diff --git a/pages/fulldocs.BertoltBrech.Questions From a Worker Who Reads.1935.md b/pages/fulldocs.BertoltBrech.Questions From a Worker Who Reads.1935.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8b691bf --- /dev/null +++ b/pages/fulldocs.BertoltBrech.Questions From a Worker Who Reads.1935.md @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +--- +created: 2021-11-25T23:53:33 (UTC +01:00) +tags: [] +source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/brecht/works/1935/questions.htm +author: +--- + +# Questions From a Worker Who Reads, Bertolt Brecht 1935 + +> ## Excerpt +> Bertolt Brecht 1935 + +--- +Bertolt Brecht 1935 + +### Questions From a Worker Who Reads + +___ + +Who built Thebes of the 7 gates ?  +In the books you will read the names of kings.  +Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock ?  + +And Babylon, many times demolished,  +Who raised it up so many times ?  + +In what houses of gold glittering Lima did its builders live ?  +Where, the evening that the Great Wall of China was finished, did the masons go? + +Great Rome is full of triumphal arches.  +Who erected them ?  + +Over whom did the Caesars triumph ?  +Had Byzantium, much praised in song, only palaces for its inhabitants ?  + +Even in fabled Atlantis, the night that the ocean engulfed it,  +The drowning still cried out for their slaves.  + +The young Alexander conquered India. +Was he alone ?  + +Caesar defeated the Gauls.  +Did he not even have a cook with him ?  + +Philip of Spain wept when his armada went down.  +Was he the only one to weep ?   + +Frederick the 2nd won the 7 Years War.  +Who else won it ?  + +Every page a victory.  +Who cooked the feast for the victors ?  + +Every 10 years a great man.  +Who paid the bill ?  + +So many reports.   + +So many questions. + +___ diff --git a/pages/fulldocs.inferior.outliner.md b/pages/fulldocs.inferior.outliner.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a05dcec --- /dev/null +++ b/pages/fulldocs.inferior.outliner.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +created: 2021-12-28T12:36:30 (UTC +01:00) +tags: [twitter,twitter thread,unroll,threadreader,threads] +source: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1474586679646195712.html +author: +--- + +# Thread by @syncretizm on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App + +> ## Excerpt +> Thread by @syncretizm: The problem with outliners: Parent - A - B When we want a sequential chain of thought, we nest them as equal level children under the same parent. The alternative would be a very...… + +--- +The problem with outliners: + +Parent +\- A +\- B + +When we want a sequential chain of thought, we nest them as equal level children under the same parent. The alternative would be a very ugly way: + +Parent +\- A +\- B +\- C +\- ... + +This way makes more sense but looks horrible. + +The maths doesn't work out either. When use method 1, A/B/C are related via an OR (x) function. In method 2, A/B/C are related via an AND (%) function. We intuitively feel this burden that something is not right. And yet we don't like going into indenting hell. + +Part of the reason why I enjoyed writing in prose form in obsidian was because I didn't have to figure out whether I had to indent or write a sibling bullet. Isn't it intuitive? No it isn't, especially when you consider how a bullet is queried in future... + +In outliners, querying for a thought doesn't show you a linear progression of thought. It shows you the parent-child relationship, discarding its siblings. The problem is that a thought is multidimensional, whereas an outline only has parent-child... [![[FHbOJtiVkAQXMcw.jpg]]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHbOJtiVkAQXMcw.jpg) + +Axes of thought. An outliner only adequately shows the hierarchy axis, it is 1 dimensional. It also forces the progression axis to work in a parent-child relationship when it doesn't work that way. [![[FHbR1fDUcAQDWeY.jpg]]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHbR1fDUcAQDWeY.jpg) + +A promising approach in [@obsdmd](https://twitter.com/obsdmd) using the breadcrumbs plugin... This could work... VERY well. [![[FHba1oKVgAAX220.jpg]]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHba1oKVgAAX220.jpg) + +@mentions[@obsdmd](https://twitter.com/obsdmd) I'm getting more convinced that outliners are inferior to original Zettelkasten (using cards). Zettelkasten was essentially and originally a thread system made on paper. diff --git a/pages/incubation.tools.twittter.unroll.md b/pages/incubation.tools.twittter.unroll.md index 0218eb8..a23c28c 100644 --- a/pages/incubation.tools.twittter.unroll.md +++ b/pages/incubation.tools.twittter.unroll.md @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +# How to unroll and archive twitter threads + #incubation - https://threadreaderapp.com/ @@ -6,4 +8,8 @@ - https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/25/21152579/twitter-thread-easier-full-text-reading-unroll-how-to - https://beebom.com/save-twitter-threads/ -- https://forum.obsidian.md/t/how-do-you-go-from-information-sources-like-twitter-forums-reddit-news-articles-blogs-etc-to-active-knowledge/11682/2 \ No newline at end of file +- https://forum.obsidian.md/t/how-do-you-go-from-information-sources-like-twitter-forums-reddit-news-articles-blogs-etc-to-active-knowledge/11682/2 + +--- + +[[tools.markdown]] \ No newline at end of file