T4T S01E14 - Digital Gardening

a Tools for Thinking Podcast episode

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Cover art

Here's the Stable Diffusion-generated cover image for this episode, from the prompt "fruits and vegetables screenshot, behance contest winner, anamorphic lens flare, cascading highrise, icon for an ai app, stacked houses, dark green background, frustrum,   illustration, ladders, large terrarium, silo, simple interface icons design:"

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Guests

• Art director and digital gardener Maggie Appleton
• Personal Knowledge Management expert Rob Haisfield

Host: Jerry Michalski

Audio podcast

Video podcast

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Even better: the video, synced to a searchable transcript, all ready for conversation on Hypothes.is, is here.

Brain screen cap and link

! https://bra.in/3pD4mn <-- follow this link to browse this map

Links mentioned

• Render Session 6 (Linus Lee): Leveraging ML for TfT
• ActivityPub (2018)
• IndieWeb
• bridgy (2016)
• Webmention
• Antilibraries
• Change My View (2013 CMV subreddit)
• Code Refactoring
• Cognitive Scaffolding
• Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (2011 CRDTs)
• Digestibility (metaphoric)
• Digital Gardening
• End-User Development (EUD, or Programming EUP)
• Exploratory Search
  • Berrypicking and information foraging: Comparison of two theoretical frameworks for studying exploratory search (2017 pdf)
• Graph Query Languages
• Hover Preview
• Imperfections
  • Wabi Sabi (transient, imperfect beauty)
• Joel Chan
  • Claims Questions and Evidence
• Kialo (2012)
  • Should churches pay tax? (Kialo query)
• Law of the Few
• Microblogging (also Nanoblogging)
• My Default Brain Setting Is that Everything Is Public. This Is Unusual among Notetakers.
• Nugget (Chunk) Size
• Project Xanadu (1960)
• Prompt Engineering (promptcraft)
• Scaling Synthesis
  • Rob Haisfield C- Hypertext enables communication with high information density
  • Search Behavior
• Seedwiki
• Socialtext (2002)
  • Peoplefluent bought Socialtext 5/2012
• StretchText (1967)
• SurrealDB
  • SurrealDB in 100 Seconds
• Tacit Knowledge
• Tana
• Bonfires on the T4T Horizon
• Supertags
• The Size Limitation of Brain Thought Names Enforces Useful Succinctness
• Today’s Internet Is Stuck in Mainstream Media Metaphors
• Tools for Thinking Podcast (2022 T4T, TfT)
• Twemex
• Untappd (2010) Why Can’t Untappd Tell Me What Beers Are Available at John’s Market that Are on Mike Nelson’s Favorites List?
• Vicious Cycles
  • Virtuous Circles and Vicious Circles
    • Microsoft Office’s Virtuous Circle Was a Vicious Cycle for Lotus SmartSuite and WordPerfect
• Why Did Delicious Die? (it was so useful!)
• Why Haven't Wikis Taken over the World?
• Working Wikily
• You have one minute to get the next quarter - Nolan Bushnell, inventor of Pong
• Tools for Thinking Podcast (2022 T4T, TfT)

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