Tinderbox Meetup SATURDAY 2 September Video: A broad discussion on memory, thinking and knowledge management
| Level | Intermediate |
| Published Date | 9/3/23 |
| Type | Meetup |
| Tags | 5Cs, 5Cs Learning and Knowledge Management, Memory, Thinking, Tinderbox |
| Video Length | 01:32:07 |
| Chat | chat.txt (17.6 KB) |
| Video URL | https://youtu.be/ei4-JwmhpLU |
| TBX Version | 9.6 |
| Instructor | Michael Becker |
In today’s Tinderbox meetup, we dove deep into the concepts of memory, thinking and how Tinderbox plays the role of the “data hub” among our insights. We explored a far-ranging set of topics and ideas.
Topics Discussed
- Nature of memory
- Recording memory
- Fragility of memory and recall
- Journalling, “day book,” note-taking
- Finding information in context
- Capture life history in a way that is meaningful
- The role of Tinderbox plays in today and “my” future life
- Using Tinderbox in a constellation of tools
- Personal knowledge management
- How to document just enough knowledge so that you can modify systems to move forward
- Metadata vs. meaningful data
- Timeline mapping a Disney History review project
- “Real data is often lump”
- AI does not know what is not there, and often it is not their it might make it up
- Metacongition
- You don’t have to use the same tool for everything
- Incrementally formalization
- Embrace: sometime it is much easier if I do it in another tool
- Tinderbox allows me to float without formally structuring my data
- We need to stop thinking with a paper mindset and thing with a digital/metadata mindset
- Not-taking is a process for being kind to the “future you.”
- Hypertext is a mode of thinking that affords us the ability to step outside of the linearity of our training and to work in an environment where not everything in known
- Need a human meatbag in the loop, tech determinism is not as useful as we may thing–the meatbag helps make meaning from “random connections” that tech may not see.
- Tinderbox lets you associate completed discrete pieces of data that would otherwise be unallocated
- We don’t really understand what knowledge it. What is “Knowledge”? We need to figure out humans think. We are not rational. We reason backward by analysis of feelings.
- The underlying problem is that we are not rational creators, we are ruled by emotion and feelings…
- What’s becoming apparent in the digital age that the paper is only one narrative and often not even the most useful one to the community at large, yet the other narratives aren’t (often) resourced. To be clear, this isn’t a zero-sum observation. I’m raising the issue that we’re being slow to think beyond (digital) paper."
Notable Quotes
Art Currin: “Tinderbox is the best ‘hub’ app out there.”
Bill "The failure is at a human level in assuming that writing a paper about [work] is the output*.
Bruce “I just realized there’s an entirely new reason for attending and enjoying these meetings. Ninety minutes of robust conversation and none one second of it devoted to USA politics.”
Dennis Lienke
Sequence 1: { events, data, information, *knowledge, *wisdom } “DIKW”
Sequence 2: { inputting(reading, experimenting), noting(text,maps,graphics),
learning(testing,recalling) → *memory, *brain, *mind }
I’m comfortable with #1, except that I think most references to
knowledge-management, as in software, should be information-management
because the knowledge management happens internally to humans.
With #2, I’m most interested with activities up to the *-ed items – I think
that I do not have enough time left on earth` to undertake a serious study of
those – cursory readings are OK, bit no in-depth research nor following the
progress.
Resources
- Aeon Timeline
- Formatting export in Tinderbox for Aeon, what Aeon wants
- EXIF image meta data extractor
- EXIFtool.org
- EXIF on homebrew
- Becker’s 5Cs of Knowledge Management: Collect, Curate, Create, Collaborate, Contribute
- Change Operator: change([scope])
- “Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?”, source Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - a direct descendant of John and Priscilla - titled ‘The Courtship of Miles Standish’.
- Your Memory is like the Telephone Game, Each time you recall an event, your brain distorts it
- ACM Hypertext 2023 Conference, The ACM Hypertext conference is a premium venue for high-quality peer-reviewed research on hypertext theory
- # The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives
- Ray Tomlinson invented and developed electronic mailby creating ARPANET’s networked email system
- Black Mirror: The Entire History of You
- You Are Using Apple Notes Completely Wrong
- “Memory, with its constant degeneration, does not equal storage; although artificial memory has historically combined the transitory with the permanent, the passing with the stable, digital media complicates this relationship by making the permanent into an enduring ephemeral, creating unforeseen degenerative links between humans and machines.”
- Excel errors: How Microsoft’s spreadsheet may be hazardous to your health
- Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people
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