This Notebook

This notebook is me primary store for long-term notes.

It includes rough ideas that I'm likely to change my opinion on as my understanding of them develops.

The larger part of this notebook is falls under a few supertopics, mostly industry knowledge and notes relevant to my-occupation.

The rest is whatever else I feel is worth writing down.

Daily Notes

It's hard for me to reconcile the idea of daily notes with the purpose of personal-knowledge-management as I see it. Nonetheless, they are popular, and generally enjoyable to write. See daily-notes for appropriate use.

Purpose

Compensate for my poor memory
Make my achievements in understanding more "real"

Tone

I write as if someone else will read these notes, I find this beneficial for my current and future selves. Explaining concepts completely forces me to understand them completely and to provide context I may be tempted to omit because it is obvious at the time of writing. When revisiting notes its then much easier to pick up where I left off.

It's recently been pointed out to me that it can't possibly be my intent for others to read my notes, since I tend use diction and syntax that is needlessly opaque. I'm compelled to agree, but I don't know how to reconcile that fact with my intent.

My response is simply that it's fun to write like this.

Conventions

Semantic Line Breaks

I didn't like them at first, but this notebook uses semantic-line-breaks for text wrapping.

I shoot for less than 90 columns. This line of text (which is precisely 90 characters) is the maximum length for prose here.

Licensing

It is my intent that any outside sources used here will be properly cited, and that work can be assumed to be my own unless otherwise stated.

For the content I have the right to, I dedicate to the public domain, with no need nor request of attribution.

TODO

This notebook is in constant need of maintenance. For the current backlog, see TODO.

2.2 KiB Raw Blame History