Christopher Hyatt (12 July 1943 – 9 February 2008), born Alan Ronald Miller, was an American psychologist, occultist, and author. He is perhaps best known as president of New Falcon Publications, an independent publisher specializing in of psychedelic and occult literature; Hyatt's press published work by several well-known champions of consciousness expansion, including Israel Regardie, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, and Antero Alli. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hyatt

The Inklings were an informal literary discussion group associated with J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis at the University of Oxford for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949.[1] The Inklings were literary enthusiasts who praised the value of narrative in fiction and encouraged the writing of fantasy. The best-known, apart from Tolkien and Lewis, were Charles Williams, and (although a Londoner) Owen Barfield. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inklings

I've been in various discussions over the years about how to either create or do-better-at group-forming for support groups, collaborations, scenes, hubs/nexus, movement, or innovation, huge invention to solve grand challenges, or progress and evolution via collective intelligence and collective action... (more)

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Brian Kam on Zettelkasten?. Despite the sound of the word, I’m finding it a surprisingly good tool for tracking information and thinking. (more)

Andy Matuschak on How to Take Smart Notes. Sönke focuses largely on the benefits of a Zettelkasten for the academic writing process. One of the core ideas here is that creative writing can become relatively closed-form and actionable; it can be made executable, GTD-style, through a series of steps drawing on a densely-connected note system. (more)

Tiago Forte on How To Take Smart Notes: 10 Principles to Revolutionize Your Note-Taking and Writing. Recently I picked up How To Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens. Ahrens is a Lecturer in Philosophy of Education at the University of Duisburg-Essen and also coaches students, academics, and professionals with a focus on time management, decision-making, and personal growth. (more)

Electronic devices intended to mess with your brain patterns, mimicing the effects of long-term Meditation (or drug use). (more)

Robin Sloan: The feeling of something waiting there for you. The other night, I pointed my telescope at Venus... is it possible? Does Venus have PHASES? I had never, in fact, thought about it. Galileo did: his obser­va­tions of Venus provided important evidence for, you know, his whole deal. (more)

Investment Retirement Account, Irish Republican Army, Internet Research Agency, Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (more)

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Apple Computer mixed reality headset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Vision_Pro https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro

Albert Wenger: Low Rung Tech Tribalism. Silicon Valley’s tribal boosterism has been bad for tech and bad for the world. (more)

Muse — tools for thought. Muse.app is a spatial canvas for your research notes, reading, sketches, screenshots, and bookmarks. Because deep thinking doesn’t happen in front of a computer. (more)

Thomas Stephen Szasz (/sɑːs/ SAHSS; Hungarian: Szász Tamás István [saːs]; 15 April 1920 – 8 September 2012) was a Hungarian-American academic and psychiatrist. He served for most of his career as professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York.[4] A distinguished lifetime fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a life member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he was best known as a social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, as what he saw as the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as scientism. His books The Myth of Mental Illness (1961) and The Manufacture of Madness (1970) set out some of the arguments most associated with him. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz

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Artificial intelligence is a familiar-looking monster, say Henry Farrell and Cosma Shalizi. AN INTERNET MEME keeps on turning up in debates about the large language models (LLMs) that power services (more)

Harriet Hall: Rapid-onset Gender Dysphoria and Squelching Controversial Evidence. On August 16, 2018, Lisa Littman, an assistant professor at Brown University, published a study in PLOS One titled “Rapid-onset gender dysphoria in adolescents and young adults: A study of parental reports.” (more)

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