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• Introducing Newsletter 2.0
• New Voting Results
• Surfing in Obsidian
• Pace Layers
• Idea Emergence
• OODA Loop |
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• AI super intelligence
• Saturn devouring his kids
• Francisco Goya
• Claude Shannon
• Ideaverse Blog
• A cat's reaction time |
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Introducing the LYT Newsletter 2.0
For years now, I've wanted the Linking Your Thinking newsletter to share compelling ideas across several domains. But because of our relentless schedule of workshops and cohorts, it hasn't happened.
This week's newsletter represents a change. An experiment. An exploration into how I can help stimulate your mind and cultivate the curiosity within you.
I believe it's our wondering that leads to wandering, and our wandering that leads to wondering—and that both lead to magic. I want this newsletter to lead to magic. That's why I'm building it with you. I'd love your feedback. Here are the following sections with my commentary.
- Voting Results: If you're going to vote, I want to be fast with the results.
- Polls: I like these built-in polls. They to get us all engaged. (Note: there are no polls in this issue.)
- Obsidian Spotlight: This is our dedicated section to spotlight plugins, techniques, hotkeys, and other relevant things.
- Connected Concepts: I love this section because it promotes relational thinking. Hopefully it'll spark your mind to make your own connections.
- Noteworthy Person: There are too many cool people on the interwebs these days. I'd love to make more people aware of some of them.
- LYT Products & Updates: We have enriching products and services and I want to be transparent about providing updates on a semi-regular basis.
- Worthy Culture & History: I've been wanting to elevate ideas from culture and history since the beginning. It's often an unexpected idea from an uncommon field that sparks our creative impulse. I want cultivate those sparks for you.
- Notable Numbers: Quick numbers across domains to spur new thoughts.
Which sections do you like the most? Why? Why not?
Email us your feedback.
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You voted
You clearly prefer the template for my Epic Wheel of Life Review and a walkthrough showing The Rollup Method. Lucky for me those two go well together. Give me some time to put it together for you. I might make them into a pair of YouTube videos...
In the last poll, there is no clear winner. Technically, relational thinking won, but I believe all three terms are useful and I will be using them all, depending on the context.
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Plugin
Surf the net like a web browser
This might be for you if...you find yourself getting tired of moving back and forth between Obsidian and your web browser.
Good for...Students and when you are wanting to take real-time notes while watching videos or reading articles.
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Systems Theory
Pace Layers
How different parts of society evolve at different speeds to absorb shocks and promote stability. Learn more »
"The fast and the furious get the fanfare, but the slow and heavy hold the power."
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Knowledge Creation
Idea Emergence
How ideas interact and emerge into more than the sum of their parts.
Learn more »
"I am the invisible fabric of ideas."
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Strategic Decision-Making
OODA Loop
How to improve decision-making cycles to enhance responsiveness in dynamic environments. Learn more »
"Fortune favors the agile."
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How are they similar?
They all emphasize the importance of dynamic interaction and continuous adaptation.
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How are they different?
• Pace Layers ≈ the structure of societies.
• Idea Emergence ≈ the structure of cognition and knowledge creation.
• OODA Loop ≈ the structure of rapid decision-making cycles.
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So what?
They empower us with a more nuanced understanding of "systems" in three different domains—society, cognition, and strategy.
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What do these concepts remind you of? I can think of a few answers, but the correct answer isn't from me—it's from you—because the correct answer is the one that is personally meaningful.
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Person
Simplifies the process of academic writing
I first learned of Mushtaq from our mutual friend Jeremy Nguyen. Mushtaq is "best known for his online tutorials" and "serves as an informal ambassador between academics and...search tools that make use of artificial intelligence (Al)." Nature
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The design of our new blog is really coming together. We've pulled heavily from Maggie Appleton's digital garden. From the countless permutations we've tried, I usually reluctantly realize that "yet another aspect" of Maggie's design works especially well for writers and thinkers who want to share imperfect yet still valuable work without letting perfectionism get in the way.
The component that really helps to combat perfectionism is the state of the note. In this case, "Seedling, Sapling, Evergreen". While I DO NOT like using these states in my personal ideaverse or KITE (Knowledge-based Integrated Thinking Environment), the states are helpful for readers to understand the degree of polish and fullness an article has.
You'll also notice an Uplink to "Thinking", which takes readers to one of several maps that chart out different essays and related ideas in this public ideaverse.
We still have much to do. I'll share more soon.
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Art worth exploring
Saturn Devouring One of His Sons
Francisco Goya
Between the years of 1819 and 1823, Goya painted a series of paintings now called the Black Paintings, referring to the mental state of Goya during this dark time in his life, due to his bout with illness, which made him deaf, as well internal strife in Spain.
This painting was completed of the walls of his dining room, and is a rendition of Saturn, the Roman mythological character, who, fearing that his children would one day overthrow him, ate each one of them upon their births.
Years: 1819 - 1823
Years Lived: 1746–1828
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People worth exploring
The "Father of the Information Age"
Claude Shannon
American mathematician known as the "father of the Information Age".
- Credited with founding the field of information theory with his seminal 1948 paper, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication."
- Laid the foundation for modern digital communication and computing systems.
- Created the first machine learning device "Theseus", so basically the first AI.
Years lived: 1916 - 2001
Related: George "Boolean" Boole (1815-1864); Vannevar Bush (1890-1974)
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The average reaction time of a cat. It's faster than a snake (at 44–70 milliseconds). Humans are around 220–273 milliseconds. |
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Our vision is about empowering and enfranchising others to think better (critically, creatively, generatively), with meaning, and in a holistic way. I hope you agree that this newsletter is better positioned to achieve that—and hopefully better positioned to serve you.
Stay Connected,
Nick Milo Milodragovich
P.S...Vanessa Sperling is an impressive writer who took the WOW Workshop. She's posting articles on Substack that I'm really enjoying...like this one » Is your creative personality a destiny to be accepted or a set of skills to integrate?
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