(2020-09-28) Pereira Internet Learning Homesteading

Jared Pereira: 39: Internet Learning Homesteading. the core element of hyperlink v1, that’s missing in v2 and reflected in Internet Homesteading is the idea of a personal website as a tool for learning.

While websites are really good for giving you a “presence” on the internet, I think they’re really powerful as tools not just to broadcast your identity, but to help you develop it, i.e learn.

A studio journal is an incredible valuable tool for any practice. It lets you keep track of where you’ve been and what you’ve been doing, and to set up structures that support your work.

The things that we’re all learning today are rich, multimedia, and hyperlinked. You need to be working in the appropriate medium to try and keep up with that. (sense-making)

A still nascent idea for hyperlink is a notion of courses providing capabilities to other courses. If the Internet Homesteading course exists, and is equipping people with the tools to run their own internet homes, perhaps other courses can build on top of that and use those homes in a learning context.

The Recurse Center community has the Blaggerator, a RSS aggregator that creates topics in Zulip, that’s a really useful piece of community infrastructure. It basically gives you an audience for your writing that you know cares about the subject matter and shares your values (to an extent of course). What if we could have a similar tool but for connecting your blog to specific courses?