Learners feel sheepish about it, but they're often hesitating for good reasons that should be fixed, not forced. What reasons am I missing?
Thinking about dependencies in Mihály's list of "elements of flow". Presumably the first few of these are prerequisites, which ~produce the rest?
Curious: for which papers (not involving you) do you have Google Scholar Alerts set to notify you for new citations, and why? It's an interesting signal of meaningfulness: wants to be used on papers which aren't cited much, and for which you're likely to miss citations.